CHAPTER 9: SONIC TO THE RESCUE!
Meanwhile, back on the hill, the group watched Sonic as he ran up the side of the Egg-Citadel.
"Sonic has found a stray ring!" exclaimed Tails.
"What's so important about that ring?" asked Rarity.
Tails noticed the others were probably thinking the same thing. "Rings like that one give Sonic power. If he uses one, he can go at incredible speeds!"
"And I thought Sonic without the Ring was fast..." mumbled Applejack.
Back at the Citadel, Sonic was near the top. He was standing on the left side of the mustache on the Eggman face. He then got his ring and started spinning so fast that it was a blur. He then went right through the walls on the Citadel.
Inside was even uglier. The walls were gray with metal plates and bits of wire were hanging out the walls.
"Heh, looks like the building came here in a hurry." joked Sonic. He ran down the corridor as fast as he could. But there was one small problem: He was lost.
"Where the heck am I?" he asked himself. He continued down the corridor. He came to three doors at the end. But then he heard cries of pain. "I may not know where I am, but I know who those cries belong to!" Twilight. He followed the sound and came to a large door which, above it an a sign, said:
MAGIC AURA EXTRACTION BAY
He knocked down the door and saw Twilight Sparkles in a tube filled with liquid. She was moaning as if she had just been winded. A pipe was running along the floor into the top of the tube. Her horn was glowing, indicating that the machine was active.
Sonic had to find a way to turn off the machine. If he smashed it, he might hurt Twilight. He saw a monitor with lots of binary code on it.
"I wish Tails was here..." mumbled Sonic. Then he had an idea! "Don't worry Twilight, I'll get you out of there." he said, and then he ran out to find Eggman's room. He ran down the corridor and opened a door. Nothing but scrap. He opened another. Same.
"Third time lucky..." mumbled Sonic. He opened the next door. Inside was a room painted red and orange. There was a bed and a coffee table with a mug on it. Imprinted on the mug was:
WORLDS BEST DOCTOR!
He opened a wardrobe. After a bit of ruffling around he found a book titled 'How To Read Binary - For Dummies'.
"Who knew Eggman was such a stereotype!" joked Sonic. He took the book back to the room where Twilight was imprisoned. He started to flick through the pages until he got to the chapter called 'ABC is as easy as 001100010011001000110011'.
He didn't have time to read it all. He decided to risk and smash the machine. He got the ring and started to spin, and smashed through the tube, glass shattering. Liquid was everywhere. He found Twilight lying on the floor motionless. "Twilight? You alright?" asked Sonic.
"I'm alright..." said Twilight. Knowing that Twilight was OK, Sonic picked her up, and ran.
Alarms started to sound. Sonic went left at a junction as robots were coming the other ways. He saw some glass at the end of the corridor. "Hold on tight!" he shouted. He then jumped through the glass, which was the right eye on the Eggman logo outside. He was falling fast. But then he noticed something. Twilight was cradling something in her wing:
A Chaos Emerald!
Sonic took the Emerald. He had to do it fast.
20 meters until they land...
"Chaos..."
10...
"CONTROL!"
They both disappeared.