Before I begin, I would like to tell you folks that I have a story to recommend to you all. Sonic and the Equestria Girls, written by Apexwolf77 and Blockheadgreen1189. It's a damn good read, and I believe that all of y'all will thoroughly enjoy it. Anyways, onto the story.
Sonic stormed away with Applejack in tow, peeved at what felt like a heated interrogation about his personal life. He looked back at her with an aggravated glare and her looking back with a displeased look on her face, not happy about his reluctance to open up to her. She knew Sonic seemed like a decent fellow but there seemed to be this dark gloom hanging over him, and even if there wasn't anything malevolent about him, she couldn't trust someone who wasn't open about his feelings and continue to hide them no matter what they could be, without a honest answer, she couldn't judge whether he was good or not.
After a short distance Sonic looked back and already felt bad, he knew he came off a bit rude and even abrasive maybe. He knew Applejack probably meant well even though she was prying into his personal affairs that she was most likely in way out of her depth on how bad they were. But to be fair he wasn't sure if he could trust her either and he wasn't sure if it was wise or not to unload this sort of thing onto someone and not be sure if they handled it the right way and cause a calamity he didn't need that was counter-productive to him coexisting peacefully in this world. Cuz the last thing he needed was an was an angry mob scenario with torches and pitchforks aimed straight at him with a Snowball's chance against a napalm strike that it would end well for everyone in the end.
He then came to a complete stop as his expression began to soften as he looked back at Applejack feeling bad at lashing out at her, which in turn soften her own expression as well. He didn't want to be on bad terms with anyone either or give them a foggy reason to be suspicious of him or not too like him because of that, especially when their reasons were completely naive ones as well. He then began to take a few calming breaths to regain his composure and began to apologize and began to handle this in a more civil manner.
"Look AJ, I'm sorry, it's just that these issues I have aren't exactly icebreaking conversations you have with someone you don't know much about. So how about a rain check on that sometime? I don't feel really up to sharing now?" Sonic said delicately with an obvious hint of sadness in his voice.
Applejack looked at him sympathetically while he said that and chewed it over a moment when he was done. She then said "I don't know Sugar-Hog? My granny says these things could eat you alive if you don't confide into someone about what's ailing you? Are you sure you don't want to get off your chest now? I can be a good listener if ya need to for someone to lean on, how bad are these Thangs?" She asked tenderly.
To which he responded by gently putting his arms out in cease position to stop her there and say. "They're bad, so bad nobody should ever go through either of the things I went through in their entire lifetime, but lucky me they all happened to me and in one setting, though I appreciate the effort." With that remark being said that couldn't help but tickle Applejack curiosity greatly, but she managed to resist further pushing this out of respect of his confidence, though she couldn't help but feel a bit sad and disappointed for some reason she couldn't fully fathom on why he wouldn't open up to her about his problems, but decided to smooth things out with him to make things easier for the both of them to build on, and said as she to began to look away in a remorseful manner and began to rub the back of her head in an apologetic way. "Okay... look I'm sorry too, I guess I shouldn't of kept pushing like that fer something that's considered a sore subject ta share." To which Sonic's mood began to lighten at her understanding.
He couldn't also help but give Applejack a more thorough once over with his eyes. The most stand out quality he noticed about her when he first laid eyes on her was her lovely mane of golden wheat blond hair that extended to her lower back side which was braided at the end. But now that he had her front and center in front of him he noticed more physical qualities as well.
She wore a brown Stetson and though she wore conventional work clothes that were a tight work jeans with cowgirl high heel boots with a long sleeved orange flannel button shirt that didn't reveal much detail about her body. He could tell right away she had a lovely feminine frame on her. One detail that caught him right away was her define muscular legs that tightly molded over her long sleeved work jeans and it was difficult to tell at this angle he was looking at her, but he somehow suspected she had a firm and perky ass that complemented whatever routine she put her legs through to make them look like that especially with that matching golden wheat blond pony tail sticking out or her rump that had the same braiding at the end of her hair.
Once his gaze started shifting upwards towards her body he also noticed that despite the thick flannel shirt she wore, he could tell that she had a robust yet tightly curved waistline, as well as some more then adequate bust size that manage to protrude from her thick bulky shirt that were nice round and plump through her collar bone though you wouldn't notice right away due to the modesty of her attire that she had on.
Though as Sonic was unaware that he was gawking at her a bit, and while Applejack may not of gotten as much attention as some of the other girl did, and though it was nice to get some masculine attention once in awhile, AJ didn't like being ogled in front like that, since she heard Rarity rant enough about his perverted tendencies, it didn't take a genius to figure out what he was doing staring at her like that, as she cleared her throat in a in a displeased yet reserved sort of way.
"*Ahem* Uhh.. Sugar Hog, my eyes are up here." Applejack said in a deadpan sort of way to get his focus on her face and not the rest of her. To which Sonic blinked a bit before and made direct eye contact with Applejack…. But almost immediately after, his eyes took a detour for a split second, as he quickly gaped at Applejack's bust before quickly adjusting his eyes to meet Applejack's once more, before she could get into an even more pissed off state. "S-Sorry! it's just th-.. Wait, what did you call me again?" His eyes widened slightly as "sugar hog" left Applejack's lips. He felt as though nostalgia was punching him square in the face, when he was addressed as that nickname; Actually… this was also, a possible escape from this scenario that his wandering eye had gotten him into again whenever he saw a mighty fine looking lady that grabbed his attention. Applejack sent him a confused stare, as she put a hand on her hip.
"You mean, "Sugar Hog"? If there's a problem with me callin' ya th-" As she was cut off by Sonic, who was quick to dismiss her worry.
"Oh, oh no! It's just that an old friend of mine used to call me that, YEARS ago! The nostalgia is hitting me like a brick right now." Sonic smiled, at the memories of him and the old gang back in Moebius. Him, Tails, Antoine, Bunnie and of course his family. Over the years Knuckles, Amy, Blaze and others quickly became friends with the Blue Blur. However the nostalgia was drowned by the feeling of disgust, as he shook the thought of them out of his (perverted) head. Sonic suddenly looked around to see that the group were far ahead of them, and they didn't even notice that neither Sonic or Applejack were absent!
"Come on AJ, let's go before they leave us behind, we'll talk while we're catching up with them." He said as he gestured Applejack to follow him to catch up with the group that was venturing on without them. "Well anyway's…!" Sonic said as he was jogging with Applejack in tow behind him as they rushed towards the group of friends. "If we're going to be sharing dark personal secrets with one another sometime, I'd like to get to know that person very well before hand so I can get comfortable with that person when the time comes. By the way, you really kinda remind me of a gal I know back home where I'm from." He stated as AJ eyes widened upon hearing that tidbit of information he said. "Huh? Really ah' am?" She said as she jogged after him on the cobblestone road they were on. "Yep, in fact the deja vu is practically freakish when it comes to similarities between you two; the same blond hair, the Stetson you both wear, the same southern accent you both have, you both have green eyes, though your's are lighter than her's while she has more of an olive drab sort of color and you both have the same bo…. Build! You both seem to have the same build even." Sonic said, correcting himself at the end from what could've been a very disastrous mistake. As he was jogging backwards with a nervous smile on his face as he was fighting the impulsive urge to look at her boobs as she jogged behind him, as he manage to turn around without incident, as well as incurring the cowgirls wrath as well, while he mentally addressed himself. "Gawd! What's with me?! I just stared at her like a goddamn, perverted idiot! Fuck, I gotta get a grip!" Though he had to admit to himself, AJ was kinda easy on the eyes as well.
"Do ya mind sharin' the gal's name? This gal, as ya say, is a splitting mirror image of mah-self?" Applejack asked as this seemed to get grab her interest. "Yeah." Sonic said as he snapped out of the lewd awkward haze he was in. "Her name is…. I mean was Bunnie Rabbot, quite literally I mean…. with the name." Sonic said in a downward tone. To which AJ rose her eyebrows in a quizzical look, as to what he meant by that? "Huh?" To which Sonic helped to clarify her confusion by saying. "I mean she was quite literally a Bunny Rabbit, in species anyways, where I'm from there are more than just one sentient species that dominate this planet, there are a ton of different species who walk and talk like I do, though…. the Rabbot part…. that she once carried was unfortunately quite literal too… since she had a mechanical arm and both legs as well…. now she's known as…. Bunnie D'Coolette since she got hitched." Sonic said in somewhat of a disappointing tone, which Applejack picked up on, but didn't ask any questions about it. Instead, they continued to jog over to the gang for another five seconds before they eventually caught up with them; neither of them knowing that they weren't following them for the past couple of minutes. Sonic and Applejack soon began to regret catching up with them.
"ICAN'TWAITTOSEETHEPRINCESSESAGAINHOLYCOW! IT'S GOING TO BE SSSSOOOOOO EXCITING!" To everyone near Pinkie, may god have mercy on their eardrums, as Pinkie literally shouted that, making many bystanders cringe and for some to cover their ears which is what the gang did. Well for Sonic, it made him leap into Applejack's arms… but not a moment passed before she dropped him, his head landing on the concrete.
"Why, did we have to take Pinkie with us?" Sonic thought to himself, his poor ears still recovering from Pinkie's outburst, and his head still recovering from getting dropped by Applejack.
"Pinkie…. you've visited them before…. why are you excited about seeing them, now?!" Twilight asked with a frown on her features, while not as annoyed as the others, she was still pretty peeved about Pinkie being…. Pinkie.
"I dunno. Meeting them is just so exciting!" Pinkie answered as casual as she ever could.
Sonic rubbed the back of his head, with Applejack to the left of him, looking over him with a surprised look on her face. "Sonic, mind explaining why ya jumped into mah arms?" She said in a half lidded deadpan look on her face. "What?! She startled me! Let's just say I have a another pink girl where I'm from who likes to sneak up and startle me too…. though her craziness is more narrowly focused on me then anything else." Sonic said as he tried to mutter that last phrase more quietly so no one could hear. "Why'd you drop me like that, that hurt y'know?" Sonic asked while looking up at her as he began to get up off the ground. "Especially with all that muscle I felt under there, it felt like you could take the gold in heavy weight olympics!" Sonic complemented, bringing a small smile to Applejack's face.
"I do thank ya for that compliment, but ya also startled me by jumping into mah arms like that. It was also tah save some of yah pride, 'cause surely being seen in the arms of ah women would take a toll own yah reputation." Applejack responded, a chuckle not too far behind as she took a playful jab at Sonic. To which Sonic put on an act as if he was offended.
"Well excuse ME, I, Sonic T. Hedgehog, wouldn't feel embarrassed being in the arms of a women like yourself. I mean, wouldn't anyone else feel like doing the same when Pinkie, over there shouts like that!" Sonic countered, and shuddered slightly as he could hear Amy's voice in his head screaming his name.
"Yah got me there." Applejack responded, a big grin accompanying her statement. Then..
"Oh! Not her again!" Twilight moaned, bringing Applejack and Sonic's attention back to the group. They noticed Twilight glaring…. at a piece of paper on the wall; which actually had the face of a light blue mare, with an icy blue mane. In Sonic's eyes she was actually pretty good looking. But he could no longer look at her, as Twilight grabbed the flier and crumpled it up, before making it disappear with her magic. This of course peaked Sonic's curiosity as went over to Twilight to ask what her deal was?
"Uhhh, so Twi, what's your deal with the gal on the poster, what she steal your boyfriend or something?" Sonic said as he tried to clarify on Twilight's disdain towards the mare on the poster. To which she turned a bit surprised by Sonic's insinuation of the situation. "Wha… no, what?!" Twilight said as she sounded a bit annoyed but calmed down and took a breather and began to calmly explain the situation. "Her name is Trixie and we've met before, when she rolled into town not too long ago?" To which Sonic smirked and began to retort. "Trixie huh, I wonder why they call her that, I'm guessing there is a reason to that stage name, though I've got my own suspicions as to why, I'll leave any lewd remarks out to keep my foot out of my own mouth so as to not make an ass out of myself any further." To which Fluttershy and Rarity giggled into their own hands at Sonic's remark, while Rainbow Dash, Applejack, and Pinkie Pie flat out laughed their asses off at that quip, seeing there was no love between them and Trixie, but Twilight remained having a stoic face as Sonic's snickering died out from the serious look as he had a timid smile on his face briefly before clearing his throat and putting on a serious facade as he told Twilight. "Shutting up now." Sonic crossed his arms as he listened to Twilight as she continued.
"As I was saying, she rolled into Ponyville one day and started making trouble by brazenly bragging about her magical abilities and accomplishment, which later turned out to be fraudulently false, as well as humiliating each of my friends while she was there." Twilight said while still donning her stoic face. "Really, well what did she do… I'm sure it wasn't too bad?" Sonic naively asked, though he was about to be reminded that a woman's ego was not to be easily trifled with as he got an earful from three out of the six girls. "Not so bad?! Rainbow bellowed as she continued. She sent me into spin dry mode with my own rainbow and nearly made me lose my lunch, then she startled me when I was recovering with a small storm cloud she conjured that nearly singed my tail, and practically set my shorts a blaze." Rainbow Dash muttered the last sentence under her breath while turning her gaze away peeved at the memory. Sonic blinked a bit at the statement and was about to respond when AJ gave her own account. "That's nothing, she hog tied me with my own lasso and stuffed a apple in my mouth, like I was a roast pig ready to eat!" Sonic gawked and was about to say something when Rarity, being the drama queen that she was needed to top all others as she instantly conjured a sofa for her to lay back on as she recalled her terrible affair. "You two think that horrible!" She said as she laid her arm across her face in a dramatic pose as she continued. "She turned my hair green and not just green, a horrible nest of lawn and twi-i-i-i-i-igsssss!" She whined in her infamous nasally pouty fashion. To which Sonic just widened his eyes at the pitiful display she was giving. Though it ranked as petty and insignificant on the list of evil things to do to someone. It was still a mean and horrible thing to do to someone, especially to a girl, of all people.
"Okay…. so she's a bitch? 'Cause that's what I've learnt from Rainbow, Applejack… and Rarity's over dramatic show." Immediately upon saying that, Sonic received a few annoyed stares from Rainbow Dash, Applejack and Twilight… but they failed to compare to Rarity's glare, which he could say, was terrifying. He swore he could see smoke emit from Rarity's ears, and she suddenly seemed to become much taller than him.
'Help me!'
Just as Rarity was about to commit verbal murder on the poor bastard, Twilight stepped in and directed the conversation away from Trixie.
"SOO…. we should get going. The Princesses will be waiting for us, and we can NOT stall for much longer!" Twilight barked. Sonic wasn't sure if she intentionally stepped in, or it was just that she really didn't want to be late, and couldn't care less about Sonic getting a "lesson in manners" from Rarity. They started walking in the direction of the castle, Rarity still fuming over what Sonic said, and Sonic still mentally thanking Twilight for the save.
'I owe her one for the save.' Sonic thought to himself. He turned to his left and saw Rarity, and just as he turned to look at her, her death stare immediately locked onto Sonic like a auto directed missile, ready to be launched. Sonic immediately whipped his head forward, as he feared that even a single second from under Rarity's "Glare of Death" as he likes to call it, would've killed him.
As they walked by, many bystanders started noticing the blue hedgehog that courageously saved them from those Timberwolves less than twenty four hours ago. Soon enough, a few of them came up to give him their thanks, and a rare few even asked for an autograph. Rainbow Dash was quick to notice this, as she felt jealousy flow through her body. She never got that much attention from doing awesome feats! Screw those bastards! Rainbow decided to try and ignore it; but the turned around to look at Sonic one more time, and instead saw not only Sonic, but saw him crowded by a fuckton of people surrounding him, offering him their thanks, asking him multiple questions and even a few of the females flirting with the blue blur. Some of them, asking for autographs… on their tits... While Sonic was busy in a male teenager's wet dream, Rainbow and the others looked on at the sight, all of them shocked, and one or two of them feel a hint of envy. Rainbow being one of them, but for only the reasons of she never got hot dudes coming up to her, and flirting with her; that and no one ever crowded her and gave her attention like the attention Sonic currently has. It was almost as if… he was trying to outdo her, and make her a thing of the past. While that was simply not true, Rainbow didn't seem to think that way. She could look on no longer as she stormed up to Sonic, pushing herself through the crowd, and many of the fan girls to get to him.
"Guys! You know, I appreciate that you guys are being this nice to me, but I got-WOAH WHAT THE?!" Sonic couldn't finish his sentence as he was grabbed on the arm and dragged out from the center, and pulled him through all of the people surrounding them effortlessly. Sonic tried to get her to let go, but it was to no use.
"Alright, you've had your fun, now let's go!" Rainbow growled. Sonic only wondered why he was getting so many women mad today. "Whoa there Skittles, why you so worked up, are you still mad at me for the Trixie thing? I was actually trying to agree with you all, though I haven't met her myself so, I'm not sure what she'd be like with me?" Sonic innocently asked. To which Rainbow responded by still glaring forward as she pulled his arm as they marched back to the group by saying. "Oh yeah, I'm sure she would get along swimmingly with you." Rainbow growled, to which Sonic glared back and asked. "What does that mean?!" Sonic asked a little annoyed at the sudden hostility he was getting. "What you want an autograph too or something, all you had to do was ask?" To which that greatly antagonized her, as she bared her teeth and whipped her head around really pissed at him. "Oh really…. Is that so? Just shut the hell up!" Rainbow Dash spat, the venom from her words rolling off of her tongue. Though Sonic just narrowed his gaze at her, getting quite peeved at her attitude all of a sudden and retorted and just said "Yeesh, alright Mrs. Kilimanjaro!" Sonic said as Rainbow gave him another glare from that comment but continued on pulling him back to the group. To which Sonic rolled his eyes saying to himself. "Why is it always too easy to step on a girls proverbial minefield without even a warning, I'm sure there is no demolishes expert to warn or defuse you from that situation?" Sonic said in his mind as they finally rejoined the group and Rainbow finally releasing her grip on his wrist, to which Sonic took it back and messaging it with a hint of aggravation as well at her, as they trudged on their way to the castle, with Sonic's hands shoved in his pockets and kicking a pebble along the cobblestone road.
Applejack noticed this ugly turn in their disposition so she'd thought she'd help take things…. well at least for Sonic seeing as he was an alright guy so far in her book with his usual friendly disposition and decided to get him back on track, by getting his mind off of present events. "So Sugar hog, back tah what we were talking 'bout … if that's alright with yah? She said while sheepishly rubbing the back of her head, hoping that was the right thing to say. To which Sonic gaze softened as he turned towards her, as she helped by giving him an encouraging warm smile back at him. "Well alright, though I'd like to hear more about you, if that's alright?" He said as he wasn't sure where to pick up his conversation at about himself, at least one that wasn't unpleasant for him. "Me?" She said "Why'd ya want tah know 'bout me?" She asked to which he answered by saying. "Because I'm sure you've got some great happy stories to tell, and I want to know more about you, plus this might help me come up with some nice stories of my own along the way, what do you think?" He asked as he gave a genuine smile her direction, to which she tipped her Stetson forward to hide the faint hint of a blush that was forming to which she wasn't sure why she was feeling like that. "O-Okay, what do ya want tah know 'bout me?" She asked with a certain hint of bashful uncertainty as she wasn't expecting this and her mind went sort of blank at the moment for some reason. "Well for one thing, what do you do for a living, I'd imagine it must be something strenuous with how tough and hardworking you look and feel, plus I doubt you work inside all day crammed in a cubicle typing all day, I don't know about you, but I'd go stir crazy without getting some fresh air and being able to moving around, who knows maybe when I get a job I'll be a bike messenger, seeing that's the only thing I can think of that won't feel Like a major downturn for me?" He said as he began to laugh which also got AJ to laugh as well, seeing as she agreed his sentiments. "Well partner ah work at Sweet Apple Acres at the outskirts of town, it's been in mah family for generations and I can't think any other place I'd rather be." She said as she smiled as she pointed her thumb at herself proud of her profession. "Oh really an apple orchard, that sounds pretty sweet place to work at?" Sonic said as he raised his eyebrow in interest hoping to hear more about it. "Yep, just like ya said nothing but fresh air and plenty of space to move around, ya never have tah feel cramped up while working out there." Applejack said as she beamed with her eyes closed. To which Sonic looked down and rubbed his head bashful about what he was about to ask next. "Uhhh hey can I ask if it's alright if I come and help out on the farm, I got some farming experience myself when we had to grow our own crops so we wouldn't go hungry from where I use to live, plus I might as well help as much as I can, here seeing as I might be here for a while?" Sonic asked wondering if she would take him. Applejack sent him a warm smile, feeling touched to know that Sonic wanted to help. Usually anyone who helped on the farm was.. forced, to do some work.
"Ah really 'ppreciate that ya wanna help on the farm Sonic. Ah'd be glad tah let ya come on tah farm and give me and mah family a bit of help. Thank ya Sonic." Applejack said softly, a warm feeling resided in her chest for the past minute, and she didn't know why. She placed that feeling to the side, and focused on what was currently going on.
"Hey, no problem! No need to thank me, I'm ju-" Sonic was rudely interrupted by Twilight.
"Hey guys! We've got at least a minutes walk before we reach the castle!" Twilight shouted, startling Sonic, but not enough to make him repeat his actions from earlier.
"So…. why is Twilight so… I don't know, obsessed with the princesses?" Sonic asked, confused as to why Twilight seemed to be very strict when it came to the princesses.
"Well, she their student. Has been their student for tah past couple 'a years now." Applejack explained, lifting Sonic's confusion.
"Oooohhhhhhh, 'kay. Now I understand. So why does she despise Trixie? And from what I've seen and heard, she hates her the most out of all of you." Sonic curiously asked, hoping Twilight never heard his question so she doesn't go on a verbal tirade about, "the bitch".
"Well, when Twilight and "the bitch" as ya addressed her, were trying tah upstage one another, and Twilight got tah better of tah two. By that, I mean Trixie got an Ursa Minor tah attack us, and then Twilight went ahead and upstaged her, by… giving the minor a bottle, and singing it a lullaby." Sonic gave her a poker face like look, obviously weirded out by that part of the story. "It's weird, ah know. But Trixie felt as though she'd been upstaged, 'cause she had claimed tah have vanquished an Ursa Minor. So when Twilight, 'dispatched' of an Ursa Minor herself in full view of everybody, they went tah Twilight's side, including me and the others, obviously." Applejack explained. Sonic was still weirded out from hearing about Twilight putting some sort of monster to sleep (literally), but started to ignore that fact for now.
"Well…. that's.. one way for a rivalry to start. Eh, I've heard and seen weirder." Sonic said.
Just as Applejack was about to continue the conversation, they were interrupted, again.
"Okay everyone! We're here!" Twilight shouted to the group.
'What is with people and sudden outbursts?!' Sonic mentally complained, as he wouldn't dare voice his displeasure as it would most certainly end up with him getting yet ANOTHER row, with one of the mares. A risk, he was not willing to partake in.
As Sonic began to take in his surroundings, the first thing that came into his view was the enormous castle that now stood in close view ahead of him. It was the biggest Castle he had ever seen in his life, and that it was hanging off the side of a mountain which only added to it's glory. Sonic wondered how long, difficult, and expense went into making a castle like this. The lords in there must of been very prosperous rulers to be able to have a castle like this, as Sonic let out an impressed whistle. "Dang! That's one hell of a castle. Pretty impressive, but how is something that goddamn, big being suspended over the side of a steep mountain like that?" To which Twilight giggled and said. "By magic. I don't know if we told you this but Princess Celestia and her younger Sister Princess Luna are not only the rulers of this land, but also in swaying the coming of day and night. With Princess Celestia being responsible with the rising of the Sun and Princess Luna with the coming of night and the moon itself." Twilight happily explained. To which Sonic had a wide eyed look of 'are you fucking kidding me' look on his face, to which he then donned a brushing it off sort of laugh to Twilight's explanation. "C'mon are you really serious about that, do you really expect me to believe that two royal ponies have sway over the day and night?" Sonic said seeing as royal customs were very different from where he was from, as the girls looked at him with some annoyance to his brash statement to which he looked at them when he opened his eyes and saw that they were dead serious about what they were saying. But decided to give him a break, seeing as he was not from around here.
'What. The. Actual. Fuck. Next thing you know, everyone in this place are vegans."
Walking up to the gates of the castle, the guards who were currently slacking off, immediately got into position (Giggity), when Twilight and the others, especially Rarity came into view. Walking up to the guards, Twilight greeted them and asked to be let into the castle, to which they obliged without hesitation. Once Rarity was walking past, their 'sergeants', was threatening to stand at attention, until they caught a glimpse of an unfamiliar blue hedgehog walking behind Applejack, and just as Applejack entered the castle the guards lowered their spears towards Sonic, ready to wound or kill if necessary. Sonic put his hands up in defence, not wanting to get poked by their big, pointy sticks.
"YOU! On behalf of the Princesses, we are ordering you to leave the premises. If you dare to ignore our request, we may have to use other means for you to leave." One of the guards threatened, their spears only millimeters from coming into contact with Sonic's flesh. Upon hearing the guards threat, Twilight and the others spun 'round to see the guards slowly making walking towards Sonic with their spears pointed him, with Sonic slowly retreating.
"Can you guys, like, chill please? I'd rather not get poked by a big stick after the shit I've been through today." Sonic asked, annoyance shown from his face and the way those words left his mouth. For some reason, he didn't just leave them in his dust, was it because of the thought that Twilight may give him a lecture if he did came to mind? He wasn't sure, but it would lead to a confrontation that would escalate if he revealed more of his abilities in such brash fashion. And he didn't want to cause problem needlessly if he could help it, since he knew first hand how overzealous some of these tools could get, even if there was no real malice from the person in question. Just ask the soldiers of the Acorn of Republic back when Sally was in charge and you managed to get on her bad side if you did, like the first time they broke up when they were engaged to be married?
That's when Twilight charged back and went back in front of the guards, to face them for their for their needless hostility towards Sonic. "What are you two doing?!" She said as she glared at them with her fists to her hips to show that she wasn't happy with their behavior. Twilight being the student of Princess Celestia herself, and being the little sister to the captain of the guards as well, jerked back a bit and bared their teeth in nervousness at her surprised displeasure. "F-Forgive us lady Twilight, but th-..."
"But nothing! And I don't know how you two don't recognise him! He's the hedgehog, who saved us all from becoming a memory! So I am demanding you two, to back off and return to your posts!" Twilight barked at the guards, filling them with fear as Sonic looked on in bewilderment and the rest of the Mane Six just looked on causally as if this was a regular occurrence.
"Y-Y-Yes! Lady Twilight! W-We deeply, offer our apologies to the hedgehog!" One of the guards sputtered. As the other guard nodded his head at a very fast pace. They quickly ran back to their posts with sweat pouring down their faces, Twilight still gloating into their souls as they did so. Sonic took a mental note not to piss off Twilight.
"Alright then. Let's go." Twilight calmly said, as if the past few moments didn't happen. Sonic decided for his own benefit not to ask Twilight about her ability to swiftly change her mood. Instead, he just followed her own past the Castle gates. However, as just as they were about to Rainbow pointed at the sky and the others looked in the direction that she pointed at. Flying through the sky gloriously was the Wonderbolts. Rainbow Dash's idols, she watched on in amazement as they flew overhead, leaving a sky whisp trail following them. Similar to the jet planes back on Earth. One of the pegasuses appeared to be yellow with a flaming mane which stood upright, the second Pegasus was white with a blue mane, and the third Pegasus was sky blue and had a white mane. Even Sonic, looked on, impressed at the speeds of which they travelled at.
"So. Freaking. Cool!" Rainbow Dash said, pausing in between each word to try and put an emphasis on how "cool" the wonderbolts were.
"Ya know, although ah'm not really inta all of this racin' an' speed an' whatnot, this is still impressive tah look at." Applejack admitted.
"Damn, gotta agree with you there AJ. VERY impressive. Might even be as fast as me." As soon as those words left Sonic's mouth, he immediately had once again, had a very pissed off Rainbow Dash in his face.
"MIGHT?! HAH! They would fly CIRCLES around you a thousand times over before you could even count to three!" Rainbow Dash boasted, her ever growing, inflated ego getting in the way. Sonic wasn't impressed with this however, and sighed.
"First, can you please, like back up? I see you still got that hot morning breath.. nasty; Second, you haven't really seen much of me running; finally, you say that as if they're the fastest trio in the universe… even faster than you." This remark made Rainbow's face go a deep shade of crimson, not from blushing or from embarrassment… but from sheer rage. Even the guards had the common sense to fuck off as soon as they saw Rainbow's face… even though they were getting hyped over Sonic and Rainbow dissing each other.
"WHY YOU LITTLE BI-" The sound of someone's head getting smacked echoed through everyone's ears, as Rainbow's oncoming curse was halted by Rarity who took it upon herself to smack Rainbow in the back of the head, very hard. Rainbow gritted her teeth as she felt a bit of pain from the back of her head. Rainbow sent one more final glare towards Sonic, which Sonic wasn't fazed by it all, and rubbed the back of her now stinging head and backed off… not without mumbling a few curses under her breath. Which Rarity decided to ignore.
"Sorry about that Hun, she can be a bit temperamental sometimes." Sonic chuckled after she said that, clearly not taken aback by Rainbow Dash's rage.
"Oh, I can tell! No need to apologise Rarity." Sonic said, earning a giggle from Rarity. "Nice slap by the way." Sonic complimented. Rarity had an amused look on her face. "Why thank you dear." Rarity replied.
Walking back to the group, Sonic could see in the back was still a very pissed off Rainbow Dash whom was still mumbling some unsavoury things, and was still feeling the effects from Rarity's almighty slap. She refused to look at anything but the ground, the walls and the ceiling.
"Now…. if there isn't ANY FURTHER INTERRUPTIONS, then can we PLEASE, enter the castle?" Twilight said through strained reserved composure, like she was someone with tourettes. To which Sonic just calmly held his hands up and said. "Okay Twilight, sheesh take a chill pill before you have yourself an aneurism." Sonic said hopefully to get her to calm down and not raise any more estrogen tension between the girls that had been already. To which Twilight just rolled her eyes at Sonic's remark before they started heading into the castle to which Sonic started to catch up to Twilight as they did this, as he wanted to smooth out any uneasiness between them. "Hey Twilight I have to ask are you alright, why are you so anxious to see the princesses? I'm sure they won't mind if we're a little late?" Sonic said as he calmly tried to get Twilight to settle down. But that's when she looked at him with a stressed sense of peril on her face. "But it is a big deal, and it's still unacceptable, the princesses expect a lot from me, and I don't want to let them down!" To which Sonic wisely asked. "Are you sure that's what the princesses really expect from you, or are you projecting that on yourself?" Sonic suggested. "What do you mean by that." Twilight asked a little frazzled. "I mean how long have you known them for, are they really this strict to you that they'll punish harshly for not carrying every order out to the letter like that, have they ever done that to you in the past before, or are you just coloring that in your own mind?" Sonic wisely enunciated to get the details from Twilight on how the princesses were really like. To which Twilight began to put her finger on her mouth in a bit of a nervous quizzical fashion as to think this through. "Well I erhmmmm….?" Twilight began to think on how the princesses usually acted around her and everyone they met and realized that Sonic was right, even though others were just as edgy about displeasing them as she was to them as well. "Uhhhh, I guess you're right, I might of overreacted a bit." Said Twilight as she gave a downwards sigh on how ridiculous she was acting with everyone. To which Sonic said. "A little? You were more like an overly coiled cobra ready to strike at anyone ready to give you grief, but it's okay, we all get anxious from time to time." He said as he leaned in and gave her a reassuring pat on the back. To which she gave him a dirty look for a moment, but once Sonic gave her a friendly wink, is softened up to a pleasant smile as she said. "Thanks Sonic, I guess you're not such an obnoxious ass after all." Sonic's expression was almost like a poker face upon hearing Twilight's comment. "Thanks….. I guess." Sonic replied, in an uncertain tone, considering the fact he had just gotten roasted by Twilight just now.
Walking into the castle, it didn't faze the mares as they had obviously visited the castle numerous times in the past. Sonic on the other hand, dropped his poker face and replaced with a bug eyed look on his face. Walking slowly and looking around at what seemed to be the main hall, Sonic took in its awe inspiring attributes. There was fancy shit, everywhere. Everything glistened and stood out, and not one thing looked the slightest bit dirty. The chequered floor, polished probably much more than it should be, the red carpet of which they stood on, looked marvellous with a sun placed in the middle of what looked to be a crossroads. The purple walls were a light shade of purple with banners hanging from them, two of them the same while the other two wore two different colours. The gold outline with the wavy pattern at the bottom looked gorgeous! With each path having an arch shaped entrance, meanwhile looking forward would showcase some stairs with gold railings, and the carpet continuing up them, two different paths could be taken once someone had climbed the first couple of steps. East, or west. Sonic thought that the castle probably cost way too much for it to be built, although the interior and outer part of the castle were both a wonderful sight for the eyes. His bug eyed expression stayed as he thought it looked familiar to the castle back in Mobius, the one that he and his parents visited a lot many, many years ago. His family were quite close to the royalty in Mobius. His thoughts were interrupted by the feeling of shame that hit him hard, and he shook the thoughts of that castle out of his head, not wanting to remember it's final chapter.…
Rarity saw the look on Sonic's face, and became worried about him, before he could see her worried stare she turned back to the front, and continued to walk with the rest of the group. Sonic awoke from his thoughts and saw the group was a couple of feet ahead of him, so he picked up the pace and caught up to them quickly.
"So… where do we go from here?" Sonic asked, obviously dumbfounded at the castle's 'complex' interior, even though it was pretty basic. Twilight piped up as soon as the question was asked.
"Just follow me, getting to the throne room isn't that complicated." Twilight answered, and Sonic gave her a nod. Following the others, he couldn't help but gawk at the interior as they kept getting closer and closer to the throne room. But being at the end of a group of females had its benefits. Taking the opportunity, he continued to walk but had a good look at to confirm what he suspected earlier, as he gawked Applejacks behind swaying from left to right with that long wheat golden blond ponytail swishing from side to side, telling him that she did indeed have a firm and perky ass from whatever workout routine she had to get the physique she had. Though Sonic wanted to get a good look at the other mares, he couldn't help but take a good long look at Rarity again, from the behind, considering she had just as good looking backside as she did from the front. With her hourglass figure and her glistening purple permed tail, swishing from side to side as well from that generous ass of her's as well. And as if she had some sort of spider sense, Rarity turned her head around just in time to see Sonic pick his eyes up to look at her, he nervously waved at her, trying to make himself look as innocent as goddamn possible.
'...Shit.'
Sonic was expecting Rarity to chew him out, but she only sent him a glare and that was that. Sonic didn't know whether to feel relieved, or scared.
'Baka.' Rarity thought to herself, not too happy with Sonic perverted ways.
Rarity's glare did not deter Sonic from his want to have a look at Rarity's ass. After a minute or so, Rarity turned to look at Sonic again to check to see if he had stopped himself from doing the dirty deed of ogling her ass. Sonic was looking around 'innocently' and quietly humming a tune that sounded somewhat similar to I'm Sexy and I know it. He was doing a really shitty job at acting innocent, as Rarity gave him a look of disgust and looked more pissed off than before. Sonic finally made eye contact with Rarity and sweat dropped at the sight of the very, very pissed off look on her face. Sonic started itching the back of his neck and looked away from Rarity, calling it quits on the lewd staring. Rarity turned around to face the front of the group and thought there was no need to look back anymore. Her glare of death should've been enough to make Sonic stop staring at her rump. SHOULD'VE. As soon as Rarity took her eyes off of Sonic, Sonic eyes were once again fixated on Rarity's ass. Sonic started following her ass like a watch, his head moving from left to right, and he didn't even mean to start doing that! He wasn't complaining though. Rarity's seventh sense kicked in and turned around to see Sonic be awe inspired by the castle's interior. But when Sonic tried to have a quick peak, he didn't notice Rarity had turned around to look at him so when he started to fixate himself on her rump, he felt as if he should look up; and when he did, he saw a pure look, of rage, and disgust and she even looked insulted! She even bared her teeth, making herself look even more scary to Sonic, making his pupils somehow shrink. He was scared for his life. Sonic barley mouthed a sorry, and when he did Rarity noticed it and rolled her eyes, her glare not leaving Sonic for another few short few seconds. She slowly turned to look at the front, and it was for the final time.
'What. A. Blue. Little. Perverted. Ungentleman-like. BAKA!' Rarity roared in her mind.
Though just as Sonic was about get a better look at the other mares, which was fortunate, seeing as Rarity would kill him for ogling at her other friends as well. They had just reached the massive double doors that lead into the throne room itself. It was a rich mahogany red wood that glistened due to the sealing job that was done to it to give it that polished look. And while the base of the doors looked perfectly rectangular from the bottom, the top of the doors was given an angular well rounded triangle look to match the door frame up top on each door. The door knobs that adorned the door as well as the hinges appeared to be made of solid gold and was well polished and maintained to give it that good as new look.
Just then Twilight who was ahead of the group stopped, and then proceeded to give a good hardy knock on the door to acknowledge their arrival and to be granted permission to enter, so they wouldn't intrude on anything as they entered. They then heard an almost unnaturally high volumed feminine voice saying. "COME IN!" as the gang began to enter the room. Sonic was greeted to an enormous room that had black and white marble checkered tiling, with white marble walls and decorative columns that were along the walls that had the two thrones of the princesses themselves, which were elevated above the floor a bit at the far end of the room where marble two marble curved stairs went to each of the adjoining princesses thrones where they had well polished walnut throne chairs with golden accents and trimmings as well as red velvet cushions on each chair. Each had a seal over head that showed which throne belonged to who as the one to the left the golden seal of the Sun hanging above the rightful throne of Celestia and the throne that had the Silver seal of the crescent moon with an obelisk background with some sparkling white diamonds that dotted here from there around the silver crescent moon, that stood to the right obviously belonged to Luna's throne seat. As well as colorfully bright stain glass windows that depicted various events throughout Equestrian history stood along each side of the walls of the room to give it a more bright, sparkling, and colorful appearance to the room itself as Sonic whistled impressed at the majesty of the room itself. They certainly didn't have anything as glamourous as this back in Mobius.
They then saw two magnificent and slightly taller than normal mares as they sat on each of their thrones listening to a Blue maned white colt of a unicorn, dressed in a golden suit of armour with his Spartan style helmet tucked into his right arm and a sword sheathed in it's scabbard attached to his belt on the left as he kneeled before the two royal mares. One who was the tallest, and looked to be the eldest, was a very tall alabaster white mare with with a very long spiraled horn angled upward on the center of her forehead with purple eyes that rested beneath that horn, and large white angelic like wings that outcropped her back, but the most stand out feature was the long flowing rainbow mane and ponytail that had sort of an ethereal quality in appearance. Resting on that flowing ethereal rainbow mane was a golden tiara with an amethyst gem in the center, with a golden necklace that bared the same center piece as her tiara only much larger. She also wore a white royal gown dress with gold accents running down it, with the design at the bottom of the gown shaped like a sun with the bottom part of the sun cut off. She wore two white sleeves which were not connected to the gown, with cloth gold trims with a single half sun design at the bottom of the sleeves. At her waist, was a sun with a gold belt with designs on it coloured in a darker shade of gold with a metallic tint. The gown fit her large lovely womanly frame as well as show off some cleavage as well, as well as golden high heeled dress shoes that covered her feet that somehow showed off her long beautiful legs.
The Mare that was sitting across from her was somewhat shorter in appearance but had a dark topaz blue coat with a much more smaller and more elegant horn of the same color on her fore head with dark blue eyes as well. With wings that were well proportionate to her smaller frame however somewhat similar to her sister and yet very different was a mane that flaunted off the starry cosmo of the night sky that was apparent on her ponytail as well. On that starry ethereal mane sat a simple black tiara, which had a silver ring like design in the middle, with a black necklace that had a silver crescent moon on hanging in the center. She however wore lighter grayish in appearance royal gown than her coat was, with a duo toned silver blue left side to it as well that fit well over her slimmer hourglass framed body that showed off a bit more cleavage than her sister did with the same silver blueish accents running down her dress as well. On her right arm, was a dark blue sleeve, with had cloth silver trims, and had silver accents running down the sleeve, which looked like it imitated a moon rising while the other arm remained bare except for a silver manacle of some sort rested on her wrist. A rose was connected to a very slim gold ring around the waistline. Her heels were a dark shade of blue, with a pair of wings at the middle of the foot. For some reason the night princess caught the blue blurs attention more than her older sister did. "Damn, and I thought I looked good in the color blue, maybe they are goddesses!" Sonic thought with a hint of a blush across his cheeks as he quickly averted his gaze downward so as so as to look more respectable towards royalty.
"No need to stop Shining Armour, it's just our expected guests, a little early though, but as you were saying?" Celestia addressed her Captain of the guards hoping to get back on track on what he was discussing before her honored guest had arrived. While everybody except for Sonic and Fluttershy were glaring at Twilight for making them hustle to their destination, to which she gave a nervous bashful smile at her peers for her overzealous punctuality. Sonic looked on, amused at the situation. Four people very pissed off at Twilight being a bit too overzealous, and all four of them had different reasons; Applejack wanted to talk to Sonic some more; Rainbow could've done some cool stuff and maybe get a chance to finish her rant at Sonic; Rarity could've been doing her nails or fixing her hair up; and Pinkie… she just wanted to throw a party, like always. Sonic, while a bit sympathetic, still saw the humour in this scenario and Fluttershy just looked at her feet, twirling a finger in her light pink mane. Twilight looked at the mares, nervously laughing while a single drop of sweat ran down her face as five very pissed off faces looked back at her. Sonic let out a yawn and scratched the back of his head, bored out of his mind. With nothing to do besides of either taking a risk and peaking at the mares' derrières, or just standing still and look at the walls, he walked over to one of the many stained glass windows in the room, and studied the image on it, which looked like some weird science experiment gone wrong being sealed in something. The creature had the head of a goat with white eyebrows so big that it made Confucius jealous, and a long white goatee and on top of the head, had two very different horns one horn being similar to a dragon's while the other being a normal goat ear, his body was like a long stretched out eagle's torso, one of the front legs belonging to an eagle, while the other looked to be a lion's, even the wings differed from the other with one of them looking like a dragon's wing while the other seemed to belong to a blue bird, the legs also were different, one of them being the leg of a dragon while the other was the leg of a goat, and the tail was a red dragon's tail with an odd white tail at the end of it. Why it was sealed, and why it looks so damn horrifying are two of the many questions that Sonic would have to ask later about the abomination. Turning around, he saw that nothing had changed, the Princesses were still gabbing to whoever that soldier was, and honestly Sonic didn't care who it was, while the mares had stopped glaring at Twilight and they themselves were getting pretty bored. Sonic was about to take a nap, when he remembered, his MP3 Player! Feeling relief hit him, he grabbed his MP3 Player, which somehow barely had any damage, and began to scroll through the songs he had stored onto the device. Upon the songs on his list, were Radioactive-Imagine Dragons, Undead-Hollywood Undead, New Divide-Linkin Park(R.I.P Chester), Hero-Skillet, Sexy and I Know It-LMFAO, One Who Laughs Last-Downplay and much, much more. Out of respect, he turned down the volume and picked New Divide. A smile appeared as the intro of the song had began, and remembered the first time he had ever heard of the group which was at least six years ago. Applejack had a sudden urge to look around, and so she did, while doing so, she spotted Sonic smiling and holding onto some weird blue thing which a bunch of buttons on it. Out of curiosity she walked over to Sonic, and the closer she got to him, she started to pick up the sound of music… but it wasn't any sort of music that would be played in Equestria. She was always more of a country (of course) fan, when it came to music genres. Sonic, who was busy staring down at his MP3 Player, barely made out a figure walking towards him and quickly concluded that it was Applejack. He looked up and kept his smile.
"Hey AJ, gotten bored have we?" Sonic asked, not loud enough for Twilight or the Princesses to hear.
"Ya bet. If Twilight hadn't rushed us tah see the Princesses way too early, we wouldn't be sittin' 'ere twiddling our darn thumbs! Ah swear she's more tightly winded than a snake swallowing a spring!" Applejack complained, her last statement confusing Sonic as he just looked at her, having no clue at what that simile was supposed to mean.
"... Oh…'kay, if you say so." Sonic said, not sure what on Earth just came out of her mouth, but didn't question it. Applejack then remembered the little device in Sonic's hand.
"Hey Sonic, what's that there little doohickey thing ya got there?" Applejack asked, pointing to the MP3 Player in Sonic's hand. Sonic looked to his MP3 Player which was still playing New Divide, and looked back to Applejack.
"This, my southern friend, is an MP3 Player. You download a bunch of songs onto it, and then you can play them whenever you want to. You can plug in your earphones at the bottom of it as well." While she understood the premise of the device, she had no idea what earphones were, or what downloading meant. Before she could ask anymore questions, the chorus had just kicked in, and she paused for a moment to listen; while it was no country music, it actually wasn't that bad.
"Sonic, what song is that MP3 Player playin'? An' who made that song? It's actually not that bad." Applejack asked.
"The song is called New Divide, and was made by Linkin Park." That's when Sonic's looked at the ground with a somber expression. Applejack saw this and was about to ask what was wrong, until he blurted out. "The vocalist for the group: Chester Bennington was found dead yesterday. I'll spare the details of how he died." Sonic said, and sighed at the tragic loss of the singer. Applejack's eyes widened and looked apologetic.
"Darn. Ah'm sorry tah hear that Sonic." Applejack said, her gaze became softer as she leaned against the wall right next to Sonic.
"It's alright." Sonic answered. Silence fell upon the two, with neither of them saying a word as New Divide continued playing, and the longer it played on for, the more Applejack came to like it.
"Sooo, about Rainbow." Sonic randomly said. Applejack raised a brow at him.
"What 'bout her?" Applejack asked, wondering why Sonic had brung her up into the mix from out of nowhere.
"Is she usually in a pissy mood? I mean, she's been mad at me twice already today. Once for having a crowd around me, and just a couple of minutes ago when those guys flew over us I made a comment about them, and she got extremely pissed off. What's with her?" Sonic asked. Curious to know more about the temperamental mare.
"Well, for starters, the gal could'a been jealous for all of tah attention you were gettin'; an' as for tah second time, ya did say somethin' about her speed, an' not in a positive light." Applejack suggested, Sonic shook his head, but had a small smile clinging onto his face. "Heh, I remember I used to be like that. If anyone ever questioned my speed, or got more attention than I did a few years ago, I would've been more pissed off than a female teenager on that time of the month." Applejack looked a bit dumbfounded, as she had no clue what the term, "that time of the month" stood for. Sonic, seeing her in a confused state, decided to clear up the confusion. "By, "that time of the month", I mean when a female is going through an important stage in growing up, if you get what I mean. Applejack still looked at him with a perplexed look, but after a few short seconds, she caught on and shot him a unamused look. Sonic nervously chuckled, and tried to think of some other topic to stop Applejack from staring at him like that.
"Uuuuhhhhhhhhhh….." his brain almost failed on him right there and then. Until a thought passed through his mind. "Oh! What about the others? Y'know, Rarity, Twilight, Fluttershy and… Pinkie." He paused for a bit, saying Pinkie's name a bit more quieter than he did with the others so he wouldn't attract any attention from her. Applejack thought to herself for a moment, before looking back at Sonic.
"Well, as ya see, Pinkie's just some gal who really, REALLY likes throwin' parties. Flutter's is a tiny bit timid, but she's a good soul. She loves animals. Twilight, ah guess ya could say that she's a teacher's pet when it comes to the Princesses. She's a bit of a nerdy type a fellow, but like the others, she's a good soul. Now… Rarity, darn… she's, LOVES fashion. She has her own lil' boutique, she always stays up tah date with tah newest fashion trends, and is very strict when it comes ta behaviour and stuff like that. She also attracts a lot of attention from ta guys. It's quite funny ta watch." Applejack said, chuckling to herself at the end. Sonic joined in not too long afterwards. Applejack gained a more serious look on her face.
"Speakin' of Rare… Ah've noticed that, ya an' her speak ta each other, quite a lot. I think there may be somethin' goin' on between tah two of ya's." Applejack said, wiggling her eyebrows. Sonic looked at her surprised for a moment, but recovered and smiled rather goofily.
"Me and her? Pft, TOTALLY." Sonic said jokingly, which made Applejack's eyes widen slightly. "Nah, we're just friends. I'll be honest, she's hot with a capital H, but we're not together or anything of the sort." Sonic admitted. Applejack hastily scanned him to see if she could detect any dishonesty coming from him, but she quickly realised he wasn't. Knowing that put her at ease, and made her smile a genuine smile.
"Say, why'd you ask if me and Rarity had a thing going on anyway?" Sonic asked, a smile slowly crept up onto his features as he saw a faint blush on Applejack's face appear. "Ohhhhhh…. Well, to add to your pleasure, I am a free Hedgehog." Sonic winked at Applejack, as she giggled at him. Although the red tint on her face became more noticeable.
"Now, ah didn't say ah was interested in ya that way, now did ah?" Applejack responded. Sonic, still had a cheeky grin on his face.
"Nope. But you didn't say that you weren't interested in me, now did yah?" Sonic cleverly replied, feeling very proud of what he just said as if it was actually important. Applejack, rolled her eyes at the flirt, but the blush on her face didn't leave; instead it became more noticeable than ever.
"Nah, I didn't. But it still doesn't mean that ah'm interested in yah, Sonic." Applejack retorted, finishing off with a wink. Just as the sexual tension was rising, Applejack noticed Shining Armour was about to leave, so she motioned to Sonic to follow her.
As Shining Armour was walking away from his meeting with the Princesses, he then saw his baby sis giddy to see him again as they went over to greet each other. They went over and hugged each other in a happy warm embrace as they laughed happy to be reunited with one another. "Here hee hee, hi BBBFF how have you been!?" Said Twilight happy to be reunited with her brother. "I've been doing fine Twily. How's your life in Ponyville with your new friends has been?" He asked as he broke the embrace as he bent over eager to hear what Twilight had to say. While Twilight reminisced about to her brother about what new residence was like, Sonic couldn't help but turn towards the siblings and wondered how they knew each other, but when he heard Shining use the term "sis" he then knew what this was about. But while they continue to talk, Sonic started to feel a bit melancholy as he looked down, can't help but be reminded about his own brother and sister, and how now he was the only living sibling currently left. Sonic felt his eyes water, but was able to stop himself from letting any tears escape. But he couldn't help but wonder how things would be like if they were both still here happy and healthy.
But just then he was lifted from his gloomy withdraw just when he heard his name being called by Twilight, as he suddenly stood alert and shaking his head to clear his mind from the depressing memories that still haunted him, as he then looked towards the two siblings as Twilight extended her arm out to introduce Sonic, as Sonic himself managed to recompose himself.
"Shining Armour I'd like to you to meet our new friend and the very guy who saved Ponyville: Sonic the Hedgehog." She said as Shining came over to greet Sonic with a handshake, but soon a perplexed looked suddenly came onto Shining's face when looked the hedgehog straight in the eye. "Hey, uhh are you alright there, you look kinda…. down?" Shining asked as he looked at the blue hedgehog with concern. Sonic quickly started to wipe his eyes with his fingers and tried to take on a more cheery demeanor. "Uhhh yeah, I just got something in my eye that's all…. of all the darn times to get something in your eye, huh, right?" He said as he had a hint of weariness in his voice as he then reached over to give Shining that handshake. "Sonic T. Hedgehog, at your service." he said as he shook Shining's hand, as Shining wiped the concern look off his face for a more friendly one. "Shining Armour, Captain of your royal highnesses guards at your service." he said trying to give Sonic a very sincere smile, though he couldn't help but be troubled by Sonic's attempt at a faćade, and couldn't help but feel there was some dark reason to it. But, he didn't ask any questions about it. "I gotta say, we owe you big time for your courageous act by defending Equestria from those Timberwolves. You've got guts. Almost everyone in the army don't have as much bravery as you possess." Shining Armour humbly said, Sonic smiled at this act, as it mirrored an event which happened many years back, when Sonic first saved the world and stopped Eggman from achieving his dream of turning all natural life into a robotic waste land. That, was when Sonic The Hedgehog became globally famous, for his heroic ways. That was when, the world wasn't turned into a warzone, but of course the peace didn't last.
"Thanks. I'm quite familiar with saving a couple of places from imminent doom. So I guess you can say, I was just doing what I do best, for the greater good." Sonic said, it was true. He was used to saving the world (and women throwing themselves at him after he does so), but he didn't feel like telling them EVERYTHING, right now.
"Glad to hear that. At last, we finally have an outsider who's a half decent guy." Shining Armour complimented, most outsiders where either complete pricks, monsters or jehovah witnesses. Fuck them. Although the last part may not be true, the point still stands that most outsiders who come into Equestria, don't turn out to be the nicest of people. "Anyways, I better go. The Princesses want to talk to you all, especially you Sonic. Farewell." Shining Armour said. Sonic gave him a nod, and watched him leave the throne room.
'He doesn't seem like a bad guy. Not at all.' Sonic thought to himself. This Shining Armour did indeed seem like a good guy, but time will tell whether or not he is acting like a good spirited person.
"Greetings everyone." A feminine voice finally said, bringing everyone's attention to the being who spoke. "Me and my sister do apologise for the wait, but now we have to discuss some very important matters, that need to be addressed." The taller out of the two Princesses stated. "First off, we both understand that many citizens have sent in reports of a tall figure watching them from a distance, but then disappearing shortly afterwards. We are currently in the midst of figuring out who this being could possibly be. We have publicly announced for everyone to be indoors for when night time arrives. So until the figure is caught, and brought to justice, everyone must be within the safe proximity of their house so no one is harmed by the figure itself." She continued. "Now, Sonic; me and my sister have been thinking about what your reward should be for protecting Equestria from the Timberwolves. After much thought, we settled on holding a huge celebration event, dedicated to you." Sonic's eyes widened, and he also had a huge grin on his face upon hearing this. He's had a few things dedicated to him, but an event completely dedicated to him was not one of those things. The Mane Six looked at him, smiles also on their faces, especially Pinkie upon hearing a party being brought into the mix. All of them smiled at Sonic, with the exception of one.
"Wow. Never had that happen to me. Thank you, your highnesses." Sonic thanked. NBut in the back, a certain Skittle haired mare's jaw had almost cracked the polished floor upon hearing Sonic's reward. Sure, she had a toast in her honour, a few people asking for autographs and was complimented by her idols… but she has never, in her life, had an celebration party completely dedicated to her. It was all but confirmed in her mind, that Sonic was trying to steal her thunder. Just the thought of his name wanted to make her hit something, preferably his face. His oh, so precious face. She tried forcing a smile to blend in, but was still fuming on the inside. The other princess began to speak.
"The celebration will be held tomorrow, at sunset. Before you ask, there is no dress code." The last part was most likely directed at Sonic, as he seemed to look relieved after hearing that wearing a suit and tie was not mandatory. In his head, he was doing backflips of joy. In Rainbow's mind, he was doing backflips, but only because she was punching the hell out of him.
"If there are any updates, on the figure, or the celebration, all of you will be the first to know." The smaller of the two princesses continued. Everyone with the exception of Rainbow, were ecstatic for the celebration. It'd been awhile since something like this had occurred in Equestria. The last one that was held, was for when Discord was turned into a stone statue.
"Wait a second." Sonic said, interrupting everyone's pleasant thoughts of the celebration party. "I know this whole shebang, is dedicated to me, which I appreciate, I really do… but what about Tails? What about my parents? They had had a part in taking down those… wooden wolves or whatever they're called. In fact, where are they right now?" Sonic questioned, so much had happened that Tails and his parents hadn't yet crossed his mind since the Timberwolves had attacked.
"Your parents and Tails are currently residing in the castle in one of the bedrooms on the floor below this one." The taller princess answered.
"Thanks, it's been nice talking with you both, but I gotta go see them, right now." With that, Sonic sped off at what he would consider jogging speed, which was about 565 miles per hour. Twilight took a mental note to give him a 'reminder' about how he should always address the Princesses in a formal way. The Princesses had to hold down their dresses so that their dresses wouldn't fly up, which would reveal their undergarments.
Sonic slowed down to a walking pace upon reaching the third floor in half a microsecond. Sonic looked at the doors to see if they had any sort of label on them, which they didn't, so he decided to just open them up. The first door, no one was in; the second, the same as the first and so forth. He came to the last door, and pulled it open, expecting to see a yellow kitsune, and his parents. Instead, he got an empty room. Sonic looked in confusion, as he knows the Princesses said they were in a room on the third floor, but he checked all of the rooms, and they were in none of the rooms. Sonic was about to go up to the throne room, when he heard footsteps headed his way.
Shaun: 'Ello everybody, I do apologise for the wait when I said we would deliver this chapter soon. But we all have lives, and we get sidetracked on things. I would like to introduce to you, the guy who helped me with this chapter, and pretty much helped me get out of a shitty situation with this story. He is, Apexwolf77!
APW: Thankyou Shaun and it was a delightful treat to help you write this as well, I do like experimenting with different ships after all, especially when it comes to Sonic, He's like the James Bond of the Furry nation or something? You think he'll catch the eyes of a few more mares here?
Shaun: That's… a unique way of describing him. But who knows? Only time will tell who becomes attracted to him.
APW: Yeah cuz lord knows we wish we could be the same way with the ladies as well huh?
Shaun: …. Sadly, yes. Anyways if you did enjoy this chapter, share it with your friends, your co workers and every son of a bitch that you know. And we will see you guys…. whenever we decide to update.
Shaun & APW: CHAO!