Welcome back, Reader. I will like to announce that there will be cussing in this chapter, if it seems ooc or inappropriate I do apologize. Now, let's return to the story, shall we?
[30 minutes later: 3:30 pm]
Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Applejack, Knuckles and Tails were relaxing in the outdoor area of Sugar Cube Corner talking and joking amongst them as great friends do, but unbeknownst to them all their moment their peace would be destroyed today.
"Heh, imma let you off the hook this time Tails, just so you know though for future reference, you can never beat my truck." Knuckles were saying to Tails, Tails smirked and crossed his arms.
"Oh that's very kind of you- but just so you know Fluttershy and I was tuning up my hot rod- I call it the fox rod by the way, all this morning and next time you won't be so lucky when I challenge you to a race!" Tails boasted proudly, beside him Fluttershy smiled as she looked into her lap, her fingers intertwined with each other. Today couldn't have been better…
[Flashback]
"Wow Fluttershy! That was some real impeccable work you did there- I guess you were right about having a lot about you that I didn't know about. I didn't think you could do that so efficiently especially after I only showed you how to do it once."Tails proudly complimented her work with his foxrod. Fluttershy beamed with his praise, Tails stuck his fist out to her and they both brofist.
-Half an hour later-
"We make a pretty awesome team, don't you think?" Tails said to her as they both sat in the trunk of Fluttershy's car enjoying some soothing music and some pink lemonade Tails prepared.
In Fluttershy's mind there were fireworks exploding with beautiful hues creating a mood she only felt before when she was with her animals: amorous and at perfect harmony. She looked at Tails from the side- his handsome features enchanting her; she could stare at him forever. His smile made her heart leap around, frolicking in the beautiful flowers of happiness within her mind. His three long cowlicks that stood from his head were too cute. Everything about him from his interior to his exterior was of perfect substance that would make any woman excited.
"We sure are…" She finally breathed out in a dreamy sigh; she then realized how dreamy it sounded so to cover it up she playfully punched his arm with her little fist. "Still can't believe you didn't think that I could drift…"
Tails laughed then gently nudged her back. "Oh yeah, well at first I thought you were like some eco-warrior, goody two shoes that wouldn't speed around like that... 'fraid you might hurt some ants?" He chuckled, joking with her.
Fluttershy narrowed her eyes. "Oh yeah! Well I thought you were just a head in the book geek with no artsy talent."
The two were silent for a couple of seconds, because to some extent what they both playfully said was kind of true.
"Did I just cross the line? Was that too close to home? Why isn't he saying anything? Did I just screw up? Oh Great Celestia..." Fluttershy feverishly thought in her head. She was about to apologize until she heard a chuckle from beside her. She looked to her left to see Tails chuckling while trying to sip on his drink. Fluttershy looked at him with confused eyes until she joined in his bout of chuckling which then escalated into full fledged laughter.
"You know, you are a pretty cool chick, Fluttershy." He finally said after his laughter.
[End of Flashback]
"You're on!" Tails proclaimed as he and Knuckles grasped hands in a handshake.
While reliving today's moments Fluttershy had completely missed out on another hopeless bet Tails and Knuckles just engaged in. Rarity was rolling her eyes so it must have been mindless as ever.
Applejack looked around then furrowed her eyebrows. "Uh, have anyone seen Twi around?"
"Yeah, and what happened to Sonic and Shadow? Sonic should have came back from work an hour ago at least." Knuckles spoke up with Applejack beside him nodding her head in agreement.
Pinkie Pie frowned, Shadow and Twilight had been gone for quite a long time now… her mind couldn't help but think of all the secular activities that could had gone about with the two. She tried to clear her head but it was as though the sheer thought about Twilight being alone and having her way with Shadow within the secluded areas of the Everfree forest were mocking her feelings. The image of it kept nagging Pinkie Pie and soon she became visibly irritable about it. But why should she? She has no control over what Shadow does in his free time, and she has no right to know what Shadow and Twilight does in their alone time. She wasn't Shadow's girlfriend, nor was she his mother, so why should she be bothered about what they do. She decided it was best to try not to think about it any longer, but that didn't stop her irritability, not by a long shot.
Tails was thoughtful for a second, "Maybe it's just a coincidence that they are both away at the same time." Referring to Shadow and Twilight, "Maybe she is on Princess duties- oh and someone remind me why a nation needs three princesses? Like really?" Tails crossed his arms getting off topic about their missing friends.
Rarity only looked at Knuckles as the red echidna tried to make sense on the matter. "Oh don't think about it too hard, Knuckie, you're only going to hurt yourself." She playfully teased him, using a pet name that NO ONE saw coming. Applejack shot a glance at her but was unnoticed by the fashion queen. The rest of the friends laughed as Knuckles shot a glare at her, and instinctively retorted.
"Oh don't give me any smack you bat- uh, I mean pony!" Knuckles yelled at her, Applejack chuckled and leaned slightly on his muscular arm. Knuckles folded his arms for while he got quiet as Tails continued to speak, although he kept an eye on Rarity for some reason he didn't (or couldn't) understand yet.
"I read that Princess Celestia is the Princess of the Day, basically, and Princess Luna; the princess of the Night. So, what does that make Twilight? The princess of the twilight- the time of day after the sunset but before the night takes place?" Tails inquired but was interrupted just as Fluttershy was about to answer him by a two figures walking towards them in a brisk pace.
Pinkie Pie looked behind herself for a quick moment and instantly recognized the upturned quills in the distance. Her heart leapt with joy as finally Shadow has returned.
As the figures finally reached them Pinkie Pie could have scowled what she saw; not at Shadow of course, but the pretty lady following him.
Shadow, in all his glory was shirtless with a few droplets of water clinging to his quills; his jeans were a bit wet at the top as though he pulled them over wet swimming trunks. Close behind him was Twilight wearing a short sleeve white button up short that was unbuttoned showing a bikini top and her flat stomach while for bottoms she had denim short shorts that were unbuttoned showing her bikini bottoms.
Pinkie Pie fumed with anger and jealously and sadness and quickly snapped her head back in front and pretended to mess with her phone before anyone noticed her distraught composure.
"Tails, Knuckles, where's Sonic?" Shadow demanded in a firm tone, the smiles from his friend's faces disappeared as they heard the urgency in his voice.
Tails grew worried quickly, "Sonic? Sonic hasn't returned from call- is there something wrong Shadow?" He rose from his seat, ready to spring into action if needed.
Shadow looked at all of the folks around him and frowned then instantly Tails walked away from the group, followed by Knuckles, as though he had received a telepathic message from Shadow saying 'let's talk away from here'.
After walking a good fifty feet from the ladies Shadow spoke up again. "I can feel it within chaos, Sonic's in trouble; I can feel it- danger is coming."
"Wait- you can feel if Sonic is in trouble by the chaotic powers of the master emerald?" Tails was looking extremely puzzled as he thought about it.
"Yes. And it's growing by the second as though the danger is imminent." Shadow confirmed.
"Oh no… Sonic…." Tails started to whimper.
"We gotta do something about it! Come on, let's search for him!" Knuckles exclaimed bravely. The girls even though they were farther apart heard Knuckles exclaim and grew even more curious to what was being discussed.
[Break]
Pinkie Pie was pressing random buttons on her phone as Rarity spoke up to Twilight. "Soooo, where were you all morning huh? Had some outdoor fun-fun with Shadow?" Rarity giggled. Applejack smiled as she watched the blush form on her friend's face.
"Oooh she's blushing! So that's a yes then?" Rarity pressed, now more intrigued in what Twilight and Shadow was doing the whole time alone.
Twilight nervously chuckled, "No, no, no, it wasn't anything like that… he just wanted to see the Tree of Harmony, so I took him out this morning to show him."
That's all, then why it takes like a million hours for you to come back?! Pinkie pie thought.
Fluttershy grinned, "So that took all day?"
"I- I well, no, we were done about around 10 o'clock… but then we went to explore Celestia's and Luna's old castle, then we talked about some pretty interesting stuff while sitting in a lush tree; you will not believe how comfortable it is! And then after that we relaxed in a nice, cool lake." Twilight listed the various activities, much to her friend's curiosity.
"Sounds like ah first date tah me!" Applejack proclaimed with her arms folded looking at Twilight with a big grin.
Pinkie Pie's mood plummeted with chagrin when she heard the word date.
Twilight chuckled again, "I wish…" she said under her breath, but more loudly she said, "It wasn't really a date-" She was interrupted by Pinkie Pie who finally shot a glare at her.
"It had better not be." Pinkie Pie growled.
Fluttershy and Rarity stared at her Pinkie Pie with a 'omg did she just say that' face while Applejack's eyebrows raised with surprise, while Twilight on the other hand just stared in surprise and wondering if Pinkie Pie just challenged her.
[Break]
Sonic's car proved inadequate to be driven on such roads as it bounced roughly against the harsh grounds- if it weren't for Sonic's specially made, titanium alloy undercarriage he would be a sitting duck right now.
As if luck was on his side the ratrod finally started to smoke in the engine compartment and Sonic could tell exactly what had happened. Transmission just died! That idiot should have known driving manual off-road isn't as easy as driving manual on the street! This is my chance! But Sonic should have known that the gangster ahead of him weren't the guy to be messing with because as if in slow motion the rat rod drifted so the driver side was perpendicular to Sonic's car. And slowly Sonic saw something that looked like a cylinder being aimed towards him. Sonic's emerald green eyes widened as he cursed under his breath, he then unbuckled himself like a flash, opened his door, and tucked into a ball and rolled out of the way.
Not even a second later the sound of an ear deafening explosion hit Sonic like a monstrous wave. Sonic pulled his ears down on the top of his head as the ear splitting explosion rang from just about 20 feet from him.
After a couple of seconds of his face being on the dusty soil Sonic finally looked up to see his smoking car smashing into the ratrod and going off the side of the gorge a hundred feet away. What was that… a rocket launcher- RPG maybe? Did he just fire a RPG at me?
Seconds later he stood up shakily as various smoking pieces of car parts were raining down around the area where Sonic stood. He breathed deeply, that was almost me there… Sonic didn't see the gangster around either so he figured he had gone down with the wreckage. He reached his hand into his pocket and checked the walkie-talkie, microphone and camera battery life as he was about to document what happened here for the legal matters but was interrupted by someone unexpectedly.
"SONIC!"
Sonic whipped his head around trying to locate the sound before someone with rainbow colored hair landed hard beside him. "Dashie?!" Shocked, his mouth dropped and his eyes widened when he saw Rainbow Dash swoop down beside him. "What are you doing here?"
Rainbow Dash ignored him and began to scour his body with worried, caring eyes, checking for any injuries. "Are you okay Sonic!?" Her voice was distressed, "I heard the small explosions then I saw that guy fire some weird magic at you which annihilated your car- I almost thought you were caught in it- It freaked me out!" she embraced Sonic in a relieved hug, her heart seemed to have been lifted some to see that he was okay; her heart and mind saved from the scary abyss that was her fear of Sonic being killed in that.
Sonic embraced her back chuckling lightly, "Yeah I'm okay-"
BANG
[Break]
"Alright let's set out right now, I can track Sonic's car using my phone." Tails said as he brought out his super-smart-phone out of his pocket and starting to meddle with it. Tails opened up the tracking software for his car and saw that was taking damage by the diagnostics it was sending to Tails.
"LOOK! SONIC WAS IN TROUBLE!" Shadow and Knuckles observed the damage data done to Sonic's car. The application showed that Sonic was heading south at 100 miles per hour on dirt road.
"What is Sonic thinking driving like that on a dirt road with a car like that?" Shadow exclaimed. The application also showed that his fuel levels were depleting, but still good; the tires were deteriorating but at the moment still good.
"Can we get a visual?" Shadow asked.
Tails nodded, "Sure…thing?" he went to the section that was labeled 'visual/audio', the audio worked fine but the video feed was down. Sonic's car could be heard as it banged against rocks on the road, Tails could just hear the stress of the suspension of the car was going through as it road on that type of road.
Shadow was sweating now, that imminent danger he felt earlier grew stronger and stronger as he watched the static video feed and listened as Sonic's car raced behind what sounded like another car. He could feel it like how someone can feel that someone is watching them from the shadows with evil intent. Shadow clenched his fists in anticipation. We need to save Sonic now! This feeling is getting unbearable!
"Oh Shit…" the three friends heard Sonic curse under his breath with apprehension. They then heard a flurry of motions; a click, and then the door opening. But that didn't alarm them as much as the final sound the microphone picked up not even a second later. A sound of the initial blast of a massive explosion ruptured from the speakers then the audio feed started to buzz as well. The three friends jaw dropped as a cold sweat dropped from their faces.
"Sonic…?" Tails whimpered out. The diagnostics of the car all read 'no signal'. The girls must have heard the explosion as they all started to jog over to the three friends. Shadow didn't know what to think now. Knuckles just stared at the screen waiting for something to happen.
"What's going on, what was that explosion?" Twilight called out as she jogged to Shadow's side. Pinkie joined Shadow on the other side of him.
"Tails?" Fluttershy gently said his name and put a comforting hand on his arm, she could feel that he was shaking. His eyes were glued to the screen. Shadow noticed Tails' sorrowing mood and put a firm hand on his shoulder.
"Don't think like that- Sonic isn't dead." Shadow reassured him in a deep voice. The rest of the mane6's eyes widened when they heard what Shadow said. But within Shadow's mind he didn't know how true his words will be for the pending danger he felt was stronger now than ever before.
Then suddenly…
Shadow groaned in pain as he clutched his chest. Shadow's eyes widened with pain and horror, the pain ripped through him like a gunshot. Pinkie Pie and Twilight instantly cried his name in fear as Shadow stared down at the ground trying to make sense of all of this while cussing under his breath trying to alleviate the pain.
All sound was a blur and his sight became deafened. Tails grasped his dark friend's shoulder trying to find out what was wrong with him as the other girls around them stared in fear, unknowing to what force has caused Shadow so much pain- the hedgehog mind you, that can obliterate anything, withstood the fall from the Ark, brushed off many gunshot wounds and blasts of all types of lasers and warfare and walk away from it as though nothing had happened.
Sonic… S-Sonic what the hell…is happening? Shadow thought to himself.
[Break]
Rainbow Dash's eyes wavered with horror.
Sonic's eyes stared blankly past Rainbow dash, his embrace on Rainbow Dash faltering as his grip became loose. His body shook as pain shot through his body; his heart faltered a beat as he felt dizziness tried to claim sovereignty on his mind. Sonic and Rainbow Dash looked down in horror; their eyes dilating in consternation as they watched a pool of blood begin to form around Sonic's heart.
Rainbow Dash searched Sonic's face, her mouth trembling, seemingly unable to make the words she wanted to say. She looked pass Sonic to the culprit of harming Sonic; that gangster- that vile, HENIEOUS gangster did this!
Sonic turned around with painful movements and stared with venom in his eyes at the gangster. Lightening Wing watched Sonic struggle with an amused smirk on his face as he held the gun in his hand; the griffin's wings were erect to make himself look bigger.
"Y-You bastard…" Sonic started, "You, coward… trash-" Sonic coughed up a little blood as the hole in his chest started to bleed more profusely. "You- You could of hit R-rainb- dash." He spat out.
Rainbow Dash was staring in pure fear. Never have she seen a weapon that could kill from such a distance, never before have she ever seen someone as hurt as Sonic is now. That shot… that shot his heart, I saw it… how, and how is Sonic still standing?
"Rainbow, please, get out of here now!" Sonic struggled to get out.
"No- I, Sonic..."
"DO NOT ARGUE!" Sonic looked back at her with an angry snarl, "I do not want you to die here, not on my watch! Please! I care about you so please leave and save yourself!"
"I care about you too! I am not going anywhere! I'm not gonna leave you here alone like this!" Rainbow Dash shouted back defiantly.
"You are one interesting hedgehog- your reputation precedes you sir!" the cocky gangster spoke loudly and ended with a chuckle. "I shot you dead in the chest and yet you can still stand!" The gangster was making very dramatic arm and hand movements as he spoke. "This is astonishing! He smirked, "But I would care more about you than your rainbow bitch there." With that the LW loosely pointed the firearm at Rainbow Dash.
Rainbow Dash stared at the gun fearfully, her heartbeat beating as quickly as though it were trying to beat out of her chest. Her eyes dilated in horror as she pictured herself being shot down just as Sonic was. Is this where I die? Sonic… There's so much I wanted to tell you… I-
"Don't you DARE point that gun towards her, you shit!" Sonic growled with such viciousness that even LW had to step back. Sonic moved in front of her protectively, his spines and fur sticking out slightly in anger, his teeth bared, blood starting to ooze from his mouth and staining his teeth as he shouted.
Although Sonic was bravely protecting Rainbow Dash she could hear that his breath was much labored and that he could easily use up the rest of his energy- possibly die if he continued. She almost stopped him until LW started to laugh.
Taken aback LW pointed his gun back at Sonic, "And if I do?" he sneered.
"THEN I'LL KILL YOU!" Sonic, even through the pain sprinted forwards at LW at full speed, surprising LW, then giving him a nasty punch in the left eye which sent LW reeling back like a rocket with the force of Sonic's punch. The gangster tumbled backwards until he grasped the hard ground his talons stopping himself just before he fell off the edge of the ledge again.
The gangster held his cries of pain within himself, not gonna show Sonic that he bout damn near shattered his skull with that hit. His eye was shut but blood poured profusely from it, as did the whole left side of his face.
You risked yourself to save me? Rainbow Dash felt as though a fire was lit in her belly along with the sorry and the fear. She can't let this happen, she is NOT gonna let Sonic die here today, she is not gonna let this man kill him… This cannot happen! I am not going to leave! I am not going to flee! I will stay here till my last breath! I will not leave this land without telling you the truth Sonic!
"SONIC! STOP I CAN HANDLE HIM! YOU'RE GONNA KILL YOURSELF IF YOU KEEP EXERTING YOURSELF LIKE THAT! PLEASE LISTEN TO ME! PLEASE!" Rainbow Dash's voice cracked as she screamed for him to stop.
Blood poured even more profusely from his chest now as that attack took the rest of what he had. Sonic couldn't knock it anymore, he was dying. Cheap move that was for LW to shoot him through the back, if he were facing Sonic he would have dodged it no problem. Sonic choked on his breath and held his hand over his heart. I can't believe this… I'm gonna die out here, I'm gonna die… this is not cool, not cool not one bit. Amy… Tails… knuckles… Shadow… my friends… I'm so, I'm so sorry. Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, Rarity, Twilight… I'm sorry… I failed.
"You should have listened to your bitch, Sonic."
Without warning he shot off three more shots at the hedgehog, two of them making its mark in his left side of his chest, and the other grazed his arm. Sonic felt darkness wash over him as he refused to fall. Sonic held there for a few seconds, holding a defiant snarl at Lightening Wing. Finally slowly he did fall, into his own pool of blood.
LW smiled as much of a smile as he could before something punched him hard in the gut, sending him soaring into the air like a rocket, his wings flailing to right himself as he tumbled. From below LW could see a rainbow colored missile flying up towards him. He swung his foot down in a powerful axe kick which was dodged with finesse by Rainbow Dash as she flew up to grab him then lifting her knee to strike him deep into the gut.
LW exhaled painfully as all the air got snatched out of his lungs. Fire burned as powerful as a waterfall in her being as her mind relived the shot to Sonic's chest. This man did this. This man, no- not a man, this filth- hurt Sonic. And for that he will pay, I will make sure he pays!
"You're going down for this!" Rainbow Dash spat in his face as she powerfully pumped her wings into the air, taking them both high into the air, above any clouds, so high that the ground was merely a drawing of shapes and colors. Rainbow Dash then head butted LW HARD; so hard in fact that her own head started to bleed along with his. "FOR THIS YOU ARE GOING TO PAY!" She screamed in his face in complete and utter emotional agony.
Rainbow Dash then dived towards the ground with such a great velocity that she quickly hit the speed barrier with no problem. Shockwaves of color danced away from her as if afraid of her own anger and woe that seemed to radiate off of her. LW then struggled from her grasp, trying to break free but she held tight as she came down upon the earth like a nuclear missile. And like a nuclear missile a massive multicolor mushroom cloud expelled from her attack and rose into the sky, vaporizing every possible cloud in sight.
As the dust dissipated Rainbow Dash finally let go of the still Lightening Wing and rose from the deep crater she punched into the ground with Lightening Wing's body and without missing a beat quickly flew over to where Sonic was laying at.
Tears finally streamed from her eyes as she picked up Sonic's head from the ground desperately hoping that he would wake up. Her heart could be heard pounding as she listened for a heart beat but there was none and that horrified her very soul. She looked off into the distance where Ponyville resides and with a massive burst of speed, that took energy that she did not have, rocketed towards Ponyville with Sonic in her arms.
I never got to tell him…
[End of chapter]
Gosh! I am popping out chapters like a pez dispenser; just tip my head back and here comes a chapter! Haha, but hey thank you reader for reading yet another awesome chapter. I know this chapter was a bit depressing maybe but it gets better after this, I just needed to work out this small part. Anyways, REVIEW! Seriously, that is the reason why I put out 3 chapters in like 4 days! If only I could do this to Discorded Relapse (it's a good story btw if you haven't read it. You can read it on my account right now new guy!)
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