5. Familiar Faces
(Sorry for any misspelling, had to get this out)
The vast emptiness of space can leave one yearning for the peaceful and full land of a planet. This was on teams' sonic mind as they flew across space in the blue typhoon. not much was going on except for Tails, trying to find the next emerald. He and Chris kept their eyes glued to the chaos radar. Just waiting. Sonic and Knuckles were standing around, starting to feel restless. Amy was talking with Cream and Cosmo cheerfully. Sonic was starting to doze off when the emerald radar started to beep. "We've got a signal!" Chris shouted.
Everyone was now awake and ready.
"Where is it?" Sonic asked.
"It's somewhere on a nearby planet." Tails answered.
"Well let's get going!" Sonic beamed.
Equestria
"Spike! Another one over here!"
Rarity was searching for gems at the rock field to replenish her Jewel box. Spike was helping dig up the gemstones. Spike ran over, with the red cart rolling behind him. He started to dig up the gems while rarity continued to search for more. Rarity's horn glowed normally, as she searched around. But then, her horn started to shine brighter. Small sparks came out of her horn. She pointed her head back up and took a slight step back. she uncast her gem finding spell. "What was that?" She thought out loud.
Spike ran over to her with worry. "Rarity! Are you okay?"
Rarity rubbed her head. "I'm fine, spike. My spell just had a little tizzy."
She pointed to the ground in front of her. "Spikey, can you dig right here?"
Spike saluted to her. "Yes ma'am!" He began to dig. He climbed out with a sparkling yellow... Diamond? Emerald? Rarity wasn't really sure. But there was one thing she was sure of.
"It's gorgeous!"
She exclaimed, taking the emerald from spike. "This has to be a centerpiece for a grand work!" She began to trot home. "Come along, spike! I need to find inspiration!" Spike smiled, grabbed the cart, and followed.
Twilight was organizing books in her castle library by any and all kinds of orders. She was concentrating hard, when all of a sudden, she a loud screech from outside. "Ah!" She dropped the books she was levitating, and groaned. "What is it now?" She trotted to the castle doors. "Who in the wide wide world of Equestria made-" she stopped mid sentence and looked on with shock.
A giant spaceship had just landed in Ponyville! Her mouth was agape, completely stunned. civilians were also in shock. The top hatchet of the ship opened, and a familiar blue figure jumped out.
"It seems we landed in a village." He observed his surroundings as the others exited the ship down to the runway.
"Whoa! Do you see that castle?" Chris pointed out a crystal castle at the edge of the town.
"Does somebody rule here?" Knuckles thought aloud.
"It's... not destroyed." Cosmo said in amazement. She had not seen a perfectly green planet for a while. Tails looked down from the ship. He could see a crowd of equines staring up at them in awe.
"Ponies?" He questioned. Then, he realized where they were. "Guys, is this..." Before he could finish however, Twilight had teleported onto the runway.
She gasped. they gasped. "No way!" Twilight yelled.
"Twilight?!" The group shouted with surprise.
Twilight's friends, except for Pinkie Pie whom was not there, all ran to the front of the ship. "Is it really them?" They all shouted happily. Cosmo was most confused.
"Do you know these beings?" Sonic smiled by the and nodded.
"We sure do! They're are friends!" Twilight flew back down to the ground while Sonic in his friends climbed down safely.
"Yo rainbow!" Sonic greeted rainbow dash. They gave each other a fist bump.
"Sonic my dude! How have things been?"
"Hectic as of late." Sonic replied with a smile as they all reunited. Cosmo stood there silently, unsure of what to do.
"Oh guys, This here is Cosmo." Tails introduced her to the ponies. They all said their normal greetings until they got to rarity. She gasped at Cosmo's appearance.
"Oh my goodness! " She ran up to her, making Cosmo nervous. "The nat-ur-al style!" Rarity admired her physique. "The striking green!" She eyed the red juewel. "The bright Ruby red!" rarity stood up straight as an arrow. "This gives me... Inspiration!" She teleported a quill, her glasses, lnd a piece of cloth to herself. "This will be my crown juewel for this fashion season!" She started sketching out a dress, using her glasses too add fine details." Cosmo was even more confused.
"Uh.., what just happened?"
Twilight and her friends laughed. "That's just rarity. Don't worry about her."
Chris noticed a certain pony was not there with them. " where's Pinkie pie?" The big group started to walk towards the castle. "She told us she was going to the whitetail woods today." Applejack replied.
"I still don't know why she didn't ask one of us to come along though." Rainbow dash commented.
"me and her usually go there for tea parties. So I don't know either." Fluttershy added.
"They'll soon be here too."
Cosmo suddenly spoke somberly.
"Who's they?" Twilight stopped walking and looked back at her.
"A corrupt clan of space travelers called the Meterex Have been stealing planets of their planet eggs, leaving those planets to become an empty shell, devoid of life." Twilight's friends gasped. Twilight pondered.
"What's a planet egg?"
"A planet egg is the lifeforse of a planet. It resides in the core of every planet. It keeps nature alive, and lets it thrive."
Twilight rubbed her hoof on her chin. "Hmmmm.." She suddenly remembered something from her studies. "Oh! You mean the Ancient Core?" Cosmo tilted her head.
"...The ancient core?" Cosmo walked over to twilight, curious. Sonic and his friends were all full of curiosity as Twilight went on to explain, while continuing to walk.
"No Pony truly knows if it was real, but a very long time ago, when this planet was just born, there was something keeping land alive. But it shattered, releasing evil spirits called windigos."
Cosmo's eyes widened. "You mean... this planet doesn't live off a planet egg?"
"That seems to be very much the case." Twilight answered.
"Then... How are you alive?" She was stunned by this information twilight had revealed.
"I think I read about that somewhere. It was in a book I read. Actually, the more I think about it..." Twilight gasped. "It happened to mention a species who tried to steal the empty core!" Sonic and his friends gasped again.
"We'll let's get going and find this book!" Rainbow dash shouted, and the group ran to twilight's castle.
...
'it had to have landed somewhere near here!'
Pinkie pie was pacing around the whitetail woods, searching for something. She saw it this morning though her window. It was there, she was sure of it. As she was running, she heard a voice. She stopped. There were two voices. And one of them sounded familiar.
...
Shadow and rouge had followed the emerald radar and found that one was on this planet. They landed in a forest, so no one could see them. Shadow leaned on rouge's ship as she fiddled with the controls on her radar.
"Have you found it yet?" Shadow complained to rouge.
"It's somewhere in a village." Rouge flew down to the ground and landed next to Shadow.
"We'll just have to ask the locals here then." He replied. He closed his eyes.
'Shadow?...'
he could hear her. The voice... The memories of her... Where coming again.
'Pinkie pie?...' he stood up straight and and stared into the forest. Rouge noticed.
"Shadow?"
"she's here."
Shadow whispered, barely audible.
"What did you say?" She questioned, and turned to him. He did not look at her.
'my instincts were right.'
'you're really here?'
To the right, the duo herd rustling. Rouge got in a defensive stance, while Shadow stood in front of her, waiting. Out of the bushes pinkie pie popped out. She saw him. He saw her. They all gasped. Rouge glanced at Shadow. He was... Smiling? He walked forwards and stretched his arms out, inviting her. Pinkie grinned widely.
"Shadow!"
Pinkie pie ran up and tackled him with a hug. Shadow squeezed back with the same amount of force. "You really are alive!" She squeed, still hugging him.
Shadow smiled more. "I'm so happy to see you right now!"
Rouge couldn't believe it. He remembered her?! Why...Does she live here?
The two departed from the embrace.
"I thought you died!" Pinkie pie exclaimed.
"Well apparently, this death didn't happen." He glanced back at rouge, who was starting to scowl.
"Wait, what do you mean, "this death?""
Rouge flew over and stood next to Shadow. "He seems to be suffering from memory loss. I've told him a little about his past life. But he doesn't seem to remember anything himself." She explained, in an annoyed voice.
"oh no! That's horrible!" Pinkie pie worried.
"I'm fine, really." Shadow reassured her. "I believe rouge has told me everything."
'i never told you about her though.' rouge thought. 'i don't know how you even remember her.'
Pinkie glanced at rouge's ship. "I'm guessing you landed here."
Rouge rolled her eyes. "Obviously."
"We're looking for something actually." Shadow informed pinkie. She grinned, and started hopping.
"Ooh! What you looking for?" Shadow was about to say when rouge interrupted him.
"It's nothing you need to know."
Pinkie pie frowned. "Aw!" She slowly inhaled, and stopped frowning. "It's fine. It's your mission. But while you're here..." She turned to shadow. "We can catch up!"
Shadow nodded. "You bet we do."
"I can't wait to tell my friends!" Pinkie beamed, and started hopping away.
" Wait a minute, pinkie pie!" Rouge was calling after her.
She stopped and looked back. "What?"
"I think it would be best if you don't tell your friends right now."
"Oh."
Pinkie pie looked down. "But why?"
Shadow looked at rouge.
"Because, we're trying to be discreet, okay?" Pinkie looked at rouge, then Shadow. She sighed.
"Alright. But I will tell them later!" Pinkie turned, and hopped away.
"Great." Rouge sighed. She glanced at Shadow. He never smiles like that. "Uh, Shadow?"
"Nothing, could describe this feeling I have for her."
Deepest apologies for this being so late. Been doing some other things. I'll try to upload more, just wish I had internet at home. Write you later!
