Midnight Shadow

The Land of Equestria was lush, green and full of life, as the first day of spring had begun. This land was populated with all sorts of ponies, such as unicorns, Pegasus, earth ponies and the rare alicorns. The Land was ruled by 2 powerful alicorn princesses , Princess Celestia, who had the power to raise the sun and she ruled over the day, while her younger sister Princess Luna had the power to raise the moon while ruling over the night.

Along with them, there was a 3rd Alicorn princess. Princess Twilight Sparkle she along with her 5 friends would usually defend Equestria from threats, all while learning more about friendship and how it can overcome most obstacles.

One of these ponies was walking out on a field after tending to some benevolent animals in the forest and some in her sanctuary, she had yellow fur a pink mane 3 butterflies on each of her sides, and had moderate cyan eyes, her name was Fluttershy. She was heading into town to meet up with her friends until something caught her eye...

About 10 yards away there was an "animal" on the ground. It had black spiky hair that parted to the sides along with red streaks in them, gloves with rings at the wrist, along with white steel like shoes that also had rings at the ankles. Fluttershy quickly raced to the creature to see if it was injured.

"Oh you poor thing, are you alright" Fluttershy asked

No response which made Fluttershy begin to slowly panic

"Ar-Ar-Are you hurt please ANSWER ME" Fluttershy all but screamed

Upon hearing this the creature twitched his left ear a little before opening it's eyes and instantly sitting up taking in it's surroundings before it's eyes saw Fluttershy.

"Who are you" it asked

Fluttershy not at all surprised that this animal could talk since she was usually able to talk and communicate with them just simply answered

"My name is Fluttershy sweetie, now then are you okay are you hurt? She asked

The creature got up and simply dusted himself off

"No I'm fine but thanks for asking" It said "Now then where the hell am i"

"Your right outside the town of Ponyville, are you lost or someting"

"No I'm just looking for the ones who call themselves "Mane 6" it said while walking and looking around"

"Well then you found one of them and I was just going into town to see the rest of my friends"

The creature looked a little surprised but then gave a half smile.

"Well then It seems that this won't be as hard as I thought" he thought to himself then turned back to Fluttershy "do you mind if I follow you so I can meet them myself" he asked

"Of course you can the town is just a little down the road" Fluttershy said and with that the 2 of them headed into town together

"By the way do you have a name sweetheart" Fluttershy asked

The creature just turned to her and said...

"I'm Shadow...Shadow The Hedgehog"
As Shadow And Fluttershy arrived in the town of Ponyville, Shadow noticed that the townsfolk kept staring at him, giving him suspicious looks. He retaliated by giving them his trademark glare which caused most of them to turn away in fear, leaving Shadow to chuckle to himself.

Then they has finally arrived at a crystal like castle that kinda resembled a star Fluttershy then walked up to the door and knocked on the door which was answered by a, small purple dragon?
“Oh hi Fluttershy, Twilight is just in the map room waiting for the others” the dragon then saw Shadow behind Fluttershy and was immediately put off upon seeing him
“Um who the heck is that, another one of your pets? he asked which resulted in Shadow giving him a dirty look.
“ Um no Spike, this is Shadow he's with me to meet Twilight and the others” Fluttershy answered
Spike just shrugged and led them inside to the throne room
While walking to the throne Fluttershy turned and whispered to Shadow
“You're going to enjoy meeting my friends ,Shadow” she said
Shadow just nodded
“Looking forward to it” he said his voice showing signs of disinterest
Upon arriving into the throne room Shadow and Fluttershy saw a purple allicorn looking through rows and rows of books frantically.
“Where is it, where is it, she said as she kept looking through the rows of books she then said she saw Shadow and Fluttershy
“Oh hi Fluttershy come on in the others are on their way don't mind me I'm just looking for a spell I need, and by the way who's your friend”
“Hi Twilight This is Shadow” Fluttershy said “Shadow, this is Princess Twilight Sparkle”
“Nice to meet you” Twilight said
“The pleasure is all yours” Shadow said still showing no interest.
“Hmm Twilight Sparkle, Midnight Sparkle, is there a connection?” Shadow thought to himself
“So what brings you to Ponyville Shadow” Twilight asked, in which Fluttershy spoke up
“He says that he was looking for us because he needed our help for some reason right Shadow?” She asked

Although Midnight Sparkle told him what to say when asked that certain question Shadow decided to dodge it for now..
“It's a long story but I'll explain later” Shadow said
Twilight just simply nodded “very well then, the rest of my friends will be arriving shortly, why don't you come and meet them?” she said
Shadow just nodded in agreement, might as well get introductions out of the way early on.

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Twilight was serious when she said her friends would be here soon, he barely had to wait 5 minutes. Twilight stayed quite the whole time, going back to her books and going on as if he wasn’t there. That wasn’t necessarily a bad thing, he never did like a lot of attention.

When the “mane six” he was told about arrived they looked like the cast of a TV show, as colorful as Sonic’s friends once were.

One of them had a strange Sonic-like vibe to them.

“Uh...Twilight? There's some weird...black...alien looking thing behind you.” stated the cyan pegasus with the Sonic vibe.

As Twilight opened her mouth to respond Shadow beat her to it, “Im not some “alien looking thing” and I have a name, you weird, blue. bird-horse thing.” Shadow responded with his usual dose of hostility, knowing very well that she was a pegasus.

“Watch it pal. Tell me what you’re doing here right now.” she said getting in his face.

“And why exactly do I have to explain myself to you?” Shadow scoffed.

“Couse I’ll kick your brains in if you dont, that is if you have any.” Rainbow said with her best threatening voice.

“Oh I would like to see you try.” he responds with a visible smirk.

“Ok, stop it, both of you! Twilight yelled getting between both of them.

All of Twilight’s friends have gathered around the two, watching what seemed to be the fastest escalating fight in the history of Equestria.

“Rainbow, it's not exactly the nicest thing to threaten guests!” She says as she turns towards the now bored looking black hedgehog.

“And you, were you TRYING to get into a fight the second you saw somepony new?!”

“Oh of course not, I just dont particularly enjoy being referred to as an “it”.” he said sounding like he very much DID want to get into a fight. “That and where I come from you don't fu**ing tell someone they’re an alien and expect something nice in return.” he finished, directing his last comment at the cyan pegasus.

“Oh come on! I didn’t know what you were, or are, when I said that! You expect me to instantly know that you're not some weird Everfree creature that got into the castle? You don't exactly look like the usual sentient being you know.” She said in her defense.

“Does she always start a fight and then come up with some lame excuse for it when shes caught? Cause one day she's gonna piss off the wrong guy and regret it in the not so distant future.” he says to Twilight, while directing the latter at RD.

“Is that a threat?” she says as she flies a few feet of the ground.

“Oh, I wouldn’t threaten someone as obviously dangerous as you. I am completely and utterly outmatched. I bet those feathery wings could cut me right in half.” he says in a voice void of any emotion.

Everyone, including Twilight, just stared at him.

“I think you just crossed the line mister.” the orange pony said with a southern accent.

“Oh you think you’re so tough? Ha! I could fly circles around you in my sleep!” She said, this guy was asking for a good old dose of humiliation.

A full on grin appeared on the face of the dark hedgehog, a very rare sight indeed. He was going to enjoy this. Did she actually think she stood a chance?

“You do know who you’re talking to, right? I am the Ultimate Lifeform, rival to the late fastest thing alive.” Shadow said, making sure she didn’t think racing him was gonna be some everyday “so then I challenged bob to a race” kinda thing.

“Fastest thing alive my flank! I know you’re not from around here so I’ll clear it up for you, Im the fastest flier in equestria.” she said, not believing that this guy seemed to be serious about challenging her, this was gonna be a fun day afterall.

“Alright then, you think you’re fast? Prove it. Catch me if you can!” And with that he activated his skates and sped out of the castle in a blur.

“You are so on!!!!!” Rainbow exclaimed and with that she took off after Shadow in hot pursuit….

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Looks like that annoying ponys gonna get what she deserves, no one challenges him and gets out of it without humiliation.

“Ive got to give you some credit here, you weren’t lying when you said you’re fast.” said the cyan pegasus who was now flying alongside him. Shadow was actually quite surprised to see her, he was currently going somewhere around 400 miles per hour and didn’t expect her to catch up this fast.

“Same to you.” he said, successfully covering up the large amount of surprise he felt at her unusual speed.

“But you’re gonna have to do better than this to beat me!” she said with a confident smile. “And by the way, where exactly are we racing to?” she asked.

“Oh, I never said we were racing.” he says with a smirk. “All you have to do is catch me.” he said trying his best to imply that this was gonna be easy, which it wasn’t.

“Ha, you’re still going with that “catch me if you can” thing aren’t you?” she laughed slightly as she quickly extended her hoof in an attempt to quickly tag him.

Perfect, she fell for it. Ha, I cant believe it.

As her hoof was about to make contact with him......