Chapter 1 : How it all began
(Up Soundtrack-Escape From Muntz Mountain)
It was moon high in the lands of Equestria and Mobius, but where this story takes place, it all starts in the Everfree Forest. All was quiet, not a sound except from the crickets and owls, when suddenly, all you can hear are trotting and running noises coming from a few familiar faces. In a clearing area out in the fields, a strange pony with a blue lightning bolt symbol on one of her eyes, named Thunder Lapiz, was running across the field carrying some gems known as chaos emeralds. Along the way, some more ponies and some mobian hedgehogs were chasing Lapiz to retrieve the chaos emeralds that she has stolen from their homelands.
"Stop!" A blue hedgehog named Sonic yelled.
"Come back here!" Another blue hedgehog named Sky yelled.
In the sky, two pegasus ponies, and two alicorns were flying in the air that were also catching up to Thunder Lapiz. One of the pegasus ponies named Rainbow Dash zoomed ahead to try and stop Thunder Lapiz from going any further.
"Hey!" shouted Rainbow Dash, standing in front of Lapiz's trail, "Stop right there and-!"
But before she could finish her sentence, Thunder Lapiz used her triangular power core on her chest, to use levitation to throw Rainbow Dash out of the way, and then continued running. As everyone else continued chasing after Lapiz, Sonic stopped to help Rainbow Dash up from the ground, and then the both of them tried catching up to the group. Up ahead where Thunder Lapiz is running is a small base disguised in the trees. Thunder Lapiz ran straight for it, used her powers to activate the doors to open, ran inside, and then slammed the doors shut and locked behind her so Sonic and the rest couldn't get in. He and his friends tried banging on the door, pushing and kicking, but it was no use. Then an orange cowgirl pony named Applejack came in to try kicking the door open with all her might, the door still wouldn't budge.
"What do we do now?" Applejack says after she tried kicking the door open.
"We have to find another way inside," a purple alicorn named Twilight Sparkle said, "You guys search over there, the rest of us will try over here."
But all of a sudden, some robots came in and started surrounding everyone.
"Seriously?!" exclaimed Sonic.
"Brace yourselves everyone," a black hedgehog named Shadow said, "I'll try take down these robots and get the door open by using my chaos blast."
Everyone then quickly got down as Shadow was charging his energy.
"Chaos BLAST!" Shadow yelled.
Using Shadow's chaos blast, he managed to destroy the robots and got the door to open, and then everyone ran inside as soon as there was the clearing at the doorway. Meanwhile inside, Thunder Lapiz headed straight to a machine. She then inserts each emerald to individual slots on the machine.
"It's almost over," Thunder Lapiz said, "Computer, begin operation!"
As soon as she called out at the voice commander, Sonic and the others ran in and was watching what was going on.
As they were, a computer speaker starts the operation, "Operation proceeding, 13% complete."
Thunder Lapiz then turned and then starts blasting at Sonic and his friends. Alexa deflected the blast and then went in for the attack. While Lapiz and Alexa were wrestling, Sonic and Rainbow ran to the machine to try and retrieve the chaos emeralds. But before they got to them, some robots appeared in front of them, blocking their way from getting near the emeralds.
"Operation proceeding, 27% complete," the computer speaker says.
"As long as I've got you all on my sight," Thunder Lapiz shouts while fighting Shadow, "I will not allow you to try stop me and what I am trying to accomplish!"
"Well we're here to make sure that never happens!" Alexa said.
"Sky!" another black hedgehog named Eon yells out to Sky, "You help Sonic and Rainbow Dash, I'll try get those emeralds."
"Alright," Sky replied, "but be careful."
As Sky ran to help Sonic and Rainbow Dash, Eon ran and tried taking out the emeralds out of the slots.
"Wait!" Lapiz yells out as she notices Eon trying to get the emeralds out, "What are you doing?!"
Eon manages to get the emeralds out, but everything starts malfunctioning around the room.
"Warning! Warning!" the speaker says, "Operation incomplete! Error!"
"You fools!" Lapiz yells out, "You never should have done that! Do you have any idea what might happen to-!"
The emeralds suddenly starts flashing white, and then everything else starts turning white. Throughout the fields, to the cities, the kingdoms, and all around the world, all turn white. All was blank, white, nothing was left of Equestria and Mobius, nor their part of the universe.
(Cutscene - The First Night - Sonic Unleashed Music)
In another world, all was daylight clear. In a forest, all the birds chirped, the wind blew through the trees and leaves, the flowers bloomed, lakes and puddles sparkled, and the leaves blew in the air. In a bush with berries growing out of it, popped out an unusual yellow creature with an unusual shaped tail. It stood up, looking at the sky, smiling as he felt the warm breeze while he was admiring the beautiful blue sky, he was happy, until something happened. The creature heard a strange noise coming from the sky. In the sky, the chaos emeralds appeared spinning around in a circle in the sky, the creature watched as they kept spinning, until they all spreaded out across the sky in different directions. The yellow creature got curious on what those emeralds were. But then a portal opened in front of the creature, it started to get scared, it jumped in a bush, and then Sonic, Eon, and Rainbow Dash got thrown out of the portal, then fell face-planted on the ground.
"Ouch.." Eon moaned.
"Exactly," Rainbow Dash replied.
As Sonic got up, he spat out the dirt that was left in his mouth, but when he did, Shadow, Sky, and Twilight got thrown out of the portal as well, and then they all fell landing on top of Sonic leaving him face-planted deeper in the ground.
"Really?" Sonic muffled while his face was in the dirt.
They all got up off of Sonic, and then looked around wondering where they are and what's going on.
"Where are we?" Shadow asked.
"I don't know," Twilight replied.
"Where's the rest of our friends?" Alexa added.
(Apotos Day - Sonic Unleashed Music)
The Rainbow Dash got up dusting off the dirt all over her fur, "Well we're obviously in a forest, a lot similar than the Everfree Forest, can we save our questions for later?"
Sonic struggled to get out of the dirt, then he managed to get out of it. He shook his head and the replied, "Well we at least need to know where we are, maybe there's some people around that might help us out."
"Pika pika.." the yellow creature whispered in the bush.
"Uh guys, did you hear that?" Eon asked after he heard something.
"I kinda did," Alexa replied.
The yellow creature hiding in the bush was slowly backing away, but then stepped on a twig. Twilight then turned and then saw something moving in the bush.
"There," Twilight said, "I think I saw something hiding in this bush."
The yellow creature was getting more nervous as Twilight got closer. As Twilight was reaching her hoof nearly to the creature, it bursted out in electric shocks nearly electrocuting Twilight.
"Whoa!" exclaimed Rainbow Dash, "What was that?"
"Okay, something is definitely in there," Twilight replied getting worried.
"Hang on, I'll take a look," Sonic said, walking up to what's in the bush. As he kneeled down, the yellow creature started shaking in fear.
"Hey, don't worry, we're not gonna hurt you," Sonic said in a soft tone voice, "You think you can help us with something?"
The yellow creature slowly stopped shaking, he was still anxious, but he decided to walk out of the bush slowly and cautiously.
"What is that thing?" Eon asked.
"I don't know, but he's calming down a little," Sonic replied, backing up slowly as the yellow creature came closer and closer.
"Pikachu.." the yellow creature muttered, not sure of what's going on.
"Are we cool now?" Sonic asked.
The yellow creature starts to smile and said, "Pika pika."
"I'm still not sure what's going on, but I think we need answers, maybe starting off with this little.. uh.." Sky said starting to wonder what that thing really is.
"Right, what are you exactly little guy?" Sonic asked, questioning the little creature.
"Pika Pikachu, Pikachu," the yellow creature replied trying to communicate.
"Wha?" Rainbow Dash asked, giving the incredulous expression.
"..He said his name is Pikachu," Sonic said looking back at his friends.
"How do you know what that thing is saying?" Shadow asked, "I mean all he says is 'Pikachu,' 'Pika Pika,' or whatever he just did."
"I just did for some reason," Sonic replied, "Hey, uh.. Pikachu, do you think you can help us out? We have no idea where we are, or what's going on."
"Pikachu," Pikachu says, standing up and turning around, "Pika Pi."
"He wants us to follow him," Sonic said.
Everyone looked at each other confused, and then followed Pikachu to see where he wants to take them.