Psychopathic protector

Moments after the Dream collapses, Justin snaps awake and sits up, back atop the Pillar he had fallen asleep upon.

Justin sighs as he prepares himself for what he is about to do. ‘sigh’ “alright, let's do this.”

“Are you ok?” A familiar voice asked, as he looked down to see Barb looking at him.

“Gah?!” Justin exclaims as he falls off the pillar, floating seconds after he does. Justin floats around the pillar to see the six ponies and dragoness he had met yesterday.

“We came to check on you.” Barb said, blushing slightly in embarrassment.

“Right, that's very kind of you, now, I'm about to do something risky… so I'm going to need you to step back, all of you.” Justin explained as he floats down to the ground.

“What do you mean?” Twilight asked with a small frown.

“Remember what you said about researching the chaos emeralds?” Justin asks, looking at Twilight.

Twilight nodded a little. “Yes?”

“You're still not doing that, but I am disconnecting the chaos emeralds from myself so Sonic can experience the real world, while I do that, could one of you get a large leather bag for Sonic?” Justin explains and asks in the same sentence.

Pinkie vanished in a puff of smoke while the others looked confused. “But…what will happen to you?” Rarity asked.

“Either temporarily stop existing, or just be stuffed into the back of Sonic's mind.” Justin replies simply.

“But you'd be back?” Barb asked him, looking hopeful.

“Yeah, when sonic absorbs the chaos emeralds again that is.” Justin nods before flying backwards a few feet before closing his eyes.

The ponies stood back and watched him as Pinkie came back.

Justin begins to glow brightly as seven gems of different colors separate from his body causing an even brighter flash of light. “My eyes!” Rarity screamed dramatically before the light died down, revealing a blue hedgehog with seven gems floating around him.

“Ngh…ow, that hurt, did it work?” The blue hedgehog grumbled as he held his head with his left hand.head.

“Are you Sonic?” Applejack asked.

“Yup! Sonic's the name and speeds my game. Nice to meet ya.” Sonic spoke with a grin before noticing the bag pinkie was holding.

“Ah, I'm just gonna…” Sonic zips over to Pinkie and grabs the bag before placing the seven chaos emeralds into it. “Take this and put these in here, thanks.”

“Whoa! You are fast!” Pinkie said with a smile.

“Like you didn't already know that from Justin.” Sonic replies with a grin.

Rainbow grinned a little. “I'm Rainbow Dash, the fastest flier In Equestria, let's race!”

“Oh? You're fast eh? You're on!” Sonic accepts with a grin on his face.

“Oh jeez here we go.” Rarity said with a sigh.

“so, where we racing?” Sonic asks as he begins to stretch.

Rainbow grinned a little before pointing to a large mountain. “To Canterlot and back, first one back wins!”

“Canterlot eh? Huh, it looks and sounds like Camelot, neat.” Sonic mumbles with a shrug.

“You ready? Three. Two. One. Go!” Rainbow yelled before the two burst off with extreme speed.

“Oh dear…” Fluttershy mumbles as she watches the blue and rainbow silhouettes grow smaller and smaller the further her two friends went.

“They seem to be neck in neck.” Twilight said watching as well.

“Yeah! They do! But what did Sonic mean by Canterlot looked and sounded similar to ‘Camelot’?” Pinkie asked with a large smile on her face.

“Probably something from where he's from.” Applejack said with a shrug.

“Hm, I'll have to ask him about that when they get back.” Twilight replies with a thoughtful expression on her face.

The group watched in shock as a sonic Rainboom in the distance as they came back. The group watches as the two blurs stop In Front of them at the same time. “A tie?!” Pinkie asked in shock.

“really? Sweet!” Sonic exclaimed with a grin.

Rainbow smirked and nodded. “Oh heck yeah! No one's ever been able to keep up with me!”

“Hehe, can't say the same with me, I have a few fakers who can just about keep up with me.” Sonic chuckles to himself.

“Seriously?” Rainbow asked before chuckling. “Guess I'm better than you then.”

“I don't know, do you have an evil genius who constantly makes robotic copies of you built specifically to be better than you and yet you consistently defeat the copies?” Sonic asks with a chuckle of his own.

Rainbow raised an eyebrow. “Uh no?”

“Heh, thought so.” Sonic chuckles to himself.

“But we've fought off some pretty scary things too!” Pinkie said with a smile.

“Really? Like what?” Sonic asks, curiosity evident in his voice.

Pinkie pulled a piece of paper out of her mane and began listing off all of the enemies they've defeated. “Let's see. Nightmare Moon, Discord, Chrysalis and her changeling army, oh and king Sombra” !”

“Huh, neat…. Is that it?” Sonic asked casually, surprising the group.

“That's it!? Those are all major bad guys here each one with world-altering magic!” Rainbow said in shock and anger.

“Eh, I face worse just about every other week.” Sonic shrugs nonchalantly. “Heck, there was that time the planet was split apart and I had to put it back together like a puzzle, with the help of the chaos emeralds of course.”

Everyone stared at him in shock and disbelief, too surprised to speak.

“What? That was just one of my many adventures.” Sonic states with a tilt of his head.

“H-how?” Twilight asked in disbelief.

“I have a lot of friends on my side, and it helps when almost every one of your past villains are more than willing to help take down a bigger threat.” Sonic answers with a chuckle.

“That…. Makes sense.” Barb said.

“Though, I have to admit that the planet puzzle adventure was one of the more lower stakes adventures I've had.” Sonic admits, to the shock of everybody.

“That was a lower adventure!?” They all yelled.

“Kinda? It still had high stakes, but compared to some of the other stuff me and my friends had to face, yeah. Low staked adventure.” Sonic shrugs helplessly.

“What the heck have you been through!?” Rainbow yelled in shock.

“Hm, well, there's Chaos, a deity made out of water who got enraged after the Chaos emeralds were misused, that's probably lower ranked from dark Gaia, the creature who broke the planet for me to fix it like a puzzle, then there's Eggman, a crazy scientist hellbent on taking over the world, the Time-Eater, Solaris, the false king Arthur, the genie fa-jin, Infinite, and most recently the Starfall islands and The End, and interdimensional entity that was a genuine struggle to defeat, even with the chaos emeralds, and that's leaving out most of the low stakes adventures of fun and excitement.” Sonic listed off as he paced back and forth absentmindedly.

Everyone stared at him in shocked silence, unable to process what he told them.

“Hehe, though the egg head can be hilarious when he isn't plotting to take over the world.” Sonic suddenly mentions with a chuckle.

“Wait… so you're semi-friends with a villain?” Applejack asked in confusion.

“Kinda? To be honest he is clinically insane, but he does have days, and sometimes full weeks of clarity, and despite all he's done, we all know he isn't all bad, considering he genuinely cares for all of his more complicated creations like they were his children, especially Metal and Sage.” Sonic explains with a nod of his head.

“That's…sad.” Fluttershy said softly. adly.

“It is. I have tried to reform Eggman before, like when he lost his memories, it worked, for a short time. But then came one of the worst adventures I've had yet.” Sonic spoke with an uncomfortable shudder.

“H-how so?” Rarity asked.

“...it was the closest I've ever gotten to failing to save the day, and I even lost my memories, albeit temporarily thanks to the help of an otherworldly friend.” Sonic mumbles sadly.

“Oh… that's… good?” Twilight said in confusion.

“It's a good thing that that particular adventure is over, even Eggman agrees that particular scheme of his went too far.” Sonic answers with a hum.

“What scheme was it?” Pinkie asked, bouncing around.

“Liquid metal that infected anything organic it touched, essentially turning it into some kind of robo-zombie, we called them Zombots, I was one of the first infected…” Sonic answered with a frown.

“Jeez, that's bad.” Rainbow said with a frown.

“It was, thankfully my speed could burn off the infection faster than it spread, but it couldn't get rid of it entirely, it took everyone working together to just barely save the planet.” Sonic agreed wholeheartedly.

“Dang.” Rainbow said in surprise.

“Dang indeed, though enough about my adventures, what's all there to know about this world?” Sonic asks, his previous expression replaced with a grin.

“Well…” Twilight said, rubbing her head. “That's a long explanation.”

“Eh, I might not be the type to sit still for long, but I'm willing to listen if you're willing to tell?” Sonic asked with a chuckle.

“Well, it started with Nightmare Moon, at the time I didn't really have any true friends… from my perspective at least, but then I met the girls.” Twilight said.

“We joined up and beat her, from there Twilight moved to ponyville!” Pinkie said with a wide smile.

“I'm guessing you used these…what were they called? Elements of Harmony? To do it?” Sonic asks as he receives nods from the ponies and dragoness.

“Yes, Honesty, laughter, kindness, generosity, loyalty, and magic.” Twilight said with a gentle smile.

“Six elements eh? Heh, reminds me of the early days of when there were only six chaos emeralds, it was actually my first adventure too.” Sonic spoke with a nostalgic smile on his face.

“Wait, so another emerald appeared?” Pinkie asked.

“Yeah, heck, they didn't even originally look like this, at first they were hexagonal in shape.” Sonic explains, catching Twilight's attention.

“They changed shape?! How is that possible?” She asked.

“...magic?” Sonic replies with a clueless shrug.

“Wait… I just remembered. The elements did that too.” Twilight said with a surprised blink.

“Wait really? Huh, man, what are the chances, I mean, it's not like the elements were originally hexagonal as well, right?” Sonic asked, receiving thoughtful silence.

“Well… yes. They were.” Twilight said after a hum. “When we found them they were hexagonal.”

“Huh? You know what? That actually makes sense.” Sonic mumbles to himself as the others turn to look at him in curiosity.

“What do you mean?” Fluttershy asked ftly. Sonic.

“Well, this isn't the first time I've had contact with other dimensions, you see, during one of my adventures, I met someone named Blaze, who I would later learn was the Princess and guardian of the Sol dimension.” Sonic answers, pausing to see if anyone had any questions.

“The Sol dimension?” Twilight asked in confusion.

“It's a parallel dimension to my home world, Mobius. Though, Blaze's world definitely has a LOT more water than Mobius…” Sonic mutters as a shiver rides up Sonic's back.

“You don't like water?” Pinkie asked, tilting her head.

“Nope, I can't swim. Like at all.” Sonic answers with a deadpan.

“Huh? How?” Pinkie asked, more confused.

“...I literally sink like a rock.” Sonic mumbles as he crosses his arms and looks off to the side.

“Interesting.” Twilight said, writing something down. “But can we get back on topic please?”

“Hm? Oh! Right, well, in Blaze's dimension, she has something called the Sol emeralds, they were her worlds counterpart to the chaos emeralds, and I suspect the same thing is happening here with the Elements of Harmony.” Sonic speaks with a proud smile.

“Huh.” Twilight said, tapping her chin. “That's… amazing!”

“Hm? How so?” Sonic asks, curiosity evident in his voice.

“If they exist in every reality, then they're a universal constant. This is a huge discovery!” Twilight said with a wide smile.

“Huh, never thought of it like that, though I c-” Sonic is interrupted by the sound of an explosion in the distance.

“Huh? What was that?” Rainbow asked, looking in the distance.

“I don't kn-” Sonic is again interrupted as a voice rings out from the same direction as the explosion.

“Listen here to my announcement ponies!” The voice exclaimed as Sonic's eyes grow wide before narrowing.

“Wh- but how?” Sonic asked in surprise.

“Who is that?” Barb asked, worriedly.

“Eggman. But how did he get here?” Sonic asks before shaking his head.

“Bah, that doesn't matter right now, Gotta go fast!.” Sonic exclaims as he suddenly runs into the distance.

“Hey! Wait for us!” Rainbow yelled, before flying after him.