IIIIIIIIIIIIIII'M BACK!

That parade was way too long yesterday.

Pinkie: You went to a parade?

Sorta.

Pinkie: Cool!

No, Pinkie. Not cool. Very, very not cool.

Pinkie: So… does that mean you're not doing a 4th of July late special?

Of course I'm still doing the 4th of July special!

Here it is now! Slightly late, but…

Chp 10: Comet the Hedgehog on the 4th

Quintus woke up seeing nothing but Pink. That was probably because he was in Pinkie's room. He sat up and saw that he was in a sleeping bag on the floor.

He turned and saw Pinkie in her bed, still asleep and snoring softly. He quietly got up and wrote a note which read:

Dear Pinkie,

Thanks for helping me get here last night. I'm going to go apologize to Twilight for fainting like that and troubling both of you, and then I'm going to explore the Everfree forest a bit, maybe challenge RD to a race afterwards.

See ya later, Pinkie! Sillily, -Quintus.

P.S.: You look adorable when you're asleep.

With that, Quintus left the note where she would see it, Quintus tip-toed downstairs and walked outside. After apologizing to Twilight, he opened his wings and took off towards the Everfree forest, landing in a small clearing. He tried to remember what Joe had said about Alagaesia, and suddenly an entire wave of memories came back.

Another language along with visions of a land of Dragons, of getting his sword Gold Fire, and… something else. A young herbalist and her cat. Something had been different about her. Mostly the fact that she was the only one who ever managed to surprise him after his first week at the place. He decided not to dwell on it and focused on the Ancient Language.

"Fethrblaka, eka weohnata neiat haina ono. Blaka eom let lam." Quintus said (Bird, I will not harm you. Flap to my hand.), and a blue bird came from a nearby tree and landed in his open hand.

"Wow, it's so peaceful here. No wonder Fluttershy likes to live near this place." Quintus said, and he decided to take a quick nap.

When he woke back up, it was to an explosion.

"What the heck was that?!" He asked aloud, and flew off in the direction of the noise…

… To find Pinkie with her Party cannon and the main six.

"Pinkie! We're not supposed to start the fireworks until tonight!" Twilight said, and Pinkie giggled a bit.

"Sorry Twilight, I'm just super-duper-looper-kooper excited for the fireworks!" Pinkie apologized.

"What are the fireworks for?" Quintus asked, appearing.

"EEP!" Fluttershy exclaimed, but she calmed down when she saw it was only Quintus.

"Sorry about surprising you like that, but I was I the middle of an amazing nap and I heard an explosion, so I came here to find out what it was about. So what are the fireworks for?" Quintus asked, and Pinkie gasped.

"You don't know that it's the 4th of July?!" She asked, and Quintus replied with, "Pinkie, I didn't even know it was July. Don't worry; I do know about the fireworks and such on this day, I just didn't know that was today. Oh yeah and I also came to challenge you to a race, Rainbow Dash."

The rainbow Pegasus looked up, a determined look in her eyes. "OK, just don't be too disappointed when you lose." She said, and Quintus laughed.

"You took he words right out of my mouth. Bring it, Skittles." He said, and Dash looked outraged.

"Why do all you hedgehogs keep calling me that!? I don't even know what skittles are!" She exclaimed, then took a deep breath and calmed down.

"Anyway, I'm going to be busy today setting up the fireworks, watching the fireworks, and then going to the party I'm sure that Pinkie is planning for afterwards; so we'll race tomorrow. Enjoy your dignity while you can!" RD mocked.

"I'm going to pretend that last comment never happened due to the fact we'll have a never-ending argument. So we'll race tomorrow, then? Go find a bunch of people wish you good luck, because you're going to need it. See you!" Quintus said and he opened his wings. Just to be a show-off, he broke the sound barrier upon take-off.

Quintus heard RD's jaw drop as he flew off. After a few seconds he flew over Blade and Sora having a sparring match. He hovered in place and decided to watch.

After a moment, Quintus's shadow distracted Sora, allowing Blade to win.

(A/N: OK, BADA. You've had your happy moment. Time to execute operation Co:pern:ica.)

Quintus flew down and walked over to Blade.

"Hrrrr." He said (Translation: Nice battle. You speak dragon, right?), and Blade looked confused.

"What? I don't understand what you're saying. Her who?" He asked, and Sora grinned, realizing that Quintus had started the prank.

"Hurrr-hrrr-hurr." Sora said. (Translation: Yeah, good match. What do you think of that Fluttershy Pegasus?) And Blade looked even more confused.

"Huh? Is this some sort of prank?" He asked, and Quintus said, "Hrrrrr-hrrr-hurrrr-rr" (Translation: You're changing the subject. Do you like her? Hmm?) And Blade looked like he was ready to explode from not knowing what they were saying.

"Hrr-rr-rrr-hurrr." Sora teased. (Translation: I think he does. BladexFluttershy, BladexFluttershy!)

Then the two prankers sang in unison: "Hrrrr-rr-rr Hrr-hrr-hurr hurr-rr-hrr!" (Translation: Pegasus and hedgehog, sitting in a tree, [ok I cant bring myself to spell the word. It would be too mean. Finish the little teaser yourself.]) And Blade's eye started twitching.

Quintus and Sora burst out laughing. "Blade, you should have seen you face!" Sora said, and he continued laughing.

After a while it started hurting for Quintus to laugh, so he stood up and walked over to Blade.

"Since you've given us such a good laugh, I will translate what we said for you." He said. As he translated, Blade's face grew more and more red until it was beet-like.

"OK, the most logical thing to do right now is to- RUN SORA RUN!" Quintus yelled and they took off, laughing.

Once they were a safe distance away, they broke down laughing again.

"Oh man, that was the funniest thing my amnesia lets me remember. Our author is awesome." Quintus said, and everyone in the universe agreed…OK so maybe there are some haters out there but most of the universe agreed.

Suddenly there was an explosion in the sky near the edge of Ponyville.

"That's weird. I thought that the main six were on the other side of town. And Twilight said the fireworks don't start until later tonight. Should we go check it out?" Quintus asked. Sora nodded, and they took off towards the explosion.

"You know, I find it weird that you see an explosion in the sky and you immediately think of Twilight and her friends." Sora said as they ran.

"Well there is the fact that Pinkie is with them." Quintus said.

"Good point." Sora said, and then they arrived.

The two looked around until Quintus saw a hedgehog lying behind a bush. He sat up and looked at Quintus.

"Sonic? Is that you bro?" He asked, and Quintus shook his head. "Nope. I'm Quintus the Godhog. Who are you? And why does everyone keep mistaking me for other hedgehogs?" Quintus asked.

The hedgehog stood up and said, "My name is Comet the hedgehog. I'm Sonic's brother, would you happen to know him?" He asked. His quills slanted downward like Sonic's and they had a blue streak on his white fur.

"Yeah we know him, we just don't know where he might be. There's a 15% chance that he'll be in Cloudsdale at the moment, but if we stay here he'll run by eventually." Quintus said, and he saw a blue blur coming at them from the distance.

"Like. Right. NOW!" Quintus exclaimed, and he activated the amulet Luna had given him.

As he turned into his were-hog form he anchored himself by grabbing the ground with his right hand. As Sonic was about to pass by he reached out with his left hand and grabbed Sonic's wrist.

Both of his arms started stretching instantly. After an eighth of a mile Quintus stopped stretching and he just stopped, each arm going off one sixteenth of a mile.

"Give it a moment." Quintus told the audience, and after a bit Sonic was slingshot'd back towards him, then back to Comet and Sora.

"Hey, what's the big idea, - AHHH!" Sonic exclaimed, seeing Quintus's face.

"Oh yeah. I forgot only RD Blade and the Princesses knew about this." Quintus said, and he turned back to normal.

"Sonic!" Comet exclaimed, and he tackled his brother.

"Comet? Is that you? Or are you Amy impersonating Comet?" Sonic asked, and Comet hopped off, laughing.

"Nope. It's me. Although I did bring some friends." Comet said, and a pink blur appeared, yelling "Sonikku!" and it tackled… Quintus?

"It's been forever since I've seen you, Sonic!" The pink blur said.

"Ummm… Sonic? Do you know this girl?" Quintus asked, and suddenly the Main Six and the Light Defenders along with the Mobians appeared.

The pink girl who had tackled him realized that Quintus was not Sonic, and she let go and hopped backward.

"Oh my gosh I'm so sorry! I thought you were someone else. Y'know, this happens a lot, actually. Shadow, Silver, Scourge, actually almost all hedgehogs look like Sonic." She said. Quintus thought this was bogus and held up three of his fingers.

"OK, how many fingers am I holding up?" He asked, and Amy answered, "Three."

Meanwhile, a thumping vein had appeared on Mindy's forehead.

Seeing this, Quintus focused on his telekinetic ability and made about one ton of ammunition and firearms disarm themselves and fall from her nonexistent pockets/purse.

"Sorry Mindy but I don't want another repeat of chapter 8!" Quintus said, and the Echidna walked off to go pout.

"OK I'm pretty sure I brought more than just Amy. HEY GUYS! C'mon out here!" Comet shouted, and a red blur, a white blur, and a cream blur appeared from nowhere and Dog-piled Sonic.

After a moment all the new characters got off of Sonic to reveal Knuckles, Rouge and Cream.

Rouge and Georgia were staring at each other. After a moment they both raised a hand. They kept mimicking each other perfectly until Rouge turned to Sonic and Georgia turned to Quintus and they both asked in unison, "Hey Sonic/Quintus, who's the bat with such great taste?"

After introductions and a stare-off between Ayan and Knuckles, Quintus wondered aloud, "OK, is anyone else thinking we should have a 'trade lives' thing where we all try to live in our look alike's life for a day?" Everyone stared at him. "What? It's not like anyone would notice. I'll bet if we had Rouge and Georgia go into a private room and then walk out, none of us would be able to tell the difference. I look almost exactly like Shadow, Tails and Coin would take a little work, Cream and Gina are doing the mirror thing right now, and Sonic and Joe would just need a bit of paint; but Amy, Mindy, Knuckles, and Ayan look too different." Quintus said.

"Why do we all look alike?" Sonic asked.

"I can answer that. We all come from alternate dimensions. Some worlds are more in tune with others, but Bazitral and Mobius are among the most mirrored. Equestria here is also an alternate world, although more different. Twilight, Tails, and I are one; Sonic, Joe, and RD; there's Applejack, Knuckles and Ayan; Rarity and 'The Bat's, Fluttershy and 'The Rabbit's, Pinkie is somewhat like Amy and Mindy; and Quintus and Shadow are the same, although I don't know who their Equestrian equivalent is." Coin said.

"Hmm. It's quite possibly Luna, although I can't tell." Twilight said.

"That was a sudden and pointless conversation that everyone could have figured out themselves." RD said after a moment.

Suddenly everyone saw that the sun had set.

"Ohmygoshit'stimeforthefireworkstostart!" Pinkie exclaimed. Suddenly a brilliant explosion filled the sky, (No, it's not another OC.) and then another one. The fireworks had begun.

Everyone forgot about the plot for a while and just watched the fireworks in joy. It's fireworks. That is all that is needed to be said.

Everyone sat down. Blade sat next to Fluttershy, Gold sat near Twilight, Sonic went next to Rainbow Dash, (See where I'm going with this?) and Quintus sat next to Pinkie, who was too busy 'ooh'ing and 'ahh'ing to notice.

"Hey, uhh… thanks for saving my life the other day, Pinkie." Quintus said. "No problem Quintus! I think you're a really funny guy! And… do you really think I look cute?" Pinkie asked, and Quintus started stuttering. "Um, uh, well, um, I- um, yes?" He said, and Pinkie smiled. "Thanks Quintus! I like you too!" She said and Quintus smiled too.

Meanwhile, the Light Defenders along with all the OCs were holding Mindy back as Rouge used her pick-pocketing skills to disarm Mindy of all weaponry including, but not limited to; pistols, shot-guns, snipers, dart blowers, semi-automatic rifles, bazookas, laser guided missile launchers, paint ball launchers (Ayan still has a pink stain on the back of his head.), assorted water blasters, a bayonet, and even a machine gun with about a dozen rounds of ammo. What pockets she picked this from is a mystery to all.

Back to Quintus and Pinkie, Quintus had gone back to watching the fireworks after seeing that Pinkie was a bit too distracted by them. So he just enjoyed being near her and her cheery attitude.

Once again with the others, Joe and Rarity were talking.

"You know, if anypony, I thought Quintus would have fallen for Fluttershy, considering the similarity between her and Jessica." Joe said, and Rarity replied with, "Well there is the fact that Pinkie is ever so happy all the time, after 'the incident' as you call it, I believe that Quintus would want a bit more laughter in his life." Joe thought for a moment. "Good point." He said and they went back to stopping Mindy's blood rage.

With the hedgehogs that weren't holding Mindy to the ground, yeah they had stuttered a bit too although they had a bit more to talk about because Twilight, RD, and Fluttershy weren't as distracted as Pinkie was.

Then the finale started, and it was one of the best pyro-shows Equestria had seen. Even Mindy stopped struggling for a moment to watch the display. "Whoa…" everyone said in unison, and whoa indeed. Despite the fact that Equestria wasn't as technically advanced as Mobius or Bazitral, but man their fireworks rocked! It seemed like it was going to be a pretty good night, until Joe remembered something. "Rarity I just remembered something super important that hasn't really come up as an issue before. Quintus is immortal."

Dun Dun Dunnnnnnnnnnn! How's that for a cliffhanger? Happy late 4th of July everybody!