Purpose of the Marks

Morning came out in Ponyville as Sonic gets up from the castle's hard ground.

"Ugh… OK time to wake up, get some training in just before my second court case." Sonic thought, getting up, one eye opening up after the other as he looked around his grey steel cage, and started stretching, to the sky, to the ground and to the left and right and then applying pressure to his legs. He then took a deep relaxed breath from his mouth reaching from in his diaphragm, before moving his legs and arms, and then…

CRACK! His bones immediately snapped and that sound as well as that feeling was sweet relief for Sonic.

Aahhh! That was heaven! Now for the shoulder blades Sonic mentally praised as he started rotating his arms forward and backward and took one last breath before stretching his hands out and his shoulder blades violently cracked, sending overloads of euphoria into Sonic's mind.

Ah, that was good. Sonic thought as put his hands on his cage bars, looking out for anyone to open the doors to the dungeon, and only 2 minutes later, there was a creak at the door, and a familiar alicorn figure was walking down the stairs.

"Yo Twilly, how was your sleep?" Sonic asked, to which Twilight had a surprised look on her face.

How can he be so calm despite the trial he'll have to go through today? And he called me 'Twilly' had he talked to my brother? Twilight thought as she approached his cell and unlocked it, though placed Sonic into cuffs.

"Hey where are we going?" He asked though Twilight didn't say anything as she escorted him out of the dungeon, they continued to walk through a hallway until they reached a room that was the courtroom of her castle, without speaking a single word.

Well I guess she's just a bit tired. Sonic jokingly thought as he was brought before Celestia.

"Hey wait a minute, who's castle is this?" He asked as Twilight answered his question.

"It's mine." She said as Sonic looks around, he noticed the place had blue, purplish crystals covering the place.

"Really this place is yours? WelI I kinda expected it since you're a princess and all, but wait a minute?" He looked closely at where they were in.

"Are we having another trial?" He asked as he faced Twilight as she nodded. "Right dumb question." In the courtroom once again Sonic was in the defendants area while Celestia stood on the podium and looked down on Sonic. Sonic then started to speak "Celesta I didn't hurt your student I was trying to save her, from her mutation" Sonic explained as the trail was occurring.

"Mutation?" Celestia asked.

"Yeah, basically you know my more cuddly side that you saw when you first captured me? Yeah she now has that more cuddly side to her as well the only way to control and fight it is to have a second Werehog or in her case werePony transformation to burn the first one out, or have a big enough to tire out the animal instinct" Sonic explained further. Celestia then raised an eyebrow as she looked at Sonic

"So you stopped her rampage?" Sonic nodded in response to that question. Sonic then sighed as he first looked down and then looked at Celestia as he spoke.

"I'm very sorry for any hostility that I may of displayed beforehand, it's just I have a short attention span and being a dungeon isn't my natural environment, my destiny is just to run as much as I want. To be free like the wind… but I understand that I went away without your consent so I'll accept any punishment you want…" Sonic said as he then lowers his head, Celestia heard this and was now thinking of what to do.

"Hmmm, he's not showing any hostility like yesterday, and he did stop Twilight from hurting any of the civilians maybe…." She was about to say judgement on him only to be stopped by and explosion through the left side of her vision.

"What is the meaning of this?" Celestia yelled out, "It ain't me I can tell you that!" Sonic said in the smoke and through it came Eggman in his hovercraft.

"Oooooh great, see Twilly told ya, should've taken him out when you had the chance but you didn't know so I'll let it slide… Eggman! Leave these ponies out of this, they've done nothing to you!" Sonic yelled at the top of his lungs

"Huh? Sonic?! Ah are you in a trial am I interrupting? Well sorry but I need to acquire a certain mare, the ruler of these lands, Celestia I believe her name is… she will give me what I need" Eggman gloated, before attacking Celestia and sending a claw her way which Sonic intercepted, only to be electrocuted by one of the tentacles .

"ARRRGH!" Sonic screamed his voice showing clear pain as he recoiled and held his stomach in pain before falling down to the ground.

"Too easy hedgehog, now for you." Eggman said, sending a claw after Celestia and her shrieks filled the courtroom as the claw clamped around her and then surges it with electricity as she screams from the shock as Eggman now leaving the castle in ruin and sending in egg robo's towards the rest of the ponies present.

Twilight, acting quickly levitated a few of the egg robos into the air, and with one appliance of pressure, they all exploded. Thought more took their place she then did the same thing again to proceed but was still blocked off by them and now was starting to get tired. That's when Sonic got up and ran and curled into a ball and busted through them. He then started to use his homing attack as he hits through each of the egg robos.

" Seriously Eggman, you still make these guys out of paper mache" Sonic joked.

" He's got Celestia!" Twilight yelled, which drew Sonic's attention towards the unconscious royal.

" Let her go Eggy!" Sonic jokingly told the doctor, to which Eggman looked at Sonic with a calculating eye.

"Alright I asked nicely, so what happens next is on you!" Sonic said, getting into a four-point start and raising his head ever so slightly.

" Sonic… BOOM!" Sonic yelled, as he now took off at blistering speeds that caused the whole courtroom to violent tremble with the force of a tornado in a small room.

Though in what seemed like mere moments, Eggman chuckled as he pressed a button on his control panel and he started disappearing and in a second he had completely vanished, which left Sonic to hit nothing, and rocket right out of Twilight's Castle rising to the sky.

"AAAAAAAAH!" Sonic screamed as he went miles into the air.

I won't be able to stop in time, oh this is gonna hurt! Sonic thought as he saw the ground coming up.

" Rainbow Dash!" Twilight said, looking directly at Sonic's falling form, and within seconds Rainbow rushed out of the castle to catch him.

" Aaah!" He screamed as Rainbow closed in.

This is gonna leave a scratch… huh? Sonic thought as he looked at the ground and he was rising up for some reason, then he looked to his side to see 'Chicken Wings' holding him up. She then turned to him and smirked

"Well I think I deserve an apology for that 'chicken wing' comment you made seeing how I just saved your skin." She said. Sonic rolled his eyes.

"Look can it wait until after we beat the bad guy?" He asked. That's when Rainbow just turned to him and started tilting.

"SAY IT!" She said as Sonic was starting to slip off. He knew she wanted it or else.

"Sigh okay I'm sorry skittles" Sonic joked again, as he was able to touch the ground, and blasted off, towards the castle, leaving Rainbow to ponder what he had just said to her.

Sonic got to the castle within a few seconds, to see that it we slightly in ruin, mostly of the roof and of Twilight's angered face was looking down at him. He ran up back into the courtroom, Rainbow Dash soon following, and he started to speak.

"Listen Twily, we'll get her back, trust me, this stuff always happens, for me it's…." He said as Twilight just lowers his head in sadness

"I can't believe it." She said. Sonic looked confused. Twilight though continued. "You were right all along. He was a villain and thanks to me he got away and now has Celestia. What have I done?"

" Hey, this also on me too, I never stayed in the castle the first time so I never got to explain myself, This is on both of us, but don't worry, ol' egghead ain't into the whole regicide thing, he never killed my previous girlfriend, and she was a princess that constantly beat him, so let's get her back." Sonic said, vigour and compassionate apparent in his voice.

She looked up towards him with a worried and tear-stained face, as he looked back he saw her pain and started to wipe away her tears and then give her a hug with his hands going over her body.

"Thank you…" Twilight replied to his gesture as she felt the warmth of his chest. "I'm sorry about everything that did to you Sonic." She said blubbering. Sonic felt her face covering his peach body.

"No prob, listen Twi… blaming yourself doesn't get anything done, I already know I messed up and now the question is what am I gonna do? Well first off I'm not gonna be moping about a situation, I did my best and that's all I could do, I just need to be more prepared next time, and so I thinking do you wanna prepare with me? I mean I could teach you about your Werehog form if you want." Sonic offered. Twilight got her head off heard his suggestion.

"Thank you Sonic, I'm so sorry for not believing you" Twilight said, wiping her tears and ."And yeah I'll take you up on that offer of yours."

"Cool, anyway we should probably get this fixed first" Sonic said, looking to the crumbling castle. Applejack walked forward and looked at the crumbled castle

"The builder-ponies should be here soon to patch it up," Applejack said, coming back into the room, having been thrown out by the explosion caused by Eggman.

"Yeah in the meantime, I wouldn't mind getting to know you all." Sonic casually stated, to which they at first blushed, but then shrugged off his proposal, and decided to greet the hedgehog properly.

"Ma name's Applejack pardner! Sorry about the whole thing." Applejack said, her southern tone, surrounding her voice as she placed hoof to hand with the hedgehog he does and shakes it.

"MYNAMEISPINKIEPIETHATWASANAWESOMEEXPLOSIONANDIDON'TWHYTHERWRITERISCAPATILIZINGMYSPEECHBUTWHATEVERITSNICETOMEETYOU!" The excited party pony said, so quickly even Sonic had to take a minute to figure out what she was saying.

Ok, nice to meet you Pinkie." He said as she smiles.

"My name is Rarity, charmed to meet you." The pure white pony greeted, to which Sonic bowed in response.

"Pleasure to meet you too Ma'am." He said.

"Oh please, darling call me Rarity, no need to be formal." She said dismissing that as Sonic nods.

"My name is Flutter...Shy" The shy pegasus spoke out as Sonic heard her.

"And I'm Rainbow Dash... and you better remember it!" The multicolored pegasus stated as she pointed her hooves out to Sonic still quite vexed at the hedgehog's constant nicknames.

"OK fine, Rainbow, anyway you guys wanna hang out, we can go all out against Eggy, later at night, since in the morning he'd be ready for us, so tonight we'll have the element of surprise" Sonic thought, to which the other ponies were mystified at how calm he was about Celestia, the ruler of Equestria and most powerful alicorn to be gone and kidnapped and he wanted to get to know them better?

Though not being one for rudeness they agreed to show him around Ponyville to show him the sights.