Author's Note

This was a surprise, is it? Yeah, this fic isn't dead yet. I was planning to hold this fic until my graduation, but it was a long hiatus. So I've decided to write this fic whenever I have the free time. I'm doing my last school project of this year so I'm going to need all the time to do it. I still hope my loyal fans are still reading this, and I hope to see you soon.

Chapter 6: All Together Now

Chapter 6: All together now

"Oh, you two must be a great couple!" Twilight complimented Amy's 'relationship' with Sonic, "What are your names?"

"Oh, I'm Amy Rose!" Amy pointed herself towards the alicorn, "That's Shadow right there, he isn't a great talker,"

"Hmm," Shadow groaned as he turned to the lavender pony, "You must know where Sonic and Tails' are, correct?"

Twilight quickly answered his question, "Of course, Tails' is my castle and Sonic went into town for a bit. I think he's just outside the sugar cube corner,"

"Good, we need to talk about our current situation with Tails' machine going haywire," Amy went along and to, "Oh, I can't see him again!"

"It's not even an hour and you're acting like you've never seen him in months!" Shadow tone of voice went aggressive.

"I know, I always miss him when he's not around."

"Uggh!" Shadow facepalmed.

"Okay, let's go!" Twilight told them to come out of their seats and walked out the front door.

As they walked out the door, they saw the blue hedgehog sitting outside the store with two ponies across from him. A cyan blue furred Pegasus with a multi-colored hair laughing next with him.

"They seem to be getting along," Twilight smiled at her two friends chatting with the hedgehog.

"I don't think she is taking it well though," Shadow pointed to Amy, he had her two fists crunched up and squeezed tight.

"Not...my...Sonic," Amy shivering herself, containing her anger.

"What's wrong with her?" Twilight worried as she turned to Shadow's help.

"This is the part where we run away," Shadow, with no emotion or concern, answered her.

We go back to Tails, Silver, and Knuckles as they were contemplating about their missing friends and chaos emeralds. Knuckles' was holding up the emerald for inspection, since his time guarding the emeralds and master emerald might sense the others too. Silver was reading the same book Tails' was beforehand.

"So, let me get this straight," Silver began to speak up, "This world has two princesses that both control how the sun and moon rotate and these pegasi are used to control the weather and seasonal changes?"

"That's apparently how it works here," Tails confirmed to Silver, "How's the emerald sense coming Knuckles?"

"I think I sense somewhere close by," Knuckles gave an answer, "I think this is it guys,"

"Okay, let's head over to town and find that chaos emerald," Silver said, putting down the book and standing up.

"Let me just grabbed my stuff," Tails interrupted the two, "Can't go without the essentials"

"Hey Tails', do you still have that portal projector?" Knuckles questioned the fox, still grabbing his shoulder bag.

"Yeah, but remember it only has 5 minutes before it runs out of energy," he answered.

"But if we could power it with the emerald, can we create an easy excess gate into our world and Equestria?" asked the red echidna again.

"That could work," Tails scratched his chin, grabbing the little thin, in the shape of a hockey puck, "But that much chaos energy on a small little device could overload it, causing a minor chaos control. I can try to tweak it so that it can handle that much energy, but I need some parts back in my lab,"

"But you have only five minutes to get everything you need," Silver bumped into the conversation.

"I know." Pondered the fox, "Let's deal with it later, let's go,"

The three head out the door as soon as Tails' was about to close his room door. Knuckles' was a bit ahead from both of them, and Silver quietly followed the group, trying to look at the wonderful castle interior. As they were about to pass the twin doors that lead outside, the group was interrupted by a familiar pink unicorn, still looking about bruised up.

"Heading out already?" Starlight asked straight up to there faces.

"Oh Starlight, we were heading out for a bit" Tails answered her sudden question, "Check the town and all,"

"By the way," Knuckles popped a question out of the blue, "Why does your face look a bit beaten up?"

Starlight felt embarrassed to answer his question, "I can't really explain it in that much, I gist got into an accident and all,"

"I'll go with that answer for now okay," Knuckles stared at her for a bit, "But next time tell the actual story,"

The three finally left the castle and headed off to the village, following a pathway towards the lively village. Not too long ago they reached the center of the village, where various ponies were in their respected vendors selling products. Knuckles decides to check on the chaos energy he senses and left without a trace, leaving Silver and Tails just by themselves.

"Looks like Knux just left without us," Silver pointed out his missing friend.

"I'm sure he'll be back," replied the twin-tailed fox, "It couldn't be that long for him to get lost,"

"True,"

Tails and Silver gracefully walked around the various stalls around the town, seeing fruits, veggies, and other foods. Surprisingly, most of the stuff here are exactly the same stuff is back in their dimension. Tails' was checking out a bookstall located not so far off of Silver, staring at an Apple booth operated by a familiar face.

"Hey Applejack!" Silver waived his hand while walking towards her booth, "You have a booth here too?"

"Oh, heya Silver" Aj greeted her acquainted friend back, "I'm in charge of here sellin the apples back at the farm to ponies in ponyville

Meanwhile, Knuckles on his side of things was carefully walking around the town, giving a stern look at places that might house the chaos emeralds. He can sense an emerald from very close from his general direction like it's just right off the corner. His silent searching leads him to a gingerbread house that has some very familiar voices that emit from it.

"WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE STEALING MY SONIC LIKE THIS!" A loud, streaming voice sounding like a female's voice.

"No, it's not what you think!" Another familiar voice was heard, this time males voice

"Those voices? Knuckles stopped in his tracks to think for a quick second, "SONIC!"

Knuckles dashed towards the direction of the voice, revealing Sonic, Amy, Shadow, and a few ponies with them. Knuckles tried to compromise on what was happening by going straight to Amy trying to keep her calm, "Amy, don't freak out the locals!"

"K-knux? It's you!" Sonic grabbed him and gave him a bro hug of the lifetime, "I knew you were here along!"

"It's great to see you to man!" Knux returned the hug to him, "Anyways, what was Amy screaming about?"

Sonic made a big sigh and began to explain what was going on, pointing to Rainbow Dash, still sitting in the chairs, "Well, I was CHATTING to this pony right there and only CHATTING and she isn't FLURTING WITH ME!"

Amy started to make up an excuse for her improper attitude as she was trying to cover up to Twilight that she technically isn't dating Sonic, "Well... I was only trying to protect you from anyone who would try to get you-"

"I told you many times before... We will never go out ever!" Sonic raised his voice a bit to make her interrupt her excuse.

"Wait, so you two aren't dating?" Twilight butted in their conversation.

"Uh, I ahh-"

"Well, even if I was trying to snatch him, I would've done 10 seconds flat!" Rainbow began to say out of nowhere.

"I like to see you try," Sonic smirked at her devious plan.

"Enough with pointless bantering, we need to get serious right now!" Shadow, out of the conversation began to speak.

Luckily, no pony was listening to their conversation as they were trying to ignore or avoid the big group of creatures. Knuckles, on the other hand, tried to get into what he was here for, "Shadow's right, I'm detecting a strong Chaos Emerald readings from you,"

"It's got to be this then?" Shadow, ruffly pulled out the chaos emerald and held it out with his right hand

"Whoa, that's a neat gem you got there," Rainbow was dazzled at the sight of the green emerald, "I can get it out of your hands for a good price,"

"Sorry, this emerald isn't what it seems like," Knuckles tried to persuade her not to take the emerald out of Shadow's hands, "It just can't be sold for any price,"

"I see," Rainbow crossed her two front hooves as she started to use her wings to hover in the air, "It's a magical gem that contains some super awesome powers!"

"Well not just some powers, powers beyond time and space," corrected the blue hedgehog.

"Whoa, even more! awesome!" Rainbow Dash went on obsessed about the emerald, "I know, let's race for it!"

"Either way, you won't be getting this emerald," Knuckles said using his right thumb to point to Sonic next to her, "Sonic here is the fastest runner in my book,"

"He's right," Shadow even agrees to the whole situation, "You couldn't even get that emerald if it's a race,"

"Is that so huh Sonic?" Rainbow Dash slowly turned to him, casually grinning at the whole conversation.

"Well, I may be the fastest to them, but there's no way I could keep up with the greatest flyer in Equestria," Sonic went back into being the sarcastic hedgehog he was just like when he first met Dash, "But we can do a little sprint here and that building over their,"

He pointed towards that building at the distance, looking to be some ponies house, "Just a quick sprint over there, and if you beat me to it the emeralds all yours,"

"Alright blue rat, first one their and back wins that emerald, okay," Rainbow prepared herself by standing on all 4 hooves with her wings out, ready for action.

"Whatever you say," Sonic went into position but kept a casual stance as he just blankly stared at his location.

"You got this Sonic I know you do!" Amy, already cheering him on, shouted.

"This could be fun," Twilight, deciding to be the counter of this race, "On three...one...two...".

"Three!" Rainbow interrupted and dashed ahead from Sonic.

"Look at him," Rainbow thought in her head, looking ahead at her goal, "He stood no chance against me. Guess I'm going to get that emeral-"

It took her seconds to get to her location. She stopped at the point where Sonic told her to go, then she notices Sonic leaning on the building, where he casually smirked at the surprised pegasus.

"Huh!?" Rainbow screamed with lots confusion and surprise, " You were just there, and now you're here!"

"Yeah! That's my Sonic right there!" Amy went on cheering him on

"Woah, Tails was right! Sonic is pretty fast," complimented Twilight, looking at the two speedsters to the distance.

"So Tails told you everything huh?" Knuckles head turned towards her direction, "He can be a bit quirky sometimes,"

"But, how can I lost to the likes of you?" Rainbow Dash decided to focus on her surprising defeat.

"I just ran forward to the destination," Sonic shrugged her off, "I'm guessing want a rematch,"

Rainbow Dash agreed to his "Yeah! I'm up for a rematch!"

"Alright, I'll even give you a head start,"

"Okay-" Rainbow acknowledged, right as soon she flew off to leave him.

"Hehe, now who's the fastest now!" Rainbow said to herself.

Quickly as she can, she flew towards yet the group of her friends and the hedgehog's friends. After that, she landed perfectly intact as she yet again appraised her victory, "See that redhead! told you I was fast,"

"Impressive Dashie,' Knuckles gave her the nicest compliment he can give followed by a big smirk, "What do you think Sonic?"

Dashie didn't realize that Sonic, this whole time was standing right next to Knuckles. He spoke up and said, "Yeah, she was fast, I saw the whole thing from here,"

"What the hay!" Rainbow Dash screamed her lungs out, "I thought you were still back there! there's no way you could have outraced me!"

"Well, I was doing nothing but doing a casual jog from here to their," Sonic crossed his arms, "You were pretty fast yourself. I thought I was about to lose my title,"

"Your title?" Twilight can up to the two and ask.

"Yep, I'm known to be the fastest thing alive in my world," Sonic gave her the info she needed, "And I plan to defend my title in any other world,"

"You..." Rainbow Dash, having a minor mental break down about this situation, tried to say more, "What are you?"

"I'm Sonic!" Sonic gave out a powerful introduction to himself doing a backflip to go with it, "Sonic the hedgehog!"

That little race they had, triggered a large number of ponies staring at the hedgehog, seeing their beloved flyer, losing to that creature.

"Who is that creature?" one the various whispers to a male earth pony asking the nearby one.

"Whoever it is, it's sure faster than Rainbow Dash..."

"Is it from here? Where does it live?"

"Didn't it called itself Sonic?"

"Way to go to introduce yourself in public...again," Shadow, trying to insult Sonic's cockiness, "Now can we get somewhere to discuss our major issues?"

"Oh yeah," Twilight started to speak up, "We should all meet up at my castle. Knuckles' is it? can you settle these two and meet up at the castle? I need to inform all of my friends on the situation we have here,"

"No can do Princess," Knuckles received and accept her order.

Out of nowhere, we see three familiar faces emerging out of the large group of ponies; It was Tails', Silver, and Applejack. Tails' had led the group over to Knuckles', who was holding the green chaos emerald in hand.

"I see you have the emerald you've spotted," informed the SIlver hedgehog.

"Shadow had it all along," Knuckles' explained to him everything led up to this point, "Anyways, Twilight wants us all in her castle. You too Applejack, this concerns all of us."

"No can do!" Aj replied, "We can all go together,"

"Alright! we race to Princess Twilight's castle from hearing okay?" Rainbow asked for another rematch to Sonic.

"Sorry, not happening," apologized for the blue hedgehog, "But you can follow me there,"

"Come on!" Rainbow Dashed whined her hooves out, "Just one more!"

"Alright," Sonic decided on her proposition.

"Okay-" and with that, she flew off in the distance.

"I knew she would do that," Sonic shrugged it off and began to zip towards the castle's location.

As the pack of friends began their journey back to the castle of the princess of Friendship, we go back to what it seems the mysterious carrier floating around, in the blank ocean, where there seems to be some struggling with the mysterious figure.

"Let's see," the voice was pondering about its next plans, "I may need to place my original plans on hold for now...until then I'll get her to do some espionage!"

The man pushed a red button below an elongated microphone set, where he began to call out one of his agents

"Agent C! come in Agent C!" the man began to call, presence is needed in the main control room!"