Chapter 3: First Encounter
There was a flash of white, and a portal opened up in a wide, shadowed alleyway. Seconds after, Sonic appeared and landed on the cobblestone below, he stood up examining his surroundings, "This is incredible, it feels like I'm back in Apotos..." he stopped for a second, "Then did we even go into another universe?" the portal sparked, an ominous noise could be heard as well, Sonic realized and looked to the portal slowly, "Tails?" the portal shot the Tornado-1 at an alarming speed. It hit the ground braking to a complete stop, Sonic moved in time, but was still shaken, "It's not your best landing, Tails..." the fox seemed a little dizzy.
"It was a doozy..." he shook his head, wearing it off, "So, where could we possibly be?" The clouds were the whitest white, it was high noon with the bluest skies. And to top it off, the warm spring winds were just lazily blowing by, "The weather is perfect... Literally perfect." Sonic was a little confused.
"And what do you mean by, perfect?" he scratched his right ear.
"We never had weather like this." Sonic soaked it in, and after awhile he nodded.
"Guess so." Sonic walked to the edge of the ally, and peeked over a building, "... No wonder this towns so quite, I don't see any other living thing..." Tails was still thinking about the question of rather they are in the same or different universe, "Well, the architecture looks the same... But something seems, off... Ever so slightly." Sonic went behind the building and walked toward Tails.
"You got any plans on how to know where the Chaos Emeralds were teleported?" Tails sighed.
"And without freaking anybody out? I don't know..." Sonic looked back for the second.
"Well, we could just take certain paths, and try to find whatever you device picks up." Tails grabbed his PDA from the Tornado, Sonic just stood there blankly, "What are you going to do with the Tornado?"
"I'll just leave it here, and come back to it when we need to." Sonic gave a thumbs up.
"Perfect."
"Why don't we get a better view first?" Sonic nodded.
"Great idea." he jumped on to the building next to them.
"Wait, Sonic not now..." Tails sighed, "I hate it when he doesn't listen..." he moaned as he started flowing his tails until they sped fast enough, and followed Sonic afterward. The most highest point of town seems to be the back of it as well, there's also some train station in front of the bridge that connected the island that the city habited on, "This town large for being on an island..." they were both standing on a building farthest away from the bridge.
"See anything interesting, Tails?" he held his hand above his eyes, suddenly an immense glow blinded him.
"Ah, what is that?" the glare was coming from a glass circle from the front of the town, "There's a glare coming from over there, it seems to be entirely glass."
"Alright, lets go." they made fists and bumped them together. They both jumped to the stone paths below, and started running through the town, "Ah! This feels great, the nostalgia!" the sound of the wind being stopped by close buildings, the narrow paths, it was all flowing back. He was so lost in all of this, a figure appeared from around the corner they're approaching.
"S-Sonic! Look out!" the figure seemed to look straight at them and realize what was going on, but before either it or Sonic could react, they ran into each other. Sonic was sent flying a good distance, as so was the figure. Sonic and Tails looked to what Sonic ran into, they saw a quadruped getting his ground back, and picked up the ring Sonic was wearing. As soon as they were closer, they looked at one another.
"Sorry..." they said in unison. Tails was surprised to believe what he saw.
"A talking pony? You have a lot more colors than normal ones..." this pony was blue-cyan furred, and he seemed shy.
"We all do..." Tails shrugged, as he heard this pony's sudden problems.
"Well it's obvious we've been sent to another universe." the pony mentally sighed.
'Okay, so I can safely assume that they're, in fact, from a different universe of some kind...' Tails took a step forward, the pony watched every step closely.
"Do you mind telling us where we are?" the pony nodded, he seemed happy to oblige.
"Sure, this town is called Altamare... What's your name?" Tails was surprised, no matter how many times he could've been asked.
"My name's, Miles Prower, but my friends call me, Tails." he pointed over to Sonic as he struck a pose, "And this is my friend, Sonic."
"Sonic the Hedgehog." he smiled, Tails sighed.
'Way to make a first impression...' Suddenly the pony looked urgently worried.
"Oh no! I need to continue, I'm getting held back..." he tossed Sonic's ring as he galloped past them, "I'll see you two later!"
"Now let's go find those Chaos Emeralds!" Tails shouted, suddenly the pony froze and turned as Tails and Sonic did, which he turned back and started galloping around a corner. Sonic shrugged and they both continued their search, 'I'm really surprised that he didn't call for help... And how he gave Sonic's ring like he knew him for 23 years...' Tails knew they only met one, but something was unique about him.
~~~Chapter End~~~