CHAPTER 3: A VERY WARM WELCOME
It was getting late. The sun was sinking over the horizon. Sonic and Rainbow Dash were walking around Ponyville trying to find Tails.
"Sooo, what your saying is, you and some other friends from your world have somehow appeared here because of something Tails did accidently." said Rainbow. "Aren't you gonna be mad at him?"
"Why should I get angry?" replied Sonic, "It was an accident and the Chaos Emeralds are unpredictable." Just then, he saw a yellow blob at the corner of his eye. Looking left, he saw Tails, fiddling with some sort of pistol.
"Tails!" Sonic shouted. Tails looked up and ran towards him. "Sonic! You're alright!" said Tails. "What happened?"
Sonic introduced Rainbow Dash and told him about the race.
"What's that in your hand?" asked Rainbow.
"Oh, this?" Tails held up the gun. "It's a new prototype of a laser gun. This time it doesn't run on Chaos Emerald Energy, like the last one did, so it's safe."
"That's a relief..." mumbled Sonic.
"Ooo, techy techy!" said Rainbow.
Rainbow Dash then saw 5 other ponies traveling in a group. "Hey, guys! How's it going?"
A yellow pony with pink mane and tail with wings saw her first. "Hey Rainbow. How are y- EEE!" Then hid in some bushes.
Rainbow Dash turned to Sonic. Sonic was puzzled. "What, something I said?"
"She's a bit shy." Replied Rainbow Dash.
The other four came up to them. "Sonic, I'd like you to meet my friends," said Rainbow, "Pinkie Pie, Applejack, Rarity, Twilight Sparkles, and the one in the bushes, Fluttershy."
"Nice to meet you!" said Tails.
"Same here." said Twilight, a pink pony with a purple mane and tail. She had wings and a horn. "You look nothing like a pony to me. What are you, and how did you get here?"
While Tails was explaining, Sonic smelled something burning. When he turned around, he saw a red sky. He saw robots. An entire army of them. Fluttershy hadn't hid in the bushes because of Sonic, it was the army!
"Give up your town and bow down to your new master!" said a familiar voice through a megaphone.
Everyone turned around. They were horrified to see a whole quarter of Ponyville on fire! "Run!" shouted Rarity, a white pony with a horn and purple mane and tail.
Sonic jumped into action. And so did Tails, using his new laser to zap the robots coming towards them.
Sonic used his Homing Attack on most of them, then his summersault attack on some more, but then, he saw something that he would never forget.
There, sitting in his Egg-Mobile was the master in question.
He was alive.
Dr Eggman.