Sonic, Shadow and the Equestria Girls

Chapter 3: Dude'a'tude!

The next morning sonic and shadow had gotten up early to practice for when they entered the battle of the bands later. They were a little out of practice, but they saw the instruments like bikes, once you learn you never forget.

"Good practice," sonic said.

"Yeah, but-" shadow started but heard louder music from next door.

"You better believe, I got tricks up my sleeve, and I captivate, cause i'm powerful and great-ey-ate."

Sonic and shadow went to the fence and looked over to see trixie and what they assumed was her band practicing.

"Woah, trixie's pretty good," sonic said, "Hey Trixie!"

Trixie stopped playing for a second and agnologed him, "Oh, why hello sonic, and who's that with you?"

"Oh, thats my brother, shadow," Sonic said, "anyway, are you in the battle of the bands?"

"Trixie is, and she has every intention to win!" trixie responded.

"Well we decided to enter too," shadow said.

Trixie's expression changed to annoyance, and sonic noticed her pupils flash green, "ok, come on girls we've got a bus to catch."

"At least she's being passive aggressive," shadow said.

"Did you notice that?" sonic asked.

"What?" shadow said confused.

"Her eyes flashed green when she said that," sonic clarified.

"Flashed green? I think you're seeing things," shadow said walking away, "come on, bus will be here soon."

When they got to school, the cafeteria was heated with argument.

"The C.M.C. is gonna win this here contest!" one girl said.

"As if, the chaotix got this in the bag!" a bulky guy shot back.

"No one wants this more than me!" someone else yelled.

"Geeze, school just started and everyone is already at each other's throats," sonic said sitting down.

Pinkie pie than shot up next to shadow, "Hey Shady!"

"Oh, god, why me!?" Shadow asked.

"Hey, you aren't caught in the argument?" sonic asked.

"Nope, I honestly don't care who wins, I just wanna have fun," pinkie smiled.

"You noticed too?" sunset shimmer asked sitting next to them.

"Yeah, those girls come in and suddenly everyone hates each other," sonic said, "we have a theory that it's musical hypnotism, but now that four of us are unaffected it's becoming a weaker argument."

"Well, pinkie, me and four other girls also have a theory, but the only one we know with expertease on the subject won't be around for awhile," sunset replied.

"What's your idea?" shadow asked to which pinkie shot up and replied, "MAGIC!"

"Magic? That's your theory?" sonic questioned.

"Magic is real, and in the wrong hands it can be really dangerous, you can ask literally anyone at this school, they'll back me up," sunset said then muttered, "it's probably the only thing they will back me up with."

Sonic was about to say how impossible that was, but he noticed sunset's sad expression and held his tongue, shadow wasn't as sensitive, "now I know why you two are unaffected, YOU'RE NUTS!"

"I'm Not nuts, I'm pinkie!" pinkie said.

"What's the difference?" shadow said receiving a punch to the shoulder from sonic.

"What my brother MEANS to say, is magic being real sounds pretty far fetched," sonic said.

"So unless you have proof, you're nuts!" shadow said again.

"Proof huh? Meet me in the band room in ten minutes," sunset said walking away, pinkie following.

After they left tails and knuckles walked by, heated in argument.

"Drumming is the key role in any rock band!" Knuckles yelled.

"At least a keyboard can be used on it's own!" tails shot back.

"Oh hey guys," sonic said over them.

"Good, an outside opinion, sonic, do you prefer keyboards, or bleh, drums?" tails asked.

"Doesn't matter, look me and shadow were gonna join the bat-" sonic started before being interrupted by Knuckles, "great, more competition!"

"No, less, shadow and I thought our routine of guitar and base wasn't good enough, so," sonic started, "we figured a band with a skilled keyboardist and drummer would knock em dead!"

"Hm, it would eliminate some competition if all of us were on the same side," tails said.

"Yeah, I guess i'm in," knuckles added.

"Sweet, now all we need is a catchy band name for when we enter," sonic said.

"Well, I was saving this for if I ever formed a band, how about…" Knuckles started, "Dude'a'tude!"

"Perfect!" sonic and shadow exclaimed in unison.

"It'll work i guess," tails said folding his arms.

From the back of the room, the dazzlings were staring at them, or rather at sonic.

"Remind me why the blue kid is so important adagio," aria said.

"Because, not only does he seem unaffected by our magic, when I touched him yesterday I felt a jolt of energy, the energy didn't feel like equestrian magic, but i know it's powerful," adagio said, "that is no ordinary boy, and I'm going to find out what exactly is letting him reject our magic."

"Whatever, But if this plan blows don't forget it's your idea," aria said.

"Yeah, yeah, and it'll be my fault alone if the plan fails, you've said nine times today," adagio said as she continued to stare at sonic, "I've got it."