Sonic Discord - Equestrian Chaos
Part 2 Chapter 1a: Mane City Speedway
Previous ChapterNext ChapterRainbow Dash woke up in a large city. The first living thing she saw was a large blue creature with spiky hair...
Sonic woke up in a strangely familiar city with a slightly outdated style... the company that sold "Soap" rail grinding shoes isn't even around anymore. Next to him was a blue pony with a rainbow mane and tail...
Sonic was sure he had been in this city before... if he remembered right, Shadow had been released and went on a crime spree, causing him to get the blame, and he had to outrun the international military group G.U.N. (Guardian Unit of Nations) through the city. In the end he had to outrun a crazy armored truck, fight a mech suit, and after all that he still failed to escape.
But why the advertising for Soap shoes? They ceased production years ago, he barely remembered the advertising for them. He wasn't THAT young when it happened. He's only 15 after all, and would thus have still been a pudgy little kid with short legs if the Soap shoe ads were to be believed.
Except, there was also a billboard for Phantasy Star Online for the Sega Dreamcast... the Dreamcast stopped production even earlier than Soap shoes did and Phantasy Star Online was an old series. The original games mostly ran on legacy hardware and servers if they even still ran, and the billboard was for the VERY FIRST GAME.
Enough of that, time to stand up and get his bearings. In front of him was a blue pegasus pony with a rainbow mane and tail. He'd seen a lot of odd things, but he had never seen a blue and rainbow pony.
Rainbow Dash had never seen a city that looked quite like this. There were odd vehicles all over the place, and the newspaper ads in the newspaper section in front of her showed strange looking creatures in it's photos and drawings. The blue creature wasn't even one of the creatures but had the same general body structure. 2 legs ending in feet instead of hooves, a main body section, 2 arms ending in those... things that were not hooves but were definitely not paws or claws. A head at the top of the body. In addition, unlike the creatures in the newspaper ads, the blue thing's only discernible clothes were shoes and gloves. But the creatures in the ads had hardly any of their bodies visible, seemingly having outfits for all sorts of styles and occasions.
Getting back on her hooves, she took a look around... this was definitely not any city she had seen before. Could the image in the sky have been a different world?
Seeing that Rainbow Dash was back on her feet, Sonic looked at her with a smile. "Good to see you're ok. After that image of a village appeared in the sky above the city of Station Square and everything went black I wasn't sure if anyone else survived. But this city is completely different than Station Square..."
Rainbow Dash was a little surprised, she had never seen such a being before so hearing it... him... talk was another strange thing. "Huh? Wait, you saw a village in the sky above a city? But I saw a city in the sky above Ponyville!"
Wait, if the pony had seen a city above her village... perhaps the village in the sky was the "Ponyville" she spoke of? "Interesting... that Discord guy I fought earlier said something about horsing around, with an emphasis on the word 'horsing', and that he wasn't as strong in my world as he was in his own world. Would you know anything about him?"
Rainbow Dash's eyes opened wide the moment she heard that name. "Discord? Twilight- my friend was in a panic, saying something about him just before everything went black and I got sent here! If he's the reason we're here, we have a common enemy!"
"You may have a point. What's your name? I'm Sonic. Sonic the Hedgehog." Sonic put out his hand, offering a hand... hoof... whatever shake.
"Rainbow Dash, the fastest flyer in Equestria!" Rainbow Dash returned the favor.
Sonic looked forward. "We won't get very far just standing here. How about we check this place out? You said you're a fast flyer? Well they don't call me 'Sonic' for nothing." Sonic prepared himself for a running start, with a friendly but slightly competitive smile.
Rainbow Dash liked those words. "Finally, somepony who speaks my language!" she said as she opened up her wings and prepared for a takeoff.
ESCAPE FROM THE CITY (Sonic Adventure 2)
Sonic and Rainbow Dash shot forward down the sloped road, turning off to the right after a bit as to go any further forward would ram them into a building. Going further led to another turn or 2, as they went down that path there was a billboard for an old movie called "Chao in Space 2". A couple of turns not unlike the shape of an "S" block from Tetris and they went forward, going over an overlook area looking over a parklike lower level. On the wall were missing posters for Mighty the Armadillo and Ray the Flying Squirrel, as well as wanted posters for Bean the Dynamite, Bark the Polar Bear, and Fang the Sniper, who also had the alias "Nack the Weasel".
Rainbow Dash got a brief lead, since Sonic was held back by gravity. But he soon caught up with her as he followed the path (with a billboard for a very early 2000s looking poster for the movie "Planet of the Chaos" and a poster for the Sega Saturn game "NiGHTS into DREAMS" along the way) through an elegant city park leading to... a loop just like he saw in that game Tails found featuring him. Having little choice but to go forward, he hoped for the best...
The loop led straight down a wall. At the bottom were some powerful diagonal springboards, though why they were there was a mystery. Rainbow Dash caught him on his way back down, though, a fortunate thing.
Ahead was a path to a downward walkway, then an upward stairway leading to a barricaded wall with a narrow crawl space under it... if Sonic remembered this right, having gone through this place twice... the second time because of a time travel adventure...
EVENT 5 - THE PAST (Sonic Adventure)
"Rainbow Dash, do you see a large truck anywhere?" Sonic asked.
She replied with "What's a truck?"
"A large metal vehicle, very powerful and tough."
"No, but I do see a long road leading to another city ahead." Rainbow Dash replied as she looked beyond the wall.
"Wait... if the incline isn't there... then perhaps this actually isn't my world... that city ahead looks familiar as well too, but it was never anywhere near where we are." Sonic then went under the barricade as Rainbow Dash flew over the wall, following the road as the buildings got less frequent... until they went into a small market out of hunger as well as for a rest. Sonic was not usually one to steal, but they were hungry and it wasn't like there would be any people around to object, considering how things were going so far.
-MEANWHILE-
LAZY DAYS (Livin in Paradise)
In some overgrown ruins, a big purple cat (coincidentally named Big the Cat) had a small simple home by the river that had long ago become part of the jungle that now dominated an ancient city, formerly inhabited by echidnas, but with a resemblance to the ancient human city of Tikal. Big was accompanied by a frog, named Froggy, who was his best friend in the world. Though one has to wonder about someone whose best friend is a frog...
Big was coming back from his fishing trip with a container of his next meal when he found a winged gray pony with a blond mane and tail. Carefully he picked her up and carried her to his home, putting her on his usual spot where she could get some shelter. Eventually she came to, her eyes were a blend of yellow and orange, and seemingly not properly aligned.
Upon seeing she was awake, Big said "Oh, you're awake, little pony. Me and my friend found you knocked out in the jungle, where you might be in danger. So we took you here where you would be safer."
"Who are you? Where are we?" the pony asked Big.
"I'm Big the Cat" he replied, and showing her the frog said "and this is my friend Froggy. My home is in some old place, I think I heard the human explorers call it the Mystic Ruins. What is your name?"
The pony replied "My name is Derpy. Nice to meet you!" She then asked "What is a human?"
Not sure how exactly to reply, Big's best reply was "Umm... some creature. Mostly hairless bodies, almost like a hairless ape."
Derpy's eyes opened wide with childlike enthusiasm, as if she had just been told about a fairytale fantasy creature. "Are they still here?"
Looking at her like in disappointment, he told her "Sadly no, they aren't here right now."
Derpy was understandably disappointed by this news, but as she got up she felt something moving around in her saddle bag. Releasing it she took out a large blue gem and stared at it. "What a nice gem" she said in amazement.
In a rare moment of insight into the modern world, Big gave her a piece of advice. He told her "If you sold that, you could probably buy whatever you needed."
Anything she needed... Derpy liked the sound of that. "Muffins?" Big answered that with a nod saying yes.
"I don't know how you got here, but please stay a little while and eat." Big couldn't let his new friend leave hungry.
-BACK IN THE OUTSKIRTS OF THE CITY-
Sonic and Rainbow Dash resumed their expedition, as they went up a hill. What they saw was a road going downhill... and that the city ahead was a whole land level lower than the one they had left. The city itself was also a lot flashier than the previous one too. And Sonic knew for a fact he had been here before, twice in fact, and again the second time was because of Eggman's time travel plot.
RUN THROUGH THE SPEED HIGHWAY (Sonic Adventure)
The long, downwardly inclined road was winding and wavy and weaving, but that was the least of his worries as the Cop Speeders (flying saucer like robots, though grounded, that resembled a cross between a policeman and his car) made their triumphant return. Sonic couldn't help but notice this city had posters and ads for Chao in Space, the first movie, promoting it as if it were new (when the previous city was promoting Chao in Space 2 in the same manner). Finding a road oddly ending at a building top which had a rocket with handles near the edge, Sonic took a chance and grabbed the handles. The rocket took off and led him to a road seemingly starting in the middle of nowhere, it's edge suspended over the city below. Rainbow Dash was quick to follow him.
Once again, the road wound and weaved and waved, in the distance off to the side was a tall building with a brilliantly lit replica of NiGHTS's head. At the end of the road was another rocket, which led Sonic to the top of another tall building... with a path curving down.
[BGM STOPS]
"Well Dash, are you ready?" Sonic asked as he prepared to do something nopony who didn't have wings would do back in Rainbow Dash's world.
Rainbow Dash was understandably alarmed. "Are you crazy? You could get killed!"
Sonic on the other hand, was not too bothered. "Hey, if things go wrong, I have you to catch me."
Not entirely relieved, but seeing his point, Rainbow Dash replied "Can't argue with that, I guess. I don't feel entirely right with this though..."
"Well third time's a charm!"
GOIN' DOWN? (Sonic Adventure)
Sonic started down the building's side, dodging pillars joining it to the building across from it, and shattering the glass ceilings in front of him just with his speed as he jumped off and his fall was barely broken by an indoor garden. Rainbow Dash had never seen anypony pull off such a crazy stunt without wings.
RUN THROUGH THE SPEED HIGHWAY (Sonic Adventure)
The two of them went through a parking garage full of police cars, which Rainbow Dash could tell had some form of authority even though she had never seen them before.
AT DAWN (Sonic Adventure)
Upon reaching the outside world again... they saw something that Sonic had never seen before.
To all appearances, it was Manhattan. Manhattan from a slightly simpler time, but it looked like Manhattan. Except... every single statue and image was of a pony. In fact, everything seemed to be made for a 4 legged body structure or at least to accommodate one.
Sonic could not help but ask "Where are we?"
Rainbow Dash looked around... the large pony statue in the distance wearing robes while holding up a torch with one hoof looked familiar. "I think we're in Manehattan" she replied.
Of course Sonic had never heard of such a place. "Manehattan? I know of a city called Manhattan and it kind of looks like this place, but I guess this place is from your world."
They went as far as a city park, where they saw an unusual sight accompanied by an unusual sound. The sound was an odd sound, possibly painful to anyone who works with anything like cars or anything else with an engine or motor
As it could be heard, a blue phone booth, apparently one for calling the police, appeared out of literally nothing and nowhere. The door swung open as a brown pony with blue eyes, probably a male as it looked more manly (by pony standards) than Rainbow Dash, came out, and on it's flank was a picture of an hourglass.
As he looked at the scenery, he seemed worried, and in a British accent, said "Well this isn't Ponyville."
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