Sonic, Shadow and the Equestria Girls

Chapter 2: a Dazzling first day

The rainbooms were practicing in the band room. Sunset shimmer was just watching, she was still questioning why her friends ponied up from playing their instruments.

"Oh yeah, My band Sounds Awesome!" Rainbow dash exclaimed

"Um, don't you mean, OUR band?" Applejack questioned her.

"Yeah, yeah, whatever," dash replied.

Sunset got up and started towards the door, "You sound great, but i gotta go, i volunteered to show some new students around the school. Felt it'd be better if they got to know the new me, before they hear about the old me."

Across the building sonic, shadow, and three girls who were also registering were being lead out of the principal's office.

"Once again, I would like to welcome you to CHS," principal Celestia said.

Sonic eyed the three girls, one had yellow skin, curly, orange hair and was wearing a purple outfit, the second had lavender skin, purple hair with mint green highlights in pigtails, and had a green shirt, mint green vest, and purple ripped jeans, and the third had cyan skin, blue hair with purple highlights in a ponytail, had a purple blouse, and pink skirt, all of them wore a red gem pendant.

"Hey shad, think I got a chance with any of them?" sonic asked his brother.

"I doubt any girl with half a brain would want to hang around the likes of you," shadow said folding his arms.

Sonic rolled his eyes and went over to the girls, "hey, so were all new here."

"Eeyup," the cyan one said cheerfully.

"I guess," the lavender one said folding her arms.

"You could say that," the yellow one said not looking away from her nails.

"So potential nice girl, Shadette, and snob," sonic thought, "well i've done more with less."

"Hey, you must be the new kids," a voice caught everyone's attention. It belonged to a girl with yellow-orange skin, red hair with yellow highlights and cyan eyes, she wore a pink shirt, a black leather jacket, and an orange skirt, "i'm sunset shimmer

The yellow girl stepped forward, "we are, Adagio dazzle."

"Sonata dusk," the cyan one spoke up.

"Aria blaze," the last one said.

"I'm sonic, and this is my twin brother shadow," sonic said pulling shadow up to him.

"It's a pleasure to meet all of you, I see you all have a thing for jewelry," sunset said.

"Well as for ours, they were gifts from our grandfather when we were born, he said the were made of a rare type of beryl, we've practically worn them our entire lives," shadow replied.

"And as for ours, let's just say we could never part with them," adagio grinned.

"Of course we couldn't we need them for our mag- ow" sonata said as aria punched her, "Keep quiet."

"Excuse them, they're idiots," adagio said.

"So then," sunset began changing the subject, "let's begin the tour."

After the tour, sonic and shadow reported to their first period history. The two just found seats that were coincidentally next to each other.

"Well, if isn't shady dark!" a familiar voice called from behind him.

"Oh no, sonic please don't tell me that the crazy chick from a couple days back is behind me," shadow said.

"Yes I am," pinkie pie said popping in front of them.

"Sonic!" shadow complained.

"You told me not to tell you!" sonic defended himself.

"Shady, I Pinkie Promised, if I Pinkie Promise I see it through to the end," pinkie said.

"So you won't stop?" shadow asked.

"Nope, and now to get that smile," pinkie said, "can a kangaroo jump higher than a house?"

"I don't care," shadow said.

"Of course it can, a house can't jump!" pinkie exclaimed as shadow just blankly stared at her.

"Nothing?" Pinkie asked.

"Pinkie, you're out of your league, I haven't smiled in like a year," shadow scoffed.

"Oh, really, what's the difference between a snowman and a snowwoman?" pinkie asked.

"I. Don't. Care!" shadow said getting more annoyed.

"Snowballs," pinkie said before she and sonic burst out laughing. Shadow just facepalmed and shook his head.

"Look, i'll say this once, you're never going to get me to smile, all you're going to do is test my patience," shadow said.

"Sorry, shady, I Pinkie Promised," pinkie said cheerfully.

"I don't care, and stop calling me shady," shadow yelled.

Pinkie annoyed shadow pretty much the entire class and he almost lost it. The next class the brothers had was gym, took them a few minutes to find it but they found it eventually. When they entered they walked up to a man with pale blue skin and dark blue hair.

"Hey you two the new guys?" he said to which the two nodded, "I'm coach soarin, welcome aboard. We can get you your uniforms in couple of days, but for now let's just get to it. Today were playing dodgeball, let's have girls on one team and boys on the other."

Sonic and shadow ended up with three other guys, one had yellow-orange skin, blue hair, another had lavender skin, dark purple hair and glasses, and the last had a bulk upper body, tan skin, red dreadlocks and violet eyes.

"Hey new dudes, ready to play?" the orange one said, "the names Flash Sentry, thats micro chips, and…"

"The name's knuckles, hope you ladies can keep up," the red guy interrupted.

"Were you talking to us or the new guys?" a yellow girl on the opposite team asked.

"Them, spitfire!" knuckles yelled.

"Don't get too cocky, knuckles," Flash said, "Spitfire, applejack, and Rainbow Dash are the three best athletes in school, and are on the opposing team."

"I think you mean, WERE the three best athletes," sonic said cockiley.

"Hmn, athleticism is just a pointless tital to make people think they're better than others," shadow said folding his arms, "and frankly, I have no intention of taking part."

"What's a matter, scared to loose to a girl?" a rainbow haired girl said, to which the others girls started laughing at.

Shadows eye began to twitch and then he yelled, "All right! Lets freakin do it!"

"Shadow, spare them, they know not what they have done!" sonic said, "seriously, ticking off my brother is a bad idea, i have the scars to prove it."

"Alright, five on five, last standing wins," coach soarin said before blowing his whistle.

(For best experience, please play All Hail Shadow.)

Shadow leaped forward and grabbed as many balls as his arms could carry, he ran back and started throwing them rapidly. The girls took immediate action and started dodging, while spitfire, rainbow dash and A.J. easily dodged, another girl got hit once in the face and another time in the stomach.

"Fleet Foot!" spitfire yelled.

"Alright take the black and red one out first," Rainbow dash said.

They all took aim on shadow, but he ducked and the balls hit microchips, who was unfortunately right behind him, right in the face.

Another girl through a ball at knuckles but he caught.

"Knock, Knock, it's Knuckles!" knuckles said throwing it at spitfire, unfortunately she caught it.

"Take that knucklehead!" she mocked him.

Knuckles reluctantly went to the sidelines. Spitfire threw the ball a flash who tried and failed to catch it. Flash joined the other two leaving the dark brothers to fend for themselves. Shadow grabbed two dodgeballs and through them a spitfire and AppleJack and landed two direct direct hits.

"Dang it," the two said in unison. Rainbow dash took the element of surprise and knocked shadow across the face.

"Urrgh, Sonic! Avenge Me!" shadow yelled

"And then there was one," Rainbow dash said.

(ok, now play live and learn!)

"Don't give yourself a trophy just yet dashie, cause your about to learn why i'm called sonic!" sonic said. Rainbow Dash threw a ball towards him but he moved to the side and it missed by a mile. Rainbow dash though another, and another, the all missed, sonic was just to quick.

"Is he?" flash began.

"Out racing Rainbow Dash?!" Knuckles finished.

"No, no one's faster than me!" Rainbow dash said threw another, this time sonic caught it, spun around and threw it back to her, catching her by surprise and hitting her square in the chest.

"Hmp, piece of cake," sonic said triumphantly.

Coach soarin blew his whistle again, "Boys win, and Sonic, that was impressive."

"Aw it was nothing,"sonic said.

"Dude, you beat the school's best at basically everything, and she couldn't even touch you!" knuckles exclaimed, "We are definitely hanging out" knuckles put his fist out and they bumped.

From there sonic and shadow had different schedules, they met up again at lunch. Soon after the two sat down and sonic heard a familiar voice, "Hey sonic!"

He looked behind him and saw tails in a yellow sweatshirt, and tan shorts.

"Hey buddy, didn't know you go here," sonic said.

"Well the only other school is crystal prep, and they aren't as fun," tails replied.

"Hey Dudes," knuckles said sitting down with them. He was now wearing a red shirt with a white crest, dark red vest, and red jeans.

"Hey knux," sonic replied.

"So, anyone here entering the music festival?" tails asked.

"Yep, Principal Celestia said it's gonna be the most exciting event at CHS since the fall formal," knuckles said but then he and tails shivered for a moment.

"Music Festival, well it would be a good excuse to bust out the guitar and base again," sonic said.

"Well, I do like my base," shadow admitted.

At that very moment, Adagio, Aria, and Sonata busted the door open and began to sing a hypnotic song.

We heard you want to get together

We heard you want to rock the school

We thought of something that is better

Something that changes all the rules

Why pretend we're all the same

When some of us shine brighter?

Shine brighter

Here's a chance to find your flame

Are you a loser or a fighter?

Me and you, you and me

Why don't we see who is better?

We don't have to be one and the same thing

Oh, what's so wrong with a little competition?

Are you afraid of failing the audition?

You're a star and you should know it

Yeah, you rise above the rest

It doesn't matter who you hurt

If you're just proving you're the best

Ah, ahh-ahh

Battle! You wanna win it

Let's have a battle, battle of the bands

Let's have a battle, we'll go all in it

Let's have a battle, battle, battle

Battle of the bands

Battle!

I can beat you!

Ha! You wish!

Battle!

: I so want this!

Battle!

Not if I get it first!

Me and you, you and me

Why don't we see who is better?

We don't have to be one and the same thing

Oh, what's so wrong with a little competition?

I'm going up and winning the audition

Battle! We wanna win it

Let's have a battle, battle of the bands

Let's have a battle, we'll go all in it

Let's have a battle, battle, battle

Battle of the bands!"

During and after the song, sonic and shadow noticed almost everyone arguing about how they would win the battle of the bands.

"Uh, guys, why is everyone here arguing about how they would win a battle that isn't even happening?" sonic asked.

"Yeah, back at solianna, everyone would just shrug it off," shadow added.

"Well, yeah they really shouldn't be fighting, I mean, we all know I would win with my awesome drumming!" knuckles said.

"Pa-lease, my keyboard sounds way better than a ton of banging!" tails yelled.

The two bursted into an all out argument. Sonic and shadow were just confused. Adagio and her goons came by sonic and shadow, continuing their song. Adagio try to curas sonic's neck to get his attention, but felt a shock.

"What the?" she said grabbing her hand.

"What?" sonic as adagio starred daggers at him.

"Nothing," she walking away.

the rest of the day the main topic of discussion was who would win the battle of the bands. On the bus ride home they noticed the only one who wasn't yelling about it was pinkie who, of course, was trying to get shadow to smile.

When they got home sonic and shadow sat down on the couch and started to think.

"Ok, so someone suggest changing a music festival into a battle of the bands, and suddenly it's the only thing anyone apart from us(and pinkie) care about, and then they somehow convince the principal to go along with it," Shadow said.

"Wait a minute, they didn't just suggest it, they sang it," sonic said taking out his phone, "Most people don't know this, but music is one of the easiest ways to hypnotize someone, company's cash in on this by making songs earworms."

"So an earworm is just hypnotising people into listening to more?" shadow asked.

"Yes, however in some cases you can take it even further by hiding hypnotic messages in the lyrics," sonic said reading off a website, "Do that, and you can get almost anyone to do whatever you want, the only known emuin people are the tone-deaf and actual deaf."

"Well what about us?" shadow asked.

"I don't know, neither of us are tone deaf, or actual deaf, must be something else, but there is one thing I can't understand," sonic began, "Why would three girls hypnotize a whole school just to make them argue?"

"I suggest we keep a close eye on them starting tomorrow," shadow said.

"And join the battle of the bands, so they never leave our sight," sonic said.