Sonic and the Black Knight - The After Years: Rise of Darkness

Sonic flailed on the floor of Pinkie's room, and surrounded by four ponies and a female hedgehog. "What is the meaning of this?!" Sonic cried with clear anger. "You can't just drag the king wherever you want!"

Amy then walked up to Sonic and crouched down to his level with a smile on her mussel. "Now Sonic, you know that in the past my love for you would cause me to ignore any title you had for the sake of love." She then put her arm around Sonic's neck and pulled out her hammer. "But since now your already seeing someone else, the thought of seeing you sad is all that's keeping me from beating your butt into the ground."

Sonic then felt sweat fall from his head as he tried to get out of Amy's grip. "Ok, I'll be good! Now can you please let go of me?" Amy nodded and let go of him. "Now what is this all about anyway?"

Pinkie opened her mouth to say something, but a quick glare from Sonic caused her to slowly shut it again and looked down towards the floor. "First off Sonic, you can stop doing that to Pinkie Pie! I don't know what happened between you two, but it couldn't have been that bad!" Amy demanded.

Sonic turned and directed his glared towards the pink hedgehog. "You have NO idea-" Sonic was suddenly cut off by a cyan Pegasus with a Rainbow coloured mane and tail, bursting through the door.

"There you are Sire!" The Pegasus cried in relief as she bowed before him.

"Afternoon Rainbow Dash, what's wrong?" Sonic asked the Pegasus.

Rainbow Dash stood back up and approached the group. "Sire, the wonder bolts are waiting at the castle" The cyan pegasus proclaimed. "They bare a message from Princess Celestia, and Princess Luna from our neighbouring Kingdom, Canterlot."

"Ok, thank you Rainbow. I'll be over in a couple of minutes." Sonic thanked the pegasus, who saluted and flew back out the door. "Looks like we'll have to schedule this meeting for a different time, I have business to deal with." Sonic explained as he headed towards the door.

"Now hold on! You're not leaving until-" Amy started, but stopped when Sonic Ran out the door. "He's gone... Argh, what am I going to do with that hedgehog?!" The pink hedgehog exclaimed and slammed her Piko Piko into the floor. "Oops, Sorry Pinkie Pie."

"Oh it's ok, I'll just get Applejack to fix it later." The pink party Pony reassured while putting on a fake smile.

Meanwhile at Castle Camelot...

Sonic walked up to the throne room door and pushed it open with ease and was greeted by four Pegasi, Rainbow Dash who was sitting to the right of the throne, and three other pegasi in some blue uniforms, Sonic recognised them as Spitfire, Soarin, and Fleetfoot. However he also noticed that their uniforms were damaged like they had recently been in a battle. "Hey Soarin, Spitfire, Fleetfoot, Long time no see!" He cried as he made his way towards them.

But immediately after Sonic gained there attention Spitfire galloped towards the hedgehog and pinned him to the ground. "All right hedgehog, the Princesses want some answers from you, and they want them now!" The Fiery coloured pegasus exclaimed inches away from Sonic's face.

Sonic was shocked to say the least, he thought they were here for the usual negotiations, but here he was pinned down by one of the princesses elite pegasi who looks like she has the intent to kill. "Answers?" Sonic finally asked. "Answers for what?"

Spitfire intensified her hold on Sonic as her anger grew. "Don't give me that! You know full well what for!" Now Sonic was really confused, just what were they accusing him of?

"I swear, I have no idea what your talking about!" Sonic cried desperately.

Spitfire growled angrily and further narrowed her eyes at the hedgehog. "OK, I'll bite." The fiery coloured Pegasus whispered. "Why did you send Lancelot to attack us last night?!"

"Wh-what?!" Sonic and Rainbow Dash cried in disbelief. "But that can't be! Lancelot was here all night! Not to mention he's been to demotivated to fight!" Sonic explained.

"Don't lie to us hedgehog!" Fleetfoot cried as she approached the two. "The one who attacked us was undoubtedly Lancelot!"

"Before jumping to conclusions, how about you explain what happened." Sonic requested. "We may be able to explain."

Spitfire continued to glare at the hedgehog for a minute before she finally stepped away from Sonic. "Fine, we'll tell you what happened."

-Last night in the Canterlot castle throne room-

"Sister are you alright?" Princess Luna asked her sister beside her. "You've been in deep thought for half the night. Shouldn't you be getting some sleep?"

Celestia opened her eyes and looked towards her younger sister. "I know I should, but something just doesn't feel right." Celestia explained and glared at the door. "I feel as if there is an ominous presence approaching."

"What do you mean sister?" Luna asked the larger Alicorn.

Celestia just continued to glare at the door, until suddenly- "Get down!" Celestia cried as she put a shield around Luna and herself. Immediately afterwards the doors were blown off their hinges by two yellow energy spears which disappeared as they collided with Celestia's shield.

She then lowered the shield as a figure stepped into the throne room. "Bravo Princess. I wouldn't expect anything less." The figure complimented.

"Who are thou, and what business do thou have with us?!" Luna proclaimed using the Royal voice.

The figure stepped into the light and revealed what he looked like. Celestia recognised him as ?Lancelot, but something seamed off about him. "What else?" ?Lancelot spoke. " To kill you and take your kingdom."

"Lancelot what is the meaning of this?!" Celestia exclaimed in disbelief. "We are at peace with Camelot, why are you here to assassinate us?!"

?Lancelot chuckled coldly. "That's confidential. Now enough talk. Die!" ?Lancelot Cried as he threw two more chaos spears towards the princesses.

Celestia was able to put up her shield again before the spears could reach them. "Send for the Wonderbolts, Immediately!" Celestia ordered.

"Oh, I'm afraid there a bit pre-occupied at the moment." ?Lancelot Chuckled as he pulled out his sword. "Now, prepare yourselves! Chaos, Punishment!" ?Lancelot then flew towards the two princesses and slashed their shield rapidly, disappearing and reappearing after each slash.

After a minute, the constant slashing was starting to take it's toll as the strain was starting to show on Celestia's face. "Starting to ware down are we?" ?Lancelot asked mockingly at her who just grunted and continued to focus on the shield. "Enough playing around. Time to finish this off!" ?Lancelot then landed on his feet and started charging energy into his sword. "Chaos... Break!" He then flew forward and stuck the shield which immediately shattered upon his collision.

Celestia then fell forward and fainted from exhaustion. "Sister!" Luna cried worryingly.

?Lancelot chuckled evilly as he approached the two sisters. "A valiant effort, but it's useless to resist." The knight then conjured a chaos spear in each hand and got into a throwing position. "Now die!" ?Lancelot began to two the first spear, but it was thrown of track when he was suddenly punched from the side. The spear landed near the far right of then room, while ?Lancelot flew into the left wall and out the side of the building.

"Luckily... I got here... when I... did." The fiery coloured Wonder bolt struggled to speak as she turned towards the princesses. "You... two... ok?"

Luna nodded happily. "Yes, thank you Spitfire! You saved our lives."

Spitfire chuckled embarrassingly until her legs suddenly gave way under her. "Is it over?" She asked tiredly.

"Well unless Lancelot grew wings somehow I don't think we're going to be hearing from him again." Luna joked.

Suddenly the sound of jet engines erupted from the other side of the wall, and there smiles faded when a familiar black hedgehog rose up the building until he could be completely seen through the hole. ?Lancelot was holding the left side of his head, and was giving the three of them a huge death glare. At that moment they knew he was done playing around. "That does it..." He muttered lowly. "This kingdom will fall... Mark my words, Princesses." With that ?Lancelot teleported away, leaving fear in Luna, and Spitfire's minds.

-Present Day-

Sonic and Rainbow Dash sat there in disbelief while Spitfire finished her explanation. "We can't simply let a threat like that go with out taking action. So hand over Lancelot so he can face his punishment or else!" Spitfire demanded.

Sonic thought for a second before speaking again. "There's just one more thing I have to ask that might clear this all up."

Spitfire confusingly raised her eye brow. "And what would that be?"

"What was the colour of his armour?" Sonic asked confident he knew the answer.

"His armour?" The fiery coloured pegusus repeated. "It was gold."

Sonic lowered his head and banged his fist against the wall. "Damn it! Shadow's getting even more reckless!"

"Shadow?" Fleetfoot repeated. "Who's Shadow?"

"He's one of my friends." Sonic explained.

"You see almost a week ago, he took a cursed sword from the weapon vault. It contained the spirit of the Evil version of King Arthur, and if anyone were to wield the sword there body and mind would be possessed by his spirit. And we have only until the end of the month to take the sword from him or else the possession will become permanent." Rainbow finished explaining.

Spitfire glared at the hedgehog with clear distrust in her eyes. "Is this legit? Cause if you are just making up excuses, we will have no choice but to-"

Spitfire was cut off when the Throne room doors were flung open and a Silver hedgehog was standing in the opening and was clearly out of breath. "There you are Sonic!" Silver exclaimed. "I've been looking all over for you!"

"Uh, hey Silver." Sonic greeted the telekinetic hedgehog. "What's the problem?"

Silver quickly closed them gap between them and held up the holo device. "I found this in Shadow's room. It contains a recorded message from just before he went to take the sword."

"R-really?!" Sonic stammered in disbelief. "Well what are you waiting for? Play it!"

Silver nodded and pressed a button on the side which caused the device to light up and showed a small hologram of Shadow. "Sonic." The hologram started. "If you are watching this, then what you warned me about came true." At this moment rainbow and the three wonder bolts gathered around the device and watch patiently.

"I have by now attack you and probably many others." The hologram continued. "If this is the case, then you must use any means necessary to stop me from harming anyone else. Even if it means... taking my life." Sonic, Silver, and Rainbow were taken back by this statement. "You can't let your feelings get in the way of protecting your kingdom. If you must take my life then you can't hesitate, or else you maybe putting everyone else in danger. If this is the case then this maybe the last time I'll get to say this. Goodbye my eternal, Sonic the Hedgehog."

With that the hologram disappeared and the six of them were left with shocked expressions. "You... weren't kidding." Spitfire muttered.

"H-How?" Sonic whispered. "How does he expect us to just kill him, just like that?" Sonic then fell to his knees and slammed his fists on the floor. "Damn it! Is there really no way we can save him?!"

"Sonic-" Silver started but was interrupted by the doors flying open yet again.

"HOLD IT!"

The group, minus Sonic, looked towards the doorway to see a cloaked figure standing there pointing his hoof at them. "Are you really going to give up so easily your highness?"

"Huh? And just might you be?" Rainbow asked the cloaked pony.

The pony then flipped his cloak's hood off the reveal a aqua blue unicorn, with aqua blue eyes, and a dark green mane. "My name is, Ashton Origans." The Unicorn introduced himself. " Formally known as the Knight of the Stars, and former Knight of the Round Table."