The Magic of Fiendship
Tails, Twilight, and the Crusaders arrived at the location where Rainbow Dash’s Sonic Rainboom and Sonic’s Sonic Boom collided. It was a field where all of the grass that was previously on it had been blown away by the pure force of the collision, revealing the brown ground underneath. Rainbow colored smoke was also leaking from the area. Tails, Twilight, and the Crusaders immediately started searching for signs of Rainbow Dash or Sonic.
“Are you sure this is the place, Twilight?” Apple Bloom asked. “I don’t see Sonic or Rainbow Dash anywhere.”
“It’s got to be.” Tails responded as paced around the area looking for signs. “How many other places looked like they exploded, and have rainbow smoked coming from them?”
“I hope Sonic and Rainbow Dash are okay.” Sweetie Belle said with worry in her voice. “This place looks pretty totaled.”
“Yeah.” Scootaloo said in agreement. “Plus we need to ask Rainbow Dash how she beat Sonic.” Tails rolled his eyes at Scootaloo’s statement.
“For the last time Scootaloo, it is impossible for Rainbow Dash to beat Sonic. He’s way out of her league. Give up on this nonsense.” Tails said with annoyance in his voice, making Scootaloo turn to him sharply.
“Really? From the looks of things, it seems to me that Rainbow Dash is the cause of all the messed up stuff we see here. Also, the explosion we saw was colored like a rainbow. That proves whatever Sonic did, Rainbow Dash did it better. And thus she’s faster.” Scootaloo said as she walked up to Tails, and came in his face.
“It does not.” Tails replied.
“Does too.”
“Does not.”
“Does too.”
“Does not.”
“Guys, really?” Twilight said with a hint of annoyance towards Scootaloo, and Tails. “We have no idea where Sonic or Rainbow Dash are, and all you care about is who's faster? Keep searching, and we’ll have this discussion later.” She then got a small smile on her face.
Though I admit if I studied the resulting damage from the area in more detail, and calculated the exact speed Sonic and Rainbow Dash were running at, I could determine who was more responsible for the damage, and this might indicate who was faster. That sounds like a fun experiment. It’s been awhile since I’ve done velocity, and motion equations”. Twilight added with slight excitement in her voice.
Suddenly she heard a groan coming from a few feet away and turned her head left.
“Did you hear that?” Twilight asked the others.
“Hear what?” Apple Bloom responded.
“It sounded like someone was moaning.” Twilight said. Again she heard a moaning sound. Twilight followed the sound and came across a small hill. She then looked down and saw Sonic and Rainbow Dash. both unconscious and on the ground. Sonic was lying with his arms spread out, and Rainbow Dash was on top of him with her arms spread over his chest.
“Everyone come quickly!” Twilight yelled. “I’ve found Sonic, and Rainbow Dash!”
Tails and the Crusaders arrived where Twilight was and saw the same scene she did.
“Thank goodness they're okay.” Apple Bloom said with relief.
“Awww, it looks like their cuddling. How cute!” Sweetie Belle squealed with delight in her voice as she clasped her hands together.
“Ew, give me a break, Sweetie Belle.” Scootaloo said as she rolled her eyes. Tails got out his phone and took a picture of the two of them.
“This should come in handy one day.” Tails said with a small smile on his face. He and everyone else descended to the bottom of the hill and approached Sonic, and Rainbow Dash. Twilight knelt beside them and examined their condition.
“How do they look, Twilight?” Apple Bloom asked.
“Well it doesn't appear that they’ve suffered that much damage aside from a few bruises, but we should get them back to school, and have them checked out to make sure things are all right.” Twilight said. Using telekinesis, she surrounded both of them in a purple aura and lifted them up though it took some effort.
“That won’t be necessary Twilight.” A familiar voice said. Twilight and the others turned around and saw Sunset Shimmer approaching them. Her attire changed as she was wearing flame shaped red shoes. She wore a black flowing dress with flames on the back with red tights underneath the bottom part of the dress. The top part of the dress had her wearing a red corset with the symbol of a golden phoenix on it. The center of the dress starting from the corset, and going to her chest was black with red on the right and left sides. She had a gold neckband, and gold featherlike shoulder pads. Her hair was in a long ponytail, and she was wearing a phoenix shaped crown.
“Sunset, I’m so glad to see you.” Twilight said with relief in her voice. “I tried to contact you, but you didn’t respond to my calls. I was really worried.”
“What’s up with the new look?” Sweetie Belle asked. “It looks amazing.”
“I’m sorry I didn’t return your calls Twilight I had to deal with some issues.” Sunset said as she now stood close to them. “And to you Sweetie Belle, I thought my old look wasn’t fitting of who I am now.”
“What do you mean by that?” Apple Bloom quizzically said.
“We’ll deal with that later.” Sunset responded. “Anyway, Twilight as I said, it won’t be necessary to take both Sonic and Rainbow Dash back to school. I’ll be taking Rainbow Dash.”
“Why do you need Rainbow Dash?” Scootaloo asked. “We need her to tell us how she beat Sonic.”
“Will you give up with that?!” Tails snapped.
“Rainbow Dash is an essential asset to my plan, and I need her.” Sunset said.
“Sunset what are you talking about?” Twilight asked with a little concern. “What plan, and what do you need Rainbow Dash for exactly.”
“Twilight, I really don’t have time to explain my plans to you.” Sunset said with slight irritation in her voice. “Give me Rainbow Dash.” As Sunset said that, her eyes flashed red. Twilight noticed this. Something clearly was off about her.
“No. Sunset I don’t know what’s going on with you, but there’s something wrong with you.” Twilight responded. “Maybe you should come back with us to school.”
“Twilight, I’m going to tell you one more time, and this time I don’t expect any resistance. Hand over Rainbow Dash.” Sunset demanded, now with clear hostility in her voice.
“Sunset, I think Twilight is right.” Tails said as he walked up to her. “I think you should-“.
Suddenly Sunset grabbed Tails by the forehead, and her eyes flashed white. There was a flash of light, and suddenly Tails was floating in a location where there was a background of yellow, and many objects familiar to him were floating such the as the Tornado, his Energy Ball cannon, the Speed Star, the T-pup, and other inventions familiar to him.
“Huh? Where am I?” Tails said, his voice having an echo as he did. Suddenly before Tails, a large fiery phoenix appeared before him, and suddenly the entire location was covered in flames with all the floating objects being engulfed by flames as well. The phoenix let out a cry and flew towards Tails engulfing him in flames as well. He screamed as the phoenix came towards him . Back in reality, Tails was screaming as Sunset was grabbing his forehead. Her eyes flashed back to normal as she let go of Tails and dropped him towards the ground but before she did, Sunset grabbed Tails watch(the one to summon his Energy Ball arm cannon). She then placed the watch on her, pressed a sequence of 3 buttons on it, and summoned the arm cannon. She then aimed the cannon at Twilight and the Crusaders.
“Tails!” Scootaloo said as she went to his side as lied on the ground, and began to shake him. “Tails wake up!”
“What did you do to Tails?!” Sweetie Belle demanded.
“I just used to him extract some information I needed, that’s all. Though I think I might’ve broken his mind by accident while doing so.” Sunset said nonchalantly.
“You did what?!” Apple Bloom said shocked.
“Sunset, why are you doing this? What’s wrong with you?” Twilight asked her now clearly evil friend.
Sunset responded by firing an energy sphere from the Energy Ball, which instead of being yellow, was now orange in color, at Twilight. Twilight released Sonic, and Rainbow Dash causing them to fall on the ground and stopped the energy sphere in a purple aura. Sunset fired another energy sphere at the one Twilight had stopped, and the two collided, forming a small orange explosions which blew Twilight, and the Crusaders back and creating a smoke wall as well. Twilight then rose up as the smoke subsided.
“Girls are you all right?” Twilight asked she rose up. She turned around and saw the Crusaders also rising up as well.
“Yeah, we’re fine.” Apple Bloom said.
“What about Sunset?” Scootaloo asked.
Twilight looked around, and to her astonishment, Sunset was gone. So was Rainbow Dash. Sonic was still lying on the ground where Twilight dropped him.
“She’s gone. And so is Rainbow Dash!” Twilight exclaimed with shock. She looked around further, but there was no sign of either of them. “How could she have gotten away so fast?”
“Where do you think they went?” Sweetie Belle asked.
“I’m not sure.” Twilight said. “But for now we should focus on getting Sonic, and Tails help.” Twilight walked over to Sonic and picked him up. “Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle get Tails. Apple Bloom, help me with Sonic.”
Rainbow Dash was out cold, when suddenly a wave of ice cold water splashed on her, causing her to wake up.
“GAH!” she exclaimed as jumped up quickly. She was in an old, dark, empty warehouse, with faint lights on. She turned to her left to see Pinkie Pie, still with her makeup on, and wearing the clown suit grinning at her menacingly. She was holding a bucket in her hand. Rainbow Dash violently grabbed Pinkie by the collar and pulled her close to her.
“What the heck was that?!” Rainbow Dash shouted, making Pinkie look a little uncomfortable.
“Well, you looked so peaceful lying there unconscious, and I wanted to ruin it to create a little mayhem.” Pinkie responded nonchalantly. She then took out a pack of cards. “Want to play cards? We’ll have a real blast.”
“How about we play “Rainbow Dash Pummels the Idiot wannabe clown into a pulp” instead?” Rainbow Dash said with anger as she lifted a fist towards Pinkie.
“Chill out Dashie. It just water. Don’t go all Sonic on me.” Pinkie said as she broke herself from Rainbow Dash’s grip. At the mention of the name Sonic, Rainbow Dash’s eyes widened.
“Sonic?! Where is that slow loser? We still have a score to settle.” Rainbow Dash said.
“Will you shut up, and stop shouting?” Fluttershy called from the right of Rainbow Dash. “All this shouting is scaring my friends.” The animals she had at the animal shelter where surrounded with her here as well.
Rainbow Dash then blitzed in front of Fluttershy in a flash.
“Make me.” She taunted.
All of the animals suddenly pulled out spears and aimed them at Rainbow Dash, who looked amused.
“Believe me. I’d love to. But the person who collected all of us here doesn’t want any of us to fight for now.” Fluttershy responded.
“Who was it? Her?” Rainbow Dash asked as she pointed towards Rarity who was standing in a corner covering herself with a cloak.
“Please, like I’d ever associate myself with the likes of you. All of you are beneath me. Especially her.” Rarity said as she pointed towards AppleJack who was standing across from her. “I should crush you for even daring to wear such a tacky suit.”
“Bring it on. Ai’ve been wanting to mess your face up for a while now. But it looks like someone already beat me to it.” AppleJack taunted, making Rarity conjure a diamond shield on her arm.
“What?! That’s it, you’re dead!” Rarity shouted.
“Fight! Fight! Fight!” Pinkie cheered.
“Enough!” Sunset Shimmer commanded as she walked up towards all of them. Rarity made her diamond shield disappear.
“Normally, I would never listen to you, but your outfit today is surprisingly stylish, so I’ll hear you out.” Rarity said.
“Thank you Rarity. Now the reason why I called all of you here is because I think we can all benefit each other greatly.” Sunset explained. “The six of us have extraordinary powers. Banded together we could easily bring this worlds to its knees. It’s the perfect plan.”
“Eh, I don’t really care about bringing the world to its knees or stuff like that. I just want to have fun!” Pinkie interjected.
“I agree with the clown. I don’t care about the world. I just want to prove I’m the fastest.” Rainbow Dash said.
“Let me finish.” Sunset said. “With the six of us in charge, we could do whatever we please, and there would be no one to stand in the way of our goals such as “fun” or proving one’s speed. Besides, like it or not we need to stick together.”
“Why should I, Rarity, rule the world in a cohort, when I am perfectly capable of ruling it alone. 5 other nuisances would just slow me down.” Rarity said haughtily.
“Ah, Rarity. So superficial, and focusing only on the exterior. The thing is by banding together, this is the best way to get rid of the obstacles in our way such as Sonic, and his friends.”
“A’hm, not worried about ‘em at all.” AppleJack said flippantly. “I just took down Knuckles”.
“Shady didn’t put up much of a fight during our game.” Pinkie brought up .
“Silver was never a threat.” Rarity said.
“Neither was Manic.” Fluttershy added.
“I could take Sonic any day. He’s no match for me at all.” Rainbow Dash boasted.
“Yes, individually you might win, but after your encounters, there’s a good chance Sonic and his friends will band together to try and take you down. I doubt you could take all of them alone. Working together ensures our success, and offers us protection against those do-gooders.” Sunset proposed making all of them ponder her words.
“She does have a point.” Fluttershy said. “Though I hate having to agree or work with humans.”
“But you’re human yourself.” Pinkie pointed out.
“No, I’m not!” Fluttershy shouted. “I am one with nature!”
“All right, Sunset. Say for a moment we agree to your plan. What’s the first step to ensuring that we can actually take over this planet?” Rarity asked.
“It’s simple, really.” Sunset said with a menacing grin.
In his base, seated in his lab in front of a large screen, Eggman was looking at the gun he had used during his encounter with Sonic. He picked it up and examined it thoroughly.
“I don’t understand. It should’ve worked. Maybe it needs some bugs worked out.” Eggman wondered as he examined it more. Suddenly the screen lit up, and Orbot, and Cubot were on. Eggman sighed in annoyance.
“What do you idiots want?” Eggman irritably said.
“Um, you have special guests,” Orbot said nervously.
Eggman went outside of the door of his layer(a large white tower, which an orange symbol on the right side which looked him) inside his Egg Mobile. He then looked down and saw the Rainbooms standing before him. He then formed a grin on his face.
“Oh, look. It’s Sonic’s fan club. Why are you here? Do you want me to kidnap you so he can “heroically” rescue you?” Eggman said mockingly.
“Impudent fool. I’ll-“ Rarity started to say, when Sunset put her hand in front of her to stop her.
“Dr. Eggman.” Sunset said with a calm tone. “The six of us have come to you because we have a proposal for you. All of us band together to get rid of Sonic and his allies once and for all. Then we can rule this world together as an unstoppable force. What do you say?”
“Plus we brought cake!” Pinkie said as she held out a large white cake with multiple candles on it, strawberries, apples, blueberries, and bananas. The frosting was chocolate and caramel.
“Hmm, why this sudden change in personality? I thought you were Sonic’s friends?” Eggman said to them.
“We had a change in perspective.” Sunset responded. “Do you accept our proposal?”
Eggman responded by firing a laser from his Egg mobile which put the six Rainbooms in a blue, floating sphere, taking them back.
“Hey, let us out!” AppleJack said as she pounded the sphere.
“It’s no use. That shield could keep Knuckles trapped.” Eggman said. “I knew my Reversal Gun wasn’t a failure. It actually worked. Now how about instead of your deal, I take you to my lab, experiment on you to see how the effects work in more detail, and then use you to lure Sonic into a trap? Sounds good to me.” Eggman then brought the sphere close to him in the air and took the cake Pinkie had.
“But first time to enjoy this delicious cake. Thank you for bringing it.” Eggman said smugly.
“No. Thank you for being a bigger idiot than I thought.” Sunset said darkly.
“What are you-.” Eggman began to say, before Pinkie snapped her finger, and the cake started to glow hot pink before exploding, destroying the Egg Mobile. Eggman then fell to the ground unconscious and covered in pink smoke. The Rainbooms descended to the ground using Rarity’s diamond platforms, allowing them to go down safely.
“That was almost too easy.” Sunset said.
Orbot, and Cubot then rushed outside. They then saw the scene.
“What in the name of-.” Orbot exclaimed before Rarity threw two small diamond shaped projected into their foreheads making them short circuit, and fall on the ground, unconscious. Eggman then weakly started to rise up. Sunset then knelt down towards him.
“You….you’ll….pay….for….this.” Eggman said weakly, and with pain.
“I offered you a peaceful solution, but you spat on my offer. This was the only way.” Sunset said.
“You’ll…never….take…my…empire….it’s…too…complex…for…a…..little….girl…to….run!” Eggman said harshly.
“We’ll see about that.” Sunset said. She then grabbed Eggman’s forehead, and her eyes flashed white. Eggman was floating in a red area where familiar items to him such as Metal Sonic, the Egg-Robo, the Egg-Mobile, Shadow Androids, and other inventions were also floating, surrounded by a red aura.
“What’s going on?” Eggman asked. “Where is this place?”. Suddenly everything burst into flames, and a phoenix was formed in the area. Eggman looked in horror as the phoenix absorbed everything in its flames and then descend upon him. Eggman screamed as the phoenix attacked. In reality, as Sunset was touching his forehead, Eggman was screaming loudly. Sunset’s eyes then turned to normal as she released Eggman who fell on the ground unconscious.
“Thank you for the information, doctor.” Sunset said darkly. She then turned to the rest of the Rainbooms. “Ladies phase two of the plan can now commence. But first take these.” Sunset handed them communication wrist-watches, each of them the color corresponding to the Rainbooms(blue for Rainbow Dash, white for Rarity, Yellow for Fluttershy, orange for AppleJack, and pink for Pinkie pie.). Each of them put them on.
“This color actually matches me.” Rarity said as she examined her communicator.
“What now, Sunset?” Fluttershy asked.
“Now. The real fun begins.” Sunset said menacingly.
“Yay, fun!” Pinkie exclaimed.