6 years later...

"I'm gonna win this time, Sonic!" shouted Jet.

"You mean like you did last time!?" Sonic shouted back, grinning.

Jet made his extreme gear go faster and faster, but Sonic just did the same. It was that simple. As normal, Sonic won this race. He put his green goggles out of his eyes, put the black duster coat back on, and went off.

"Awesome," said Tails.

Sonic and Tails high-fived.

"Hey...Sonic? Wanna visit Canterlot? We've grown up a lot after all." Tails said.

"Sure," said Sonic. "At least we can show them we're not dead."

"Yeah!" said Tails, nodding. "Let's go."

He decided to visit Canterlot again. Both of them wanted to see how Canterlot had changed, if it'd changed at all. There were slight changes, it was more modern, but it still felt like Canterlot, home. Then they saw three familar faces, Lightning Dust. Shilling. Trixie.

"Well, well, well!" said Trixie. "Look who's back! Prince Sonic and the wimpy fox!"

"Oh yeah?" said Tails, holding up a ball of chaos energy.

Trixie snarled.

"What are you doing back anyway?" hissed Shilling.

"None of your buisness." growled Tails.

They walked past the three, and Sonic went back to the castle.

"You will come back out?" said Tails.

"Of course I'll come out!" said Sonic, smiling.

"Okay then!" said Tails.

Sonic walked in, it felt really strange to be back in the castle, he took a deep breath when got to the throne room, he entered, only to find Celestia, sitting on the middle throne.

"S-Sonic?" she stuttered, before smiling and regaining her calm look that Sonic always remembered.

"Hello...Mom." said Sonic, feeling anxious.

"Hello, son." said Celestia, hugging him. "Do you know what day it is tommorrow?"

Sonic thought for a minute. "Is it...the Summer Sun Celebration?"

"Correct." Celestia said, smiling.

Twilight suddenly entered. "I have finished my assignment, Princess Celestia."

Twilight curtsied, only to look shocked, she certainly was not expecting Sonic to be back, Twilight hadn't seen Sonic since the night when Sonic ran away.

He looked at the book that Twilight had, it was in her left hand while her assignment was in the other.

Soon, Sonic went back to his old bedchamber, he found a book sticking out, curiousity gripped him, and he took it out. What was strange was the fact that this book had no name whatsoever, and there was no writing except for a part about the Elements of Harmony, it said very little about the elements though, but here's something that peeked Sonic's interest.

Tails suddenly flew up to the window, Sonic pointed at the book with the line that had the most information about the elements. Tails gasped out of shock.

When Sonic got outside, Tails immediately greeted him. "That is amazing!"

"I know!" Sonic replied.

"Say, I heard the Summer Sun Celebration's coming up, that was my favourite time of the year when I was a kid." said Tails.

"Mine too," said Sonic. "How about we stay for that and then go?"

"Good idea," said Tails.