Purpose of the Marks

Sonic woke to find himself inside a sort of cage. “W-Where am I?” He questioned, he looked around and checked his surroundings , and saw his claws still apparent and the moonlight shimmering to his grey steel box.

“What happened?” Sonic asked, to no-one in particular, as he tried to piece together how he ended up in this place, and then his thoughts were drawn back to the lavender horse that had had her army attack him.

“Riight, I remember, seriously that girl needs to chill, hm… it seems that the day is coming along, I’m sure I’m gonna be on trial or something like that, she did mention something about royalty.” Sonic pondered to himself, now lying in his cage, bored out of his mind.

“Ugh you think they’d have some sort of entertainment here, like a TV, a board game seriously even the other prisoners would make decent company.” He said as he was just laying on the floor, bored out of his mind.

After 2 minutes, he was so bored he was doing pull-ups in his cell, with his arms extended. He kept working out until the sun broke through and his Were-Hog form vanished. Great, well at least they should be coming to my cell any minute… now He thought, as the door to his left opened, revealing two guards in golden armour, both having serious looks on their faces, which Sonic almost seemed to challenge by smirking.

“Unknown creature you are under arrest and will now stand trial, for the crimes you have committed against Princess Twilight Sparkle” The guard then looks at the cage and then sees the blue hedgehog in there instead of a beast. “Wait, who are you?”

Wow, these can’t tell that I’m the same guy from last night, wow that Were-Hog really must hide me too well. Sonic subconsciously thought as he stood up.

“I’m the guy from the other night, the beautiful furry beast, who got shot up by you guys?” Sonic joked, to which they somewhat cracked a smile.

“Well if you are that same creature then we order you to come with us to stand trial for your crimes against the Princess of Magic.” The other guard stated as they opened his cell, Sonic already complying with them and placing his hands behind his back so he could be cuffed.

“Your hospitality is amazing by the way, makes a guy feel like he’s in a nice little prison.” Sonic mockingly said, though the previous chuckle he got out of them was now not there as they kept pushing him to the courtroom.

The doors were opened, and a white royal horse figure was standing in the judge’s seat, with long flowing almost celestial type of hair, Sonic immediately recognised she was the boss of this world, and she now turned her sharp gaze to Sonic as to give him a reminder of who was in charge but also a look of curiousness.

Strange….Twilight told me that a hairy beast attacked her last night. She kept looking at the blue creature getting escorted through the court   But this creature looks less hairy and doesn't look like any sort of beast, I must see to what is this and hope that Twilight didn’t make a mistake. She thought as she kept to herself.

Sonic kept walking through the faces of many horses that were looking back at him as he was shown to his seat on the defendant side, whilst the purple horse from before looked at him and was on the plaintiff’s side.

The clamouring of different voices, made it very hard for Sonic to hear, though he soon heard the seriousness in the voice of the judge horse.

“Silence! Order! Order!” The horse yelled as a yellow glow was knocking the gavel on the judge’s table, causing everyone to not utter another word.

“We are here to settle the matter of the incident that occurred last night between the plaintiff, Twilight Sparkle of Ponyville, and this unknown creature, whom we would first request to tell us his name!” The Royal Judge/Princess stated.

“My name is Sonic the Hedgehog, and in case you are wondering  I am the same creature who fell through the void, and if you wondering about my appearance I will explain that when the need arises, or when I am asked too.” Sonic formally spoke, though he was many things and brash being his most noticeable feature, he handled this situation with severity and understanding of his current setting.

“Thank you Sonic, I am Princess Celestia, Alicorn of the Sun and ruler of Equestria, I will explain where you are as we can clearly see you are not of our world. You are in the land of Equestria, the land of mythical ponies…” Celestia explained, though the mention of the phrase ‘Pony’ made Sonic snigger at the absurdity and his teenage mind.

“I’m sorry Mr. Hedgehog, do you find something humorous?” Celestia asked an almost serious tone surrounding her.

“Well first of just call me Sonic, putting ‘Mr’ on my name makes me sound old, and secondly in my world, the phrase ‘Pony’ refer to horse-like animals, like you here, but that they are for little girls, so sorry but I won’t be able to take that seriously, I know you’re telling the truth, but it’s just not cool to like anything like you if you’re a boy.” Sonic explained.

“Hm, your world is very curious, could you tell us where you are from?” Celestia asked.

“I am from the  world of Mobius, a world inhabited by humans… and anthropomorphic animals like me and you, but we’re bipedal, in that world, there are objects called the seven chaos emeralds , which grant the wish of the person who gathers them all.” Sonic explained, only holding his sentence when a high pitched squee was heard from the back of the courtroom.

“Did someone say Chaos?!” A voice said, though no source was heard.

“Huh? Excuse me Miss Celestia, who was that?” Sonic was quick to ask as he looks throughout the courtroom. Celestia then sighs as she puts her hoof on her face as if she was face-palming.

“It’s probably Discord.” Celestia huffed.

“Dis-who?” Sonic asked, to which he then felt a hand that resembled the texture of a bear rubbed against his shoulders.

“Discord my boy! Spirit of Chaos and Disharmony? Nearly had Equestria in 1000 years of chaos? Nope, ugh you off-worlders still haven’t heard of my accomplishments, honestly, you’d think someone would’ve heard of me.” Discord explained to Sonic kept hearing the voice though didn’t see who it was coming from.

Sonic, yet to turn around, was now considering running, but steeled himself as he turned around to be faced with the true form of Discord.

And immediately freaked out.

“Agh! What the heck?” He almost jumped out of the podium. ”Who decided to invite creature feature, ugh, I mean seriously you’re a combination of a goat, dragon, bear chicken or something or other, seriously that looks unappealing, to the biggest degree, seriously talk about a face only a mother could love.” Sonic jokingly insulted Discord.

“You off-worlders aren’t too nice either, I mean not even a full day in this place, and you’re already insulting someone, mainly me” Discord, joked back.

“I’d insult anyone that looked that ugly, seriously, something happen with this dude? He looks like he was dumped into toxic waste at birth.” Sonic still shot back at Discord.

“Well your not miss beauty pageant either boy!” He retorted right to Sonic’s face then he teleported to his other side of which he was standing.  “And besides I didn’t want to be here for any other reason than to know about these gems you call Chaos Emeralds.” Discord said, trying to change the subject with Sonic.

“Riight, you’re not getting them, there not in this dimension, so how about you try to talk after this court session?” Sonic advised, to which Discord was not too happy about but agreed to anyway as he escorted himself out of the courtroom.

“ANYway… you are charged with the count of assault on royalty, as well as malicious intent, how do you plead?” Celestia asked, thoroughly annoyed at Discord butting in on this matter.

“I’m one hundred percent guilty, but only because she struck first, in other words… She started it!” Sonic childishly joked.

“You started it!” Twilight shot back.

“No way!” Sonic retorted.

“Yes way!” Twilight said, completely forgetting her nerdy roots.

“Who was the one who instigated a fight? You did, some Princess you’ve got here.” He said to which everyone in the crowd gasped at his claim.

“She was stopping me from stopping a guy that’s probably gonna come back for revenge, granted she didn’t know, but she shouldn’t have interfered or got in my way!” Sonic shot back, leaving Twilight speechless, and unable to reply, and on the verge of shedding a tear, and Celestia could see this.

“Yeah, that’s what I thought!” Sonic arrogantly proclaimed.

“You have insulted my student, and for that , you will have no mercy, I hereby sentence you to life in prison” Celestia angrily said as she brought the gavel down to the podium. As the guards pulled Sonic back to his cell, and the last thing he saw was that same girl crying her eyes out.

That’s not on me! That’s on her, she stopped me from stopping a tyrant, I can’t feel sorry for doing my job, can I ? That’s my job, to be a hero, but… that may have just made me the villain. Sonic glumly thought as he was thrown back into his cell.

“Nowhere to go anymore, you venomous Rat!” The guards said as they locked his cage and left him there.

“Yeah yeah, keep moving horse boy!” Sonic rudely retorted.

“You’re asking for it Rat!” One of them warned.

“Don’t you have some grass to eat or something?” Sonic shot back, to which it was clear to see a nerve has been touched, without saying anything and keeping his professionalism intact the guard, left the room, almost as though he hadn’t heard him.

Greeeeeat back into this place again, you have gotta be kidding me, I wanna get outside, get myself to my natural habitat, and be able to run around for all I’m worth, but I’m stuck here, well as soon as it’s night, my Were-Hog form should be strong enough to get out of this place, and then I need to leg it as fast as I can. Try to find Eggman and get home, I’m not too concerned about getting home, I’m just hoping that I can get out of here before I serve my sentence, but that... Sonic thoughts were interrupted, by the opening of the room door, and 5 ponies going through the door, all possessing different mane and coat colours.

“And I’m guessing you’re friends of Twilight right?” Sonic asked, just lying up against the wall, not too interested in them at the moment.

“You better believe it, Sonic right?” A pure white pony said, approaching his cage.

“Yeah, what’s it to you Snowball?” Sonic sourly shot back.

“My name is Rarity. For your information. This is Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy” Rarity explained, pointing to each individual pony as she said their names.

“Listen up creep, we don’t like what you did back there!” Rainbow Dash  angrily stated, to which Sonic just yawned.

“Yeah, yeah Turkey Wings, you’re friend is too emotional, sorry to say it, but that’s just life, I’ve had people say worse to me. You just gotta have a thicker skin.” Sonic joked.

“Why must you be so mean?” Fluttershy asked.

“I’m not mean I’m just realistic, and besides I was joking around, I like to have fun, I like to have people laugh with me, and more to point I’m more concerned with other people than myself,” Sonic replied.

“Yeah well that wasn't her laughing she looked sad to me, and I know laughter and that Spiky was not laughter,” Pinkie interjected, to which Sonic just ignores her.

“Yeah right, that’s why you’re so mean to Twilight, listen punk, she may not be a perfect princess, but she’s our friend and we won’t let you just insult her like this!” Rainbow said, getting riled up by Sonic’s constant apathetic nature.

“Yeah , what she said why don’t you just go home to your own dimension ya dang varmint?” Applejack asked.

“Can’t, I'm stuck here till I can create a dimensional wormhole to get home and that was usually what the Chaos Emeralds were for, but I’m pretty sure since we couldn’t get them when I left my dimension I’m pretty sure they’re  with the others… and you’re calling me a varmint, yeah I’m getting told this from a horse that can talk, go eat some grass!” Sonic laughed. As Applejack growls at him though Fluttershy places her hoof on her shoulder telling her to stop.

“Fine stay here then, we just wanted to help you, but you wanted to act like that, let’s go, girls” Applejack said, and as she said that all the girls disregarded Sonic, leaving him to snicker at what they didn’t realize, Sonic would transform soon and then it would be impossible to follow him.

He was just biding his time, and so decided to experiment with some of his own attacks, he’d been training with Shadow before he went to this crazy place, so maybe he should try to train, his first technique he tried to use was his iconic Sonic Wind, he put his hand out and started charging up his energy  and launching it at the cage, it didn’t break, but Sonic was able to make scratch marks on the cage, showing that his attack had indeed done some damage to the cage.

His next trick was one Tails thought up for Sonic, one time when they were infiltrating an Eggman's base, Sonic couldn’t get in as a solid door was blocking the way, Tails then theorized that he could get through by vibrating through, making his molecules pass through the door, that could be his ticket out of here, and so he started to vibrate his body till he felt like a jackhammer and started moving towards the cage.

“First time for everything I guess, I hope this works.” Sonic thought as he touched the cage and he wasn’t touching it, but it also wasn’t touching him, he stepped through, a look of victory on his face.

“Ok time to get out of this crazy place,” Sonic said as he noticed a window leading to the outside of the castle, and without a second thought jumped out of the window and landed on the wall of the castle outside the prison, before running down the wall and now being on solid ground.

Yes I’m free, now to find Robutnik, see ya later… my little ponies. Sonic thought, laughing to himself as he ran straight towards the forest, leaving all of the ponies behind and setting his sights on going after Eggman.