Chapter Eight: Timberwolves and the Arks of the Cosmos Rainbow Dash

Rainbow and Sonic made it to the clearing where Applebloom was screaming from. She was backed against a tree, surrounded by Timberwolves, possessed piles of twigs shape to look like wolves. Normally, she wouldn't consider how to fight them, but she knew there were more than she could handle alone. Right as she came up with a useable strategy, Sonic jumped out of the tree, let out the howl he used earlier, and started punching at the wolves.

During the confusion, Dash grabbed Applebloom, and rushed for the exit to the woods, running into Applejack and Knuckles, about half-way. Then she did something irresponsible, which she didn't realize until after she already did it.

"Catch!" she yelled as she threw Applebloom to Knuckles. He thankfully caught her, and left Applejack to bring her back to Ponyville.

"Rainbow Dash!" Applejack looked peeved… that's an understatement but it's the closest thing that Rainbow could come up with.

"I can't believe I would do something like that either," Dash said. "Beat me to a pulp later! I gotta help Sonic!" She rushed to see how sonic was doing. He didn't even move from that spot and he was still doing better than Applejack ever did. Then the tide changed slightly, three Timberwolves jumped Sonic… or at least they tried. Rainbow created a vortex and blew them away.

Sonic

Sonic didn't know what came over him. But as soon as he registered that the wolves that were attacking Applebloom were made of sticks, he went ballistic and started to massacre every one of them. But by the time the sun came up half of them were still standing.

When the sun came up, Sonic came to his senses. He and Dash were too tired to fight off an entire pack of these things. So Sonic did what came naturally at a time like this… he grabbed Dash and ran as fast as he could. When they reached a gorge Rainbow started fighting.

"What's wrong with you?" he asked.

"I can't go back there!" Dashy said. "Last time I broke my wing under a falling boulder!"

With that, Sonic turned to face the Timberwolves. Now he was as scared as when the Erazor Djin turned into… that thing. Then three figures flew overhead. They dropped something in front of Sonic. He looked and found a plank of metal, painted blue with holes in the back. On top of that he saw a ring of stone with a blue ruby in the side.

"Is that… My Gear!?" he asked aloud.

Rainbow Dash

Before Rainbow could even blink, sonic scooped up the board and hopped on. He grabbed Rainbow and they fell into the canyon just as a landslide started. Rainbow was afraid that this would end up worse than last time. Instead of a flattened wing, there would be some flattened pony and hedgehog.

Then the rocks stopped falling. Sonic picked up his board and started flying, gaining speed every time he ran against a rock. It felt like Rainbow didn't need to flap her wings to keep flying, or to keep up with Sonic. Finally he got back on the board and climbed out of the canyon. The Timberwolves were still chasing them, but then more creatures, Mobians she guessed, started causing tornados and tearing the wolves apart… while on similar boards to the one Sonic was riding.

They reached Ponyville, and the other Mobians, led by a parrot (at least she thought it was a parrot) came out of the woods and stopped in front of Sonic. Sonic looked shocked that these things were here, like he knew them, but didn't expect them to show up.

"Jet!"