Sonic and Tails are now in the spacious commanding headquarters of Celestia's ship, it's been stressful 30 minutes since Celestia had passed out: out of fatigue and emotional distress. In the meantime Tails looked for any information about the ship and how to fly such a vessel, while Sonic walked around aimlessly looking at the magic driven systems and equipment.

There was nothing but silence and the steady, rhythmic creaking of the ship as it gently swayed. Sonic continued to walk around and fiddle with different equipment until he came across an unfamiliar emblem the back wall bore: a bright gold Pegasus with its large wings outstretched and hooves pointing upwards, a vivid, golden sun peeking from behind it. Sonic looked at the emblem with awe and his interest in the insignia bored its beautiful mark into Sonic's soul. Curiosity became king and he reached out a gloved hand and touched it. Upon contact the sun brightened and the wings of the emblem started to flap slowly until Sonic took his fingers off of it. Excitement and bewilderment shone brightly in his emerald green eyes. After a couple of minutes of staring he finally returned to Tails to see if he had found what he had been searching for, for the last half hour.

"Aha!" Exclaimed Tails, "I found an owner's manual!"

"Alright, Tails!" Sonic cheered, "Where was it?"

"In the glove box"

They looked at each other silently, hinting at the joke. Sonic shook his head slowly while grimacing at the writer's cheesy joke. I mean it's no secret that the writer have no sense of humor but come on!

"Ahem... Anyways, the ship is the E.P.I.C, Trans-universal Galley constructed and disenthralled in Manehattan-" Tails started.

"You mean Manhattan?" Sonic interrupted, narrowing his eyes.

"Nnnnope, it says it right here, Manehattan." Tails showed him the book. "See?"

Tails flipped through the voluminous book to find out how to return this massive vessel back home. Because obviously leaving these beings on this ship drifting in space alone just didn't seem ethical. Tails found the page that depicts how to operate the Galley, and to Tails's disappointment it concluded the Kitsune's fears.

"Huh... Seems like the Ship can only be powered by Magic..." Tails trailed off. "..But we don't know a lick of magic, and anyone who does is either dead or still unconscious." Tails sat the book down and leaned against the control module contemplating their current predicament.

"Well, there is one thing we could do..." Sonic said as his emerald colored eyes eyed the F10 with interest and showing off a mischievous smirk.

Tails whimpered.

Meanwhile

"You sure it's secure?!" Tails yelled worriedly out to Sonic over the Super Tornado's powerful engines.

"For the THOUSANDTH TIME TAILS, I DID!" Sonic shouted back at him, more out of irritation of having to repeat himself than actually making himself audible over the Quaker engines.

Tails, ignoring his friend's tone, started pressing a few buttons then slowly started to rev the throttle to increase thrust as he towed the HUGE galley behind him via a thick steel rope connecting the F10 to the Galley. The rope made a weird warping sound when it was under tension but it soon slowly eased as Tails got some momentum going.

"Off to Equestria..." Tails muttered unenthusiastically.

Vibrant, long and luscious rainbow colored hair whipped sharply in the wind as the magenta eyed Pegasus flew in loops and barrels. She could hear the faint sounds of cheering through the loud, screamin' wind slapping against her face and into her ears. She smiled and started to flap her strong, cyan wings harder and harder as she ascended into the air. She took a quick glance behind her at her audience on the ground that looked as though they were merely the tiniest specks of dust from how high in the sky she was. She smirked then turned around hard, plummeting towards the ground. She pumped her strong wings harder to increase speed as she descended. Her vision then then became blurry as tears streamed from her big, sparkling eyes from how furiously fast she was going. But it felt wonderful, and within a second she could see the familiar shape of compressed air forming around her in a cone, the ground was coming up fast, but she continued to press on, until.

*BOOOM*

She breaks the sound barrier which caused a marvelous and very beautiful corona of the light spectrum erupts seemingly out of her as she soared. She quickly pulled up at a very sharp 90 degree angle and rockets out above her audience in a rainbow trail.

After a quick series of fancy loop-de-loops to decrease speed she lands among a group of girls who was clapping their hands and cheering for her friend. Their names are Pinkie Pie (Pinkie), the youngest of the group at 15 years old; she had crazy, poufy Pink hair that smelled of cotton candy. The next was Apple Jack (AJ); a hardy yet still very pretty 17 year old with a heavy country accent and wear a cowboy hat on top of her long and pretty blond hair, tied in a ponytail. The next was a shorter light-pink haired girl of not many words, she is a 16 year old and goes by the name of Fluttershy, she wore a gorgeous flower in her hair and beauty and tranquility radiates off her in waves. The next girl in the group is a pale white unicorn, she wore her glamorous purple hair in the utmost fashion; truly a fashionista and her name is Rarity, of 18 years old. The last friend is a girl of tannish skin and Purple hair with light purple highlights. Her name is Twilight Sparkle (Twi) and she is the Brainier of the group, she is 16 years old.

"That was wonderful!"

"Ah-mazing!"

"That was just perfect darling!"

"You still got it Rainbow Dash"

"OMGOMGYOUWASLIKESHOOOOSHANDTHENLIKEWHOOOOOSHANDAN DTHENYOUWASALLLIKEBOOOOOOM!"

Cheered verbosely by Twilight, AJ, Rarity, Fluttershy, and Pinkie respectfully.

"Awe geez, I only was doing it since I was a kid." Rainbow Dash boasted, "Thanks," she put up thumbs up.

An earth looking planet soon came up to view and Tails switched off the intergalactic voyage system which allows any vehicle using it to travel just under the speed of light to travel to other worlds quickly. Though it still took over a boring 3 hours to get there (so they went about 6035549664.45 miles, correct me if I'm wrong). Sonic was fast asleep awkwardly in the cockpit behind Tails. The Kitsune knew he had to wake him up to inform him that they were now about to entering the Planet's gravity pull and soon. Tails looked sleep deprived as bags shown under his eyes, but he shook his head sharply and tried to shake the sleepiness out of his head for he have a Plane,...and Ship to land.

Somehow.

Eventually they reached the edge of the atmosphere and about to enter. As soon as the ground was in view Tails maneuvered the jet it as if it were a spaceship; nose up and landing gear ready... But one thing that Tails haven't compensated for, surprisingly, was the ship.

In a few seconds the gravity took over of the much larger and heavier ship behind the F10 that had no thrusters to slow the declension rate.

Slowly a large shadow was casted over the cockpit of the Super Tornado like a lunar eclipse. Sonic's sharp eyes noticed it first since Tails was too busy looking for a safe place to land or at least an airport, if this world even have one.

"Umm Tails..."

"Not now Sonic, kind of busy."

"Tails..." a tiny hint of desperation was now present in his voice.

"Hold up..."Tails replied stressfully through gritted teeth. The ground and its geographical features were clearly visible now and he slowed the jet down even more.

Bad move.

The ship that had been free falling behind the Super Tornado finally caught up and passed over the decelerating F10. The occupants of the Super Tornado were lurched sharply out of their seats as the Celestial Galleon blundered ahead of them, now dragging them along like a stubborn fish.

The F10 was flat upside down underneath the bottom hull of the ship. To their indefatigable demise they witnessed firsthand that the unforgiving ground was coming up fast. Tails and Sonic screamed in panic and consternation as they became scared to the point of almost soiling themselves, seeing no way out of their predicament. Tails struggled to get back in his seat to detach the steel cables connecting the Ship to the F10. The main computer kept running diagnostics was keeping up with the deceleration rate of the jet and started to warn Tails that if they didn't slow down , they'll hit the ground with the force of over 1,200,000 newton's of force; a fancy word for saying that they will be utterly crushed.

* Impact in 8 *

Tails, now sweating salty bullets and shaking like a freezing puppy, frantically reached for the lever under the dashboard that disconnected the cables, but to no avail.

*Impact in 7*

Sonic curled up in a ball and spun with all his might to cut through Tails's highly resilient glass windows on the cockpit. "Dang it!" spat Sonic as he unhardened his quills from spinning.

*Impact in 3*

Tails made a final desperate attempt to grasp his goal and he finally reached the lever and pulled it hard, disconnecting the lines and then he immediately punched a big red emergency button. Mechanical clicking sounds were heard as the exhaust nozzles opened up all the way which was followed by a loud bang erupting from the back of the jet as the afterburners kicked in all it had, which propelled the F10, and its occupants, from certain doom.

The girls walked to a restaurant to have lunch and hang out with each other on this fine, sunny afternoon. They conversed about work and the upcoming Fall Gala in a few months, Rarity talked about one day meeting that special someone and various fashion ideas. AJ talked about the farm as usual, Twilight; the library and new spells, Pinkie; randomness as always. And Fluttershy, well she didn't say much at all. Rainbow Dash was bored of it. All of it. Everything is the same just about every day. There wasn't really anything different about the passing days, and she was getting blasé (bored).

An outlandish muffled sound pierced Rainbow Dash's ears as she sat there fiddling with her cellphone. What was that…? A muffled roaring sound she concluded in her head. "A Sound of air rushing out of the way of something big falling out of the sky..." she hypothesized internally.

AHA.

Conclusion: Celestia must be back from her expedition!

"Hey guys! I think Princess Celestia is back from her expedition!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed, ready to change the newly brought up subject of guys and romance.

"Wha-?" Twilight says looking at Rainbow Dash in confusion, "The princesses aren't due back for another day or two…"

"OOH maybe she wanted to SUUURRPRISE us!" Pinkie enthusiastically proclaimed.

They got quiet for a second, too hearing something falling out the sky, and fast. They looked at each other in worry then got up and briskly walked outside to feed their curiosity.

There it was, in plain sight as a sore thumb, or an elephant at the movies, or a try hard, Celestia's magnificent ship coming straight out of the sky. But something wasn't right. The ship didn't slow down at all. Anyone with a brain would have known that they were too close to the ground to be going this fast. Whoever that was brave enough to watch also observed the event apprehensively awaiting the colossal impact. Without warning, and just before the ship hit the ground a smaller object under the ship exploded out from under it with intense force.

*PEWWWW*

3

2

1

*CRASSHHHHHHHHBOOOOMM*

The Celestial ship hits the ground. Hard. Very hard. And anyone who saw this tragedy unfold screamed in panic and horror. Rainbow Dash's thoughts screamed around in her head "Why didn't the Ship slow down? Where were the Princesses? Why did this happen?" Rainbow dash pondered some more for a second, eyebrows furrowed and eyes narrow. "Was that tinier ship the reason?" Her eyes started to narrow further as anger started to boil, thinking more about the subject; perhaps it was the pilots of that little ship fault. She spread her wings wide and flaps it powerfully, blasting off in a pulse of speed towards the downed vessels.

The F10 shot almost a mile away from the downed ship; it soared upside down for the whole while. Tails tried his hardest to flip the plane back right-side up but the fins seem to be locked in place and wouldn't budge, so Sonic and Tails curled up and braced for the unforgiving collision with the ground.

The F10 hit the callus ground with tremendous force, whiplashing the formal freedom fighters mercilessly and giving them a run for their money. The F10 rolled and bounced and skidded among the soft grass for a while, until suddenly the grass became gravel, then hard rocks. Sonic looked down at the ground through the "super" glass of the cockpit. Relief washed over him as he concluded that nothing could ever shatter the glass of the cockpit. But that relief didn't last long at all as he could see tiny cracks forming in the glass. They became larger as they bumped harshly on the sharp rocks. Sonic stared in fearful abhorrence and tried to get up on something to avoid the evident bloody accident that could happen if the glass were to give way on the heartless, grey rocks while he and Tails fumbled around on it. Especially since the damaged plane was still going at breakneck speeds.

Finally the F10 came to an ungracious stop against a massive, grey boulder. The hard impact sloshed the duo with angry force, knocking them around the cockpit as though they were ragdolls. Sonic and Tails, in terrible pain, but alive, let out a loud sigh of abatement. With the initial danger out of the way, Tails had more time to rest and think. Tails opened up his toolbox from under the control manifold and retrieved an electric wrench to remove some of the panels in the floor and they used their strong legs to kick it outwards so they can escape the death trap.

Once they was out of the Super Tornado they dusted themselves off, their clothes all tattered and torn from the current day's predicaments.

Sonic walked around on the hard rocks, body aching like all Hell. The setting sun blazed gently in his eyes as he lifted a gloved hand to shield its warm rays. He then turn back to his best friend Tails who was bent down, face twisted and whatnot, looking in distraught at his prized creation, the Super Tornado F10, now tattered and bent out of shape in some places: the chassis was bent in an awkward position , warped from the mishap of towing of the mighty Celestial Ship. The cockpit windows and windshield was a tragic, cracked and chipped mess; 3 months of hardening and making that glass almost invulnerable, in the trash. The engine is making a weird popping sound from being overstressed and it was leaking in the back "...blown gaskets and blown out pistons..." Sonic could hear Tails moan in woe. The Blue Blur decided to let him have some alone time while the Blue hedgehog thought about where could they find civilization.

Sonic then turned away and decided to walk around to get a better view of where they were. Rolling, majestic green hills painted the space around him. Further into the distance a mountainous mountain sat grand against the sky. And on that mountain, if Sonic's eyes were not playing tricks on him from the crash, "A castle maybe?" Sonic said to himself pondering.

"Great... Royalty…" Sonic muttered sarcastically.

Sonic then went to venture back to where he last seen Tails, wait… Where was he?

Tails was no longer sulking beside his masterpiece. "Tails?!" The Blue blur yelled out worriedly for his buddy. Sonic stumbled a bit, clearly starting to grow weary of exhaustion. His head felt dizzy, his body ached, and fatigue started to take over.

Then out of seemingly nowhere Sonic catches a familiar screech.

"RUN SONIC!" Tails high pitched alarm rang out in Sonic's ears. Sonic didn't immediately take heed to his warning just yet. He balled up his fist and looked around questionably pricking his ears to pick up the softest sound… Then he heard it. A soft flapping pricking at his ears and he turn his head sharply to the source of the sound. And there it was. In shock Sonic shot off in his trademark boost and ran, as fast as he could.

Rainbow Dash pumped her cyan wings harder until she reached the destination of the downed plane. There it was, resting against a large, scraggly boulder among the rocky expansion of the meadows on the edge of Equestria. RD observed two figures stumbling out of a metallic contraption and walking around clumsily for a second.

"These must be Celestia's attackers..." She assumed silently to herself.

Rainbow Dash thought up an ingenious plan as she flew above the low hanging afternoon clouds, rolling in from the ocean, heavy with rain water, ready to drop its soaking load.

She maneuvered in closer as the Blue guy started to walk away from the shorter orange furred kid as he stayed crouched over the destroyed craft. She thought quickly "hmmm, maybe I can catch these no good evil-doers myself, and bring them to Canterlot Court to be executed for their crimes." she smiles to herself thinking she's doing the right thing.

The Orange Furred kid with the big ears muttered something to himself about his plane, eyes cast down. She waited for the blue guy to walk well away from his companion as he processed the land around him. "Here's my chance." Rainbow Dash dived in quietly and quickly snatching Big-Eared kid up like a rag doll. She covered his mouth tightly to prevent any sound that dared to come from him as his eyes stared up at her utterly flabbergasted. He screamed in her hand; his big, baby-blue, pleading eyes begging to be released. After a bout of struggling, He finally managed to loosen her strong grip on his mouth just enough to quickly bite her with his sharp incisors, in turn giving him the clear opportunity to shout out someone's name. And he did.

"RUN SONIC!" He screams to the top of his lungs, his voice cracking. Rainbow snorted in frustration as he alerted his companion, ruining her stealthy capture. She then sucker punched him hard in the side of his head, knocking him out. Tails hung in her arms limply as she trailed lower to the ground and dropped him. "I'm coming back for you later" she growled in anger her mind while also shaking her hand friskily.

Now for the next one.

She flew quickly back to the jet and saw the spiky haired guy looking around, clearly alert. RD took this chance and busted out of the clouds at high speed causing the Blue character to look straight at her. His eyes grew wide and his demeanor changed and wariness obviously forgotten as he then turned immediately and took off like a missile.

And the chase commences.

Celestia's light magenta eyes lazily open as though she just awoken from a deep sleep. She blinks a couple of times as her eyes cruised over the familiar faces and scenery as she remembers where she is.

Princess Celestia and her sister was laid side by side as the most talented nurses and doctors channeled their magic into the Sisters of Royalty, sustaining them as they recover from the dangerous teleport jump. Celestia closed her eyes again and covered her face with her hands as she reviewed the recent happenings.

~Celestia's ears started to pop as soon as she regains consciousness and opened her eyes. Terror instantly took her as she lifted her head up and was instantly pushed back down by the extreme forces of the howling wind pushing her down. "WHAT IN TARTARUS IS GOING ON!?" she screamed in her head. The vast, dark space above her started to disappear as it became filled in with a dark blue, then a lighter blue, and in that very moment she realized that they was falling.

Celestia struggled over to her sister trying desperately to wake her up but proved futile as she remained unconscious. With an exasperated huff of irritation and anxiety she moved clumsily to the bulwarks and peered over portside and saw something that amazed her: the 2 creatures she'd met before with Doctor Eggman were towing her Mighty Celestial Galley behind them. Suddenly the Jet started to slow down and she could no longer see the Jet and she started to worry for boys. Celestia charged magic around her horn and was just about to use her magic to teleport them out from under the Ship but she then looked back at her crew.

The ground was coming up terribly fast and she had a choice to make and quickly: save the saviors that saved you and your crew, or save the trustworthy and fellow shipmates and Citizens of her republic. She flinched as she looked around at her crew and summoned as much magic as she could from her fatigued state, embellishing her whole crew and herself in her magically majestic, light-gold embrace and teleported with a magical pop just as she heard a mighty explosion from her ship.

That's the last thing she remembered and she took her hands off her face and held out a hand for the doctors to leave her be. Celestia then remembered the two boys that risked their lives, and then gave it to save her crew, her sister, and herself.

"I thank you Sonic the Hedgehog, and Tails. Thank you."

Sonic's custom power shoes was a red and white blur underneath him as he ran cautiously but swiftly over the rocky soil to avoid tripping before he hit the flat strip of grass ahead. Sonic took a quick glance behind him and saw something that struck him in awe: a Rainbow Haired girl in a cyan blue breaker and matching track pants hot on his tail as her wings propelled her faster and faster, now about 3 feet behind him. "Come on, come on..." Sonic muttered underneath his breath as he saw the rocky soil begin to falter and a flat strip of land was coming up fast. The furious flapping of her wings echoed in his ears, as he felt her get closer. (They're both busting about 150 mph)

And the rocky soil ends.

The second Sonic's reduced friction shoes touched the flat, grassy land he took off like a rocket immediately, busting about 250 mph.

"You're too slow!" He mocked as he sped away from her.

Rainbow Dash's mouth almost dropped as he managed to leave her in such a short amount of time. "What the Hay!" the spectra haired Pegasus exclaimed in shock. She then shook her head, her big, magenta eyes narrowed in determination as they locked onto Sonic as if he was a delectable mouse and she was a ravenous hawk.

Perseverance painted her face as she began to increase speed too. Within a few seconds she nearly caught back up to him. "Who you calling slow, Rat?!" She retorted back at him from his earlier comment. He looks back at her obviously astonished. He then turned back around as he refused to give her the gratifications of letting her EVEN think she is anything as fast as he is.

The flat land started to give off in a slight decline, and this brought a cocky smirk on his face. He turned around once more but this time all the way around so that he was facing her and running backwards. "I'd hate to leave you like this but..." He stuck his thumbs up and winked and boosted away leaving a bright aura of blue behind him; hitting just under the speed of sound.

Wind howled like wolves in his ears as he neared the speed of sound, Sonic was determined to leave his pursuer in the dust for good, so he kicked in his figure-8 running technique and the air compressed around him in a white, puffy flurry that then evolved into a cone as he ran on the edge of the speed of sound.

*BOOOOM*

Sonic body shuddered in pleasure as he felt the sound barrier collapse around his body. He smiled as he looked back and saw nobody chasing him anymore. A satisfying 20 seconds later he saw the low and dark late-afternoon clouds dispersed due to magnificent, rainbow-like pulse… then he heard it.

The spectrum of light...

1 Mississippi... 2 Mississippi…

*BOOOOOM*

2 miles…

"DID THAT FLYING CHICK JUST BREAK THE SOUND BARRIER?! WAS THAT HER?! "

Then it, well, she hit him.

The Rainbow Haired chick knocked Sonic high up into the air as she quickly caught up with him; he tumbled clumsily in the air for a second before he righted himself. He was flying through the air as The Rainbow Hair girl was speeding back towards him. He timed his attack, and once she drew close enough he curled into a ball and home attacked her right in the face. She spun out in the air momentarily, obviously NOT seeing that coming. She growled in anger and shot towards him again, Sonic then attempted to do his Home attack again but when he did Rainbow Dash saw through his rotations of his body and quickly snatched up his leg mid spin, hurling him higher into the air.

"Admit your defeat, Rat!" her eyes filled to the brim with anger, "For harming the Princesses you, will, PAY!"

Sonic, still shooting upwards due to Rainbow Dash slinging him like a catapult, narrowed his eyes in confusion. "What?" He said gawking at her. "I haven't hurt the princesses! I don't even know what you're talking about!" He twisted widely trying to locate the Celestial Ship, he spotted it about 5 miles due south west of him. He looked back at Rainbow Dash whom had a balled up fist and barreling straight towards him at lightning speed. Sonic thought quickly as he, still in the air, spun furiously at an angle and sideways just before Rainbow hit him with hard, flying punch.

Sonic spun through the air and due to his angle of spinning he shot straight towards Celestia's ship in a Blue blur. Once the ship was in a straight shot Sonic uncurled his body and in a superman pose, continued to soar towards the Galleon.

When He finally reached the ship and landed hard on his feet, kicking up a cloud of dust and splinters. He looked around on the large deck but, to his disbelief no one was there. Sonic looked around for deceased bodies and wondered if the impact had killed everyone.

Then everything was black.

The next moment Sonic was knocked out, head busted through the incredibly strong Mahogany woods of the deck.

Courtesy of Rainbow Dash.

Rainbow Dash flew through Ponyville towards Canterlot telling everypony that she has caught the alleged persecutors and bringing them to justice at Canterlot court.

A few people here and there had heard Rainbow Dash's story of how she had captured the criminals that took "hostage" of the Celestial ship, and now influenced by her untruthful words; hating Sonic's and Tails's guts. There were pictures and caricatures of the two scrambled everywhere from Ponyville to Canterlot; talk about news travel fast.

Rainbow Dash zoomed towards Canterlot with Tails and Sonic, totally ignoring her friends when they tried to question what was going on. The only thing that mattered at the moment was that she has the criminals of the "Celestial Ship Heist" in her custody for robbery and possibly murderer. Sonic was being held firmly by one of his skinny arms, and Tails by both of his big, fluffy tails as they both hanged limply in her strong grasp. Once in Canterlot She flew straight towards the center of the massive, grand city to where the Royal Court was located.

There was an enormous crowd blocking the Herculean Golden Doors that closed the court off from the public, the Citizens was being blocked entrance by the Royal Guards by the use of their big steel and silver shields. Our capturer flew slowly (on purpose) above the crowd towards the Ginormous double doors of the court. Many people looked up and saw the two captured males and started to point and cheer. At this Rainbow Dash smiled heroically.

Once inside the marvelous building, Rainbow Dash carelessly drops her "catch of the day" onto the magnificent marble and polished granite floors. As she did the court keeper turned from talking to some advisors and put his small, judging gaze on RD.

"Uh, lady you're not allowed to be here-" he stopped mid-sentence realizing she had the rumored accused criminals in her possession. "You got them...I'll go fetch the princesses!" He said, scampering off towards a golden-guild staircase, which led to a massive, larger-than-life door.

"That's what I thought" Rainbow dash huffed in annoyance.

At this time Rainbow Dash's friends began to make entrance into the court, confused looks plastered on their faces. The justice hungry crowd started to pour in after them, eager to hear the hearing of the accused aliens. Many foul-mouth jeers and insults were shot at the two in custody as the crowd grew in size in the massive room.

Consciousness slowly came to Sonic as his head throbbed in a pulse-like pain and slowly his senses started to flood back to him. He started to feel the cold, polished ground beneath his body; rock, marble maybe? His ears twitched as voices of many different people pounded against his eardrums; paining his head even more. Finally he started to open his eyes wide, only for him to shrink back and narrow them as light flooded his retinas, causing even more pain to his head.

He shook his head as he began to push his sore body off the ground to examine his surroundings. After a several seconds staring around; whipping his head from side to side in full alert, he concluded was in some sort of large commons, or court, though there was not a seat in sight besides two heavily decorated thrones raised on a glorious platform overlooking the whole room. The shining marble walls were full of beautiful, intricate stain glass windows, allowing the light to travel softly through its' medium, pouring a glorious array of color on the magnificent marble floor.

There were people all behind him; the guards holding them back as they yelled and sent daggers from their eyes, pointing directly right at Sonic and his still knocked out companion.

He began to rise higher and stood unsteadily; rocking, on his two feet. Pain shot through his body but he ignored it. Then he remembered. That Rainbow Haired chick. Sonic looked around trying to locate his capturer, and there she was, among a group colorful haired females.

Color, so much color.

"Rainbow Dash, are you sure these are the guys that captured the Celestial ship and hurt the princesses?" Twilight inquired, this being the 5th time she asked her friend, hopefully this time she'll get a smart answer. Twilight eyed them both, processing info about their body movements, well, Sonic's body movements. "He doesn't seem dangerous at all, just confused."

"Well duh! Of course they're the scumbags who did it!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed stubbornly keeping to her word. "For an Egghead you aren't too bright…" She added, muttering under her breath and turning her head.

"What was that?"

"Nothing..."

Apple Jack and Rarity said nothing as they stood arms crossed listening absentmindedly to the ongoing argument of Twilight's and Rainbow's. They both looked around the room, but mostly at the Blue and Orange furred guys. "An orange fox? A Blue hedgehog? I have never seen animals like them stand on two feet before." Rarity commented to AJ. Fluttershy was sitting on the floor crisscrossed also eyeing them. The orange hair boy now awoke, with interest.

"They aren't guilty." The calm Fluttershy muttered under her breath.

"...Besides! When the princesses get here we will find out their punishment soon enough." Rainbow Dash finished her argument to Twilight as the purple one walked away from her dismissing herself from the conversation, Twilight obviously finding that she was getting nowhere with her friend.

As soon as her words left Rainbow Dash's mouth Shining Armor, the captain of the Canterlot Royal Guard and Twilight's brother, and a pair of elite guards made an entrance out of the massive door that Dashie witnessed the court keeper disappear to. The Princesses, still in their torn and dingy suits, but walking strongly, followed them and made their way steadily to their raised platform.

They both seem very tired; Luna wore a serious and strong face to hide her exhaustion. Celestia's eyes were dull, but her face was straight, and her chin was up, keeping her noble character. But one thing was certain when looking at them, they both seemed as though they didn't want to be bothered.

Sonic and Tails faced the two Princesses, after what Sonic had told his buddy about what was going on and happening he wore a confused face the whole time. Sonic wore a more determined face still ignoring the taunts the people behind him were slinging at him and Tails. Just then the Rainbow Haired chick flew quickly in front of Sonic and Tails, but facing the princesses. She then casted a stone-cold glare back at Sonic, full of hatred, but she composed herself and returned her heroic gaze back at the Princesses.

The Celestia spread her prodigious, cream-white wings outward to silence the crowd. After a few moments there was not a sound made in the court as it quickly slipped in silence. Celestia led the way ahead of her sister to the center of the court where Sonic and Tails was located, the elites and Shining followed closely behind, spears at arms.

As they approached Celestia curiously eyed Rainbow Dash to Sonic, then the Crowd of civilians and a poster coined by the CMC that had Sonic's and Tails caricatures up there stating "MURDERER" or "EVIL" at the top, with tiredness and stress lining her pale magenta eyes.

As Celestia got within 5 feet to Sonic she withdrew her beautiful saber from its sheath with her right hand in a silky smooth motion, its metal blade making an ominous sound that trilled around the court. Rainbow's eyes lit up as justice was about to be served. The Mane6 also watched on intentionally, stomach in knots as they thought that the Blue haired character and the orange hair guy were both not guilty. Was Celestia going to execute them two?! The crowd started to get excited again and started to cheer, too wanting the same outcome as RD wanted.

Celestia then abruptly struck the sharp end of the blade to the floor with graceful display of finesse and power as she kneeled in front of Sonic and Tails. Her wings spread out in a symbol of honor as she bowed in front of them. Luna halfheartedly mimicked her big sister, clearly didn't want to kneel in front of lowly peasant like the two.

Rainbow Dash was dumbfounded.

The crowd instantly grew silent.

And what seemed like a forever sentence to a silent purgatory, the two rulers of the great kingdom of Equestria stood back up. Celestia then sheathed her saber and put on a small smile.

"Thank you Sonic the Hedgehog and Tails, for saving my sister, as much of my crew as you could, and myself. Without your heroics and impeccable timing, I'm almost certain we would have been perished out there. Thank you." Celestia said strongly her voice echoing around the room.

Sonic and Tails was too in shock that two women of such power just bowed to them.

Rainbow Dash mouth is still agape and her magenta eyes wide with the utmost shock. "But, but, I thought they was the ones that wrecked your ship and injured you both?!" She cried trying to justify herself while avoiding the looks of everyone that thought she was right.

Luna looked to Celestia, the latter nodded. Celestia then backed up as Luna stepped forward. The Princess of the Night took a deep breath and in her old Canterlot voice to ensure that everyone could hear she reviewed everything that had happened during the trip from the planet Criptérë, the terrible meeting the Egg warship, to the horrifying deaths and to the null gassing, then finally to Sonic and Tails saving them. She was certain to make sure that she left out the part when she foolishly underestimated the Doctor.

After finishing the retelling of the story Twilight Sparkle spoke up, "So about the Book of God's Knowledge, that was stolen by that evil Psychopath Eggman?"

"Yes..." Princess Celestia replied softly. She looked down, then away. Then looked toward Shining Armor and did a quick nod. The Captain of the Royal Guard acknowledges the hint and ordered his men to usher all the civilians out, leaving the Mane6 and Sonic and Tails alone with Princesses.

"Twilight, we will talk more later on about this pressuring issue; but not now. My sister and I need to rest. Sonic and Tails are in our debt, and I will trust you and your friends to treat them in your utmost hospitality." She flashed a look to Rainbow Dash, clearly disappointed in her actions. "Find them somewhere to sleep for the night. In two days, once my sister and I have rested we'll talk about other matters." And without another word the two Women in Royalty exited out the room behind a large, golden door.

Sonic's appalled, shining eyes followed the princesses until they disappeared through a tall golden doorway. He then turned and focused his eyes on the colorful haired females whom looked back at him, one in particular eyeing him in indifference, her pride not letting her face the fact that she was wrong and drop it. But thankfully the others weren't so harsh.

Twilight Sparkle approached the pair of freedom fighters and did a quick courtesy bow to show her thankfulness that they have saved their princess, and most importantly her Teacher. The rest then soon followed and greeted Sonic and Tails with kindness and introducing themselves.

After a long, two hour train ride to Ponyville they soon arrived in the town commons, talking amongst themselves about the land around and Sonic and Tails talked about their home planet and what they do. They all contributed in the conversation and soon becoming friends. Well, all but Rainbow Dash who flew backwards with her back to everyone and in a lounging position and arms folded, completely isolating her from the conversation. Twilight noticed her friend's uncanny and rude behavior and fell back a bit from the crowd.

"Are you still upset that they weren't what they seemed?" Twilight asked. Rainbow Dash ignored this and turned her head away from Twi.

"Well I don't know, what do you think Twilight? I embarrassed myself in front of everypony thinking that I caught the most dangerous national criminals ever. I looked like a fool." Rainbow Dash growled dipping lower into her flying position, hiding her disappointment in herself. "I still think they're up to no good though..." She hissed under the table.

Twilight: "Mhmmm.., well, be that as it may we still have to find living quarters for the two, and I thought you should let Sonic stay with you for a while-"

Rainbow's eyes stretched with disbelief and just when a startled retort started to form on the tip of her tongue, Twilight interrupted. "-SOOOO," Twilight emphasized quickly over Rainbow Dash's mumbling and stammering, "If he do try to hatch up a plan or cause any trouble, it'll be "Ponyville's Greatest Flyer" to capture him, and bring him to justice." Twilight knew her little psych out will make her more willing to consider it. Rainbow Dash frowned a bit but didn't complain.

"Okay, I'll do it."