Sonic Lost World: Deadly Friendships Edition
Chapter 5: This Animal I Have Become
decode9/ John Platz: I guess I can tell you about her. It will most likely be in a normal chapter. *Spoilers* The rest of the Cutie Mark Crusaders are involved as well. And it's this chapter. By the way, Pinkie grabs Fix-It Felix to repair the Fourth Wall after every chapter. Don't worry about it.
Werewolf99: I did say that I hated writing that chapter. I had a lot going on in my life that was pretty tragic, so I was really down. But, no worries, I may or may not reupload that chapter if it is fixed. And, I am sorry to say that I will not add your OC here. I'm not adding anyone's no matter how OP or creative or anything. But, I think you will enjoy who and what is introduced.
DC: Really? Or are you just being nice? Last chapter is possibly getting a rewrite.
Guest: Thank you for your suggestion. And of course, Before the Sequel was awesome too. Maybe I'll put some in today's chapter.
John Platz: Thanks. Some people just don't care about others getting to class on time without the need of painfully preventing that. Even if it is by accident.
I went on a nice hiatus for a while in order to move out of state, play the new mind f**k of a Phoenix Wright and Professor Layton crossover, try to fix my 3DS XL (but settled on asking for the New Nintendo 3DS LL sometime in the near future) and to start up school in said different state. Hopefully, this iPad written chapter can make up for the last two chapters. I pulled off a Sonic Lost World and got mixed reviews, so I hope the rest of the story can go smoothly and make up for the lack of action in the last two.
Princess Celestia's P.O.V:
We all had stood in front of Miles' "plane", the Tornado to bid them farewell for now. "Goodbye friends, and have a safe trip. Well actually, you're saving the world. It is anything but safe." I said, waving goodbye. I noticed Twilight's mother point at Sonic after I had said that. Why do I get this strange feeling that she's going to hurt him eventually? I raised the sun as the time of dawn was approaching. Sonic and Tails stared in amazement. I knew that they don't exactly have that kind of magic where they're from. After morning time had arrived, the Tornado's engine started up, and the group with new additions, Spike and Trixie, they had taken off for Ponyville once again.
Even after the plane was out of sight, we could still hear Trixie and Spike's screams. If anyone is concerned, they I will tell them that it is a rooster. And no, Luna, I am not TROLLING ANYPONY. It is simply... lying to keep conspiracies out of the minds of my subjects.
"They see her trollin'. They hatin'. They try to catch her ridin' dirty." A deep voice sang in my mind. I knew who that was.
"Stay out of my mind, Luna!" ponies walking by looked at me like I was crazy. I sent them a face that reminded them that I had sent my own immortal goddess of the night sister, Luna to the moon.
3rd Person P.O.V:
Zavok stood in front of a giant television screen, watching Sonic face off against all of their robots during the Deadly Six's betrayal. "Sonic is more formidable than I had anticipated."
Master Zik entered the room from somewhere, continuing the conversation. "Yes. He would make a powerful slave. Eggman taught us how to make robots—"
"So we'll make the hedgehog a robot! Excellent plan, Master!" (*1)
"I'm sure you would have thought of it yourself, given time."
"Time. Something Sonic is running out of."
Sonic the Hedgehog's P.O.V:
Tails and I haven't spoken to each other ever since we left Canterlot. I'm surprised he hasn't dropped me on our way back to Ponyville. Our plane ride was silent. Just as silent as when Scootaloo ran away. And I hated being reminded of that, especially when something bad happened to remind me of another thing. Ugh, my life is so complicated.
Miles "Tails" Prower's P.O.V:
Even when I had landed the Tornado, Sonic and I didn't really talk to each other. Pinkie, however, said that there was something at this place called Sugarcube Corner that we just HAD to see. Sonic and I had followed her to this building that looked like a bakery. That was because it was a bakery. Sugarcube Corner was apparently one of the best. Maybe even THE best. After all, it had managed to obtain a SIX star rating out of five. People only say that about Sonic 's heroic skills. Pastries of all sorts were lined up on counters and glass shelves. Cupcakes, cookies, candies, doughnuts, etcetera. "Wow Pinkie. You've got my sweet tooth aching already." Sonic sighed with a lack of blinking.
"Of course I do," Pinkie pointed towards a small table near the window with two seats. "Now just sit there and wait for me to take your orders." Sonic and I walked towards the table and sat. When we went looking for Pinkie, she was gone.
Sonic tried to talk to me while we waited for Pinkie, but I didn't really listen. He tried to apologize and talk like we always have. But that didn't work. Then, Pinkie walked out. Anybody know Hooters? That restaurant that has all of those waitresses in shorts and tank tops? Well, Pinkie was wearing just that, except instead of saying "Hooters", the shirt said "Just Desserts". "Pinkie, what are you wearing?" I asked.
"Nothing important. Now, may I take your orders?" The pink mare asked as she dropped a laminated piece of paper onto the table. On that piece of paper were very limited food choices. Those choices included cakes of either vanilla, chocolate or red velvet flavors; mint chocolate chip ice cream; or Mane Six flavored cupcakes.
Sonic and I stared at the menus in silence for a bit, deciding on what to eat. We had both ate dinner at Princess Celestia's, and now we were having dessert. I had settled on mint chocolate chip ice cream and Sonic had settled on a slice of vanilla cake with chocolate icing and sprinkles.
After a bit, Pinkie returned with our orders. But this time, she was wearing a chef's hat and stereotypical mustache. "Here-a you-a go. Have it for free. It's on the house!" She said in an Itallian accent. The Super Mario Bros. would have a fit if they heard her. Sonic and I devoured our sweets in an instant, rivaling only the eating speed of Pinkie and something that she called a "Parasprite".
"Sonic, I do feel kinda better. That ice cream was just what I needed."
"Glad to hear that." Sonic smiled. Suddenly, the doors to Sugarcube Corner burst open, and Applejack grabbed hold of Sonic and I by the wrists.
"Come along, guys. You've got to meet the Apples of Ponyville!" She exclaimed, dragging us out of Sugarcube Corner. Pinkie grabbed Sonic by the quills and me by a tail.
"They already have. I'm your cousin. Remember?"
"We still don't know if that's for sure or not," Pinkie gave Applejack a teary face and started sniffling. The orange pony rolled her eyes. "Fine. They can meet the rest of the Apples in Ponyville."
Suddenly, a middle-aged female's voice called from upstairs. "Pinkie, be quiet! The twins do not need to get excited at this moment."
Pinkie cringed and looked up at the stairs with a sorry expression on her face. "Sorry Mrs. Cake," Pinkie then looked back at the two beings that she was trying to pull. "Oh. Well, then that's okay," Pinkie whispered as she let go of Sonic and I, and we fell on top of AJ. "Have fun. And make sure you have an apple. They're Equestria's finest!"
Granny Smith's P.O.V (Abusing the "Z" button):
(Music Insert: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic - Apples to the Core Instrumental)
Oh. That young'un went out all night again without letting me know. When she gets back, she better have a better reason than "I was traveling the world with an ant-whosamwhatsits hedgehog and two tailed fox trying to stop an elite team of super villains called the Deadly Six who are intent on destroying both our world and the hedgehog's." I mean come on. Who would believe that? She's already filled up Apple Bloom's head with those lies. And here, I thought my eldest granddaughter was the Element of Honesty. Prophecies are full of baloney, I say. Anyone can tell that-ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ... "Granny Smith!" A little voice called out to me.
"I'm awake!" I shouted. When I had opened my eyes, I saw Apple Bloom. Big Mac had tried to do her hair last night, but had changed her hairstyle into two ponytails that made her little head look like a boomerang. (*) She was also wearing her red Cutie Mark Crusader hooded sweater that Rarity had made for her unzipped.
"Wake up, Granny! Applejack's back!" My youngest granddaughter yelled again. This got me excited.
My grandson poked his head through the window and said, "Eeyup" confirming Apple Bloom's statement.
"Hey Big Macintosh!" Applejack shouted. She opened the barn door, and entered. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ "GRANNY SMITH! WAKE UP!" Applejack yelled again. This time she was holding a megaphone right next to me.
"I'm awake! I promise!" I shouted again. I waved my hooves around, and wound up smacking Applejack in the muzzle. Serves her right. She should know better; not to stay that close to an elderly mare. I could have died!
My eldest granddaughter rubbed her cheek for a few seconds. "Good. Now, I would like for you to meet, my friend -who is not just somepony in an ugly costume- and partner in world saving, Sonic the Hedgehog!" That name sounds familiar. Now, where was it from?
(Music Insert: Final Jeopardy Countdown Music)
...Hold on, I'll remember...Just a second...It's on the tip of my tongue... It's right there! I can feel it...It's the name of a town in the Griffon territory, isn't it?..No... It was the recipe for baked candy yams. I officially give up...No wait! I remember now! (End music) Oh right! That's the name of Applejack's imaginary friend! You would think that fifteen years old is too old for imaginary friends, but my grand kids are a weird bunch. Big Macintosh still sleeps with that old raggedy doll. Where did he even get that from? Apple Bloom still hasn't found her cutie mark after nearly eleven years. And Applejack's list is way too long for my brain to handle.
A humanoid looking mummy pony and a two tailed fox waltzed into the living room, and waved at me simultaneously. "Hi" They said at the same time. I fainted. Don't blame me! I don't control the aging process! ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ "Hey, is she all right, Big Mac?"
"Eeyup."
"You sure?"
"Eeyup."
Absolutely positive?"
"Eeyup!"
I jumped from out of my rocking chair and rocketed towards the fridge in the kitchen. I sat up there out of the monsters' reach. "Ah! Get those things away from me! Send 'em back to the Everfree Forest where they came from, and leave me alone!" I yelled. I was yelling to scare the monster. It didn't scare me. Not one bit. "Big Macintosh! You step away from those Everfree Forest varmints! I command you!" Big Mac shrugged and walked back into the living room.
"Granny, it's okay. This is Sonic. He's a good guy. And this is his adoptive little brother, Tails. And no, they are not from the Everfree Forest." Apple Bloom reassured me as Applejack pulled me down.
"Actually that gives me an idea of where to look for the Deadly Six and where robots might be! Thanks Granny!" Applejack called out before she exited the barn with the blue blur, Big Macintosh, and Apple Bloom.
"Uhh... Glad I could be of assistance? Nice meeting you, Sonic and Tails!" ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ (Just so you know, I'm not sleeping)ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ... What in the heck are the Deadly Six? Don't die Applejack. I still need somepony to massage my gluteus-maximus in the morning.
Princess Twilight Sparkle's P.O.V:
(Music Insert: Sonic Unleashed: Windmill Isle Hub - Night)
Uh-uh. No way. No how. N.O. There is no way in all of Tartarus that I am stepping into that dreaded forest. After all, that is the most feared place in all of Equestria: The Everfree Forest. If that blasted hedgehog thinks that any of us are stepping in there after everything that we have been through, then he has another thing coming. Also, I have to remember to smack Applejack later for this idea of hers. And her grandmother... What? Don't judge me. I am a princess. I could have banished her to the moon. But, I didn't.
Sonic noticed me as the only one -besides Fluttershy- who wasn't moving as fast as everyone else. "Why are you of all people frozen in place?" The hedgehog asked. He was only a few yards away from entering the Everfree Forest.
"Don't you know what that is?" I asked.
"Well, that's a stupid question. Of course I do. From what I can tell, it's a forest," Oh don't play smart with me. "I mean, there are trees, there is some grass, there are animals; I can hear the birds, and, there's fresh air… Yep. That sounds like the description of a forest." He just played smart with me.
"Well, since you don't know the whole story, let me just fill you in," I started up. "The Everfree Forest is number three out of the top five spookiest places in ALL of Equestria, maybe even the world. The tall trees can block out the sun in about eighty percent of the forest, the animals can take care of themselves to grow into vicious and violent ones, the weather manages itself, the old relics of the Castle of the Royal Pony Sisters are creeping with bugs and traps from old age, and there are dangerous even fatal plants."
Trixie scoffed. "Oh grow up Sparkle. You're practically immortal now. I don 't think a flower could kill you even if it tried. Or if it could." She rolled her eyes at me. I don't even know if I am immortal or not. But, this is one theory I do not want to perform an experiment on. Well not yet at least.
Sonic looked at Tails and shrugged. Tails shrugged back. It was almost as if it wasn't a big deal at all. "Twilight, you've stayed on our world for a bit," The fox began.
"It was a couple of hours. Then we went into space." I reminded him.
"But, our world works just like that. We don't control the weather, animals can manage just fine on their own, and there are poisonous plants. Those are a few reasons as to why there is such a thing as environmental science."
Fluttershy and Pinkie jumped up and hugged Tails and Sonic respectively. "Oh, no wonder you came here. It must have been so scary. There's no more reason to be afraid. Because, you're safe here." Fluttershy began to sob as she hugged Tails even tighter. Tails struggled to breathe.
"Yeah. I bet it was that mean old Doctor Eggman's fault!" Pinkie said as she let go of Sonic. Sonic rolled his eyes.
"Well, in a way, yeah, it was his fault. He did crack open the planet and destroyed half of the moon. But, this is why we have the Apple family, or at least less than a single percentage of it to help us through the forest. Applejack told me their entire history and how they started Ponyville from scratch in the Everfree Forest."
"But that was a hundred and one years, one month, and twelve days ago!" I panicked. Sonic shook his head.
"We've been through this forest more than enough times, Twi." Rainbow said.
"I know. I know. I just didn't want to go in with all of the robots and the Deadly Six in our way. And, about a month ago, We had a pretty messed up time with these tentacles and Discord and trees. So, I'm sorry if I'm a bit jumpy right now. And I don't want the Apple family in this. This is our problem, not there's. And Applejack would kill me if anything happened to Apple Bloom." I said with a shake of my head.
Sonic looked back at Big Macintosh with a sheepish smile. "Sorry Big Red, looks like you aren't coming along. Hope you understand."
"Eeyup." He eagerly agreed with a huge grin. Something tells me, he didn't want to join us anyways. Apple Bloom probably did though. She had to be dragged backwards.
After my friends (Eggman had just been listening) had gotten control over themselves, we began to slowly step towards the forest. What was up with me? Even though we had been inside of there, a billion times or more, something still bothered me. Maybe it was because of the Deadly Six. They could be in there, ready to kill Sonic or me or any of us. As a princess of Equestria, I do NOT want to take that big a risk.
3rd Person P.O.V:
(Music Insert: Sonic Before the Sequel 2012 Edition: On the Hero's Trail - Star Shores Zone Act 2) or
(Music Insert: Party With Pinkie at Planet Wisp by KingSpartaX37) or
(Music Insert: Skrillex - Bangarang) or
(Music Insert: Michael Jackson - Speed Demon)
Sonic was the first to enter the forest, followed by Rainbow Dash and Tails, then the rest of the Mane Six, and lastly Trixie with the usage of Twilight's super speed spell. Spike, despite being on Rainbow Dash's back, and Trixie felt a bit uneasy at first, not used to this type of speed: speeds nearing the speed of sound, but they got over it after a few little trips flops, and we'll leave it at that. They ran fast enough to create colored trails of their own, dodging trees, rock structures, and bushes, following two fat rivers, one on each side of them (Pinkie and Sonic using their reflexes and Pinkie Sense to quick step out of the way). "This is what speed looks like!" Sonic shouted towards Rainbow Dash, his arms trailing behind him like usual. She sped up before changing her flight angle to go over a wall made of rocks of different types welded together.
"Looks like the Deadly Six aren't playing around anymore. Now that they don't have to hide their magic, they can use is at will; this is going to get a whole lot harder." Twilight concluded as she used her wings to go fly over the wall just as fast as Rainbow Dash.
"They're just rocks!" Sonic shouted back, scaling up the wall with Pinkie Pie.
The gang ran faster and faster, this time up a hill, leading them to a open roofed cave tunnel. When they exited, they jumped out of the next opening, exiting the tunnel. Due to the lens flare, no one noticed the huge waterfall rolling down from an even higher altitude. Happily, Sonic led his team down the waterfall, running down it as if it were a road. "Whoa. Awesome!" Tails shouted as he looked up at the beauty of it all. The green leaves of the trees were breathtaking to look at as they stretched for miles, and the sun high up in the sky shined off of the water that was followed the Everfree Forest and led out of it.
"Last one down to the bottom is a rotten Eggman!" Pinkie shouted before she jumped down.
"You're on! Cowabunga!" Sonic and Rainbow Dash shouted, following after the pink blur. Rainbow's descent speed increased, and a transparent cone appeared In front of her hooves as she bypassed Sonic. But, she had to change her direction and momentum just at its breaking point. However, Sonic broke the sound barrier easily on his way down, beating both Pinkie and Rainbow Dash. Sonic's speed rose up an enormous wave as the angle of the waterfall changed, splashing Rarity and Twilight.
"Blech. I hate getting wet." Rarity whined as she shook her head dry. Twilight also shook her head dry, but in a less whiny fashion.
Pinkie landed in the water due to her misjudging where she would land from her jump, and splashed Sonic, who had rose his left hand in defense. Looking at Pinkie with a mane as flat as Rainbow Dash's in the water gave him a chuckle. You don't see a hairstyle like that on Pinkie everyday! He stopped and turned around to help Pinkie out of the water as everyone else rushed past. When he did, Pinkie stuck her hoof into her mouth and blew. As if it was a balloon, the pink mare's mane hair poofed back into it's pink poofy self as if it never got wet, and she took off after her friends, with Sonic following after her.
The team ran through a clearing, using their full speed, to zig-zag along their way past bombs and spikes. Sonic flipped and vaulted over the countless spike tracks along the line, and used his spin dash and homing attacks to completely destroy Crabmeats and Buzzbombers. Nevertheless, they continued their trek, re-entering the forest. Sonic, Tails, Pinkie, and Rainbow Dash bounced from tree to tree, flipping and spinning through them whilst the rest of the group side stepped between the trees as they weren't as acrobatic. Sonic rolled himself into a ball through a fallen log with Tails and Pinkie spinning after him.
The trees had grown immensely and created walls that were parallel to each other. And, the forest did look more industrial. While there weren't that many robots, oil was slicked all over the ground. It looked completely different than from before. Although, it could have been the Deadly Six messing with the environment. Sonic and the gang jumped between walls, and ran down them just as they did with the waterfall. Bouncy vines bunched together allowed for them to progress, bouncing the non-fliers over bottomless pits and large tree stumps as if they were left there on purpose. Everyone sped up again as they approached a loop-de-loop, racing through that like it was nothing. "Up and over!" Sonic shouted as he rolled down the loop connected to a hill with a fairly large slope and Badnicks, accelerating faster and faster. As Sonic spun, he sliced through the bots, leaving bits and pieces of scrap signed by the Blue Blur all over.
"Nice footwork, Big Blue!" Pinkie shouted before she imitated Sonic, also spin dashing down the mountain.
From that spin dash, Sonic rose up a hand, giving his team a thumbs up. "I was built for speed!" He shouted. His descent began to slow down as the road flattened out. As he slowed down, everyone following sped up, this time staying close behind the show-off. Sonic and his friends bounced their way up the branches of two trees (minus Applejack, Rarity, Twilight Sparkle, Trixie, Spike, and Fluttershy) to reach a secret railing made out of metal for a monorail cart, reaching from the top of the trees to the bottom. Sonic, Tails, and Pinkie grinded their way down, while Rainbow Dash flew down due to her inability to grind on rails. "Amaaaaaaaazing!" Sonic shouted happily. It had been forever (two days) since he was able to use his full speed, and he was enjoying it. Canterlot was way too closed off for that. As he, Tails, Rainbow, and Pinkie flipped their way back onto the road to maintain momentum, Sonic looked back at Twilight, who had stayed on the ground, blasting away any ground robots. "I thought you said this place was spooky and dangerous. Right now, it looks like this place was built for me!" He shouted at her. Tails sped up in order to be next to Sonic, and picked him up to another vine rail sturdy enough to grind on. Pinkie was upset that Tails had forgotten about her, but luckily Rainbow was there to bring her up. Tails, Sonic and Pinkie grinded along the vine curving around a large chunk of the forest high enough to see Ponyville, which was miles away. Twilight noticed this, and teleported everyone with her Alicorn magic after the wild grinders to ensure that they wouldn't get lost.
When Sonic landed, his speed still didn't decrease. But everyone else's did. They took notice of what was on the road, unlike the hedgehog. He probably should have slowed down, though. "Whoa!" He shouted. He slammed through a saw blade cutting through the ground, dropping rings from his body and slowing down. Pinkie dodged the blade with the use of her Pinkie Sense, and quick stepped to the right and slid underneath a Buzzbomber. Tails vaulted over it. Sonic reached into his pack, and grabbed another ten rings, while also speeding back up to his original speed. "Rings! Omnomnomnom!" Sonic said jokingly in a manner that only Tails, quite possibly Pinkie, and you would understand.
Twilight rushed up to Sonic and lightly banged him on the head. "See. I told you." The Alicorn said matter-of-factly.
"Did Sonic just run through a saw blade like it was nothing at all?" Trixie asked.
"You really need to come with us more often. This is very normal. I mean, you used alien superpowers to try to eat the guy up!" Pinkie sighed. Trixie was just about to say something mean and unnerving, before a purple blast of energy interrupted her.
Twilight used her magic to blast away more and more debris, clearing up her path as well as the for rest of her friends, like she had done so for Trixie and Pinkie.
"Can't slow Sonic down!" Sonic shouted as he flipped into a finishing pose with one of his hands underneath his legs while doing the splits as his lower body was turned sideways and the other behind his back. (*3)
"Yeah! I did it!" Tails shouted as he gave Sonic a pair of thumbs up and also performed the splits.
"Aww yeah! This trip just got 2000% cooler!" Rainbow Dash shouted, trotting along the air currents.
"I think I threw up a bit back there." Spike shouted holding his stomach.
"The Great and Powerful Trixie is the fastest of them all!" Trixie shouted, also flipping in the air.
"Yeah! Pinkie Sense for the win!" Pinkie shouted, pumping her hooves into the air.
"This is only the beginning!" Twilight shouted before teleporting herself to safety.
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP! My hair!" Rarity shrieked, using her hooves to shield her wind blown mane style.
"Whoa, Nelly! That was insane!" Applejack shouted, holding onto her hat.
"That was so scary. I don't want to do that again." Fluttershy whimpered. Shielding her eyes And using her wings to end her momentum and float down safely.
"Hey! Watch out for that-" Twilight shouted out to the flying friends of hers.
Sonic the Hedgehog's P.O.V:
WHAM!
"Tree." Twilight sighed.
Everyone except for Eggman, Twilight, and Fluttershy smacked face first into a tall and thick tree. (*4) Everyone tumbled over each other (painfully of course), falling from branch to branch with grunts in pain. They all landed in a dog pile on the floor, in front of Twilight and Fluttershy. "Hey. This ground is so squishy and boingy. Boingy, boingy, boingy." Pinkie said bouncing up and down on that soft ground. And let me tell you to save you the suspense. That soft ground, was me.
"Get off of me, Pinkie! Get off of my face!" I shouted. But, since my face was right in between Pinkie's butt and the dirt, it was all muffled, and I sounded like I was chewing celery while talking at the same time.
"Oh! Opps! Sorry, Sonic. My bad." The fourteen year old mare raised her flank from off of my head, and knocked off everyone who was on top of her. When I raised my head up, I gave Pinkie a death stare that Luigi of the Super Mario Brothers would be proud of.
"Oh... That was awesome. Can we do it again?" Spike asked, rubbing his head.
From all of that running, Rarity was lucky enough to get a bunch of sticks, leaves, bird droppings, and everything else that could be found in nature, now in her hair. After all, she did crash into a tree. She looked in the water for less than a second, and with a scream loud enough to shake the sun, she was gone. "Rarity?" I called out, looking around the nearby area as to where she could be.
"In here," Rarity's voice called out from a random bush large enough to hide a Unicorn. I stepped closer to the bush before I was magically lifted off of the ground, and thrown at a rock. "MY HAIR! DON'T LOOK AT ME! NOPONY LOOK AT MEE-EE-EH!"
After I recovered from crashing into the rock, I zipped back to Rarity's bush. "Come on, Rarity. It can't be that bad. I mean, look at my hair, or Pinkie's hair." I said, pulling at a quill. Pinkie's hair swirled around like a cone of strawberry ice cream, and all of the leaves, rocks, and sticks reminded me of sprinkles.
"You're a hedgehog! You're hair is supposed to be all raggedy and spiked. And she's Pinkie Pie! Those are terrible examples. You're not helping your case!" I rolled my eyes. There was no use in trying to talk her out of that bush. Time to take action. I crouched down, and rolled faster and faster. Then, I took off for the bush rolling in all eight directions around it, shaving the bush of its leaves and branches, leaving only a Rarity. And boy was this Rarity a rarity. Her hair looked like she had just ran through the jungle. Nature did not treat her well. Oh yeah, she did. Trixie and Rainbow Dash laughed at her. Rarity's face turned bright red, and Twilight scolded the two cocky mares for laughing at their friend. Well, we can't stop now. Gotta find both the Deadly Six and our way through the forest.
3rd Person P.O.V:
The gang stopped in front of a straggler capsule. It was just out of the way. Tails wondered about this, and thought that this was weird. There have been no other capsules all day. "Something's not right." Using his handheld, he prepared a scan.
Sonic, on the other hand, didn't care about its location. He just wanted to open it. "Huh. Must've missed this one." He rushed towards the capsule and jumped into the air in order to open it via the big yellow button atop it.
"Sonic! It's a trap!" Tails shouted. He jumped into Sonic's way to save him, but was instead caught inside when it opened to reveal a trap.
"Tails! No!" Sonic screeched. He spin dashed towards the capsule, to save Tails, but before he could get there, it teleported away. When he stopped, Sonic became angry. He was angry enough to transform into the Incredible Hulk. "Oh, those rotten, sneaky, little—" He was on the verge of cursing out the Deadly Six for what had just occurred.
"Tails acted for the greater good. Let's make sure his sacrifice isn't for nothing," Eggman sighed. Fluttershy began to cry.
"I'm supposed to be the fastest, but my brain was too slow to save my buddy."
"I'll just head back to Ponyville." Eggman told Sonic, placing a comforting hand over his shoulder before walking back into the forest.
Sonic took off his wrist communicator, and tossed it to Applejack. "Hey, Big Mac, make sure that Eggman doesn't destroy the town He's headed back towards ya."
Sonic the Hedgehog's P.O.V:
(Music Insert: Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Justice for All: Steel Samurai - Reminiscence) or
(Music Insert: Shadow the Hedgehog: Never Turn Back (Piano Beginning))
How could I let this happen? I just sent my best friend into the clutches of the most insane evils of the world (minus Eggman) because of my idiocy. This is the second time that I have messed up big time on Equestria, and Tails was caught in the crossfire. We had just made up at Sugarcube Corner, somewhat. And now, I got him kidnapped. I hate my life sometimes.
"Sonic? Are you okay?" Twilight Sparkle asked. I wiped away my tears before turning around to face the six mares.
"No. I am not okay," I began to charge up my super peel out. Rainbow, Twilight's, and Fluttershy's wings fluttered a tiny bit, unnoticed by the average eye, as if they were raring to chase after me. Applejack's face turned even more serious as she stood up. Trixie stayed still. "Don't follow me!" I shouted coldly. Before anyone else could talk to me, I bolted away.
A few minutes later…
I had been running for quite some time now. Whenever I'm not feeling so hot, I run. With everything on my mind right now, I can run into the dead of night. So, I sped up. The trees and everything else surrounding me became a blur. It might have been my speed or it might have been my tears. I closed my teary eyes and kept running. Faster. And faster. And faster.
BOOM!
I broke the sound barrier. I could feel the cool, refreshing, and crisp wind rushing against my face. I began to hear deafening thunder. I opened my eyes and saw the dark clouds roam heavily over my head. It was just about to rain. I needed it to. I yearned for the cold rain to fall onto my face and wash my troubles away.
Without a single care in the world, I tested out my acrobatics. I quick stepped through trees and vaulted over rocks using my parkour skills. More thunder boomed and then, it rained. It wasn't just a rainy day. It was a storm. Lightning struck in front of and behind me. Heavier water poured onto my body. The extra water felt even better. This was perfect. Nothing to bother me. No Eggman, no robots, no Zeti, no Amy, and no ponies.
Zor's P.O.V:
I took a melancholic stroll around the Everfree Forest with a violet in my hand, hoping that I would meet Sonic. But, I didn't really care if I did or not. I dropped a soaked petal. "Sigh. Everything seems so pointless," I said. Then, I had heard footsteps. That could only be an animal of he forest. Ponies make clopping sounds.
Sonic stopped right in front of me. "Hey! What did you do with Tails?!" Sonic shouted. But, we had captured Sonic, didn't we?
"What? Seriously? We captured you."
"You wish! You kidnapped my friend, and I want him back!" Sonic was all in my personal space, poking my chest.
I turned around, and walked deeper into the forest. I didn't want to ruin my good mood by fighting him just yet. The day was looking perfect. Rain was pouring like crazy and Sonic was pretty upset. I could fight him later. "Man, this day keeps getting lamer and lamer. Whatever. I gotta go and tell the others the bad news. Giving bad news is actually the one thing that I enjoy. I'll deal with you later, loser!" I yelled back before scurrying away.
"Did he just call me a..." He started. I didn't hear the rest, because I was already gone. Oh well, I'll encounter him later. He's going to chase after me now that I called him a loser. Maybe all of the enemies and deathtraps will finish Sonic off, maybe they won't.
Sonic the Hedgehog's P.O.V:
(Music Insert: Monster by Skillet)
I spoke too soon. First, I had encountered another Zeti, (I mean it would have been okay, but then he called me a loser!) and now... "Sonic! Sonic! Sonic!" Rainbow Dash was calling after me. She was flying right behind me.
"Rainbow Dash?!" I thought that I had calmly requested that I didn't want anyone following me. Well, as calmly as a hedgehog who had just lost his best friend. I needed to be alone.
*Crash* Rainbow Dash crashed into me from behind, and we both rolled to a halt along the muddy ground. She was lying on top of me after we had stopped, but neither she nor I cared. She was hyperventilating like crazy, and her eyes kept moving left and right. And she was currently perspiring in fear. Trust me, I know. "Sonic! I know I wasn't supposed to follow you, but this is important!"
"What is it now?" I asked annoyed.
"Everypony was looking for you, before something terrible happened and everyone walked off!"
"What was the terrible thing?"
Rainbow Dash took a deep breath. "After you left, Fluttershy wouldn't stop crying. It was too much for Tails to get kidnapped and for you to run off crying. We did everything we could to get her to stop crying. Well, Pinkie did. And when nothing worked, Pinkie became upset because Fluttershy wouldn't stop crying. Her mane became flat and she and Fluttershy started yelling. Then, Pinkie slapped Fluttershy and ran off. Fluttershy started crying even more, and Twilight then had enough. She got annoyed and used her magic to manipulate Fluttershy to stop crying. But that didn't work exactly. Fluttershy stopped crying, but Twilight turned her into a bat because of this spell that she still hasn't mastered it completely yet. Again," Thunder boomed.
"Again?!"
"Fluttershy started hissing bad things about Twilight, and then she chased her away. Oh, and when a bunch of robots ambushed us from under the ground and from in the trees; other than me destroying like every single one, a large spider looking one knocked Rarity upside the head and now Rarity had fallen unconscious! She was doing fine up until a few minutes ago. Now she's twitching and sweating and talking in her sleep. It was like she had hay fever!"
"What!?"
Rainbow Dash's P.O.V:
(Music Insert: Sonic Before the Sequel: Evening Dreamscape Part 1... for Sunset Star, Act 1)
Sonic and I rushed through the forest, navigating our way through the thundering rain back to the unaffected ponies and dragon: Applejack, who was somewhat smart enough to keep everypony put underneath a tree. Not smarter than me of course. "Applejack! Where's Rarity? Applejack?" I shouted before I saw Applejack. She was silent, and was staring at something in the sky, her hat lowered from off of her head. "Applejack, what are-" I too saw it. It couldn't be. Rarity, no. NO!
"What's that in the moon? Seems kinda weird. But, then again, everything in Equestria is weird." Sonic asked. He expected for at least Applejack to turn towards him. But, she didn't. Applejack just gulped.
"That is Rarity." Applejack answered.
3rd Person P.O.V:
(Music Continue: Sonic Before the Sequel: Evening Dreamscape Part 1... for Sunset Star, Act 1)
Sonic, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Spike, and Trixie stared at the sky. A booming laughter filled the skies and winds picked up speed and the rain fell even harder. "What do you mean that's Rarity?" Sonic yelled. He raised his hand over his eyes to shield them from upcoming dust and rain blowing in the wind. "Seeing the moon like that is a rarity, but if that is Rarity, then she is in fact a rarity."
"This happened before. We need to help her!" Spike shouted back.
Sonic prepared to fight. Applejack lowered Sonic's arms from his fighting stance. "No! We need to... um... how did we do this last time?" She asked.
Spike thought hard for a minute. "I can't remember either," He opened his eyes in shock. "I can't remember either! She must've become even more powerful and gained even more of Nightmare Moon's powers since this is the second time that this has happened and we're right next to the Old Royal Castle!" The laughter from the sky got louder.
Sonic nabbed Applejack and Trixie and placed them at his sides. "Well, we can't stay here! We have to go now!" He charged up a super peel out, and ran full speed ahead. Rainbow Dash grabbed Spike by the claws, flipped him onto her back, and followed suit.
Applejack's P.O.V:
(Music Insert: Sonic Colours - Planet Wisp Act 3 (Night Mix) by The Super Subway Bros.)
Sonic hightailed it out of there faster than a fish out of water trying to survive on the hottest day in summer. He tried to run away from the moon, but everypony knows that that is not possible, even me. I know I sound foalish for saying this, but I wish my big brother, Big Mac was still here. Heck, I would even settle for Apple Bloom. She's been through the Everfree Forest so many times, that she knows every nook and cranny of it between the entrance closest to Ponyville and Zecora's hut halfway through the forest. That's it! Zecora! She can help us. She's got to have a bombing potion or something! But, I have absolutely no idea where the heck we are. Neither does Sonic. Or Trixie. Or Spike. Or Rainbow Dash.
We had traveled far from the entrance. If I could guess, we were near the Tree of Harmony; possibly a bit past it. We weren't really on the path anymore, so I was stumped. The darkness had made it nearly impossible to see. Luckily for us, Trixie was able to use her magic to light up the place. But it was pretty much useless because her horn kept turning on and off. "Sonic! Trixie cannot focus with you bouncing Trixie up and down like a bouncy house. Stop this instant!" Trixie shouted. I couldn't help but laugh when Sonic sped up. After all, I never truly forgave her the way Twilight did. She did hogtie me up like a pig, and she sent us into space! Although, that was as Rainbow would say: "Awesomely hilarious".
Sonic lifted me behind his back and told me to grab a flashlight from out of his bag. I searched around for a bit, but luckily I found it smushed harder than a pony stuck between a rock and a hard place. It was in between a monitor thingy and Sonic's spines. I turned it on and placed it in my mouth. No matter what the speed was that we were going, I was able to hold it steady, unlike Trixie.
Now that we had some light, I could see that I was correct. There were holes in the ground and trees from the fight with the plunder vines that were left by Discord over a thousand years ago. We were near the Tree of Harmony. Unless this was where Twilight got her flank handed to her by not listening to me. Then we're not too far from Zecora's. Ugh, my brain hurts.
My train of thought had gratefully crashed when Sonic jerked from side to side, barely dodging bullets from robots flying over us. Suddenly, more flying robots appeared behind us, holding some things, but it was too dark to clearly see. Then, metallic pigs were dropped down from the robots and crashed into the ground, breaking it away. Luckily Sonic was fast. The robots began to drop those things that they were carrying. As they got closer, I shone the flashlight above us, and pointed out, and I'm serious about this, enormous metallic pigs. Sonic and (I actually forgot about) Rainbow Dash sped up before the pigs crashed into the ground, breaking it away.
After the pigs had all fallen down, somewhere beneath the planet, Rainbow and Spike took to the skies, blasting away the robots overhead with Spike's fire and Rainbow Dash's speed and agility.
Spike and RD were lucky enough to be in the sky. There was a huge swamp in front of us. And since neither Sonic or Trixie couldn't swim; and I wasn't gonna carry everypony, we were kind of stuck. Trixie then used her magic to make bridges out of trees and vines. The trees bent over and the vines extended until a divider was placed in the middle of the swamp, allowing for us to cross. But trees kept bending over and vines kept extending until they were strong and high enough to cover up the entire ground. From these trees drooping over us, unusually large acorns and fruits dropped along our path, rolling this way and that. Sonic and I were able to kick them away or hard enough to break them into pieces, which cut our momentum from time to time And got us covered in juice. Luckily it was raining, so that juice pretty much washed off immediately due to the intensity of the storm. Speaking of weather, it was a mystery as to why we hadn't heard from Rainbow yet.
As the rain poured on and the ground became muddy, it was getting harder to travel. Sonic had to put both Trixie and I down before we could keep moving. It still pretty hard to move or even see. Fog had begun to roll in and the wind pushed the rain into our eyes. Sonic slowed down so that we could keep up with him. But Trixie would not stop complaining about the mud. "Mud is in my eye!" "Sonic, I tripped on a log!" "Where's my hat!" "Please carry me again!" It was like this for a few minutes. I had even noticed that Trixie had stopped speaking in third person. I suppose she was just too upset to give it any thought. Granny Smith used to say that a little dirt wouldn't hurt a strong pony. I guess neither Rarity or Trixie are really strong.
After Trixie had fallen into the mud for the umpteenth time, and Sonic and I had stopped to pick her up for the umpteenth time, lightning flashed. When it did, we could clearly see eyes glowing in the shadows. When the creatures noticed us noticing them, they growled. We could hear them step closer. Trixie cowered behind Sonic as he and I got into a fighting stance. Now, I ain't gonna lie, I was ready to hightail it back home. Now, loyalty ain't my strong suit, but I couldn't just leave my friend and Trixie to get mauled by some ferocious beast. Sonic began to kick and spin his way through enemies. I bucked them out of my way. Trixie randomly fired off magic blasts into the forest. Sonic quickly got out of his fighting stance, and looked at the sky. That creature in the moon was gone. And a silhouette of a pony with a knight on its back was in front of it. In a flash, the pony flew down and attacked each of the leftover monsters. They each ran off whimpering. I was curious as to who that pony was. The moon' slight shone down on the knight, and revealed the pony's identity. It was just Rainbow Dash and Spike.
"Thanks, RD. Although, we could have handled that. We were already doin' a pretty good job." I said.
Rainbow rolled her eyes. "Right. Because a pony with a face like this," Rainbow gave us her best scared pony face, which looked more like she was having a hard time swallowing a spork than she would be frightened. "Totally could handle monsters from out of the Everfree Forest."
Flutterbat 's P.O.V:
(Music Insert: Sonic Unleashed: Chun-Nan - Dragon Road Night)
I licked my lips as I watched those five wanderers wander hopelessly through the forest. They were going to be good enough to eat on a plate of fine china. I curled up a smile and slowly lowered myself from the tree, and started flying. Ever since the princess and that tiny bat that flew behind me bitched up this spell again, I've never felt happier. I loved this form of mine. It absolutely sucked that. I couldn't transform into this form at will. If I could, Ponyville would be like putty in my hooves. I already sent an Alicorn packing. She tasted delicious.
I followed that team deeper into the forest, hiding in the shadows from time to time whenever Sonic or Trixie or Spike would turn around with a light source. Flapping wings aren't exactly the quietest things in Equestria. I would fly into a tree branch and hang from it by my tail or run behind a bush.
As those fools walked through the forest, giant owls sat on trees and rocks, their eyes following the children creepily. Of course, Rainbow Dash made bad jokes about being scared. But really, she should be scared of me. I decided to stalk them for a bit, and then bounce on them and suck their blood... If that was okay with them.
I watched the ponies, dragon, and hedgehog from the shadows, patiently waiting for the perfect moment to strike.
3rd Person P.O.V:
(Music Insert: Sonic Lost World: Silent Forest Zone 2)
Sonic took Applejack's suggestion into consideration as bags swooped over their heads and owls peeked at them or stared at them with their enormous eyes. It was kinda creepy, even for Sonic. And he's met Eggman. Anyways, as they ran, an giant flash of light shone throughout the forest, sizzling the eyes of everyone since they had gotten used to the dark. Bats swooped down, including Flutterbat, in an attempt to catch Sonic. Everyone dropped to the ground as the bats flew, and crawled until they reached a group hid behind said bush hid us from the light. The bats flew away. "We need to avoid that light. We don't know what it is, nor do we know who's in control," Sonic directed. "And plus, I thought I saw Fluttershy,"
"So, we need to stay stealthy? Got it." Rainbow Dash asked. Sonic nodded.
"That means no talking, Trixie." Sonic ordered. Trixie looked shocked. But even she knew that Sonic was right.
Everyone took to the trees, jumping from branch to branch. The sounds of leaves rustling and branches creaking was still loud enough for the lights to follow is. But thankfully, the leaves were a good spot of hiding. Sonic, being the fastest and most agile, was able to flip, and vault his way through the tree tops with, his friends close behind. But, when he nearly stepped on a family of bats in a tree, he managed to lose his footing due to shock. The bats flew after Sonic, and chased him around.
Sonic ran up the nearest tree, and jumped from branch to branch, swung on and flipped around them. Sonic jumped high into the air, right below the tree's timberline, and back flipped out of the way and homing dashed in the opposite direction at the last second. The bats weren't nearly that agile, and crashed into the nearby branches. The skinny and loose branches sent the bats flying away in the opposite direction.
The light shone back down on Sonic, blinding him. He covered his eyes, and felt a pair of hooves pick him up from his shoulders. He thought it was Rainbow Dash. "Thanks, RD," Sonic exasperated.
"Hey! Drop him! Don't make me come up there!" Rainbow Dash shouted. Sonic looked down, and faintly saw Rainbow Dash's rainbow colored hair down on ground level, along with Trixie, Applejack, and Spike. Confused, Sonic looked up, and staring him in the face, was a fierce-looking Fluttershy. Her teeth had enlarged and her eyes turned red instead of baby blue, and she was a bit furrier around the ears.
"It's all right guys! It's just Fluttershy!" Sonic yelled. Rainbow shook her head, and flew upwards. "Rainbow! What are you doing?" The mare flew around Flutterbat, veering her off course, as she swung Sonic around like a rag doll. Soon, from all the shaking, she dropped him. Both Flutterbat and Rainbow Dash clashed together multiple times as they nose dived after the falling hedgehog. Rainbow closed her wings and placed her hooves in front of her as she, not flew, but fell. She felt herself speed up, and the batmare was trailing behind. Sonic grabbed Rainbow Dash's hooves, and hugged the mare closely as they both fell. "Uhhhh... Dash?" Sonic asked. Rainbow laid there silent, worrying Sonic, before her wings extended erect, and she glided through the air at a low elevation until she safely landed next to Applejack, Spike, and Trixie.
"That's how you save a life." And at that, it was confirmed that Flutterbat was an antagonist once again.
Apple Bloom's P.O.V:
(Music Insert: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic - A True, True Friend Instrumental)
Aww man. Big Macintosh brought me back home after we were told to by Princess Twilight. It was pretty late when we got back to Sweet Apple Acres, and I was put to bed. Well, as soon as I fixed this mess of a hairstyle that Big Macintosh had created. Tomorrow, I was going to sneak out and look for Scootaloo. She had to be south of Ponyville, so that was the general direction I was going to head in. I was just about to set to work before I heard rapid taps at my window. "It's probably nothing," I ignored it. It was raining outside, and pretty windy. I thought it was the rain blowing against it. One more tap came at my window, and it cracked. Now, I opened my window. "Who's out there?" I shouted. I looked down and saw a grey hooded filly with a small pile of pebbles on her left. And there is only one filly that I know who is left hoofed and would come to my house at 10:00 at night: Sweetie Belle.
The hood of the sweater grew lime green, and dropped down over her small backpack, even though it was raining. It was still Sweetie Belle. The smirk on her face spelled out determination, and kinda fit the whole wet mane look she was sporting. "It's me! Now keep your voice down. Your brother and grandma are already asleep. Now come on. We need to find Scootaloo. And we should start with the Everfree Forest. I know it's a stretch, but-"
Suddenly, I was downstairs and outside back in my red hooded sweater. I didn't care about my mane anymore. "I know. And, I want in."
We both ran off towards the forest in hopes of finding Scootaloo. We knew it was a bit of a stretch, but-
"How'd you get downstairs so quickly? Are you an embodiment of Pinkie? I knew you could be cousins, but dang." Sweetie Belle asked.
I simply face hoofed. I didn't even know what "embodiment" meant. Sweetie Belle could be such a dictionary sometimes.
Applejack's P.O.V:
We decided to split up into groups of two again in order to avoid that nasty owl robot thing. Rainbow could pose as Sonic because of the speed similarities. Then, in about twenty minutes, we would meet up at the Tree of Harmony. Spike and Rainbow Dash rushed deeper into the forest and Sonic, Trixie, and I went in the opposite direction. Let me just tell you that being on Sonic's team outright sucks when he's the main target. Sure, sometimes the owl would turn towards Rainbow Dash, but those robots could clearly see Sonic with their gosh darned night vision. We were bombarded every once in a while by robotic pigs, and I hated it.
Although, those aliens from earlier in the desert and in space really came in handy. A few of them appeared - different from before - and Sonic absorbed those pink things,from space I believe, spinning into a pink spiky ball, and rolling through the robots as I watched. At first, the robots just stood still in one piece. Then, Sonic returned back to his original form, and snapped. As he did, the robots dropped to the ground. sliding apart in three pieces. "Boom." He said.
Trixie and I hopped into one of his arms each, before he blasted away through the forest. Sonic climbed up a tree, and then jumped from that one to another. It was amazing how anypony could even see through all that darkness, wind, and overly-excessive motion. It made my head spin. Sonic's been doing that to a lot of us lately.
By the time we stopped, we were at a large creek. Sonic pondered on what to do, as he couldn't swim at all. Suddenly, a light bulb went off in his head. He leaned into a running stance, and his feet began to whir until they became a blur the same color as his sneakers. Then, he took off, running on top of the water. Trixie quivered as the water splashed her. I took it she was also afraid of water. Or, at least I hoped that that was the case. We turned left, and even when we arrived back on land, Sonic didn't stop. He side stepped between the trees until we reached a clearing. In the middle of that clearing was a giant robot designed to look like an owl. Strange.
3rd Person P.O.V:
(Music Insert: Sonic Lost World: Theme of the Deadly Six)
Sonic, Trixie, and Applejack stopped to a halt in front of the giant robotic owl. That same owl that was using its headlights to burn Sonic's eyes and alert all of those bats of his location. Zor, who was the one in control as he stood on top, ran his free hand through his hair, and with his other hand, he threw away his purple rose. "I suppose we were destined to fight one way or another." He sighed.
Trixie and Applejack hopped out of Sonic's grasps. Sonic cracked his neck. "Finally, a way to lose all of this tension." He said happily as he rolled his shoulders.
Zor started up his owl, and the machine took flight. The owl opened its eyelids, revealing two bombs lodged in the eye sockets. The sockets exploded in a flash of yellow sending two identical round missiles towards Sonic and his team. Quickly, in order to protect his friends, Sonic ran around in a circle, creating a whirlwind around the ponies. As the missiles came closer, they were sucked into the whirlwind's orbit, and flew around the ponies along with Sonic. After a few seconds, Sonic skidded his feet to a halt, ending the windy orbit, and sending the missiles back in the opposite direction towards Zor! On contact, the robo-owl shut down and crashed into the ground with Zor along with it. Sonic quickly and relentlessly homing attacked Zor while Applejack bucked his back and Trixie used magical tricks as attacks.
Quickly, Zor jumped back onto his owl, and got it flying again. He hid his robot in the darkness, camouflaging with the backgrounds. Sonic looked towards Trixie. "Can you find him?"
"Of course Trixie can," Trixie said, with a flick of her horn, the entire room flashed magenta, and a large owl shape was stuck perched on a tree. "There!" Sonic charged a spin dash, and Trixie rose a small ramp, towards Zor. The hedgehog rolled over it, and flew into the air, striking Zor off of the robot with his attack. As the two fell, Sonic homing attack Zor once, sending him down to the ground.
Quickly, he rose back up to his owl, and prepared to fire missiles out of the eyes, nose, mouth, and armpits. "Aw man. Overkill much?" Sonic asked as the projectiles were fired towards him simultaneously with an extremely loud *Bang!*. "We can go overkill too." He looked to Applejack. She nodded and moved behind the hedgehog. Sonic looked at Trixie. She also nodded, and coated Sonic in an aura identical to that of her horn's. Sonic charged a spin dash near the ramp. When she was good and ready, Applejack kicked Snic up the ramp with the same amount of force as she would kick the apples off of 'Ole' Reliable' back at Sweet Apple Acres.
Sonic flew through the air, slicing through the missiles without even a scratch or a quill out of place, and Zor was panicking. He stared to sweat bullets as Sonic came into contact with his machine. The little hedgehog cut a large hole through the guts of the owl, and traveled through the mainframe to do even more damage. The owl began to implode and cut off from power, falling down to the ground, with its owner as well.
Zor dropped to the ground as well as his machine. The melancholy zeti dropped down right in front of Applejack and Trixie. The looks on their faces proved the extent of their ambition to beat poor Zor up. Sonic flipped down in between the two ponies, with a similar facial expression. Desperate, Zor looked for a way of escape by any means necessary. "Hey, Zavok! The Hedgehog is right here!" He shouted in a monotone. The heroes looked behind them, before noticing that they were just fooled by Zor. They quickly turned their heads back to notice that Zor was gone!
"He's gone! I can't believe we just fell for that!" Sonic complained as he kicked a rock into the darkness. "He couldn't have gotten that far! If we hurry, we can still catch him." Sonic prepared himself to run off, and was going to if Applejack didn't bite his neckerchief, leaving him running in place before she pulled him down to the ground.
"I don't know how sleep works or doesn't work, but when it gets dark here in Equestria, most ponies like to go to sleep. Isn't that a better idea?" Applejack suggested. Trixie feverishly nodded her head. "How about you?"
Sonic rolled his eyes before he unintentionally yawned. He succumbed to Applejack's suggestion and slowly nodded his head. "I felt bad for the guy anyways, I'll let him off easy. This time."
"Good. Let's go find Rainbow and Spike." Applejack gave the final word before the three walked into the dark forest.
Scootaloo's P. O.V:
I never stopped running. I can't even remember what it means to stop. I remember running away. I remembered fighting with Rainbow Dash. I regretted all of it. Since I was alone, I had a lot of time to think. I realized that Rainbow wasn't insulting me. I was just so sensitive about my wings, that I couldn't 'to take it anymore. I had to get away from it all between. Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon's taunting and ponies trying to 'help' me when it was pointless, just brought back too many memories of that fateful day. The day I learned about my condition.
Anyways, I ran from Appleoosa a few days ago, and ran up north for nearly a full day. I traveled to Dodge Junction, where I took a rest. My hooves were killing me. And then I stowed away on a train for like twenty minutes until Ghastly Gorge. I had been running for a while now. Two and a half days later, I was in the southern end of the Everfree Forest. It was late at night, and it began to rain cats and dogs.
I knew that. I was close to home. I could go there. I could be reunited with my fellow crusaders. I could make up with Rainbow Dash. So many wrongs. I could make right. But I was completely terrified. Worst case scenario, I could be un-taken from under Rainbow Dash's wing. I could be kicked out of the Cutie Mark Crusaders.
I was beginning to sound like that egghead, Princess Twilight back during that Want It - Need It incident. I do NOT need to be reminded of that.
Oh, and before I go...I'm just gonna wing this. Hehe. "Wing". I made a Pegasus joke.
Sweetie Belle's P.O.V:
(Music Insert: Sonic the Hedgehog (Game Gear) Jungle Zone)
Apple Bloom and I ran through the forest, and even though it was insanely dark and wet, we ran at full speed, simply because we were scared. I didn't want to be here late at night, but, in order to get down south, we would have to try to at least make it halfway through the Everfree Forest. That's still south, right. The desert was down south after all, and that was where we last saw Scootaloo. It was pretty difficult. Our flashlight was bobbing back and forth, the map was getting soaked, the mud was getting thicker, and my horn was beginning to hurt from holding that umbrella up for five minutes.
"HOLY CRAP!" Apple Bloom shouted. She jumped from out of the mud, and into my hooves. "ALLIGATOR!" She screeched into my ear. Just as she screamed that, an enormous alligator/lion mash-up jumped from out of the mud, and six feet into the air. At that, my head just *BANG*...*BANG*...
Sorry about that. What I was going to say was, my head exploded twice. Then, me and Apple Bloom screamed as loud as we could, and high tailed it out of there, probably faster than Sonic as we were running on top of the mud. We, and by we, I meant I, kept running until I smashed my face into a tree, with my head poking right out of the opposite side. Apple Bloom, however, was perfectly fine. "Uhh... Sweetie Belle. We have a problem," I pulled my head from out of the tree to see what Apple Bloom meant, and looked up. Giant robotic spiders were crawling down large webs from trees. We both ran as fast as we could out of their circle surrounding us, and took off in any old direction. Apple Bloom tripped on a flower, and I got trapped onto her jacket, sliding down with her into the flower. The flower squatted down, and spat us out in the direction of the robots. Quickly, I used my magic to cover us into a shield before we bounced through the robots at high speeds, combusting them each up as we collided, and gaining 100 points for each hit. We flew through the air at extremely high speeds, and before landing on the ground, dismissing the spell, making Apple Bloom fall into the dirt as I, like my cat, landed on my feet. I laughed at her, and rolled along the ground. She pulled her head out, and shook dirt from inside of her ears. Then, she glared at me. "Fudge you, twerp." Since I was laughing, Apple Bloom just had to join in on the laughing.
As we laughed and walked, a burst of wind and an orange blur past us, headed in the opposite direction. "What was that?" I asked my friend.
"Sweetie Belle! I can't believe it!" Somepony shouted... Scootaloo?
I was immediately tackled, and rolled with Scootaloo. "Oh my Celestia! It's you! I thought it was just another hallucination!" She screeched, tears swelling into her eyes. She hugged, kissed, and did any other form of affection, forgetting about being cool, before Apple Bloom tapped her shoulder. "And Apple Bloom too! I love you guys!" The Pegasus was full out out bawling, and honestly, so were we. We rolled around until we hit a tree, and were suddenly thrust upwards in a giant net. As the Cutie Mark Crusaders fidgeted around for comfortability, a red Zeti walked towards us.
We recognized him almost instantly. "Hey! You're that dude from the betrayal towards Egghead back in Appleoosa. You've got a lot of nerve showing your face around us, the Cutie Mark Crusaders!" Apple Bloom growled angrilly.
Zavok, however kept his composure. He kept a straight face and instead laughed. "You're not that infernal hedgehog, but you'll do well along with my other captive." He sighed, before simultaneously whacking us in the heads with a baseball bat.
Apple Bloom dropped first. Scootaloo and I struggled to hang on to consciousness. "Happy... reunion? Right... guys?" Scootaloo jokingly asked before she too fell unconscious. I was last.
3rd Person P.O.V:
Zazz and Zeena floated down with a giant animal capsule. They set it down behind Zavok, who was busy preparing for the construction of more robots. Zazz pressed the giant, bright yellow button atop of the capsule, opening its outer shell and revealing the captive, who was supposed to be Sonic the Hedgehog. "Now, Sonic. It is time for your," Zavok was going to continue his sentence, if not for the arrogance of an idiotic glutten named Zomom.
"Duh, how come he's not blue?"
Shocked, Zavok quickly pivoted, and stared at the abomination that is Miles "Tails" Prower, who was laying on the capsule floor comfortably. Enraged, he began to shout. "You incompetent fools! I cannot entrust you with even the simplest of tasks," He paused, and took a deep breath in order to calm himself. "No matter. We can still work with this. The other captives will enjoy his company." Tails began to rap his fingers along his knee.
Just then, Zor burst through the door, panting and sweating. "Somebody... messed up... royally," He took a break for a deep inhale. "Because we don't have Sonic!" He managed to saw all at once. Everyone stared at him. "What?"
Zeena and Master Zik moved to the side, revealing their cunning captive. "We know!" Tails saluted the violet haired zeti.
Princess Twilight Sparkle's P.O.V:
(Music Insert: Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney ~ Suspense)
Ugh... my head... who turned out the lights?
Oh, yeah. That's right. I was kidnapped. Who knew that the saddest Zeti were also the quietest. And, there's dried blood all over me. I can feel to shallow holes in my neck. Was I bitten? Of course I was. It was Fluttershy. And I well deserved it. After all, it was me that turned her into a bat.
Now, I'm in some tiny room, secluded off from the outside world. I'm chained up to the wall, so I can't move and I have a magical brace on my horn, so no magic. So, this was how Discord felt inside of that stone prison. Oh the irony. Thank goodness he wasn't here to see this. He wouldn't let this go for the next thousand years. Maybe more.
I simply sighed. As I hung out in the room, I could hear voices. It was a bit hard to hear, so I stayed quiet in case they moved towards here. Luckilly they did. "Stop your whining this instant!" I recognized that voice as Zavok's.
There was another one. A young mare's. "I'm not whining. I'm simply complaining. Do you want me to show you whining?" Oh no! They caught Rarity! And she was giving them one of her facades. Nice one, Rare. Wait. That's not Rarity. Rarity is not that squeaky. Even when she's whining- I mean complaining. "This is whining! The harness is way too tight on my poor hooves! It's going to chafe! Can't you loosen it? I've been walking forEVER! Can't you carry me? And they're way too black and slightly rusted. Didn't you think of cleaning it or coloring it pink? That is whining. Learn the difference. My sister Rarity can teach you once she gets finished kicking your teams butt with her team." Sweet Celelstia, squeaky filly! That was awesome!
Even inside of the room behind a door, I could hear Zavok's muscles tense up. "Why you little smart ass! Get into the room. And stop whining! Now!" Zavok just cussed at a ten year old. You can't cuss at a ten year old! Does he have an morales whatsoever? Oh right. He's the bad guy.
The door opened up, and the white light stung my eyes like a magically powered spin dash to the face. The Cutie Mark Crusaders, including Scootaloo, were pushed inside. "But, I thought you wanted whining!" Before the door closed, Sweetie Belle yelled out again, "Hey! You can't call me an "ass"! I'm telling my sister on you!" Hey yourself, kid. You can't call the bad guy an "ass" either.
The door shut again, and darkness crept inside at supersonic speeds. "What are you in for?" I heard Scootaloo joke terribly.
"Not funny, Scootaloo. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to play my harmonica." Sweetie Belle joked terribly as well. Then, she took a deep breath, and the sounds of a harmonica being terribly played were brought to my ears. Oh, how I wished I could have my hooves free so I could cover my ears.
Apple Bloom was the only silent one. My eyes had adjusted to the dark, so I saw her bow's silhouette. She leaned back onto the wall, or at least, that was the idea in her mind. She crashed into my gut instead. "Ouch. My stomach!" I cried.
"Oh! Princess Twilight! Sorry there... Hey! Twilight! You're okay!" Apple Bloom perked up, but kept her voice to a low whisper.
"More or less. Scootaloo! You're back! Glad to finally see you...r silhouette," I smiled, even though no once could see it. "Anyways, I messed up. Half of our friends are bad guys now,"
"Sonic can handle it, right? And plus, Rainbow Dash and Applejack, the toughest ponies in Ponyville, are with him." Apple Bloom said.
"I hope so. Because it's partially my fault."
Spike the Dragon's P.O.V:
(Music Insert: Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood - Green Hill Zone)
After Sonic and Applejack had defeated Zor last night and we all had gotten a good night's rest, we immediately went back to searching for our friends. Without Twilight and her super speed spell, Sonic put Applejack on his back and kept Trixie in his arms as I sat on Rainbow Dash's back. Sonic and RD trekked through the Everfree Forest only stopping when three of us (Trixie, Applejack, and me) had to occasionally pee. And after that it was smooth sailing. We were able to travel through the forest without any problems. After all it was still kind of early in the morning. Even carnivorous animals from the Everfree Forest liked to sleep in at some point. And the only robots that we had ever encountered were these robots that hide in the ground with tops that look like mushrooms sticking out. But those we're easy to handle. A little kick would send them flying all the way to the Crystal Empire and back.
Anyways, during Trixie's third potty break, she shouted, "Sonic! Come here! You have to see this!"
"Sorry Trixie. I would love to watch you pee as much as the next guy, but-"
"Eeew! No! Just look at the sky!" She interjected before he could continue embarrassing her.
We all looked up at the... ECLIPSE!? But, there hasn't been an eclipse for a thousand years! That's not possible! Only Luna or... Rarity could do something like this. I should have known Rarity would do something like this.
"Whoa. An eclipse. I haven't seen one for a long time. I wonder what an eclipse does in Equestria?" Sonic asked.
Trixie stood onto her hind legs. "The stars will align causing tsunamis will drown cities, Cloudsdale will fall from the sky, gravity will alter, earthquakes will shatter the continent, volcanoes will erupt, and lightning will set things ablaze. Muwahahaha!" Trixie laughed.
"Oh. That's it? That's like a regular ole' Tuesday for me. The way you started in such a dramatic voice had me thinking that something bad was going to happen." Sonic said nonchalantly. Trixie was flabbergasted as she kept stuttering incoherently. I, for one, hoped that he was joking. Otherwise, we're looking at a ghost who had died due to a billion natural disasters happening in a single day. If he's telling the truth and is perfectly alive and well, then this hedgehog is somehow Princess Celestia and Princess Luna's father.
Applejack and Rainbow Dash looked around. Rainbow was pretty high up in the treetops while Applejack looked below the timberline. "Hey!" Applejack shouted. "I found a hut! It looks like Zecora's!" She exclaimed. After closer inspection, by squinting her eyes really hard, she noticed that, "Hey! That IS Zecora's hut!"
"Who or what's a Zecora?" Sonic and Trixie asked us.
"You'll find out. She helped Twilight defeat you." I informed her.
"That's encouraging." Trixie sighed. I lightly laughed. I remembered the story of how Twilight beat Trixie in space because of that super speed potion and now spell.
Sonic the Hedgehog's P.O.V:
(Music Insert: Sonic Adventure(DX): Mystic Ruins)
Applejack, Spike, and Rainbow Dash guided us through the forest for a hot minute. Then, we stopped in front of a tree. However, this was no ordinary tree. In this tree was a hut of some sorts. Applejack led us up to the porch, and she knocked on the door. Nothing happened. She knocked again, but the door slowly creaked open.
As soon as the door even cracked open, I was able to small the insides. The smells were like someone took every single bottle of Febreeze, Renuzit, and Glade, and mixed them into one single air-freshener. Surprisingly, it was pretty relaxing. As the doors opened further, I took a peek inside of the house. It looked like it was stolen from Mazuri with a bit of the Princess and the Frog, and some Madagascar thrown in there. Along the walls, pelts and masks were hanging. On the floor was a large bear skin, hopefully fake. There were also shelves around the room, taking up about ninety percent of the space. On each shelf was a potion and a spice of a different kind than what I've encountered. The exotic plants and herbs were astounding. I kinda wanted to make my own potion. But, alas, that is too much work and too sciency.
Better yet, I was so tempted to just drink a potion or eat a spice over a chili-dog, just to see its effects. How awesome would THAT be? Unfortunately, just as I was about to see what this small bottle filled with a purple liquid, but turned white when shaken would do, my other arm was grabbed by a hoof, and pulled backwards to the ground. "Well, hello to you too. You know, it is very wrong to intrude." Honestly, I was kinda spooked. This character was in a hood, covering her face, with an African accent, and a creepy knack for rhyming.
Applejack stepped up before this pony could bring me down. "We're sorry about that Zecora. We were just looking for you." So, this was Zecora. A bit shady, wouldn't you say?
"What's up? I'm Sonic. Sonic the Hedgehog." I greeted, sticking out my hand. At first, Zecora simply studied me. Then, she cleared her throat and removed her hood. I didn't realize that she was a zebra.
"I already know of you, strange hedgehog of blue," She said, rhyming again. She grabbed a blue spice, and threw it into the pot. It exploded, and images of me from my time on Dr. Eggman's Amazing Interstellar Amusement Park, and a small bit of my time on Equestria; in Ponyville flew into the air. I was amazed. "And you too, Miss Lulamoon." She grabbed a indigo spice, and tossed that into the batch. The Unicorn's little tantrum on Asteroid Coaster was shown along with some little snippets of her time in Ponyville. Trixie turned her head away in a huff, her cheeks flushed red in embarrassment at those memories.
Despite only knowing this zebra for a few seconds while she knew me for a hundred years, I trusted her. She was a good friend of the girls and according to Spike, she indirectly helped us in space by introducing Twilight to that speed spell. "What do you know, Zecora? We could use your help." Applejack asked. A hoof was put to her mouth, stopping her from talking.
"The Princess has already informed me, so listen carefully if you please. I can help you, but only if you want me to." Zecora said. We nodded in understanding. She walked over towards her pot, and placed in other spices and a few liquids until it was a bubbling gold. She reached down for a stick, and swirled around the mixture, until a picture could be seen. It was an old abandoned castle, and Zor was entering it. Applejack and Spike simultaneously gulped. "That is not all, as I can see. You are missing a few friends; perhaps Rarity, Fluttershy and Pinkie?"
"How'd you know?" I asked.
"Zecora has eyes, Sonic. Trixie thinks anypony with those would have noticed the missing ponies." I exhaled, and kept my jaw dropped.
"If you give me a minute, I can prepare a potion to help you cleanse your friends of their corrupted state." Zecora promised. Zecora rushed between the shelves, and the pot (after I had gathered clean water to fill it up for her), placing spices and liquids into the pot. Then, she mixed it up. In exactly sixty seconds, I was a warded with a black bubbling liquid. "Just shake it before use." She warned us. I placed the liquid into my bag.
"So, I take it that our next destination is the castle?" I asked. Zecora nodded. "Thank you for your help." I thanked her and bowed. She nodded once again.
As we left, I asked Spike, "She was awfully quiet. What's up with that?"
The dragon shrugged. "She must have had a hard time rhyming when talking with you. And, before you ask, the rhyming is a part of her culture, so she does that all of the time." He explained.
3rd Person P.O.V:
Zor stood on one of the roofs of the castle pillars in the shadows, watching Sonic and his group ran over the rickety, wooden bridge and up to the castle's front door. "Look at him, all "I'm so fast", and stuff. Ugh. It makes me sick," The Zeti creaked open the window, "Time to knock him down a peg." And then he re-entered the castle.
Spike the Dragon's P.O.V:
(Music Insert: Sonic Heroes: Mystic Mansion)
I hated staying here before, and I hate staying here again. It's so scary here. I wish Twilight was here... Wahaha! (*Ahem* Spike, you're on.)
Oh! That's what I would say if I was a big ole crybaby. Luckily I'm not, right? I'm a big, scary, fire-breathing dragon! All big, cary, fire-breathing dragons are brave. It's a fact. Just look at me, standing tall and confident with my head held high. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to lead these ladies and hedgehog into the deepest and darkest depths of the Castle of the Royal Pony Sisters, like a gentleman, as Rarity would say. FOR RARITY!
Rainbow Dash's P.O.V:
(Music Insert: Luigi's Mansion - Dark Moon: Main Theme)
Whatever Spike just told you, never happened. He's scared to death of this place after the whole Power Ponies episode a little way back. Once Zecora showed us that smokey vision of that Zeti entering this place, Spike's been sweating bullets. Now, my back is soaking wet with sweat. I hate that drake. Once we were able to see that old castle, I was reminded of our misadventure inside of that magic comic book. Spike was too, and he was trembling and biting on his claws. I kinda felt bad for him. I mean, I hated this place too, but I wasn't gonna drop down and curl into a ball with a tub of rainbow sherbet. I'm not Rarity, or Spike in this case.
Sonic the Hedgehog's P.O.V:
(Music Insert: Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze - Alpine Incline (Ground)) or
(Music Insert: Sonic: Before the Sequel '12 - Sonic: Before the Sequel: Blue to Darkness - For Fortress Flow, Act 3)
I dramatically kicked open the front doors to the abandoned castle, because I'm too awesome for door handles. With a wave of my hand, we entered the castle, and I was taken aback at it's elderly state. The place was in bits and pieces as if an intense battle took place here. The walls and the pieces of the ceiling still intact were decorated with cracks and otherwise, holes acted as permanently opened windows to the entire castle. In the back of the room, two tapestries draped down from the topmost bit of the wall. On one side, was Princess Sunbutt, and the other was Princess Moonshine. (Ha, I made butt jokes.)
I noticed that the Equestrians were already in front of me. I jogged over to them, but as I jogged, I felt my foot sink a good inch. If you've seen any Indiana Jones movies, then this is obviously a trap. "Sonic! What did you do?!" The Equestrians yelled in unison.
I moved my foot from the sunken tile. "Nothing," I replied quickly. Although, it was pretty obvious that I did something. I mean, robotic crabs, pigs, and spiders were swarming us from every single hallway entrance. Hopefully, nothing like this is going to happen again. "This isn't good," I sighed. The ponies and I sweep, axe, and roundhouse kicked, punted, and punched away, and bucked away the lower bots while Spike used his fire breath to melt them away. The tougher enemies, such as the Grabbers and Ball Hog, needed to be homing attacked, flown into, or swatted away with magic since they were higher up and as I said, they were generally tougher. A kick or a punch, no matter how flashy they were, wouldn't do much. A few minutes later, most of the robots were lying on the ground in shambles, while the rest high-tailed out of the throne room in different directions, headed down different hallways in small groups. "At least the good news is, most of the robots infesting this place have been exterminated." I shrugged sheepishly. Applejack glared at me. That mare needs to lighten up.
We played "Eenie Meenie Minie Mo" with each of the hallways, and settled on the one on the left, the farthest away from the front door. As we jogged down the hallway, we passed by a series of rubble. Minding them no attention, we kept on forwards.
Eventually, we reached a spot that, based on their reactions, not even Applejack, Rainbow Dash, or Spike had ventured into. The floor and ceiling had turned from dull and grey to a sort of lively purple, green, and pink with a few gray splotches here or there. We seemed to be pretty far in, as we had to walk along rotating concrete heads over what seemed to be bottomless pits.
Carefully, we jumped from head to head, with high hopes of not falling to our doom. Of course, Rainbow Dash flew Spike across; Twilight would kill us if he died from falling down a pit of death. Applejack, Trixie and I managed on our own, as Applejack and I jumped and Trixie teleported over the ravine.
Trixie and Applejack landed next to each other in the same dangerous spot. "Watch out, Cereal Bars!" I shouted at Applejack and Trixie. Above them, was a giant falling head. With my amazing speed, I grabbed them and pulled them from out of the way. The creepy face dropped down, and caused for the ground to slightly shake.
The Great and Powerful Trixie's P.O.V:
(Music Insert: Sonic the Hedgehog 2 - Mystic Cave Act 1)
The Ridiculous Hedgehog, The Country Bumpkin, The Tiny Dragon, The Insane Flier, and the Great and Powerful Trixie stopped in the pitch black basement of the castle. With a flick of a horn, Trixie effortlessly lit up the space, revealing for the basement to be the castle's mess hall. Not only was it dusty, but it was huge! Not as big as the crowds of one of Trixie's shows, but pretty darn close. It stretched across probably the entire forest! The round, dusty tables looked like ghosts with their tablecloths hanging over the edges as they hovered overhead.
That infernal hedgehog felt the desire to hop onto a table with his animalistic sense. So, that was what he did. Applejack rolled her eyes and jumped after him. Rainbow lowered herself for Spike to hop onto her back before she took off after the hedgehog and Earth Pony. The Great Trixie used her amazing skills as a magician and an exceptional Unicorn to predict where Sonic would land and teleport herself there. Once she was there, she ran up to Sonic, Applejack, and the Sonic clone. Rainbow took off once again with Sonic closely following her. Applejack and Trixie followed after him, with Trixie using her amazing prowess to hover over the ground, losing all friction and inertia.
3rd Person P.O.V:
(Music Insert: Sonic Lost World: The Deadly Six Theme (Orchestral Version)) or
(Music Insert: Sonic Adventure 2: Battle - Throw It All Away) or
(Music Insert: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic: Stop the Bats)
As Sonic, Applejack, and Trixie followed after Rainbow Dash and Spike as they moved down further and faster, the five of them reached a dead end. They were suspended on a rocky, rickety bridge hanging over another bottomless pit, with two lamps between each side. "Whoa, I would totally do a Sonic Rainboom down that thing," Rainbow Dash gave herself an idea. "Make a mental note of that. Heck, make a checklist!" She joked with a small chuckle. She opened up her wings, and was just about to jump down before she heard a thump next to her. It was Zor, ready for a fight.
"Another pointless conflict is about to begin." Zor sighed. Well, kind of ready for a fight.
"Look, even Zor knows that we're gonna win this," Rainbow Dash sneered. Sonic nodded. All of a sudden, the lights flickered on and off, before staying off. Sonic grabbed his flashlight from out of his bag, and turned it on. Zor had disappeared."Where'd he go?" Rainbow asked. He waved his flashlight in all eight directions, looking for the emotional Zeti. He spotted the destroyed owl, with other giant owls surrounding it, but no overly emotional, purple headed Zeti.
Bats swooped near the team, biting bits of skin from the heroes. Quickly, Sonic shone his flashlight on the bats. As quickly as they came, they disintegrated into thin air. Maybe, I can find Zor this way. He thought to himself. Once again, bats flew down, and Sonic shone his flash light. The bats disintegrated into nothing again. One final time, bats swooped. This time, when Sonic hit the bats with lights, Zor showed himself, and stayed in place for a while, trying to get used to the sudden burst of light, and everlasting darkness. Sonic rapidly spin dashed into Zor before using a fully charged homing attack on his head.
The lights turned back on, and Zor panicked as he was surrounded. Uh-oh! He thought to himself. He rose an arm, and shot multiple tiny blasts of purple energy, causing the suroundees to flee. Zor picked himself up, and flew away after shouting "Only the reaper weeps in the end." Whatever that means.
Sonic the Hedgehog's P.O.V:
After the battle, the heroes slightly celebrated. By the bridge was shaking from their celebration. "We better get off this bridge!" Sonic shouted. The team ran rapidly off of the bridge. Just as the final runner, Spike, had reached the end, the rocky bridge collapsed into the dark ravine, never to be seen again.
"I never knew that negativity could be so contagious," Spike sighed dramatically. "The Deadly Six are going to destroy the world. It's no use," He said, dropping his head. His friends turned towards him.
"Wow, Zor managed to manipulate Spike. Maybe, Pinkie can help him smile some more. In her most party infested and destructive way possible." Sonic suggested with a smirk.
Spike gulped. "Just kidding guys. That won't be neccessary."
3rd Person P.O.V:
(Music Insert: Dance of Illusions (Stop the Bats Remix) by KingSpartaX37)
"Now, we just have to get out of here." Applejack noted. Sonic nodded. He started to run off back the way that they had come with everyone following him.
Sonic ran faster, enjoying the feel of the wind and his exercise, and loving leaving his friends in the dust. Just before he could destroy the barrier of sound, he felt his foot slide deeper into the ground. Suddenly, the wall next to him opened up, and a giant boot kicked him into it, before closing as if nothing had even happened. His friends were too slow, and didn't notice any of that.
"Man, that hedgehog gets on my nerves. Just because he can run faster than sound whenever he pleases, doesn't mean he should."
"You mean, like you would?" Applejack asked.
The Pegasus growled and rolled her eyes. "Stop comparing me to him! Why does everypony keep doing that? We have like, absolutely nothing in common!" Rainbow Dash shouted back. Applejack, Trixie, and Spike all cough 'unsuspiciously'. Rainbow snorted, and ignored them.
In the hallway, Sonic banged his fists on the wall, hoping someone would hear him. But alas, not one of his friends did. And his hand was hurting. He spun himself into a ball, and attempted to spin dash his way past the wall, but he just bounced backwards. Giving up, he began to walk carefully, in order to avoid booby traps. Going this slow made the three foot tall hedgehog feel uneasy. This wan't his nature. He lived for speed, and was built for dangerous. But these traps were less dangerous, and more or less aggravating!
After about five minutes of walking, and with his feet hurting slightly, Sonic leaned onto a statue of armor. When his back touched it, however, it tilted, and Sonic cried, "Oh for the love of..." The entire floor opened up with nothing but a giant sea of darkness under him. "Hey! Wait a Sonic Second!" Sonic shouted. He fell through the secret trap in the floor, rolling down a damp tube for a pretty long time. "It's official, I absolutely hate booby traps," He was sploshed with cobwebs and moss. As he rolled to a stop, he shook himself clean. He laid in a patch of blue flowers. Ignoring them, he stood up and coughed, feeling a slightly stinging sensation in his feet. He also took notice of the room he was in. It was extremely large, just like a basement. "The basement?" There was an old and musky smell that was vaguely similar to the smell of a subway station after flooding. Behind him, the wall door shut closed. The hedgehog banged his fists on the wall, before sighing at the trap he had gotten himself into. Instead of being depressed for possibly staying here for eternity, Sonic became curious. He wanted to explore the huge basement. And so he did. Hopefully, he could find another way out of there. By the way, Sonic would suck at following the museum rules of "Don't touch the exhibits".
As Sonic picked up what looked like gold, but molded into a miniature statue of Princess Luna, the basement began to rumble. The wall on the opposite side of Sonic was enveloped in a purple aura. It slowly spun open. "I was hoping that you'd show up," A mysterious voice echoed. Surprised, Sonic quickly turned around, ready to do battle with the owner of the shrilly voice. "After all, this wouldn't be a party without the guest of honor." Stepping out of the dark, came Pinkamena, Nightmare Rarity, and Flutterbat.
Internally, Sonic was as happy as Twilight was when she got her wings. "You three! I was hoping I'd find you. Let's get out of here," Sonic said. He charged up a spin dash towards the wall. He rolled towards the wall, extremely slowly, as if he was never going to reach the wall in his lifetime. "What the heck? I've completely lost my speed! This can't be happening!" He panicked. Then, he was suddenly picked up by Rarity's magic. "Pinkie, what's your deal?"
Pinkamena snickered. "I'm sorry. Haven't you heard? We're not going with you, Slowpoke," Pinkie stood on her fore hooves, and smacked together her back hooves, cracking them as if they were fingers. "And FYI, nopony calls me THAT anymore. You are to address me by my full name: Pinkamena." Sonic tried to escape, but he just couldn't run fast! At all! It was as if physics decided to exist or something!
Sonic the Hedgehog's P.O.V:
(Music Insert: Animal I Have Become by Three Days Grace)
Since I was about as slow as a snail, I was easily surrounded on all sides in the secret basement of the Castle of the Royal Pony Sisters of the Everfree Forest. No one else would find me. No way was I going to turn down a fight like this! It's possibly, maybe, sort of going to save my friends. Pinkie- I mean, Pinkamena laughed. I guess she's the ringleader. "Ahh. I've been waiting for this moment. The darkest entities of the entire world versus the hedgehog with a heart of gold. There's only one way that this can end."
I nodded. Of course I knew that. I would win, like I always do. It didn't matter if I was crazy handicapped right now. I was as slow as moss growing on the south side of a tree. And everyone else was currently faster than me since they had a power boost. But I was still as agile and powerful and smart as ever. I wasn't scared. I could take them. I just had to be on my toes. "I'm as ready as I'll ever be Pinkie. It might be three against one, but whatever. Now then, let's freaking do this."
Sonic the Hedgehog's P.O.V:
(Music Insert: Party With Pinkie (Wrapped in Pink Edition) by KingSpartaX37) or
(Music Insert: Grace and Glory ~ Wrapped in Black ⱤEMIX~「V2.0」) or
(Music Insert: Dark Generosity (Nightmare Rarity Boss Battle Theme) by KingSpartaX37) or
(Music Continue: Animal I Have Become by Three Days Grace)
Regular Fluttershy never would have done this. Neither would Pinkie, and well... maybe Rarity if I had totally destroyed a piece of her artistic dresses, but not normally. I was going to fight for my life against three of my friends who have turned over to the dark side. I wonder if they got any cookies.(*4) Hopeully, they'll share. That'd be awesome.
Flutterbat was the first to strike. She came flying at me with her mouth wide open, ready for a bite out of my blue flesh. I silently crouched down, and Fluttershy sailed over me. She crashed head first into a wall. I know I shouldn't be, but I was smirking. Nightmare Rarity made the entire basement floor even darker than it already was with her magic. And I was completely blinded. That's cheap Rarity. I wasn't sure who hit me, but it was probably Pinkie. After all, she wasn't afraid to get her hooves dirty. I was first hit hard in the gut. Then, I was karate-chopped in the back. I dropped to the ground, before I was picked up, and thrown at a wall.
The 'lights' were turned back on, and Pinkamena was right in front of me. She had a creepy smirk pasted on her lips. She licked them. I quickly slid under her, and crawled away. As I crawled, I was enveloped in a dark purple manna, and lifted off of the ground, slightly choking. "That all you got?" I asked. Rarity flung me into the air, and Flutterbat caught me. As she held onto me, she bite me in the right arm. I cried out, and punched her in her face. She dropped me, and fell to the ground. I wasn't so lucky. Rarity shot a magic blast at me, and sent me flying towards the thrones. As I braced the impact, a billion images flew through my mind. Everything bad that ever happened to me, and left emotional scars. Even things that might have never happened, like I was impaled in the chest by a crystal hedgehog. Yeah, that'll happen.
I was certainly spending a lot of time on the ground. This was the third time that I had dropped down to the ground. Just what was that move? It was familiar. I groaned and slowly rose back up to my feet. "You sure are persistent, Blue Hedgehog." That was the first time I had ever heard Nightmare Rarity speak. She sounded a lot like Luna. Oh, wait a minute.
"A knight never flees his foe." I whispered. Pinkie sucked her teeth. She held an old and rusty knife in her hooves, and was ready to strike me. She slowly moved forward, like a homicidal maniac. I needed to get back onto the offensive. Pinkie thrust the blade forward, but I leaned left and dodged it. I uppercutted Pinkie's torso, and she tripped backwards. Flutterbat flew towards me, and head butted me. I tripped backwards, and was punched in the jaw by Flutterbat. I flew at the wall, and dropped to the ground. I could barely open my eyes. When I did, Pinkie was right above me, and Rarity's horn was glowing intensely.
"Do it, Rarity." Pinkie said. They laughed as I was hit with the beam of energy. I screamed in pain. The darkness began to consume me. I felt myself slipping away from reality and into...
Nightmare Rarity's P.O.V:
... (...Moving along then...) ...
Pinkamena Diane Pie's P.O.V:
(Music Insert: Monster by Skillet)
The hedgehog lay on the floor unconscious with blank white eyes. Right now, he was feeling every single nightmare in the universe; something he could never wake up from. "Our work here is done. Now for our so called "friends." Rarity, Flutterbat. We're off," I said. We began to walk to the same wall that we entered through, but I heard a darker form of Sonic's voice.
"You... aren't Pinkie. You aren't Rarity. And you're not Fluttershy..." He said. But, he's unconscious... isn't he?
"He can't do anything to us," I said, trying to keep a straight face. Sonic's breathing sped up and got louder. I turned around. Sonic was standing directly in front our trio, but he was different. His coat was completely black, his spines were standing up on their own, and his pupils were completely gone. "We beat up this child once already. We can do it again. Right guys?" I asked my team. But, they were gone. Their backs were against the wall, held together by Plunder Vines. They already looked beaten up. Stupid "Fastest Thing Alive" title.
I brought my hoof around until it was right next to Dark Sonic's face. Then, it just stopped. Sonic's hand was right in front of my hoof. "This hoof can hurt. A lot." I said shakily.
"You don't have to use that. I'll make this long and painful... Pinkie." Dark Sonic placed his hand underneath my hoof, and flicked it away. The momentum from my punch resumed, and I was sent tripping into Sonic's knee. In one swift motion, I was brutally punched and kicked in the face multiple times. It was so fast. I was then kicked into the wall along with my team. I felt something drip down the side of my lips. I slurped it back up. Blood?
"Hahahahahahaha!" Dark Sonic laughed evilly with his arms behind his back. As he moved them from behind him slowly, I saw that in his left hand, there a black ball of energy, his right was a fist. "Eenie Meenie Minee Moe. Which one should be the first to go?" He asked us. We all stayed silent. Flutterbat looked at me. I looked at Nightmare Rarity. Nightmare Rarity had no one to turn to. "The strong, silent, and stouthearted? I like you. So, you get to go first." Sonic rose his energy powered hand, and then the weirdest thing happened to Rarity.
I am such a liar. I said two to three weeks, and then after two months of waiting, I give you a belated present. And I left you at a cliff hanger! I'm so evil! But I told the truth about it being almost done! It was just a bit complicated. I added Zecora in, got rid of adding Sticks, and made Flutterbat a thing.
Well, the next chapter, and the final one will be AWESOME! I can tell you that. Anyways, the next chapter will take place in Cloudsdale, meaning the Wonderbolts are going to appear! So will a bunch extra awesome stuff. And I'm not telling you anything. At all... Not this time.
Well... Somepony's getting a makeover. That's all.
Can you guess what the theme is? (*Hint* It's the title + by Three Days Grace)
Reference #1: Hasn't that been done already? (Sonic CD, Sonic Heroes, Sonic Adventure 2, Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal, Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode Metal, Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 2, and a couple of the comics?) Nah. it couldn't have been.
Reference #2: A picture by Flam3Zero on DeviantArt shows a picture of Apple Bloom portraying Sticks with that same hairstyle. Rarity would freak. And that would be hilarious. I should add that in.
Reference #3: This was kinda sorta, maybe, accidentally on purpose ripped from what was shown at E3 2014 for Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric for Wii U. But, I added some Sonic Generations, Sonic CD, and Sonic OVA.
Reference #4: George of the Jungle needs to stop crashing into trees. He's gonna hurt himself.
Reference #5: During that battle, I used several Dark type moves from Pokemon such as Dark Pulse and Dark Void and Punishment.
Reference #6: "Join the Dark Side. We have cookies." -Darth Vader