Chapter 4
Sunset had just told the girls about what she heard the boy's talking about last night, and was going to get answers. And the one whom she planned to get it was from was Shadow.
"Ok while I talk to Shadow I need the rest of you to keep an eye on his brothers." Sunset Shimmer said.
"You got it." Rainbow said.
"But what if they are evil? Won't they attack us if they find out were on to them?" Fluttershy asked nervously.
"Don't worry Fluttershy. Remember they may have that energy on their side, but we have our magic to even up the score." Rainbow said reassuring her shy friend.
"Okay I guess you're right."
With the boy's, they were having a discussion.
"Any luck finding the rest of the emeralds?" Sonic asked.
The boy's just shook their heads no. Sonic just sighed and said.
"I don't get it. Shadow sensed the emeralds are here, so why can't we find them?"
"Maybe it's because of the energy from before. If it interfered then maybe it's doing it now." Silver said.
"Ya know Silver I think might be right." Shadow said, "When I sensed the emeralds when we got here it was faint. And whatever the energy is it must be here in the school as well."
"So what are we gonna do?" Knuckles asked, "If we can't find either of them we'll never have a chance of getting home."
"Well maybe the girls can help us." Silver said.
"Oh sure Silver, how bout we just walk up to them and tell them, hey did ever tell you where actually taking anthropomorphic animal's from another world, and we need your help to get home?" Sonic said sarcastically.
"Sonic i'm being serious."
"Silver do you know what could happen if we tell them?"
"Actually Sonic I think Silver's right on this one." Knuckles said.
"What?" Sonic asked surprised.
"They deserve to know, after what they did for us. And I think we can trust them."
"Yeah I guess you right. So should we tell them now?"
"No not yet." Shadow said.
"Why not?"
"Well I've been thinking about what we talked about last night, and I think someone or something brought us here."
"Why is that?" Knuckles asked.
"Well if the energy in this world just started to react now then maybe someone wanted to bring us here. And I don't think this someone is anything good. So if we tell them now that would get them involved and we can't risk that."
"So when do we tell them?" Silver asked.
"We should tell them when we can be sure about it, and when this whole thing blows over."
"Agreed." Sonic said.
After school the guy's met up with the mane 7.
"Hey Shadow can I talk to you alone?" Sunset Shimmer asked.
"Uh sure."
As the others walked outside Sunset lead Shadow to an empty classroom.
"So what did you want to talk about?" Shadow asked.
He then heard Sunset close and lock the door. Then she walked towards him with a serious look on her face and said.
"I want to know what you and your brothers are hiding."
"Uh what do you mean?" Shadow asked getting nervous.
"Don't play dumb with me!" Sunset Shimmer yelled getting closer, "My friends and I know that you guys are hiding something."
Shadow didn't know what to make of this.
"How did she figure it out?" Shadow said in thought. And then asked her, "What make's you think we're hiding something?"
"Oh I don't know how about all impossible things that you and your brothers are able to do? Your speed, your strength, and not only that I sensed an energy from you. And I heard you talking last night that you guy's looking for energy in this world!"
Shadow then sighed and asked.
"Look can we just talk about this later?"
"Sure we can." Then without warning Sunset garbed Shadow by his jacket and shoved him into the wall, and got close to his face, "Or we can talk about this now so start talking!"
Shadow was then blushing by how close Sunset got to him. And was thinking how to responded to her. But then something hit him.
"Hey wait a minute how you scene energy? No human I know of can do that." Shadow said as he started to push back. Then Sunset started to notice how close she was to him she started to blush, "I think that you're hiding something from us as well as were hiding something from you."
Back outside the rest of the group was walking with the Crusaders. And Mephiles was watching them from the roof and said.
"Ah right on time. Now let's see how much your power has grown over the years." Mephiles said as pulled out the purple Chaos Emerald. then rise's in the air, "Rise my shadow's attack Sonic and his friends."
As soon as he said that a bunch of black creatures with one pink eye, and claws, and had grey smoke coming from their feet. Back with Shadow and Sunset they were still talking.
"Come on Sunset what are you hiding?" Shadow asked.
"Ok I'll tell you." Sunset Shimmer said, "But you have to tell me first."
"*sigh* Alright I knew that we had to tell you and your friends sooner or later. To start off I'm-" Shadow started but was cut off from a familiar scream.
"Rarity?" Shadow and Sunset said at the same time.
They rushed out side. Only to see the creatures faced with their friends. And one of them had Rarity.
"Unhand me this instant you brute!" Rarity demanded struggling to get out.
The creature just squeezed harder cutting of her oxygen.
"Rarity!" Sweetie Belle screamed worried what would happen to her sister.
Just then Silver ran up and jumped and formed a blade with his psychokinesis, and slashed the creature in half. And then caught Rarity before she hit the ground.
The girls and Spike stood in shock of how he did that.
"Are you okay Rarity? Silver asked as she was in his arms.
"I am now. Thank you Silver." Rarity said relived.
Silver then put Rarity down. Then Sweetie Belle ran up to her and hugged her with worry.
"Rarity are you okay?"
"Yes. Thanks to Silver."
Shadow and Sunset then hurried over to them.
"Guys what happened?" Shadow asked
"I happened." Mephiles said as he came into view.
When he did the group was shocked.
"Mephiles!" Shadow growled.
"Hello Shadow. Long time no see."
"How is this possible?" Silver asked, "We erased you and Iblis when you joined into Solaris."
"You may have defeated us, but I was still able to escape before you blew out the flame. And I was able to come here to regain my strength. And now that you four are here I can have my revenge. And then the universe and time itself will be mine!"
"In your dreams. We stopped you before and we do it again." Sonic said.
"Well then let's see if you can back it up. ATTACK!"
Mephiles and army of then charged at them.
"Girls go we can handle this." Knuckles said.
"But we can't just just leave you." Rainbow said.
"GO!" Shadow said, "We'll be fine."
The girls nodded then ran and hid behind the tree's and watched the fight. The boy's then charged Mephiles and his army. Sonic charged in his spin dash and started cutting them in half and as he did they disappeared in a puff of smoke. Sonic was then surrounded by a lot of them and attempted to attack him at once. But before they could get him Sonic jumped into the air, and used his speed, and did a homing attack, rapidly destroying them all.
"Whoa now that's fast." Rainbow said amazed.
Sonic then built up blue energy on his arm.
"Sonic Wind!" Sonic said throwing his arm forward as a blue streak of energy shot from his arm, destroying 5 at once.
"How did he do that?" Scootaloo asked.
Knuckles was wailing away at the army with his fist as they tried to attacked him. But they were no match for strength.
"Wow Knuckles is even stronger than I thought he was." Applejack said.
Then all of a sudden Knuckles jumped and turned upside down spinning like a drill, digging into the ground.
"Huh? Where'd he go?"
Then Knuckles instantly shot out of the ground spinning taking out a group of them.
"Whoa that was cool." Apple Bloom said.
Silver was surrounded as the army closed in on him. He focused his psychokinesis and pushed them all back destroying all of them.
"Amazing it's like he destroyed those things with his mind." Rarity said.
Then more appeared in front of him. He then rushed forward and slashed them with his psychokinetic blade.
"Awesome." Sweetie Belle said.
Shadow was battling Mephiles head on. They traded blows, and were evenly matched, and couldn't land a hit on each other.
"Hmm it seems Shadow and this Mephiles guy are evenly matched. But how is that? And how does he look exactly like him?" Sunset Shimmer asked herself.
Then Shadow and Mephiles both pulled out their Chaos Emeralds.
"Chaos!" Shadow said.
"Chaos!" Mephiles said.
"Control!" They both said before disappearing.
In the void Shadow and Mephiles flew at each other, and they struck hard using the emeralds power.
"Chaos Spear!" Shadow shouted as a yellow energy spear came from his hand.
"Chaos Spear!" Mephiles shouted throwing a purple version of the attack.
The attacks collided and exploded on impact. Then the two were out of the void, and Sonic, Silver, and Knuckles joined up with Shadow.
"Well you four I must admit you've really improved since our last encounter."
"We've had time to train." Shadow said.
"Well so have I!"
He then flicked his hand forward and a wave of dark energy knocking them down and the Chaos Emerald out of Shadow's hand and near the girls. And then remaining shadow's held them down, keeping them from getting up.
"To bad it's not enough to stop me now! hahahahaHAHAHAHAHA!"
The girls gasped. Rainbow Dash then stood up and said.
"Girls we gotta help them."
"But how?" Applejack asked, "We can't activate our magic now."
"Well we can't just stand here and do nothing!"
"Girls she's right." Sunset Shimmer said, "We have to do something."
Sunset then notice the Chaos Emerald and picked it up. She then felt it's power connecting with her magic. And then she thought of something.
"I think I know what to do."
The boys struggled to get up and try to fight back.
"Why don't you give up?" Mephiles asked, "You can't beat me."
"Hey Mephiles!" a voice said.
Mephiles and the boys looked and saw the mane 7 (minus Twilight) in their pony forms.
"Back off!" Sunset Shimmer said.
"What the?" Mephiles said surprised.
"Cool." Sonic said.
"Amazing." Shadow said.
"Whoa." Silver said.
"How is this Possible?" Knuckles asked.
"Hmhmhmhm so you girls think your a match for me?" Mephiles asked, "Think again!"
Before Mephiles could even get close to them all of a sudden a giant spiral rainbow beam with a green glow shot out from them and blasted Mephiles.
"AHHHHHH!" Mephiles shouted as the beam inflicted massive damage on him. And the rest of his army that was holding the boys disappeared. After the beam disappeared Mephiles was keeled on the ground badly damaged, "*huff* *huff* How *huff did you six *huff* do that?"
"Simple we have magic that triumphs over darkness. The magic of friendship." Sunset Shimmer explained, "Your dark power can't compare to it."
"So you say. I may not be at full strength yet, but i'll be back. And once you all are out of the way no one will stop me." Mephiles then put his hand out and opened a dark pit and the girls started to sink in. They struggled to get out but couldn't, "So long." Mephiles said before teleporting.
"Guys come on!" Sonic said running to save the girls.
The girls were half way sucked in, and still struggling. But the darkness was too strong.
"I can't move." Rainbow panicked.
Then Rainbow felt something grabbing her arms. It was Sonic trying to pull her out, Shadow was trying to pull Sunset out, Silver was trying to get Rarity out, and Knuckles was trying to get Applejack out, Twilight and Spike were trying to pull Fluttershy out, and the Scootaloo, Applebloom, and Sweetie Belle were trying to get Pinkie out.
"Hang on!" Silver said pulling.
As they were coming out the pit was pulling harder, and the boys, Twilight, and the Crusaders started getting sucked in too.
"It's to strong!" Knuckles said.
"Don't worry about us, save your selves!" Sunset Shimmer said.
"No!" Shadow said, "I've already lost one friend and I won't lose another one!"
"Were not gonna abandon you!" Sonic said.
After they said that the boy's, Twilight, and the Crusader's all glowed white, and felt a sudden burst of strength as they pulled them all out, and were flung across the yard.
"Ugh is everyone okay?" Sonic asked.
"Yeah, But what was that?" Knuckles asked.
"I don't know." Silver said getting up, "But whatever it was i'm glad it helped."
When Shadow got up he saw Sunset was on top of him face to face and both blushed bright red. And she got off him quickly, but as a result yelled in pain, holding her right leg.
"What's wrong?" Shadow asked worried.
"My leg I think it's broken."
"Hold on I can help."
Shadow then took the hand Sunset was holding the Chaos Emerald and put his hand on it. He closed his eye's and focused his thoughts and he and Sunset glowed green. After a few seconds it stopped and Sunset's pain was gone and she was able to stand.
"How did you do that?"
"It's just something I've been able to do."
"So I guess we got some explaining to do to you girls huh?" Sonic said scratching the back of his head.
"Oh you have no idea." Rainbow said.
The group went to Pinkie's house, where the boy's could tell the girls the truth in private.
"So who and what are you four?" Applejack asked.
"*sigh* Ya see-" Sonic started.
"You're not actually brothers and are from another word and you four are actually anthropomorphic animals that posses the power of seven colorful emeralds that posses both positive and negative energy that are very dangerous if fallen into the wrong hands and you guys came here from a power that was connecting with them and that guy you were fighting who look liked Shadow was the dark half of evil super dimensional sun god who consumed the very fabric of time itself and you had to ascend your selves into super powered beings to defeat him and erase him from time to save the future and now that this guy's back you have to stop him before he does it again or were all doomed." Pinkie Pie said all in one breath, then giving a big smile.
The boy's jaw dropped to the ground when she said that.
"How did you know all that?" Silver asked.
"Just a hunch."
"Wait a minute. You four are anthropomorphic animal?" Applejack asked.
"You have Emeralds with powers?" Rarity asked.
"You fought a god and saved time itself?" Fluttershy asked.
"Uh yeah that about covers it." Sonic said.
"That is AWESOME!" Rainbow said.
The boys were surprised by her choice of words.
"Wait none of you are freaked out by this?" Knuckles asked.
"Of course not." Sunset Shimmer said, "We see weird stuff like this all the time."
"Seriously?" Shadow asked surprised.
"Yeah, and I haven't really explained myself yet. Ya see i'm not from this world or a human either."
"Really?"
"I'm actually a unicorn, from an alternate world called Equestria."
"Wait you're a unicorn?" Silver asked, "I thought they were just an old legend."
"Oh believe me they're very real."
"No way." Sonic said amazed.
"Yes way." Spike said.
"So you can talk to huh?"
"Yeah I can. What not surprised?"
"Dude i'm talking hedgehog, from a world of talking animals, this doesn't come on as surprising to me."
"Your world is full of talking animal?" Fluttershy asked, "Oh could you please take me there?"
"We would, but sadly we don't know how to get back."
"So you're a hedgehog?" Rainbow Dash asked.
"Yeah, so are Shadow and Silver."
"So then what are you?" Applejack asked Knuckles.
"I'm an echidna, from an ancient tribe. And the last of them to be exact."
"Whoa."
"So who or what was that guy Mephiles from before?" Sunset Shimmer asked.
"Well as Pinkie said Mephiles is the dark half of a super dimensional sun god named Solaris, who consumed the very fabric of time itself." Silver explained, "Ten years ago on our world called Mobius, Solaris was just a small white flame, that was only growing. And would allow the royal family of kingdom named Soleanna to travel through time to fix their mistakes. But it was a force that was beyond their control. When Solaris got bigger it was too powerful for the king or anyone to control. Then it caused a spaceil meltdown, killing most of everyone who was caught in the blast. As a result Solaris was split into two beings, Mephiles and an eternal flame called Iblis, that destroyed our world in the future."
"Well that's just dreadful." Rarity said disgusted
"Yeah don't remind me."
"Anyway when that happened Silver and I went back in time to stop them." Shadow said.
"Whoa wait, you guys can time travel?" Sunset Shimmer asked.
"Yeah, to anywhere else in time."
"Amazing."
"So after that we both went after them and the king gave me a scepter call the scepter of darkness to trap Mephiles, and I was able to before he escaped."
"And I was able to catch Iblis with my powers, but I couldn't contain him. The king then came and used a Chaos Emerald to seal the flames into his daughter Elise." Silver said.
"But why would he do that?" Scootaloo asked.
"Because Iblis needed to fall into slumber with a royal soul, and Elise was the only one who could before his flames destroyed the world. After he did that he collapsed dead on the floor. After that Shadow and I went back to the present."
"Then ten years later before we traveled back, me and a friend of mine named Rouge the Bat were fighting our arch enemy Dr Eggman."
When Shadow said his name the girls and Spike burst out in laughter.
"Eggman, that's his name?" Rainbow asked still laughing.
"Yeah I know right?" Sonic said.
"Anyway she had the scepter, but Eggman shot her down and she doped it, and then Mephiles was able to escape and he came out as a black cloud and came to form from my own shadow."
"Freaky Deaky." Pinkie Pie said.
"Okay I understand how he came to be, and how he looks like you, and why he went after you. But why did you and Silver go back in time in the first place?" Sunset Shimmer asked.
The boys were quiet for a second before answering.
"Well I had to show Silver the truth because Mephiles-" Shadow started.
"Lied to me." Silver finished looking down.
"What did he tell you?" Rarity asked.
"He told me that Sonic was the one who destroyed the future, and that I had to kill him. And that's what I tried to do."
"WHAT?!" Everyone asked in shock.
"You actually believed that guy!?" Rainbow asked angrily, "What is the matter with you!?"
"Rainbow Dash! That is no way to speak." Rarity said unhappy with her friends tone.
"No she's right." Silver said in a depressed tone then a stray tear drop fell from his eye, "I was so desperate to save the future that I was actually willing to kill someone."
After he said that Rainbow was then started to feel bad that she said that, "Silver i'm sorry I didn't mean to upset you."
"It's alright. So after Mephiles told me that he took me and my friend Princess Blaze back in time, were we all got separated and I started looking for Sonic. When I finally found him I tried to finish him off, but a girl named Amy stopped me before I could. And because of me Dr Eggman was able to capture Elise to get Iblis from her to rule the world. Then when Sonic saved her again I attacked him again and Eggman captured Elise again. But then Shadow saved him and then that's when he took me back in time, so he could show me the truth."
"So why did Mephiles want you to kill Sonic?" Fluttershy asked.
"Because he wanted Elise to cry, to release Iblis from inside of her, to rejoin with him to form Solaris, and consume the fabric of time. And when I found out the truth he uh."
"What, what did he do?"
"He killed me." Sonic said.
Everyone then gasped from hearing that.
"Yeah."
"Well then how are ya here?" Applejack asked.
"Simple my friends brought me back to life with all the Chaos Emeralds."
"What but that's impossible." Sunset Shimmer said.
"Trust me with the Chaos Emeralds you can do anything. That's how Shadow fixed your leg."
"Whoa I've never heard of anything so powerful. Not even Princess Celestia is that powerful."
"Princess Celestia? You mean Principal Celestia right?"
"No, from Equestria everyone's has a pony counterpart, and Princess Celestia is her counterpart, and she's the most powerful ruler in Equestria. But the things you just told us not even she can do that."
"Can you please show us the emerald?" Rarity asked with her eyes sparkling.
"Sure" Shadow said.
He then dug into his coat pocket and pulled out the Chaos Emerald, and presented it to Rarity making her sparkled even more.
"Oh my stars it's gorgeous."
Then all of a sudden Rarity pony-ed up like before. And the boy's were just as surprised.
"How are you girls able to do that?" Silver asked, "I've never seen anyone do that kind of thing with one Chaos Emerald."
"It's our magic we obtained from Equestria, from an object called an Element of Harmony." Sunset Shimmer said, "And I think it's because the emeralds power is connecting with it."
"What's an Element of Harmony?" Knuckles asked.
"There six mystical gems from Equestria that represent friendship. honesty, kindness, laughter, generosity, loyalty, and the one that was brought here and what gave us our power was the six element magic, which transforms us into ponies. And I think the power from the emerald connected to it."
"So that's the reason." Shadow said.
"What are you talking about?" Sonic asked.
"Your magic must have been what was connecting with the Chaos Emeralds back on our world, and that's reason it was different. Your magic is only positive while ours has positive and negative energy. There's nothing negative to react with your friendship."
"And the Chaos Emerald must have been what was connecting to our magic, and that's how we activated our magic before." Sunset Shimmer said.
"Okay that answers some of both of our questions. But what I still don't know is why they didn't connect until just now, and how we use that to get back to Mobius."
"Yeah i'm wondering that too."
"So what was that we saw you guys do when you were fighting Mephiles?" Rainbow Dash asked,
"What you witnessed were our super powers we've had since birth." Sonic said, "What I did was harness the wind and use super speed, Shadow used powers of chaos, Silver used Psychokinetic power, and Knuckles used super strength and burrowing."
"Whoa that's awesome."
"So I guess that explains your guy's speed and strength from gym class." Sunset Shimmer said, "So how does a Chaos Emerald work?"
"It's a little hard to explain. I'd better show you." Sonic said, "Rarity i'm gonna need the emerald back."
Rarity then gave Sonic the Chaos Emerald and then lost her ears and tail.
"Ya see the Chaos Emeralds positive power reacts to those who have hope, kindness, and happiness." Sonic said as he emitted a white aura, "But the negative response to those who have nothing but hatred, fear, and sadness." as he said that his hair and his aura turned black and then turned back, "Me and our friends have used these countless times to save the world from everything that has attempted to destroy or take our world."
"Wow that's so cool." Scootaloo said.
"Maybe we could use one of the emeralds." Apple Bloom said.
"Yeah and then we could do everything you guys can do." Sweetie Belle said.
"Whoa slow down you three." Knuckles said, "You're a little too young to possess that kind of power."
"He's right, too much power too soon could be dangerous." Silver said, "Maybe someday."
"Okay." The Crusaders said looking down.
"Well it's getting late, we should be getting home now." Applejack said.
"Agreed, it's been a long day." Rarity said.
"See you all tomorrow." Rainbow said, "And Sonic?"
"Yeah?"
"Don't think I don't want that rematch just because of your super speed."
"I didn't think you wouldn't. But don't think i'll go easy on you."
"I wouldn't have it any other way."
Later that evening Shadow was tossing and turning on the couch have a nightmare, hearing a familiar evil laugh.
"No no!"
In Shadow's nightmare the city was burning, the buildings were destroyed, and his friends were all on the ground in a pool of their own blood and not moving. And he was faced off with none other than Mephiles.
"How could you?!" Shadow said angrily "You monster!"
"Hahahaha" Mephiles laughed, "You should know by now i'm not letting anything stand in my way. And unless you change your mind and join me you will die with them. Not to mention your new friend."
Mephiles then held out his right hand, and Shadow gasped when he saw who appeared. It was an unconscious Sunset Shimmer with his hand grasped on her neck, with his other hand turned into a spike. "Join me or you will suffer the pain you did 50 Years ago!" Mephiles said as he was about to drive the spike through Sunset's heart.
"NO!" Shadow shouted before waking up with a startle and breathing heavily, "Ugh What a nightmare. At least I think it was."
Shadow then got up and looked in Sunsets room, to find Sunset sleeping in her bed still breathing. He then sighed with relief before closing the door. He went into the kitchen and thought to himself.
"I can't let that happen again I have to stop him."
He was then pulled from his thoughts when he heard a familiar female voice say to him.
"Shadow, what are you doing up?"
Shadow turned to see Sunset Shimmer, walking towards him.
"I was just thinking. What about you?"
"I couldn't sleep. I'm still thinking about what happened earlier."
The two were then looked at each other blushing a little about what happened between them earlier.
"Hey Shadow. I'm sorry from how I acted around you earlier. I shouldn't have been like that."
"It's alright, I don't blame you."
"Yeah but I shouldn't have come up to you like that. And what I said I was just-"
Sunset was interrupted when Shadow put his finger on her lip.
"It's okay I knew I had to tell you and friends. It's just that we just didn't want to put you and your friends lives in danger. We couldn't live with ourselves if something happened to all of you."
Sunset then had a few tears in her eye's feeling worse. Shadow saw this and then came up to her and pulled her into a hug, which made her blush a little, but she returned the hug.
"Sunset it's okay I understand you didn't know, and you wanted to." Shadow said
"Yeah but the way I did-"
"Sunset it's okay I forgive you. Besides you just made a mistake. And if it makes you feel any better I would have done the same."
"Really?"
"Yes."
"Thank you Shadow."
"Don't mention it."
"Well Good night."
"Good night."
With that Sunset went back upstairs to her room. And Shadow thought to himself.
"I won't let that happen." He then had an idea from what he saw earlier, "I know what I have to do."
Shadow got his shirt, his jacket, and his shoes on. He then went up to Sunsets room to find her asleep. He then entered and approached her and pulled out his Chaos Emerald and took her hand and placed the emerald in it.
"Keep it safe I believe in you."
Shadow then wiped away some of her hair, and then bent down and kissed her forehead.
"Goodbye Sunset."
As he left her room, a smile grew on Sunsets face from feeling the kiss on her forehead. Shadow then went out the door and stood in the street and then used his speed to run off.
Hello everyone and happy late New Years I can't believe that 2016 over already and not only that I just recently turned 16 last December. Sorry if the action scene was short but I promise the next time I make an action scene i'll try and make it longer. Anyway now to get to everyone's question first up is random yes my Sonic x Applejack story will be Equestria Girls and not to argue with your opinion but actually Sonic and Applejack have a lot in common they both have the same eye color they're both in a band, they both play a type of guitar, They both have a brother and sister, and they both don't live with their mom and dad, and lived with another care taker from their family. And a response to mMLPxSonic this is a Knuckles x Applejack story. And finally to oc x derpy the couples in this story are four of my favorites my other two favorites are Tails x Fluttershy and Manic x Pinkie Pie. That's all for now so until next time see you on the other side