Sonic: Equestria Girls

Chapters

Genesis
Classes Cancelled
School Zone
Aftermath
Chase
Battle
Meeting Tails
Tails explains
Knuckles
Ready Player Two

Genesis

In the headquarters of the government military organisation Guardian Unit of Nations; a woman in a dark blue business suit with a purple mohawk and a robotic prosthetic arm was in her office. She was at a table feeding her pet hedgehog Grubber when there was a call coming from her phone. “Commander Shadow speaking.” The woman GUN Commander Tempest Shadow (who had it legally changed from her old embarrassing name) said picking up the call and got an urgent call. She then left to the office of a Dr Robotnik.

She then knocked and then entered to see a rotund man in a black attire complete with a black longcoat and black squared glasses. “Dr Robotnik; the Pentagon and the Join Chief of Staff called about the blackout that wiped out power in the entire western hemisphere of the country. They ruled out an EMP device being involved as the energy surge was too powerful and the best they could gather was that it originated in Canterlot and it could be a prelude to a terrorist attack.” Tempest told him as he then faced her.

“And of course they want me to take over the investigation as to what happened; their feeble minds came to a blank and they turned to me....... the most brilliant man in the whole world.” Robotnik stated and Tempest was silent especially thinking about the reluctance in the tone of voice from the phone call in wanting to call him. Who could actually blame them?

“Canterlot my old hometown; bad memories it brings forth but I am willing to face my past and do my part for my country. I mean if I don’t then they honestly have no hope of solving it myself.” Robotnik said with a bit of disgust and self importance to his voice. He then got up and told her “get up and get ready Commander Shadow; whoever is behind this must be a dangerous one indeed....”

In her lab at her house Twilight Sparkle had the backup power to her lab turned on and was facing the unconscious small blue anthropomorphic hedgehog like creature that she had in a dog cage. Her purple dog Spike was barking at it while Twilight got an energy reading machine and used it to scan the creature. Her mouth was wide open in shock and awe as the scanner soon reached the power limit and the quills of the creature seemed to be glowing blue electricity.

She was looking at the scanner taking a minute to take it in as the creature got up and saw the lock on the cage was broken due to the blue electricity. “This is amazing Spike; if I could study and possibly learn how this creature works..... I would have a sure fire ticket to Everton! This could top whatever is happening at Canterlot High......” Twilight only to jump when she saw the creature had ran up to her and looked angry.

“Oh no! You are not taking me apart piece by piece! Not after you kidnapped me from my home, now to get my Rings........” The creature said seeing on a table a red bag and then went and get it at super speed. Twilight was still uncertain how to take it. Spike then got his teeth into the bag and the creature was angrily tugging and telling him to let it go.

“Spike; leave our guest alone........” Twilight said pulling Spike away causing the bag to drop and golden rings to fall out; Sonic was sent to her display billboard of clues of Canterlot High. “My Canterlot display......” Twilight shouted and was shocked as there was now a giant golden ring on the floor. Twilight was staring at awe as she saw there seemed to be a portal to the inside of a school in there.

The rings were sucked inside and the creature was staring open mouthed crawling at the portal as it disappeared, “My Rings.......... My most valuable possession....... Nnnnnnnooo!” The screamed and Twilight was able to tell that he was shaken about it.

She went to him comfortingly putting a hand on his shoulder with him looking at her as if ready to fight, “I won’t hurt you and sorry about taking you from your cave place, talking about turning you into a science experiment and whatever happened to your rings.” Twilight told him softly and he was calming down. “So let’s start with introductions; I’m Twilight Sparkle and this is my dog Spike. Can I please ask who you are and what was that portal?” Twilight introduced herself as the creature stood up.

“Well; I’m Sonic and you can call me the fastest thing alive, a way past cool super powerful ball of energy.” the creature said introducing himself and he then looked to the floor looking annoyed. “My Rings; they are like this super powerful source that advanced species can use to travel; you think or say where you want to go and a portal opens up. Each Ring can only be used once and because you mentioned that Canterlot School then that means that they are there!” Sonic explained annoy stamping his feet on the floor like a toddler.

“Sonic; I visit that school from time to time to give readings...... I can take you there after school and you can find your rings there. It’s the least that I can do since it’s a little bit my fault that you lost your rings and I promise that I won’t make you a science experiment....” Twilight offered and Sonic gave a grateful smile.

“For the record: entirely, it is entirely your fault.....” Sonic said as Twilight rolled her eyes. “I appreciate it just the same; looks like I am crashing here tonight. Never had a sleepover before as I never had a friend to sleepover with before....” Sonic said with a sad glint of loneliness in his eyes which made Twilight feel sorry for him.

“Well; can I ask what exactly are you? Are you some sort of escaped lab experiment? How did you get here to Canterlot in the first place?” Twilight asked as Sonic shook his head.

“Oh no; I a simple humble hedgehog from the planet Mobius.” Sonic explained and Twilight had her mouth wide open once she realised that she had just met an actual alien life form. Sonic then continued on “Well; my tale starts about 10 years ago......”

“Where I came from was this planet called Mobius; it was a great place filled with talking animals just like me. I was raised on this Island and I had my powers ever since I was born; there was a lot of place to run and arches to go loop de loop on my runnings and no school it was paradise. I was raised by this wise owl named Longclaw; she was always telling me to stay hidden and not draw attention to myself but honestly what 4 year old does what their parent says?”

Young 4 year old Sonic was happily rushing through the hills and green of the Green Hill Island before coming back to the treehouse where he stayed with Longclaw; who was much larger than Sonic and was brown and grey furred. Sonic gave her a yellow sunflower and she took it and lightly chided him saying “this is absolutely lovely Sonic but remember what I Have told you about going out running during the day. Someone could have seen you!”

“No one saw me; I am too fast to be seen!” Sonic said cockily but then climbed into the treehouse were red Echidnas with brown warrior masks with different colored feathers on them. They had spears, bows and arrows.

“Longclaw always told me that there would be people after me and my powers and the Echidna Tribe were the among the worst. They preach about being honourable warriors but in actuality; they are bloodthirsty and always seek to conquer whatever they could find and would demand obedience in exchange for what they called ‘protection’. They are basically more like the Mob than actual honourable warriors....”

Longclaw quickly took Sonic using her claws and fellow off but was hit by an arrow coming from one of the Echidnas. Longclaw went down and Sonic worriedly asking if she was alright. “Sonic; it’s not safe here. You have to go and remember to never stop running; you will only be safe if you stay hidden.” Longclaw told him giving him a bag of rings and then throwing one to reveal a portal to Earth. “You will be safe on this planet Earth; if you are found then use the Rings to make your escape. I will miss you..” Longclaw told him with a tear in her eye as Sonic protested that he didn’t want to go without her.

The Echidnas were coming and so Longclaw pushed Sonic through the portal; he was about to go back through but it disappeared as Longclaw fought back the Echidnas.

“Anyway I found my home here in Canterlot in that cave that you found me in. I had been sneaking around and seeing everyone come and go. I kept to Longclaw’s request that I stayed hidden but some girls caught glimpses of me; this animal girl with pink hair but she never got a good look at me and I doubt anyone believes her. I have been at your house time to time and saw you watching TV. I love the science fiction movies you see.”

“You have been spying on me?”

“Never thought of it like that so........ Sorry....... anyway, I have been hiding in the bleachers watching your school’s baseball team play and tonight I wanted a piece of that action! I played against myself and I scored a home run against the team consisting of me playing all the positions. I saw I had no one to celebrate with and realised just how alone that I was........ How I was supposed to be alone forever.... I blew off some steam running across the fields and I got a bit carried away........”

“I am pretty sure the whole town lost its power..........”

“I got to my cave and you followed me there.......”

“I can explain, I had been doing an after school extra credit project and I was leaving when the power surged hit, I saw the blue blur around the baseball pitch and I managed to follow you there, sorry for what happened next...”

Twilight had followed Sonic to the cave filled with the old stuff he had with him holding his bag of Rings and getting essentials to bring with him before he left. Sonic noticed Twilight and they both screamed and Twilight got a golf club and instinctively knocked him out. She then picked him and the bag of rings to bring back.

“Then you brought me here to the cage and you know the rest; you know since you were there and the rest just happened now.......” Sonic finished as Twilight was silent. Hearing Sonic’s story of being alone his whole life made Twilight remind her of her own loneliness except worse. She was lonely because she was an outcast but Sonic was lonely because he had no one...

“Wow, sorry about Longclaw......” Twilight told him apologetically and Sonic just half-heartedly shrugged. “Well I can take you to my room....” Twilight said telling him to be quiet as she walked up to the direction of her bedroom. She was annoyed when she saw Sonic rush through the door and then Twilight quickly made a makeshift bed out of a spare pillow and blankets.

“Twiley; is anything alright? I think that I heard someone there from your lab......” Twilight heard the voice of Cadance; her old babysitter and wife of her older brother Shining Armor and Twilight panicked. She then just shouted that she was just talking to Spike and was just making sure nothing was broken during the blackout. “Okay; if you are sure......... Shining called and said he will probably be out all night as the CPD is swamped with calls.” Cadance called and Twilight knew of course Shining would be dealing with the blackout as he was a police officer.

Twilight then went to her bed saying goodnight to Spike and Sonic as they went to sleep.

Classes Cancelled

Shining Armor was with the fellow CPD police officers early that morning in the baseball pitch of his alma mater Crystal Prep; just about all the lights and the fence around it was destroyed by whatever had caused the blackout. He had hardly any sleep as it seemed the entire CPD had been up all night ever since this blackout.

He had a ray of nostalgia thinking of himself as a student playing ball before looking towards his fellow officers as they were finishing sanctioning the area off with yellow police tape. He joined his wife Cadance and the school principal Abacus Cinch who looked furious and demanded “Shining Armor, I must know when the baseball pitch will be up and ready again. Crystal Prep has a reputation to ahold and we will need to get our baseball team’s practice schedule proceeding as normal!”

Principal Cinch was prioritising how it affects it school than the mere fact in the area; there could be something that set off the power surge that caused the black out. “Principal Cinch; with all due respect we have investigations that need to be done before we can allow repairs to be started........” Shining replied but they and everyone noticed the trucks pouring into the green grass. Cinch was looking furious but Cadance and Shining blinked with fear building up as they noticed the GUN logos on them.

Tempest walked out along with several other soldiers in dark blue military uniforms; “Captain Armor, I read that the CPD have put you in charge of investigating the power surge from here?” Tempest asked getting closer and Shining nodded with him agitated asking who they were. Tempest flashed her badge with the color draining from Cadance and Shining’s faces when they saw the GUN logo on the badge. “Commander Tempest Shadow of Guardian Unit of Nations and I am here with my boys to take over this investigation. Your welcome for taking some of the pressure off from you and I am sure Dr Robotnik can take it from here.” Tempest stated with Dr Robotnik walking out of his own personal truck.

Cinch glared as Shining and Cadance began whispering about what it means that GUN was here. They heard about the reputation of this military government organisation that had support, resources and authorisation from other countries in the world and were able to operate with special privileges about normal military. They had heard about in another town about how a computer specialist had managed to hack into a government satellite; GUN paid the man a visit and the man was never heard from again. Especially since all traces and evidence of the man even existing seemed to have vanished.

“Well if it isn’t Ivo Robotnik.” Cinch stated once Robotnik got close to them but he pulled up a finger.

“That’s Dr Ivo Robotnik; I have a dozen PHDs now and I would like that to be acknowledged. Nice to meet the science teacher who belittled my disinterest in physical activities and would threaten detention if she caught me complaining about her old star students. Especially the one bully who punched me and yet you wanted him to be moulded into a future sports star; you tried to blame me for what happened to him but couldn’t prove it. How is it working out for you?” Robotnik asked but Cinch scoffed.

“You had a brilliant mind Ivo but you let it get to your head it seems; thinking you can mouth off to me. Plus letting yourself go by the way; I don’t care what government lapdog position you have now but remember that I am the Principal of the most prestigious academy in the country. I want you and your government goons to make sure you get this done as quickly as possible without hampering the education of my students. Do I make myself clear........” Cinch spoke to him walking up and gave a shrug that caused Robotnik to signal to the soldiers.

Cinch was taken aback as the Gun soldiers grabbed her hands and she protested with demands to unhand her as she was cuffed behind her back. “Principal of ‘the most prestigious academy in the country’ and yet she was dumb enough to think that she could threaten a government employee in the middle of an investigation without consequences? Perhaps a few days in custody will change her tone. Don’t take her to the fans immediately; bring it to the street and then take her in it: try and get enough people to witness for word to spread around. Her reputation being taken a hit due to being arrested should humble her a bit.” Robotnik told the soldiers as they proceeded to carry out the instructions.

Shining was open mouthed but Cadance was holding back laughter seeing a still protesting Cinch being dragged to the entrance where a Van was driving up. Robotnik then activated buttons on his glove and out from Robotnik’s van were several egg shaped silver, black and grey drones that began scanning the immediately area with dark blue lights.

They were amazed and Cadance asked Tempest and Robotnik; “sorry Commander Shadow and Dr Robotnik sirs but how will this impact our classes today? I think the students will be distracted if they see flying robots about.” Cadance asked as Robotnik looked at her and asked who she was. “Mi Amore Cadenza but everyone calls me Cadance. I’m the Dean here at Crystal Prep”. Cadance introduced and Robotnik should his head.

“Well Dean ‘Mi Amore Cadenza But Calls Me Cadance’; this is a delicate operation that can’t be done with brats around. I do realise that it will be last minute to call all the parents but the classes here will have to be cancelled until further notice as we have a possible terrorist plot here. If you have any complaints then please write it down and place it in the new complaints department here.” Robotnik said pointing to a nearby dumpster.

Cadance nodded and told Shining that she would have call all the parents and then they would have to let Twilight know. Shining joke that Twilight would love to study Robotnik’s robots and Cadance agreed.

Twilight had woken up and changed into her school uniform after kicking Sonic out and then invited him in; “Okay here is the plan; you can hide in my backpack and you just have to wait until after school then I will take you to Canterlot High so you can get your Rings.” Twilight told him and he looked very unhappy about it. “Does that not work for you mister?” Twilight asked crossing her arms and Sonic shook his head vigorously.

“Of course not! I can’t spend who knows how long in a backpack and the longer we wait the longer someone else could find my Rings and take them for themselves! Not only would that inconvenience me but who knows what would happen if a normal human messes about with a power that they can’t understand!” Sonic replied and they heard knocking and Twilight quickly motioned Sonic to hide under her breath.

Twilight shouted for them to come in and there was Shining Armor there with a smile; “Guess you wasted time changing into your uniform Twiley; your school will be closed for the foreseeable future. There are people who will be investigating the blackout last night for the time being and they have sanctioned off the entire school premises.” Shining told her and he was surprised to see how well she was taking it.

“How long do I have to stay down here? There is a dust bunny here and I am pretty sure that it wants to fight my nose!” Sonic complained from underneath Twilight’s bed as Twilight gave a straight face to Shining’s eye widening suspiciously.

“Just been practicing my ventriloquism and I think I have been doing a good job. Thanks for telling me Shining. This means I can go out right now.” Twilight said with a smile shooing Shining out with him being taken aback as she shut the door. Sonic gasped as Twilight pulled him out and told him “okay this means that we can go now but please try and not draw attention to yourself as the school will be full of the students and staff. Plus please be quiet when you are in my backpack.” Twilight told him and he gave a salute.

“Don’t worry; I will be stealthy when I got through the vents! It will be like Die Hard in a school!” Sonic said striking an action pose making Twilight giggle. She then put him into the bag as she walked out and said goodbye to Shining and Cadance. “This is worst than under the bed and this is so cramped!” Sonic complained as Twilight gave the best fake smile to the direction of Shining and Cadance from the living room as she said she was going out and bye.

Outside Canterlot High Sunset Shimmer met with her friends Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Applejack and Rarity as she asked “so did anyone else notice the surge that caused that blackout from last night? The news said that it had even gone beyond Canterlot itself. I sure felt it when it woke me up from my sleep.” The five friends all shared a look and gave a nod knowing what she meant.

“No kidding as it affected all my beautify appliances and woke me up from my beauty sleep; it might be some time before I can use them again so I better not need a makeover in the near future.” Rarity complained not looking pleased.

“I was up on my Soccer Ultimate Star Champion’s Edition online and I totally would have scored the goal that won the tournament I was in if it wasn’t for that stupid blackout!” Rainbow Dash ranted looking very angry and her arms crossed.

“The power surge pretty much woke up all animals at the farm; took an hour to clam them all down before we could all get back to bed.” Applejack explained looking like she had lost quite a bit of sleep due to what happened.

“I was babysitting the Cake Twins and I was in the middle of making the best midnight snack ever before the blackout ruined everything! All that delicious treats never had a chance to be enjoyed and they were all ruined!” Pinkie said looking like she was about to cry.

“Well I got woken up but my parents put the backup power on; I spent the time going over my plans to find the blue creature.” Fluttershy said and practically everyone rolled their eyes as for some time now Fluttershy had been claiming that she had spotted a blue creature around the city but would get away at super speed before she could get a closer look.

“Are you sure this creature is not just in your head Fluttershy? I am pretty sure if there was some sort of super fast small blue Bigfoot than anyone else would have noticed it.” Rainbow Dash asked and the sentiment was shared by the rest of the group.

“I am certain that the poor thing is just lost, confused an so very shy. Once I am able to find him then I will be able to find him a good home where he will be taken care of.” Fluttershy replied and the group gave a look that said they were just humouring her.

Shining and Cadance were in the living room of the Sparkle house; they were looking at eachother with raised eyebrows as Cadance decided to break the silence. “Hasn’t Twilight been acting weird since yesterday? When she got home last night I thought I heard her talking to someone in her room.” Cadance told Shining and his eyes widening.

“I just heard a boy’s voice from her room and the voice came from her bed but she passed it off as ventriloquism as she pushed me out of her room.....” Shining explained and their eyes widening as if getting a realisation. “You don’t suppose that Twilight had a boy brought over and is trying to hide him from us?” Shining asked his older brother instincts kicking in about the idea of Twilight and a boy which stayed over in her room.

Cadance looked excited as she squealed “Twilight’s growing up and she must have decided to go out with him on a date right now! You think we should talk about it with her later if we catch them in the act?” Shining nodded as he now wanted to find and talk to this boy himself.

Author's Note

Who doesn't love comedic misunderstandings?

School Zone

Twilight with the hood of her jacket up had gone on the nearest bus to Canterlot High; she got off while ignoring Sonic’s grumbles and remarks about being there. Once getting off Twilight went to the side of the school building quickly to hide. She then opened up the backpack to let Sonic out and he looked like he was gasping for air while having held his nose.

“What do you put in there? It smelled like a bunch of dog farts and don’t ask me how I would know what that smells like.......” Sonic complained letting go of his nose and Twilight giggled; deciding to keep quiet about the fact that she often uses her backpack to sneak Spike into school. He then got out and sighed muttering “okay so I go in and get my Rings and get out; then I go to the nice and safe Mushroom Planet like Longclaw said. Nothing to see, eat or talk to but mushrooms all the time.... I will be all alone.......”

“Do you really want to go? I am sure we can find somewhere else for you to stay or just give it enough time and you can safely go back to your cave. I can come and visit you.” Twilight offered and Sonic shook his head.

“I don’t want to go but I have to; Longclaw said that as long as people know about me then there will be people after my powers. The only way for me to be safe is to keep running and hide all alone... Forever........” Sonic said depressed and Twilight put a hand on his shoulder.

“A safe life of nothing but loneliness doesn’t sound like a good life at all; I keep telling myself that I am alone at school by choice but........ The truth is that all the other students look down on me for just wanting to focus on my studies and not go out for sports and get togethers plus they don’t like i am the top student....... They alienate me and hardly anyone seems like they would want to be my friend....” Twilight told him pushing away a tear and Sonic was silent. Twilight decided to change the subject as she then got out from her backpack two ear pieces with a small microphone attached to them. “This way we can talk to eachother and you can tell me if something goes wrong.” Twilight explained to them and Sonic gave thumbs up as they then put them on.

Twilight went to hide behind a tree as Sonic went through a door for the custodians, he then found a vent and tried to pry it open without much lucky. He then stomped the ground in frustration before realising he was making a sound and so ran up to the top of the lockers, “Okay I am in but I couldn’t get through the vents, looks like I won’t be able to do Die Hard after all.....” Sonic whispered into the ear piece and somehow felt the eye roll that Twilight was giving in response.

He then began crawling across them and found a door labelled lost and found, thinking his rings might be there if they had been found already he then began thinking of a plan. He saw the custodian had put his keys in as if to lock it. He then jumped down and banged on the lockers.

This distracted the custodian long enough for him to rush right through into the room, in the nearest box he found the red bag of rings and then gave a self satisfied smile. The custodian looked inside and so Sonic rushed past him but came across a corridor of stunned silent open mouth students. “Uh....... meow.......” Sonic said weakly putting on his best innocent smile.

“Let me guess, you got caught Sonic......” Twilight’s voice asked him through the ear piece and his silence was all the answer that she needed.

Robotnik was in his personal lab inside his van and was reading Mein Kampf and then noticed Tempest standing there with her arms crossed and giving a raised eyebrow. “Don’t you dare judge me Commander Shadow with your inferior intellect. Even the most horrible people ever were capable of great insight and genius in their own way. The atom bomb’s father; the destroyer of worlds was an adulterist. He was a great genius and his greatest flaw was regret for what his greatest creation had caused.” Robotnik snapped but then saw there was a large energy reading coming from Canterlot High and Tempest scoffed when she saw the location.

“The third time that place has had something like that...... GUN Personnel have put off from researching the phenomenon due to higher matters and we had plans to keep an eye on the school....” Tempest said with a smirk only to get an incredulous look from Robotnik. “Something the matter Doctor?” Tempest asked sighing.

“This school had two phenomenons and you thought you had more pressing matters than that?” Robotnik asked shaking his head and Tempest glared at his direction.

“We had terrorist cells to worry about at the moment.....” Tempest explained but then Robotnik put up a finger to silence him.

“You think that trumps an energy surge coming from a school of all places? That is where your priorities lie? I always underestimate the foolishness of lesser people than me and that pretty much entails everyone else in the world. That is the ultimate curse of being the smartest and most intelligent lifeform on this planet; you have to deal with everyone else’s stupidity.” Robotnik continued on and Tempest was doing her best to keep her anger in check. Robotnik then began pressing buttons and mechanisms on his glove and told her “I have diverted all drones to this school to find the source of this surge; move all GUN forces here to Canterlot High.” Robotnik ordered her and Tempest nodded before leaving.

“I get sent here to investigate an energy surge that knocked out all power in this part of this country and it led me to two different high schools in the same morning.....” Tempest muttered underneath her breath.

Sonic stood there beginning to panic and Fluttershy ran to the front crowd of students with a big smile; Sonic instantly recognised her as the pink haired girl who had saw him before and tried to catch him. “I knew it; I knew the blue creature was real and here is all alone and confused.” Fluttershy said putting on a soft tone of voice as she slowly walked up to Sonic. “There there little one, don’t be afraid...... I can find you a place where you will be safe and well looked after......” Fluttershy said only for Sonic to run past her wanting to get as quickly out of there as possible.

Sonic ran past but unfortunately down the corridor there were soccer students playing with a ball that ended up accidentally hitting Sonic in the face. He lost his balance and crash at a wall while dropping his bag of Rings causing them to scatter. “Sonic, I think you should hurry out of there as........ I see flying robotic drones in the sky and I am pretty sure that I know who they are after......” Twilight’s voice told him and he then panicked as he then began quickly taking a handful of his Rings into his hand but then was sent back as there was at the wall. The students began running away in fear and someone quickly pulled the nearest fire alarm.

The drones locked into Sonic and he then began running to get away from their machine fire, he then ran down the wall in a panick, he then met up with Twilight and saw the drones coming near them. Thinking quickly he then got one of his Rings and then flew it thinking of Twilight’s room. They then jumped through it and the portal disappeared through it before the drones could come through it.

Twilight almost ended up tripping where Spike was lying on the ground and she quickly apologised to him as she then sat the panicked Sonic on her bed. She then went to the door and told him “We will figure out how to deal with this later, in the meantime get some rest and I will get you something to eat.” She opened the door and went through to see Shining looking serious with his arms crossed and Cadance looking excited.

“We didn’t hear you come in through the door and heard a noise coming from your room; don’t think that we don’t know you have someone in there Twilight.” Cadance told her and Twilight gulped as she then began muttering any excuse she could think of. “We wanted to let you have your privacy but we might as well tell you now that we know; I am just so happy that you found a boyfriend.” Cadance said with a beaming smile as Twilight was open mouthed and Sonic just yelled asking what she just said.

“Sorry Twiley but I must meet this boy you have been sneaking into your room during the night.” Shining said forcing himself through the door. Shining and Cadance could now see Sonic lying on the bed and their eyes widened.

“Don’t worry; we are just friends. You don’t have to worry about Twilight having an alien hedgehog as a boyfriend. I don’t know if she is my type or if I have a type at the moment as I never gave much thought to dating......” Sonic said jokingly and both Cadance and Shining both fainted face first onto the floor of Twilight’s room.

Aftermath

After about half an hour the GUN personnel were at Canterlot High where all the students and staff were being looked over by paramedics and questioned. Robotnik was with Tempest as they both of them were looking up at the hole in the wall left by the Drones. “You did that to a school and put all the students inside in danger? They could have easily been killed!” Tempest told Robotnik sternly and he looked unconcerned about the idea of the students put at risk.

“Would have just been unfortunate collateral; I am sure our representatives can just tell the media that it was an unidentified dangerous creature and we were forced to act. No one was seriously hurt anyway.” Robotnik stated simply but then they were confronted by the furious looking Principal Celestia and Vice Principal Luna. “Let me guess, you of lesser IQ are here to complain about the damage done to my school and feeling outraged about where your tax dollars are going. I assure you that the most advanced state of the art technology is well worth every penny.” Robotnik told them and they just looked angrier as Tempest sighed.

“Not only did you damage our school and more importantly you put the lives of my staff and especially our students risk with the nerve of wanting to pass their possible deaths as collateral damage. What do you have to say for yourself?” Celestia demanded as Robotnik raised an eyebrow. Tempest shook her head knowing this wasn’t going to go well.

“We are here investigating the possible source of the blackout and a most dangerous life form. Besides I bet it may possibly be your own students that put yourselves at risk.” Robotnik replied and they looked affronted at the accusation. “Come now, this is like the third high energy incident that your school has had in no little time and if there were any competency in government then your school would have been investigated earlier. I will be prepared to take action if I catch the glimpses of evidence saying that a student here is involved; then you will also be held responsible.” Robotnik finished as he then walked off leaving them agitated.

“Sorry about the good Doctor but if it helps then I can say he is no less irritating and hard to deal with around colleagues as well.” Tempest told them straight faced her voice showing she was not entirely happy with the situation herself.

Celestia and Luna gave a smile as Luna said “Thanks anyway and I do understand you all have to look over the incident with this creature even if we are most not pleased that your Doctor has put our students at risk with his flying robots. Still it’s always nice to see a former student Ms Berry.....”

“Commander Tempest Shadow; that is my name now and my title is Commander so I wish to be referred to as such.” Tempest snapped at once with a fierce glare as Luna gave her apologises and Celestia was holding back a laugh.

Sunset, Fluttershy, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie and Rarity were together after being questioned by the GUN soldiers, “Okay Fluttershy, maybe you’re imaginary speedy blue creature wasn’t so imaginary after all. Still, what was that thing?” Rainbow Dash asked scratching her head while Fluttershy was slightly pleased about being vindicated.

“Maybe he was an alien or an escaped science experiment.” Pinkie suggested and they began muttering about Pinkie watching too many movies again. “Perhaps he is a character from a video game escaped to ours.” Pinkie suggested this time and they just sighed.

“I think we know what this creature most likely is, don’t we?” Applejack said speaking up and most of them knew what she was taking about. “This varmint is most likely another magic being from Equestria, just like the Dazzlings.” Applejack said and there were mutterings of agreement.

“Well I never saw anything like that in Equestria or read about but then again Equestria is home to a lot of strange creatures. Especially from what I read resides in what we call the Everfree Forest.” Sunset said with a shrug as she got out her journal from her backpack used to communicate with Princess Twilight. “I will write to Twilight and tell her about it, it would probably be best if we get her help in tracking down this creature ourselves.” Sunset said as she started writing.

“Wonder why the thing was after these little things anyway? I know fashion and good taste and while the gold is a nice touch, they are nothing special.” Rarity asked looking over the red bag with the rings that Fluttershy had collected from the ground after the creature jumped out; before she had left.

“Hope the poor fellow is alright, all scared and now there are scary looking soldiers and robots after him.” Fluttershy said concerned and Sunset put a comforting hand on her shoulder.

“It will be for his safety and everyone else’s if we find him and then Twilight can take him back to Equestria. We would have to be careful with these GUN people around with their robots.” Sunset said and they looked on in agreement.

“No kidding; things were tense enough when it was just high school drama with magic involved that had a big climax in the end but now it feels like we are in a Sci-Fi movie where the government and military after some strange life form.” Dash commented and everyone felt amused by her comment.

Robotnik was now in the lab in his van looking over his computer; from the screen he was playing the memory in his drones’ built in cameras for him to witness; he was taken aback when he saw the footage of what appeared to be a blue hedgehog moving at super speed. “Dr Robotnik sir, the students that witnessed the creature said it was a blue hedgehog moving at super speed that looked like this.....” One of the GUN Soldiers said showing him a crude drawing of the creature. “I see that you already know......” He muttered and Robotnik shook his head at how slow they worked especially compared to someone like him.

One of the other GUN Soldiers gave him a blue quill and told him “We found this among the grass outside the hole in the wall sir.” Robotnik then put the quill in his analyser as he then continued playing the footage. He was taken aback to see the creature take a girl as the creature tossed something into the air that turned into a portal he disappeared to. After freezing and looking through the frames he paused at the best look of the girl’s face.

He then had the computer look for a match out of all teenagers in the city, any lesser person would have only gone for the Canterlot High students but he was not a lesser man. He Saw his data analysis of the quill showed the power inside went beyond limitless. A smirk formed on his face as he thought about what to do.

Then his computer told him there was a match found and he looked and saw the profile of Twilight Sparkle. He then called in Tempest and she gave a salute, Robotnik then rewound the footage to show the Rings dropping to the ground. “When you’re men looked where the hole was from the inside; did they find these rings?” Robotnik asked and she shook her head. “Question all the staff and students, find out who has them and retrieve them. I am going to go catch our life form at the main suspect’s home.” Robotnik ordered and she nodded before leaving.

Twilight had explained what had happened to Cadance and Shining, once they had gotten back up and caught their senses that is. “So let me get this straight; Sonic here is an alien you found that accidentally caused the black out. He has super speed and you were helping him find his magic Rings that create portals to wherever you want to go? On top of the fact that he had been spying on us for who knows how long?” Shining asked with his hands to his head wanting to wake up at any moment.

“I know that it sounds kind of crazy but you are the guy who has the name that sounds like he should be some sort of knight in a fantasy kingdom.” Sonic joked with Twilight and Cadance giggling and Shining trying his best not to show how amused he was by Sonic’s joke.

“Okay, okay but you do realises that accident or not you had caused a blackout and it was a miracle that you didn’t cause a death or serious injury. There are GUN here and they are bad news, not someone to mess with. They would know he is here in Canterlot now and I don’t doubt that they won’t stop until they find him.” Shining stated and everyone was shocked by what he was implying.

“Shining, you are not suggesting that we hand him over? Who knows what they would do to him and he means no harm, he just wants to stay safe.” Twilight said with a strong glare to her brother and he looked uneasy especially as Cadance was sharing the glare.

“He needs our help Shining and do you really think GUN getting their hands on him will turn anything good? Not only would be a science experiment to them but who knows what could happen if his Powers fall into the wrong hands.” Cadance chided him as Sonic was now on his knees begging.

“Yes listen to your wife Police Guy as the last people after me and my powers didn’t have any good intentions at all! I have no one else to turn to for help; please!!!!” Sonic begged and Shining sighed as he gave a small smile.

“I guess that as a cop, I shouldn’t turn down someone who truly does need my help, it’s not that he is a dangerous criminal or terrorist or something.” Shining said with them smiling before hearing the front door being knocked which Spike started barking at. They looked out and saw Robotnik’s van there.

Chase

They looked and saw several of the drones fly out to the window with them being armed; shrieked they all quickly ran to the downstairs but then Robotnik then busted open the door. “Hello Dr Robotnik; I want to let you know the laws that you are breaking here by doing this including the fact that I doubt that you have a warrant for this.” Shining commented as Robotnik laughed him off.

The Sparkle family motioned for Sonic to try and find a way out of there; Sonic then saw all the exits were blocked and he tried running up a bookcase to hide up there. The Sparkle family looked worried as Robotnik faced Twilight and said “I have footage of you aiding and abetting a fugitive from justice; this creature but it can all be forgotten if you cooperate. I read your file Ms Twilight Sparkle; a student at Crystal Prep who is the top student despite your low social skills and how you interact with your peers. Quite an impressive record if I do say so myself; the 2nd highest grades and IQ of any of Crystal Prep’s previous students only to me.”

Twilight paused and remembered what Shining had called this man, “Ivo Robotnik?” Twilight asked her eyes widening never thought she would ever get to see in person the top student Crystal Prep ever had. Apparently he was a poor orphan whose gifted intelligence and hard work earned him a scholarship for Crystal Prep and even then made technology above his time. It was studying his work at Crystal Prep along with studying the work of Rosette Nebula; that helped her create her machine designs. However seeing him in person and seeing as how he was sending robots after her new friend made her think this was a broken pedestal.

“Good to know my reputation precedes me Ms Sparkle; though not as brilliant as me I do think you remember me somewhat of a younger me. Too brilliant for you’re so called peers and pressured by that stupid Cinch. I can help you realise what I realised long time ago; you and I exist on a different wavelength than the other stupid spoilt brats who mostly got in due to bribes from their rich parents. Once you accept that you are beyond the normal humans and you surrender yourself to your work will you achieve your true potential. Give over the specimen and I can help you reach your potential.” Robotnik offered and Twilight shook her head.

“Sonic just wants to be saved and he is my friend, I won’t betray the trust he has in me. I may feel alienated at school but I don’t want to be; sorry Doctor but I must turn down your offer.” Twilight replied with Robotnik shaking his head in disappointment but Sonic looked touched by her comments.

“Have it your way but I must say that I am disappointed; such potential wasted......” Robotnik said as he had the drones arm themselves at Twilight’s direction, Shining and Cadance hugged Twilight protectively.

“NO!!! You don’t get to hurt my friends!!!!” Sonic screamed as if by instinct he jumped down his fur producing blue electricity and becoming a ball he went and destroyed the drones. Robotnik was taken aback but Shining took the distraction by kicking him in the unmentionables allowing Sonic and the Sparkles to all go through the door. Spike went and bit Robotnik on the ankle before Twilight picked him up. They were going into the car with Robotnik getting up.

“You just made me relive very traumatic childhood memories and you have now made this very personal!!!!” Robotnik snapped as he then went to his van and then quickly got changed into a red flight suit and had the blue quill powering something inside his van.

After ten minutes of driving in a random direction they all had a chance to calm down; “Did you see me becoming a Sonic boom ball right there? I never knew that I could do that!!!” Sonic shouted excitedly in his seat with them becoming amused. Then they looked through the car mirror and saw Robotnik’s van chasing after them. “Just keep driving and leave this to me!” Sonic told them confidently and they had no time to argue as he climbed out of the window and onto the hood of the car.

Using a running start he jumped off the car and curled up into a ball he them striked at the hood of the van causing it to crash and land on its side. Sonic then began doing a victory dance but then the Sparkles began shouting at him to look out.

From the rubble of the van out came Robotnik piloting a craft with himself being shown through a window. With a smirk he then began firing missiles that were headed towards Sonic. Panicked he had then began dodging and getting bystanders on the sidewalk out of the way so they wouldn’t get hit.

The Sparkles were looking concerned but Sonic shouted at them to just keep going and he will catch up, Shining pretty much floored the car with Sonic running and soon catching up. Through a microphone in the machine Robotnik shouted “how do you like the power of my Robotnik Mobile; powered by one of your quills creature! Once I dissected you and the source of your powers; I can finally power my machines to their true potential! They will rise up and take down the governments of the world and create a new world order enforced by my machines and led by me!”

“Just last night I discovered alien life and right now my family, my new friend and I are running from a former inspiration of mine who has now officially become a cartoon villain.....” muttered twilight with Spike on their lap but they looked and saw out from underneath the Robotnik Mobile was a large red and black checked ball connected by what looked like a chain. “WHAT? Oh come on!!!! How does he even fit that in there!!!!!” Twilight snapped as the chase went on with Sonic doing his best to get bystanders out of the way using his super speed. No one really noticed the camera phones being used to get the footage.

“Dr Robotnik; what is going on there? I am getting reports of a rampage and you are clearly being seen on videos that are now going viral in such a short time.........” demanded a voice to Robotnik through his ear piece. He then just switched it off thinking his time taking orders was at an end.

Sonic then got from his sock one of the Rings he had placed there when he and Twilight were explaining things to Shining and Cadance. He then threw it thinking quickly of the first place he could think off and unfortunately it was Canterlot High from earlier.

Sonic and the Sparkle family car smashed through the entrance of the school and Robotnik went through the portal but unfortunately for him; the halls made it virtually impossible to navigate with the giant ball weapon so he was forced to disconnect it with his Robotnik Mobile to keep going on.

The six of them kept together by the horse statue waiting for Princess Twilight and keeping the bag of Rings hidden from the GUN soldiers who seemed to be trying to find it. Soon enough Twilight walked through and they embraced her. “I got your message Sunset but I must say I want to see this creature for myself. I tried to look it up but I haven’t found anything yet. Do you know where he is or what he was after.” Twilight asked them but then they saw that Tempest was getting a call and was calling over the other GUN Soldiers.

“Well he seemed to be after this, I don’t know what they could be.” Rarity told her taking out the bag letting Twilight take a close look. “But as to where the creature is; we haven’t have the foggiest idea.....” Rarity said but as of the moment people were getting out of the way of the entrance doors. Bursting through was the car along with Sonic closely followed by the Robotnik mobile.

Sonic noticed the bag of Rings and used super speed to take it from them with them just thinking that it suddenly vanished. Everyone was staring as Tempest was ordering all the GUN soldiers to have them followed. Twilight along with the six had their mouths wide open before they went to follow.

“Does anyone else think that we are just the background cast in this story due to how out of the loop we are in this story?” Pinkie had asked.

Author's Note

Please don't be expecting daily updates.

Battle

Robotnik had decided to aim a shot at a street with busy people in there; Sonic panicked as he pushed them away and was caught by the shot. The Sparkles were furious at this and went to make sure Sonic was alright as the people were confused but saw that the blue creature had just saved them. The Sparkles helped him up but looked up at Robotnik while going into a protective circle. Some passerbys decided to join in on a mob thinking the creature might be some sort of hero since he was trying to save people from this maniac in a machine.

“This is why I prefer machines over to people; they do what they are told and if something is wrong there are ways to fix them but not so with humans. Why would you put your life in danger just to protect some rodent who doesn’t belong here on this planet?” Robotnik asked shaking his head as Twilight stepped forward with Spike growling up at him.

“Sonic is a more pure soul than you will ever be Robotnik; he has more humanity than you will ever have. You know what; I feel sorry for you since you are content to think yourself above humans and be a total jerk about it. I would rather be like Sonic than you any day; you thinking that it’s a good thing to have a higher IQ and makes you above humanity and that actually makes you the dumbest person here!” Twilight shouted right at him and this made Robotnik furious.

Then there was clapping and they turned around and saw Tempest with the GUN Soldiers who had arrived just in time to watch Sonic take a hit to help people.

“After what your stupid brother did before he left and your comments now; I will make you pay! I will track down all of your family, friends and anyone else that you even have the slightest bit of fondness towards or is the slightest bit nice of you.... Then I will kill them all in retribution for this, no one will think to go up against me....” Robotnik snapped but then there was a dark blue light from within the protective circle causing them to get out of the way.

Drawing in power including from the quill powering the Robotnik Mobile was Sonic who was standing up with fury in his eyes and his quills radiating dark blue electric power. Robotnik panicked when he saw that his Robotnik Mobile was losing power at an alarming rate.

Twilight with Spike got back along with Shining, Cadance and the rest of the crowd. One of the GUN Soldiers asked Tempest for orders and while smirking she replied “just stand back and enjoy the show Lieutenant.”

A Canterlot student who went by DJ Pon-3 and had managed to get close enough thought that this scene needed fight music. So using her boombox she then played a song at full blast.

“No more running now that I have friends that I care about, I had been using my powers to run practically all my life and now i use it to protect my friends!” Sonic shouted as he then jumped up and becoming a ball launched him at the Robotnik Mobile about 7 times causing it to become heavily damaged. Robotnik was remaining defiant but Twilight got an idea and rant to Sonic to shout something.

“Hey Sonic, you think that Robotnik likes mushrooms?” Twilight shouted and Sonic smirked as he then threw a Ring right behind the Robotnik Mobile causing a portal to open up to the Mushroom Planet. With one final attack he then sent the Robotnik Mobile back through the portal as it closed up.

The Sparkle family cheered as they then engulfed Sonic into a hug; “Okay guys, now that the show is over let’s get to work. Here is what happened; the blackout was caused by one of Robotnik’s robots and he went rogue to catch it causing all sorts of property damage. That is what happened and offer what you much to make sure that no witnesses contradicts the story. I don’t think anyone at the Pentagon or in the President’s cabinet will care when they learn that we don’t have to deal with Robotnik anymore.” Tempest ordered her soldiers taking charge of the situation. She looked to Sonic and the Sparkles and said “I think we need to have a talk....”

A month had passed and things were almost fixed at Crystal Prep with the students still off; Cinch was meeting with Cadance as she was ranting about her treatment while in GUN custody. “Can you believe it and when I complain about my treatment to the complaints department; I was told Ivo doesn’t and never has worked with them! The nerve of them and now I have the indignity of word getting around that I was seen being arrested by them!” She was snapping as she got to the office. “So when can we have the basketball team ready for the next big game in the league?” Cinch asked and Cadance looked at her nervously.

“Actually, I already talked with the school board and they decided that we have to postpone all sports teams and competitions, we might be able to do the Friendship Games judging by if Canterlot High is operation by then but we have had to forfeit our place in the baseball league....” Cadance explained and Cinch had her mouth wide open.

“You are not serious........ I am talking to the board about this, we have to play as I have already made preparations for the victory party and the very expensive company doesn’t give refunds for the deposits.........” Cinch was ranting while Cadance just sighed.

The 7 of them had arrived too late to witness the end of what happened between the blue creature and the man in the flying contraption which Twilight was most interested in. The GUN personnel was keeping them back and they couldn’t see the blue creature anywhere. They did see people lining up including DJ Pon-3 in order to be told something by the GUN personnel and then given cheques. Probably a bribe in order to keep with whatever cover story they were cooking up.

With no other option they had to disperse and were sent home along with the other Canterlot High students, however in her jacket pocket Rarity still had some of the golden Rings and Twilight was taking them back to Equestria for study with them promising to update her when they had another lead on the blue creature’s whereabouts. Hopefully she will find something about him or the Rings soon.

Pinkie was muttering about them just being background people in whatever this story was. The 7 of them went to the wall the next day after the whole mess and they had spotted DJ Pon-3 in the music store buying some new expensive equipment. They knew very well instantly where that money had came from. Rainbow Dash was feeling jealous that she was not bribed by government personnel for silence after the previous magical encounters.

Now they just had to wait for updates.........

the Sparkle house was fixed with repairs thanks to help from GUN Personnel, Twilight was covering Sonic’s eyes as she had led him into a spare guest room in the house. She had let go and he was stunned with excitement as he saw it was turned into a bedroom just for him with a race car bed and all the stuff he had from his cave. There was other new stuff and there was even the old washing machine and she had worked on it to turn it into a functional exercise machine.

Sonic gave her a tight hug and she returned it, “So big sis, do you want me to help you with that study of that other school that I saw in your room?” Sonic asked and she shook her head.

“I will go back to that some other time, can’t believe I am saying that but there is plenty of time to study whatever strange thing is happening at that school but for now.......... I think I just want to recover from my last adventure.” Twilight said and they heard the door being knocked and then Cadance and Shining calling them both down.

They went down and were stunned to see Tempest standing there in more casual stuff and holding a cage which had Grubber in it. “There was no way that GUN and the government was going to let you have Sonic stay with you without someone being kept an eye on you. Consider me your new next door neighbour.” Tempest told them as she was invited in. “Thanks for all your help and cooperation; I have a little present to say thanks.” Tempest told them giving them a parcel and the Sparkles excitedly opened it.

They blinked when they saw that it was an early copy of the upcoming Tirek’s Revenge game, “Cashed in a few favours and please don’t let this get out but the GUN Director Discord and the President Johnson give their own thanks as well.” Tempest told them and was amused by how much glee Twilight and Sonic was giving the game box.

“Thank you for all the help but I must say; given GUN’s reputation I would not have believed how nice you all are being to us.” Shining commented and Tempest just laughed.

“I guess you can say that I have a fondness for hedgehogs.” Tempest told them and Shining and Cadance invited them to the karaoke night they had that night. Soon it was Sonic’s turn and he found the perfect song to sing in the list:

Meeting Tails

On the mushroom planet; Robotnik had continued his trek and just knew his persistence and patience would pay off in the end. So it did as he had found a long abandoned camp of some sort so that there were life that had come to this wretched planet at some point. It was in strong decay but he had scavenged the area to find anything of use.

He saw a faint golden glow and had buried deep within the debris and grinned when he had found one of the golden portal Rings that had been used to force him to this plant in the first place. He then grinned triumphantly and got the still functional music player in his leftover machine parts to play a victory song for him to dance to:

“I have found my way from this wretched planet to my own wretched planet; I will have my vengeance of that blasted hedgehog, the Sparkle family and anyone else who dared cross me! I will take the planet for myself and rule as a being beyond the gods! I will damn them all the Tartarus....” Robotnik shouted being too excited so he ended up dropping the ring and it created a portal underneath him that he felt into screaming.

He then saw that he had landed into a place of fire and brimstone and beings in cages; once he had a few minutes to scream like a little girl he made a note saying “I am not the first human being to discover that apparently Tartarus is a very real place after all. This is a massive achievement when compared to my already impressive and great achievements that no other human being have managed to top! I shall wonder about topping myself too by seeing if Asgard is a real place too.......”

He was then drawn to a cage which housed what looked like both a minotaur and a centaur all in one....

Sonic had started walking around Manehattan more openly with Twilight; albeit with the disguise of a jacket and a hat as that seemed to hide his identity as a disguised alien hedgehog. Right now they had gone out to the cinema to see the new movie Chao in Space; Sonic had a laugh at the groan Twilight gave during the movie trailers. In particular the one for the movie based on the Tomatopotamus video games; due to the out of place rap song that played and how the movie seemed to be prominently featuring a new human character that wasn’t from the games and would be going through the drama of trying to get through her new job when an ex-boyfriend as a co-worker.

Even though they enjoyed the movie themselves; Twilight couldn’t help but still bring up that particular trailer as they exited the movie theatre. “I mean seriously; what fan would want to see a version of their favourite properties based in the real world? I mean it seems like a cheap and lazy way to adapt a story....” Twilight muttered but then saw someone walk up to them.

They saw it was Fluttershy and Sonic whispered to Twilight that it was the girl who kept trying to catch him before. “Okay come on...... Cousin Nicky Needlemouse.....” Twilight shouted nervously coming up with the first fake name she could think of taking Sonic’s arm and pulling him along with him protesting about how hard she was being. Fluttershy started to follow but Twilight quickly got them into the nearest bus as it took off.

“Okay I am grateful that you took me from the pink haired girl before she could try to take me to put into some zoo or something but seriously...... Nicky Needlemouse? You could have come up with something cooler than that!!!” Sonic ranted quietly and Twilight just sighed as they got off.

They went back to the Sparkle family home and got to the door where they heard Spike barking; Shining and Cadance were there to greet them along with Tempest making them concerned. “My GUN soldiers found him at Canterlot High scanning for your energy and I brought him here because he said that he urgently needs to see you.” Tempest told them making them pause as they got in.

They got to the living room and saw the yellow fox there who excitedly went up to Sonic; “Sonic; at last! I knew that by studying Longclaw’s notes that I could find you here! I’m Miles Prowler but they call me Tails! Princess Blaze will be so glad to find that you are safe.” The yellow fox greeted with Sonic stunned as he just stared at Tails.

“So are you from Mobius as well and you know about Longclaw?” Sonic asked stunned and Tails nodded eagerly. “So who is this Princess Blaze?” Sonic asked and Tails cleared his breath.

“She is the Princess of the Sol Kingdom where I am from and she is your chosen betrothed.” Tails replied and this left everyone else stunned but Sonic confused.

Sonic then scratched his head and asked “that is great and all but what is a chosen bethrothed?”

Tails explains

“So wait, you are saying that I’m supposed to marry some Princess that I had never met before which was arranged when I was not even born?” Sonic asked with a glare and a raised eye brow almost getting in Tails’ face before Twilight had him step back. “Now how many ways can I say ‘no way on Earth or any other planet!’” Sonic continued on as Tails took a deep breath.

“So did Longclaw never tell you?” Tails asked and Sonic raised an eyebrow at the mention of Longclaw as he then shook his head.

“Longclaw wanted me to keep running and stay hidden so I don’t think that she would have brought any betrothal up or anything.” Sonic said but then realised something. “Wait a minute........ Did Longclaw set this up?” Sonic demanded as Tails once again shook his head.

“No Longclaw was serving as an advisory to your mother Sonic and the betrothal was made before each of you was born since it was foretold in the magical ancient texts that you both would be born. However you’re Mum got sick and it wasn’t likely that you or you would survive so they used a powerful artefact to try and heal her. She died anyway but you were born and gifted with your powerful speed. They all knew that you wouldn’t be safe with the enemies nearby so Longclaw took you to hide until it was safe again. A search party was sent to check up on you but they found Longclaw’s body......” Tails explained looking apologetic as he went on in his explanation.

Sonic looked down sighing knowing that he had lost his birth mother and Longclaw as well; Twilight kneeled down and put a comforting arm around his shoulder which he appreciated. “We didn’t know where you were but we found the energy signature coming from this planet some time ago and i was sent to see if I can track you and I have.” Tails explained with a happy smile and Sonic raised an eyebrow.

“So they sent a young kid to find me?” Sonic asked with his arms crossed and Tails looked offended at the statement.

“I will let you know that I am a top inventor and I was the one who invented this miniature tracking device.” Tails replied with a glare showing his device and Twilight came to have a look.

“You built that yourself? Cool, I’m Twilight and I am an inventor myself.” Twilight explained and Tails looked interested to everyone else’s amusement.

“Before you both geek out on science stuff; I just want to tell you Tails that if you came to find me to get to marry some princess that I have never even heard of until now then you have another thing coming!” Sonic told him making a gesture to the door but Tails shook his head as everyone else thought this may get heated.

“You don’t understand; it’s not just because of the betrothal that the Sol Kingdom is now looking for you. The Echidna Tribe caught wind of you being on the planet and are close to figuring out the secret of the Rings so they could come here.” Tails continued with Sonic and Twilight’s eyes widening at that.

“The Echidna Tribe; they were the ones that killed Longclaw. Sonic told me that they are like warrior conquering mob.” Twilight explained for the others with Sonic giving a slight nod. Tempest sighed wondering how her superiors will react to hearing that the Earth may get invaded by a race of alien Echidna warriors.

Tirek; the minotaur/centaur hybrid with barely any horns had introduced himself to Robotnik offering him great power if he helped in his escape; Robotnik would usually be all for manipulating schmucks to get what he wants but he had little resources now and couldn’t risk anyone betraying him. He had found the way up and got out of Tartarus.

Because you could do that.

He was expecting to return to Earth or at least Earth in the past or something; certainly not some village filled with saccharine colourful small ponies with wings, horns or neither. It was like from some sort of stupid girls cartoon.

It was revolting to look at so the sooner he leaves this place the better, he ignored the stares and walked forward. Some pink monstrosity got in his face and he shoved her to the side when she began blabbing about wanting to throw some party. Then he had a yellow and pink maned winged pony get in his face shouting “how dare you Mr be rude to Pinkie like that! You don’t get to treat my friends like that, especially when she just wanted to welcome you to Ponyville! You should be ashamed of yourself! I want you to apologise to Pinkie right now and think about your behaviour!”

Ponyville? Looks like the ponies here are even less creative and smart than the humans back home and that was an accomplishment.

The pony stared up at Robotnik fiercely and Robotnik just looked bored and the pony was puzzled by his lack of reaction. He then took her by the throat and told her “listen here you stupid equine; I care little about being welcomed to your dump of a home or your stupid friends! I am more of a being than either of you and you bother me again; I will have you taken care of and your bodies turned into glue and just to rub salt into the wounds: I will use the glue to glue a wall clock to a wall for no reason since that is how little your lives are worth to me. Do I make myself clear?”

Robotnik dropped her and left without a response leaving the pony in tears and others glaring at him.

He got to a large castle and sneaked in. He began looking through and found a lab of some sort which caused him a grin. He found machinery that he then began taking apart for parts and grinned when he spotted something.

An area with the golden rings that took him here; so he didn’t have to wait long to get home after all!

Then he found a green gem and saw it glowing and reacting to the quill Robotnik had in a pocket. This was interesting; were they related?

He noticed a written note and read it:

Found in the Everfree Forest; Discord says that it’s related to Chaos Magic but he doesn’t know what it is. Must study and make sure it doesn’t fall into the wrong hands.

Well it certainly has depending on how one defines ‘wrong hands’. Plus did it say magic? who cares, however he looked into the gem and found something peculiar about it... inside there looked like anthropomorphic elephant mammoth in there.....

Knuckles

It was supposed to be simple; with how he failed to defeat Sonic, Tails and those Freedom Fighters all those times then he thought that a different approach was in order. Retire for the moment and go about running his casino and wait until Sonic and the Freedom Fighters were dead, immortality taught patience after all.

It all fell down, their universe fell apart and was reorganised; lives and history were changed and various individuals had been erased from history and the universe. He himself was super powerful and survived so to speak; but his physical body had been destroyed and was forced to remain confined to his Chaos Emerald. Through it he saw the series of events that led up to this:

That Eggman oaf had teamed up with a mad doctor and to stop them from taking over their worlds Sonic and friends teamed up with a blue robot from the world to stop him. Eggman’s Super Genesis Wave was what changed their history forever. All his time and memories of him erased and it made him furious.

He was stuck and his Chaos Emerald landed in that world of Equestria and was recently picked up by a counterpart of Eggman; he was not waiting anymore. Once he was able to regain a physical form then he will regain his Master form and take the Multiverse for himself once again....

In the Sparkle House; Twilight found something trending on her phone and blinked when she asked everyone to look at it. It was a live report of a group of teenagers being attacked by a red echidna! Sonic’s eyes widened along with Tails’ who had a look of horror. Sonic then grew angry and lef tin a blur with everyone getting up to try and catch up with him.

Canterlot High and the repairs were almost complete and the 7 friends were hanging out at a park discussing the blue Hedgehog creature and Sunset was telling them of the progress that Princess Twilight had sent to her via the journal. “She has yet to find luck in figuring out the deal with the creature or those golden rings but with the Princesses and their resources at their disposal; I know that they just need time.” Sunset had told them and Pinkie put her arm and Sunset motioned for her to speak.

“You think the reason why Twilight doesn’t know yet the deal with that creature is because the creature isn’t from Equestria.” Pinkie asked and they blinked not sure if they were ready to accept as something strange and mysterious not coming from Equestria. “I mean what if he came from another planet!!!!” Pinkie asked and they widened their eyes at her exclamation.

“I think you have been watching too many movies again Pinkie Pie; I mean aliens seriously?” Applejack asked crossing her arms but Fluttershy spoke up.

“Somehow aliens are more unbelievable than a magical friend coming from a pony world, a talking dog who is actually a dragon and three girls who are actually sirens with magical mind control powers?” Fluttershy pointed out and they jumped as they saw a giant golden ring forming in the air. They realised that it must be related to the blue creature.

A portal in the ring opened up and out came a small red anthropomorphic echidna with a white half of a semi circle on his chest, white spiked gloves, yellow and red shoes and the quills on his head was like dreadlocks. The 7 looked ready to try and catch it but and the red echidna looked ready to fight when he spotted them.

“K’Nox the Praetorian!!!!!!!” Pinkie exclaimed with everyone looking to her weirded out. “Is your father Locke, are you from an order of guardians, do your race had advanced technology that you let go off and is a clan banished to a dark dimension?” Pinkie asked with the echidna not knowing how to react.

“Pinkie, what are you doing?” Sunset asked with her arms down with a glare that it seemed that Pinkie was not taking this seriously.

“Asking the right questions to make sure that we won’t get sued! Because apparently if you don’t have the right provisions in a work for hire contract or if you lose the original contracts then a writer for a licensed work may claim ownership of what they create. Like imagine if because of what wasn’t in the contract; Timothy Zahn gained ownership of Admiral Thrawn!” Pinkie said and somehow with that answer everyone else was now more lost than they were before.

The echidna angrily spoke up saying “since you desperately want to know who I am then I will let you know that I am Knuckles; son of Pachacamac the High Chief of the Echidna Tribe! I am here to find the blue hedgehog so our tribe can use his power to bring order to the world of Mobius!” They blinked at the confirmation that this maybe an alien but the way he said ‘bringing order to a world’ sounded not right.

Rainbow Dash then jumped at Knuckles trying to catch him and he started attacking at her; “Anyone who messes with the Echidna Tribe will be eliminated!” Knuckles warned and they blinked in fear that Knuckles may try to kill Dash. They got Dash off her but then saw a blue blur and Knuckles was pushed back and standing over him was a glaring Sonic.

Ready Player Two

Giant alien mushrooms was not so bad when you got used to the taste; Robotnik had thought with the gathered remains of the Robotnik Mobile. Fortunately given the genius that was; still intact was the memory core with the data it collected. It had a memory of the Hedgehog’s movements and studied it; there were also the robot blueprints stored in them. Including the super robot design he had been working on designed to copy a fighting style and use it against it.

He also still had the blue quill and he knew that he would returned and exact both his vengeance and domination....

On a hill overlooking Canterlot; there opened up a Ring portal and out came a young yellow fox Mobian who was overlooking the tracking device that he had invented. He grinned when he saw the positive energy reading which meant that he found him. “Hopefully I am not too late and I can give the good news to Princess Blaze when I find him....” The fox said to himself as he then twirled around his two tails and then used them to fly over the city.