Chapter 10:

Chaos

Sonic checked himself. He felt better than ever. He raised his arms slightly and smiled. "I don't know what happened… but I'm not against it!"

Dash eased herself with the fact that Sonic was fine and everything was alright.

"What is all this?"

Sonic chuckled. "Remember when I told you about Super Sonic?"

Dash nodded. Her eyes went wide as she put two and two together. "Are you really?!"

Sonic laughed. Dash smiled.

"Let's go," Sonic said, winking at her. He picked her up bridal style. She blushed. Sonic flew out of the cave and straight up out of the ravine. He flew back to the castle. He flew past the front gate and next to the window of Luna's room. He checked the window to make sure he wasn't disturbing anything. Luna was writing on a scroll. Sonic pushed the window open and landed.

"Hi."

Luna jumped and turned around. She held her heart and panted. "Holy Equestria!"

Sonic put Rainbow Dash down. Luna looked closely at him.

"Who are you? …Sonic?"

Sonic chuckled. "That's me."

"You got the emeralds?!"

"Well… we had four. I don't know where we got the other three."

"This means you're prepared! Whatever the evil is you can defeat it!" Sonic chuckled again. They all heard faint yelling from outside. Luna ran out to see what it was. She followed the sound all the way to the infirmary. Celestia, the once untouchable princess, was writhing in her bed and holding her head down. The nurses were trying their best to get her under control.

"What happened?!"

"She's getting her chaos feelings again!"

Sonic walked in, still golden. At the same time, Celestia gritted her teeth and screamed. Luna turned to him.

"Transform back! Now!"

Sonic's eyes widened. He let the energy flow away from him. His spines lowered and his blue tint returned. Celestia's squirming ceased. She was heaving her chest. She opened her eyes and looked at Sonic. She was about to say something, but she passed out. Sonic stared at her limp, helpless body. He slowly walked out, his head down. Dash and Luna followed him. Luna walked up next to him.

"What is wrong?"

"Did Tails tell either of you where he was going to look?"

Dash looked away. "When we were flying here I saw them in a valley. I didn't tell you because I thought they saw us. Why?"

"We need to go back," Sonic started, sternly, "We've been here too long. I don't want to hurt anyone else." He looked at Dash's bandage. Dash looked away again. Luna didn't know what to say to comfort him. She walked in silence. Sonic walked out of the castle. He turned to Luna. "Do me a favor and get Dash fixed up." Luna nodded and she guided Dash back. Dash looked back at Sonic, who still had his head down. The door closed.

Sonic looked up at the sky. The emeralds circled him and he transformed. He flew away. He retraced his flight back until he came across the valley. He saw all ten of his friends. He flew down behind them and dimmed his energy. He walked up behind Twilight, who was walking in the back. He tapped her.

(A couple seconds earlier.) Twilight was walking behind all of the rest. She stayed behind there so she could keep an eye on them. She thought she heard a light pat behind her, but figured it was nothing. She saw all nine of her friends in front of her. Nobody was behind her. Of course, that's what she thought until somebody tapped her shoulder. She let out an audible yelp and jumped a foot. She looked back quickly to see a golden hedgehog. Everyone else looked back to see what was wrong. The golden hedgehog spoke.

"Hey guys!"

"Sonic?!" Tails yelled. "When did you…?!"

Rarity was taken back. "What is…? You're not Sonic!"

Sonic gave her a 'that's what you think' smile. He transformed back to his original blue self and chuckled. Amy ran up to him and hugged him.

"Oh! Uh… Amy! Not now! Really!" Amy, sensing the seriousness in his voice, backed off. "What's wrong?"

Sonic looked over at Tails. He walked up to him. "Tails, we've been here too long. We need to work on that transporter. It's time to go."

They all looked a bit disappointed. "Why?" Tails asked.

"The emeralds are hurting good people. We have to get them out of here."

Tails looked down and sighed. After a while he said "Oh… Alright. Let's head back."

Later…

Tails and Twilight sat in a room, writing down different calibrations and designs for a new transporter. Twilight, though she was smart, couldn't keep up with Tails.

"Uh, Tails? Could we maybe slow down a bit? This is way out of my league. I don't work with technology like you do." Tails looked over at her.

"Oh yeah… I forgot. Let's take a break," he said, looking at the clock. It was 8:00. They'd been working on the machine for three hours, though; the only thing they'd finished was the design. Twilight looked over at Tails' drawing. It was a large, circular device. It would probably take up a lot of space on the wall. It had a large battery pack on it and wires were coming off of it. There were seven slots all around it.

They all went to their homes. Rainbow Dash was still in the infirmary in the castle and Twilight had invited Sonic and Tails to her home. She only had one spare bed so Sonic offered to sleep on the couch. He lied there for a while, staring at the ceiling. He thought about the strange situation he was in. He sighed as he thought about how much the emeralds hurt the princess.

After a while of thinking, he finally dozed off.

…

"What should we do?"

"I'd let him sleep. He doesn't usually go to sleep upset."

Sonic stirred. He slowly opened his eyes to see the empty living room. He sat up and cracked his back. "Tails? Twilight?" No answer. He checked the kitchen, the bathrooms, and the bedrooms. Not even the little dragon was there. He suddenly heard screaming and yelling outside. He heard an all too familiar evil cackle. He headed outside to see ponies running and screaming. Up above there was the sound of a laser charging up. The laser let loose and obliterated a house. Sonic looked up to see a round pod. Inside the pod sat a classic megalomaniac. He was the red devil. He was the horror in metal. He was Dr. Eggman. Sonic hopped up on a large building to look him in the eye. "Eggman! What are you doing?!"

"Sonic?! You're here?! Bah! I should've figured. You can never let me be."

Sonic looked down to the street to see his friends running to the pod. He even saw Rainbow Dash, who was looking a lot better. "Who are you?! And why are you doing this?!" Twilight yelled.

"Your friends transported here as well? For pity's sake! Can't you all just leave me be?!"

Sonic jumped up and rolled into a ball. He homed in and zoomed toward the pod. Everyone watched as the pod came crashing down to the ground. Eggman stumbled out of it, holding his head. Sonic walked around to him. He put his hand on his hip.

"Why are you doing all this?"

"I'm looking for my Chaos Emeralds!"

"You want 'em? There right here." The emeralds circled Sonic. In a threatening manner, the emeralds came close to Sonic, signaling his transformation. Eggman fell to his knees.

"No! Please no! Anything but that! I'll leave you all alone! I won't bother you! I swear! I'm just a frightened old man teleported away from his home! Please don't hurt me!"

Sonic scoffed. "Jeez. I'm not gonna hurt you. Calm down." Sonic looked over at his friends. "We don't want you causin' any more trouble though."

The guard slid the iron door shut, locking the doctor away from the world. "He should be safe here," the guard said to Luna and Sonic. The guard walked away. Luna looked at Sonic.

"How have you not put him in a prison in your world? You defeat him so easily."

"He usually gets away. When I beat him in that whole time incident he disappeared altogether. I don't know how he came back."

"I don't like the fact that he's here," the princess said, putting her hand on his shoulder. Sonic looked at her and sighed. He looked at the scientist one more time and walked away. Luna gingerly followed him. "What will you do now that you have the emeralds?"

"I don't know."

The two kept walking down the hallway. Sonic felt Luna brush up against him. He looked over and saw that Luna had been slowly walking closer to him without noticing. When she bumped him she backed up.

"Oh. Apologies," she said, blushing ever so slightly.

"S'fine."

They walked out of the castle. Sonic looked up .He was about to run away when Luna grabbed his arm. "What?"

"I was thinking. Your next step is to finish the transporter. I assumed we could look through my library and find something that could help us."

Sonic darted his eyes. He hated libraries and he hated reading. But he was still talking to royalty. He knew to very rarely say no to a princess. "Alright. Let me go get Tails and Twilight. They can help." Luna nodded and Sonic ran off.

Tails and Twilight were in a café eating donuts. They sat in silence but in their heads they were chatting up a storm with themselves. They thought about the awkward and strange positions they found themselves in and how they were going to fix it all.

Sonic had to ask around, but he was finally pointed to a café on Sugar Cube Corner. 'Amazing name' he thought to himself. He looked in the giant window to see his friends eating donuts. He walked in and pulled up a chair. Neither the yellow fox nor the purple pony noticed him.

"Ahem."

They continued to stare at nothing.

"Ahem!"

Tails' ear twitched but he was unmoved.

"Oh for…" Sonic pushed their shoulders. They were suddenly awakened from their thoughts.

"Oh! Sonic? What's up?" Tails asked him.

"Luna wants to see both of you."

Twilights eyes widened slightly. "Really? For what?"

"We need a book on dimensional transport."

Twilight sighed. "Good luck. Tails and I have looked for hours for one."

"Have you looked in Luna's library?"

Tails scoffed. "Yes, Sonic. We barged into a castle just to rummage through their library."

"Hey. Just askin'."

Twilight giggled a little. Sonic stood up. "Let's go."

Sonic jogged to the castle while Tails flew Twilight just behind him.