Chaos and Elements

Wind and Crusaders

"Sonic, I'm glad to see you're okay, at least." Celestia said. They'd been back for an hour, in which time Sonic had explained what exactly happened.

"Yeah, I'm kinda happy, too." Sonic joked.

"So, you're leaving here now, huh?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"Yeah, I hate heights... But you'll all be back in two days, right?"

"Yeah, ah can't leave mah farm unattended for too long." Applejack said.

"The same with my boutique, darling. It won't run itself."

"Well, fine. I get some alone time, and you guys get a break from me. I know, I know, I'm unbearable." He said, chuckling.

"No more than Rainbow Dash." A voice piped up from the back of the room. Everyone looked, and saw....

"Fluttershy?"

Everyone except Rainbow burst into laughter at the timid pegasus's surprise comment. The fact that it was Fluttershy, of all ponies, who had said it made it worse.

One hour later

Sonic whooped with joy, finally being able to cut loose and just run for the first time since he had come to Equestria. He couldn't do it around the others, save Rainbow Dash, but now he was just enjoying the breeze. He was so enthralled in his running, that he very nearly hit a small filly, quickstepping out of the way just in time, and skidding to a stop.

"Mister..." The white unicorn filly panted. "Mister, you have to help my friend! She's stuck on a cliff!!!"

Sonic's demeanor changed instantly, "Where?"

"F-follow me!" The filly said, turning around.

"No time for that!" Sonic said, running forward and picking her up.

Within seconds, the aforementioned cliff came into view, an orange pegasus filly nervously pacing back and forth on top of it.

"Oh, thank Celestia you found somepony! Apple Bloom!!!!!!! Hang tight!!!!" The newer filly yelled.

'Apple Bloom? These must be the Cutie Mark Crusaders that the others were talking about.' Sonic thought as he looked over the edge. While it wasn't steep enough to hurt him if he fell, it could still seriously injure a small child. Apple Bloom was hanging onto a small branch that looked as though it could break any moment. He jumped over the edge, with the remaining Crusaders gasping at him, and landed roughly as the branch snapped, Apple Bloom plummeted through the air, screaming as she went. Sonic shook the landing off, diving to catch the filly, only barely grabbing her before she hit the ground. He rolled onto his side, absorbing most of her momentum and breaking her fall.

"Th-thank you, mister." Apple Bloom said. She was tearing up.

"It's okay. Are you alright?" He asked, genuine concern in his voice. His side hurt where she had hit, but he could see no visible damage to her.

"Ah'm fine.... Just a li'l shook up."

"Whoa, that was so cool!" He heard behind him, comforting the crying filly.

"Thank you so much for helping us, mister!!!" The squeaky one said.

"It's fine." He said. "Helping people is kind of what I do. " He put Apple Bloom down, having made sure she'd calmed down some first, and turned around to confront them all at once. "So let me guess, you're the Cutie Mark Crusaders, huh?"

"Yep!" The orange one replied. "I'm Scootaloo, this is Sweetie Belle," She said, pointing to the squeaky voiced one, who waved, "And you've already met Apple Bloom."

"So, how did Apple Bloom get stuck on that cliff?"

"It was kind of weird... We were crusading like normal, and suddenly that cliff appeared out of nowhere! Apple Bloom got stuck in it, and I stayed back while Sweetie ran to get help." Sonic didn't believe one bit of her story.

"Scootaloo, I want to ask you something." He got down on his knee and looked her straight in the eyes. "Are you telling me the truth?"

"Yes. Why would I lie?" She didn't blink, or flinch one bit. Either that was the real story, or she was incredibly good at lying.

"That's what happened, mister Sonic. Ah don't know how, ah don't know why, but that cliff just appeared outta nowhere. It don't make no sense, neither." Apple Bloom would have no reason to lie.

"Well, I can think of one explanation!" A voice said.

"Who's there?" Sonic said, getting up and looking around.

"Behind you." The voice said. Sonic turned around, and saw a blue unicorn with a bright green mane, with a bright red stripe going down its middle. She had aqua-colored eyes, with slitted pupils, and wore a black jumpsuit-like thing with a black cape, as well. "Hello, I am Sonic Wind."

'Wow. Really?' Sonic thought. "What do you want?"

"Well, you see, I want those fillies dead, but you'll make a fine substitute!" She said, firing a blast of deep green energy at him. He jumped out of the way, and rolled into a fighting stance.

"Girls! Get out of here!!!!" He yelled, and they obliged without hesitation. Sonic used his speed to charge at the unicorn, but she put up some sort of force field that only left him wide open for another attack.

"Wondering why I'm called Sonic?" The mare tauntingly asked.

"Wanna know why I'm called Sonic?" The hedgehog shot back before hitting her with an uppercut.

"Gah! It's because I specialize in attacking with sonic waves!!!!!! Hahahahah!!!!! And unless you can manipulate sound, you're out of luck!!!!!" She said, bringing up a shield around her.

"Well. They call me Sonic because I can break the sound barrier!!!!!!!!" He said, running off to gain speed. He briefly saw a look of terror on Sonic Wind's face as he burst through her shield, before his barrier shattering fist connected with her face, sending her flying.

She got up quickly, though struggled to stay standing , and said: "Well, Sonic. Looks like you won this round! But I'll make sure you're dead before this is over with!" She teleported off.

'Well. This trip just got a whole lot more interesting.' He thought.