A/N: This original chapter was done by BronySonicFan from Fimfiction and I finished it up.
Chapter 19: Sonic Comes to Visit
In Maretime Bay's beach, Sunset and Sonic, who came and visit her, were playing Horseshoe, with Sunset using her magic to levitate one and focus, before launching it against the metal bar stick on the ground, perfectly fitting it in place.
"Hah!" Sunset cheered with a little jump. "That makes it 4 vs 4, and we're in a tie!"
"Yeah, yeah, don't get too excited, old woman. I'm about to make you lose!" Sonic said with a confident grin.
"I highly doubt it, but if you wanna be delusional, be my guest!" Sunset said with a mocking grin.
Sonic rolled his eyes and took one horseshoe from the ground, then aimed at the metal bar, calculated when to launch it, and then... Turned around to launch it in a different direction.
"Aw, seems like you failed..." Sunset said with a fake sad tone before laughing.
Sonic, however, just grinned, as the horseshoe that he launched hit a rock and then flew away, hitting then the top of the Crystal Brighthouse, then booting to Maretime Bay, where it hit two walls before hitting a lamppost several times, then it hit a wall on Sunny's Smoothie cart, startling Sunny and Posey as the former tried to give the latter her smoothie, but because of the horseshoe's hit, Sunny dropped it on Posey's face by mistake, annoying her while Sunny smiled sheepishly.
The horseshoe then hit a wall on Mane Melody, then started to hit several lampposts as if it were a pinball on a pinball machine, then went back to the beach, hit several rocks, then seemed to be about to hit Sonic and Sunset, but they moved aside, and then the horseshoe hit the metal bar perfectly, therefore marking another point for Sonic and making him the winner.
Sunset's jaw dropped as she saw this, while Sonic lay playfully on her back and grinned. "See? I told you I'll make you lose, Bacon Head!"
"W-What... B-But that's not... How?!" Sunset asked in disbelief.
"If you wanna win a competition, you gotta do it with style!" Sonic declared with a wink. "And I, well, have tons of that~"
Sunset rolled her eyes with a smile. "Yeah. You also have a big ego. And here I hoped you weren't like the other Sonics." She added with a giggle, then turned around and walked to the Brighthouse.
"Is a multiversal thing, Sunset!" Sonic said with a smirk, as he followed behind her. "Just because we like to help people doesn't mean we can't be a little bit of a boaster sometimes."
"Sometimes?" Sunset snorted. "Now you're just being humble."
"Right, and you never mess with your friends to remind them when they screw it or try to play innocent..." Sonic mocked her up.
"That's different! I'm a boaster because they try to act smart, you just like to be a boaster for fun!" Sunset mocked him, slightly pushing him aside.
"You got me there, I'll admit that!" Sonic raised his hands with a smile, as a sign of saying he gives up and can't argue with her.
After this, the two of them went inside the Crystal Brighthouse, which seemed to be empty since no one was in the main floor. "Well, the Horseshoe was fun. What's next now on your little list?"
"I don't know, Sonic... You think you really have more time?" Sunset asked.
"My audience with Tails, Zipp and Pipp back home is still in 3 hours." Sonic said as he checked his phone and the hour, then put it back on his quills and grinned again. "I think I have plenty of time!"
"Okay, good. Because while I do have other things I'd love to do with you, there's this one thing, and pony, I want you to know!" Sunset said with excitement as she gestured upstairs with her head and then flew up, with Sonic jumping from his place and then landing at Sunset's side. "Now, before I present you both, I should tell you: Technically, you already know her because––"
"Let me guess: Multiverse?" Sonic replied to her with a smirk.
"Yeah, precisely that." Sunset chuckled nervously. "That being said, I do hope you don't get mad at me, either..."
"Mad?" Sonic snorted, as they both stepped into the bedroom. "Why would I be mad? Whoever it is, I'm pretty sure there is some nice gal that I'll get along with just fine–– Oh, I see what you mean..."
Sonic cut himself so abruptly because he found Twilight in her side of the bedroom, apparently organizing alphabetically a pile of books on a bookshelf, and some others were being organized by color. Of course, this wasn't anything surprising, but the fact that Sonic was staring at a blood and flesh Twilight in this universe made him sigh and rub his eyes, then he slowly turned to face Sunset with a deadpan, as she smiled sheepishly.
"Girl, when someone tells you not to mess with the dead, they mean it." Sonic said boredly. "That being said, I'm honestly surprised it took you 13 chapters, 16 if we count the last three from your last season, and 46 if we count the ones from the story I come from, to bring her back."
"...What do you mean with chapters?" Sunset asked, confused.
"Fourth wall break stuff, don't think about it too much." Sonic shrugged.
"...Okay..." Sunset said, looking around awkwardly, then shook her head and walked to Twilight. "Hey, Twi! You got a minute, or should we come back later?"
"Hey, Sunset!" Twilight greeted, although she hadn't turned to her just yet. "I'll be done soon with these books, don't worry. And what do you mean by "we"?"
"Oh! Well... I brought a friend over!" Sunset replied with a smile. "You remember that Society I form part of, right?"
"Uh, the one that kicked you out because their leader was bitter, incompetent and emotionally and mentally unstable?" Twilight asked, still organizing her bookshelf.
"Shoot, she's got it so right..." Sonic chuckled, as Sunset pushed him slightly.
"Yeah, but... He's not the leader anymore..." Sunset said with a sad sigh, not wanting to remember FS right now. "Anyways. Um, one of my friends from there came to visit, and I want you to know him."
"Oh, is about a new friend! Well you should've started from––" Twilight started, as she finally turned around, but as her eyes lay on Sonic, who just grinned and made a salute to her, her eyes widened as she looked up and down to him. "...Oh... Sweet... Celestia!"
Right after she screamed, she zoomed into Sonic and started to inspect everything about him, looking at his quills, his back, his chest, measuring the length of his arms and legs, and even taking one of his quills off him.
"I could barely watch him in a good light back when I was in the necklace and watched so many of you around, but being able to study this close?!" Twilight exclaimed, and then she squealed in delight, before she rushed back to her dresser and took out a clipboard and a pen, then went back with Sonic. "Okay, so: What's your name? What's your age? Species? What do you eat? Why are you blue? I heard you're fast, but how fast exactly? How are things in your universe? How––"
As Twilight kept asking more and more questions, Sonic blinked a bit before he leaned to Sunset. "Why do most Twilights react like this whenever they meet me or my variants?"
"I don't know, but I should've expected this to happen..." Sunset replied with a sheepish chuckle.
Sonic shrugged with a smile and looked back at Twilight. "Well, my name's Sonic the Hedgehog. I'm 28 years old, just turned, and as my name suggests: I'm a hedgehog!"
"Really? You don't look like one..." Twilight said, slightly confused. "You look more like a porcupine..."
"Twilight!" Sunset scolds her slightly among her teeth.
"Eh, let her be, Bacon Head." Sonic told Sunset with a grin. "I've been through so much crap in my life that being mistaken or called a porcupine just doesn't bother me anymore." He shrugged, then looked back at Twilight. "So, what do I eat? A lot of stuff, but my favorite food ever is Chili Dogs!"
Twilight stopped writing down and then slowly looked up at Sonic with horror. "...Chili Dogs?"
"Yup!" Sonic replied with a smile.
"...As in, Hot Dogs with chili?" Twilight asked again, now her worry showing on her tone.
"Uh-huh." Sonic said, his smile faltering a bit.
"...So Hot Dogs with meat?" Twilight asked a last time, now panicking a bit.
To this, however, Sonic only deadpanned. "I already had this conversation before. I'm not going against my beliefs nor what I like and love."
Sunset then stepped in the middle of them, slightly pushing Sonic back with a forced smile. "Yes, he likes to eat meat, but not horse meat, so we're good, right?!"
Twilight and Sonic both stared at her with blank expressions after she said that, then they looked at each other, and then back at Sunset, now both of them deadpanning.
"That is the worst thing you could've said right now..." Sonic noted.
"Yeah, that could be taken out of context." Twilight added, now raising an eyebrow.
Sunset blushed madly upon realizing what they implied, so she shook her head and scolded them both. "THAT'S NOT WHAT I MEANT! AND YOU GUYS KNOW IT!"
"Chill out, old woman. You may have a heart attack if you yell that loud." Sonic told her as he patted her back slightly, then looked back at Twilight. "I'm blue because I was born like that. As for how things are in my universe? Well, it is pretty much the exact same as this... Except for you, her, and Discord showing up constantly."
"And Spike and the dragons..." Sunset added, also thanking the sudden change of subject.
"Actually, Knuckles found a map to the Dragonlands the other day when he was unpacking his stuff from Angel Island to fully move over, so... Yeah, the dragons are part of our society now. And no Opaline was involved in our case!" Sonic explained with a smile.
"Pfft... Lucky guy..." Sunset rolled her eyes annoyed.
"Wait... Opaline didn't tried to steal everypony's Cutie Marks in your universe?" Twilight asked, writing down everything Sonic was telling her with a bit of excitement. "Fascinating... And I supposed you also defeated Allura in a different way?"
"Actually, I still have no clue on who that is." Sonic shrugged. "Really, we went to check Opaline's abandoned lair and it is as empty as empty can ever be. If that thing is a Together Tree, it is not responding to anypony, not even to Sparky's dragonfire. So, with no fourth Together Tree..."
"No portal to Starlight Ridge..." Sunset finished with concern. "Have you tried going there with the Society's watch?"
"Yeah. I even put in the coordinates you gave me, but it always replied with something along the lines of "this dimension doesn't exist" or something similar," Sonic explained. "I guess Starlight Ridge is not even a thing in my universe."
"So our universes are the same in design and inhabitants, at least to some extent, but there isn't a Starlight Ridge in yours..." Twilight noted and wrote down while rubbing her chin. "The more I hear about this, the more interested I am."
"Well, I can always take you for a little tour around my home if you have the time!" Sonic suggested while crossing his arms behind his head with a smirk. "I could use a little excitement considering how boring everything has become since Opaline's defeat."
"Talk four yourself." Sunset grinned, slightly pushing Sonic again. "Even with her defeat, there hasn't been a single day here in Equestria that I can catch a break! Allura's arrival to Equestria, Izzy and I's little journey across Equestria, our meeting with a seapony, the Boardtrot, and even Twilight's return! We also got dragged into a magic book that one time."
Sonic chuckled after hearing that. "Can relate! It happened to me twice. Had to fight against an evil genie and all!"
"And evil genie? Now that sounds quite interesting!" Twilight said in excitement with sparkling eyes. "Can you––"
"Tell you more? I could, sure thing, but we'll run out of time and miss her to-do list for the day." Sonic pointed out as he gestured at Sunset on his side. "That being said, you can learn everything about me from this!"
Sonic then pulled out of nowhere a big green book. The cover only had Sonic's "logo", and every word on it was written in golden ink, literally. The book is labelled as "Tales of Sonic the Hedgehog: Vol. 1".
"This book right here has all the answers you seek regarding me, and even more of them!" Sonic said with a smile.
Sunset stared confused at the book, while Twilight slowly approached and ended up hugging the book. "All... the answers... and more..."
"I know you love books and reading, Twi, but please control yourself..." Sunset said with a little chuckle and smile, then looked at Sonic with a raised eyebrow. "Where did you get a book telling your life story?"
"I wrote it, and published it." Sonic replied with a grin. "See, people have wondered how I started being a hero, so I kind of just wrote down how I met Eggman, then Amy, then Tails and finally Knuckles... That little story ended up turning into my biography as a whole."
"Huh... guess you have been busy as well..." Sunset said with a mocking smile. "But then why is the book labelled as "Volume 1"?"
"That's because it only covers my life from the start up to Eggman taking over the world for 6 months and then turning me into his little punching bag." Sonic said casually, before bringing out a second blue, this one blue, but technically having the same cover and writing as the green one. However, this one had "Vol. 2" instead. "Now THIS book covers pretty much everything else: From Egghead tricking me into his machine, to Sunny and I defeating Opaline and saving every butt in the multiverse!"
Twilight squealed as Sonic brought the other book and grabbed it along the first one, now holding them close with sparkling eyes. "I'm gonna have a field day with these!"
"Have fun!" Sonic said with a little wave, as he then turned to the exit. "C'mon, Bacon Head. Let's see what else that schedule of yours has in store for us!"
"In a minute!" Sunset said, then she turned to Twilight. "So, I guess you'll be busy for the rest of the day?"
"I have two big, detailed books on the life of somecreature from another universe, Sunset. I'd be a fool to NOT want to investigate it all!" Twilight said with excitement and sparkling eyes. "As for you, have fun out there with him!"
"Oh, we sure will!" Sunset said, giving Twilight a quick hug before rushing back with Sonic.
As Sonic and Sunset stepped outside of the Brighthouse, Sonic rubbed his chin in wonder. "You know... Maybe Starlight Ridge does exist in my universe, but with different coordinates than yours. I mean, if our Equestria's have different coordinates, the other dimensions should have them as well, right?"
"Huh... When you put it like that, you have a very good point..." Sunset admitted. "Maybe Starlight Ridge does exist but isn't accessible as of now... Wait, wouldn't that imply that there is a Mobius in this universe?"
"Maybe there is," Sonic shrugged as he walked ahead and placed his hands behind his neck. "Now, why haven't we heard of it at all and not tried to look after it? Don't know, but myself from this universe must be having a blast not dealing with the crap we dealt with. Let's keep it that way."
"Agreed." Sunset nodded, then smiled and took flight. "Well, I think the next thing on my little list is to soar through the skies!"
"You put a fly activity on your list for a guy that cannot fly?" Sonic asked with a raised eyebrow.
Sunset's eyes widened after hearing this, and she also blushed embarrassed. "O-Oh! I, um, I guess I didn't think of that..."
But then, Sonic snickered and suddenly got surrounded by seven glowing gems, the Chaos Emeralds, before they went into his body and transformed his blue fur into golden and his green eyes in red, making him go Super Sonic and fly past Sunset, making her twirl around in the air a bit.
Sunset eventually regained control, then she heard Sonic laughing and looked up. "Geez, girl. You're really easy to fool! Are you sure you're the team leader in this universe?" He mocked up while crossing his arms.
Sunset rolled her eyes again, but still grinned. "Ha ha, very funny, hedgehog. How about you stop bragging around and, you know, catch up?!"
As she stated this, she took flight ahead and flapped her wings to fly at top speed, making Sonic grin and chase after her. If there's something Sonic can't say no to: Is a good race!
Soon, Sonic and Sunset then went up to the Boartrot entrance, which made Sonic jaw drop when he saw the carnival since he had nothing like this back in his world, which made Sunset smirk as she nudged Sonic to snap him out of it as the two entered the carnival.
The first thing the did was riding on the Zippcoaster, which Sonic cheered loudly with his arms up while Sunset held on tight as they moved and did loops at top speed, something that Sonic enjoyed deeply while feeling the strong wind on his quills.
They then try out the fun slides, which they slid down as they laughed before launching from it and landed on the teacups, which they spun around as they laughed harder as they then spun the wheel.
They then went to the Funhouse, where they saw silly and alternate reflections of themselves in the mirror. One of them showing Sonic's different forms he had over the years, one of them is his super form, his World Rings form, his Werehog form, and his pink super form, which made Sunset laugh.
Sunset was looking at her reflections, which had her human form when she attend CHS, her in her Daydream Shimmer form, her Pony-Up forms she had with the Rainbooms, her old Unicorn self, and her Demon Shimmer form, which made her cringed at her evil self while Sonic placed a hand on her shoulder, comforting her as she gave a smile.
They then went to the stands where Sunset threw a ball, which hit it's a stack of cups as she turned to Sonic with a smirk
The Hedgehog smirk before he held up three balls and threw them at high speed, which hit all three sacks as Sunset's jaw dropped while Sonic smirk as he was giving a plushie, which he smiled before seeing a colt looking at him in awed while Sonic gave him a plushie, which he smiled as Sunset smiled at Sonic's kindness.
They were now in bubble carts as they were each in a cart as they drove around and bumping into each other or other ponies who were riding on their own as they laughed and gave challenging smirks before they sped up and started bumping into each other.
But then they worked out of control before they crashed out of the stands while still in their carts, before they looked at each other from what just happened before they laughed.
They then went up to the Mane 7's stands while Sunset showed Sonic each of their own stands that Izzy created while showing different sections of their special talents and skills that they can expand and show others.
Sunset showed Sonic Sunny's smoothie stand, which made him smiled to know that Sunny's smoothie business has expanded a bit and had a taste with new flavors she can make as Sunset gave him a smoothie to taste, which he did as he gave an awed expression from the taste.
They walked up to Izzy's crafting stand where she can make her creations and use her unicycling skills, which made Sonic impressed to see how Izzy went so far.
They went up to Misty's popcorn stand, which made Sonic chuckled, knowing how much Misty loved that snack piece with different flavors.
And then finally, they went to Pipp's stand with all of her Mane Melody supplies and equipment set as Sonic smiled, knowing his Pipp would love this stand very much as he wondered if his friends from his world would have similar things if they found the abandoned carnival in their world.
Sonic and Sunset laughed as they walked through the forest near Maretime Bay. After everything they've done today, and with Sonic still having 15 minutes left before leaving, they wanted to finish up with a nice walk and chit chat.
"So the Nova Charm split up in 7 and is basically now 7 Nova Charms... Does that mean each of you gets to visit a dimension in specific, or you can all go to the same one which any of them?" Sonic asked, as Sunset finished narrating her adventure with Izzy that led them to bring over the Boardtrot.
"No clue," Sunset replied honestly with a shrug. "Each fragment is in our respective stands, but that's it. We haven't tested them out just yet."
"I see... And what about the guy with glasses?" Sonic asked next, as he jumped over some rocks over a swamp to get from one side to the other with ease, while Sunset just flew over it. "What was his name again? Cornet? Closet? Cornelius?"
Sunset laughed as Sonic guessed wrong. "Is Comet! And he went to explore Equestria all on his own. He always dreamed of seeing the world, and that's what he's doing now."
"Sounds like a lazy excuse to me because the writers just don't know what to do with him..." Sonic deadpanned after hearing this. "Well, I hope he's doing fine and liking what he sees so far. That being said, don't you think you should contact him and, you know, tell him the one b$& # that tormented him and his people are around again?" He pointed out, while one word he said was censored with a bip and the word "SEGA" covering his mouth.
"Sunny suggested the same, but... Don't you think it'll be cruel to ghost his peace away like that?" Sunset pointed out with concern. "He was freed from Allura, and just suddenly take his joy away... It doesn't seem fair."
"I agree that he should not fear her anymore. However, keeping it a secret from him is even worse." Sonic pointed out with a slight frown. "It's better if you don't put his trust at stake just because you wanna protect him... I already made that mistake with my own friends..."
"You mean when that guy, The End, haunted you for months?" Sunset reminded him with concern.
"...Yeah..." Sonic nodded, but then shook his head and smiled again, as if they weren't talking about something delicate at all just a second ago. "But the past is in the past. Gotta keep moving forward!"
Sunset, noticing this, raised an eyebrow. "Can I ask you something if you reply honestly to me?"
"I don't know, I would have to check my calendar." Sonic replied with a snort.
"Sonic, I'm serious!" Sunset said, as she suddenly stepped in front of him with a serious look, and Sonic understood her point, so he just arched a brow. "How's that... How do you do it?"
"...Do what?" Sonic questioned, confused.
"How do you manage to look past everyone's mistakes and move forward?" Sunset remade her question. "Like, you forgive me and Boom Sonic very quickly, and you even accepted the help of the one guy that's been a pain in the ass for you for a very long time! I... I don't get how you do it..."
"...I just do it?" Sonic shrugged, but Sunset's expression clearly told him that's no answer to her. "If you wonder why I don't hold grudges against anyone, or why I can keep moving on despite everything that's launched at me, it is because I don't like to get stuck in the past. It holds me back and makes me feel like I can't live my life because I'm letting mistakes that just don't matter anymore keep me stranded."
"Mistakes that don't matter anymore?!" Sunset asked, not offended, but very confused. "But what if some of those mistakes hurt others?! What if they hurt you?"
"Doesn't matter anymore," Sonic replied with a smile. "Mistakes happen all the time, and when we make them, we can't change them. But we can learn from them, or get stuck with them and make them our whole personality. Is up to anyone to make that choice. The point is that getting stranded in the past won't let you look forward to the future. You were a brat as a teenager, so what? Those days are way behind you now. You are a heroine now, a legend, even! What you did in the past, good or not, helped make the pony you are today. You can still not like those memories, but so long as you have learned from them, I don't see why worry so much about what was done."
"...Wow... Your Sunny is right... You have a heart like no one else does..." Sunset said with a smile.
"Hey, I'm just teaching you what I was taught by the one mother figure I had!" Sonic said with a grin while raising his arms as a sign of defense. "Besides, it is never too late to learn to be the best you that you can be."
"Have you considered getting a job as a school advisor or something?" Sunset asked with a smile.
"Ugh! Sunny and Pipp suggested the same, and my answer remains the same: No." Sonic rolled his eyes annoyed. "Besides Longclaw, life was my other teacher, and it was a rough one! Is better if people, and ponies, learn by themselves rather than relying so much on others."
"That is true... But you'd make a good advisor!" Sunset teased, slightly pushing him again.
"You're making me regret telling you all I told you..." Sonic deadpanned.
"I'm just joking!" Sunset said with a chuckle, as the two of them exited the forest with smiles and headed towards the Crystal Brighthouse once again, marking the end of Sonic's little visit to Sunset's universe.
End of Chapter 19.