Sonic and Equestria Girls: Journey into Dreams

by SonicAKG


The Nightmare Zone Part 3

The Nightmare Zone part 3

The final section of the Nightmare Zone had the same golden sphere in the center like ones before it. Floating in it were different colored distorted mirrors as well. Golden chains moved up and down around it with many golden rings. Some large and thick, while others smaller and thin. It sky was again split between a purple mist and star-filled darkness with a yellow sun. Fluttershy sat down on top of the sphere and rubbed her head. When her eyes opened, she looked around the zone and seemed quite frightened and confused by where she was. She grabbed her arms in order to feel safe, but it didn't really work. She was scared out of her mind.

"W-where's everyone else? Am I the only one here?" Fluttershy wondered out loud in a very worried tone.

"No." She heard a muffled voice respond from underneath her, making her perk up. Fluttershy looked down and then realized that she was sitting on top of Sonic, who was face down on the ground. She gasped with embarrassment out loud and she quickly got off him, giving him the chance to get up. When he did, Sonic shook his head a bit and then he turned to Fluttershy, who turned bright red and she looked down away from him.

"I-I'm so sorry, Sonic! I-" She began before Sonic came over and put his hand on her shoulder.

"No problem. I'm fine anyway. Besides, I didn't really mind being a seat." He playfully said, making her smile slightly. It faded when she remembered their situation.

"We're lost and separated from the others. I hope they're ok." She said with concern.

"Oh, yeah. Now that is a problem." Sonic agreed as he looked around the Nightmare Zone. "Sheesh, this is like the Special Zone on steroids. I just hope there isn't any giant panda thing or whatever.

"Panda? What are you talking about? Panda's are adorable."

"Not when they've deluded themselves into thinking they're gods.It's a little adventure I had one time in a place like this. I'll tell you about it when we get out of here."

"If we get out of here."

"Cheer up. We'll make it out this situation like always." Sonic said reassuringly with a thumbs up. Fluttershy liked how optimistic he always was. "Now, where to start?"

As Sonic and Fluttershy were looking out of the zone, they didn't notice the face of the giant monster appearing behind them, which was a frog-like dragon one with sharp teeth decorated its mouth. Two purple large bat wings extended from the top of its head in the place of ears, which was blue on the top and light green on the bottom. Its tadpole-like green body was covered with blue stripes and red spikes on the top. Gillwing was its name. Sonic and Fluttershy noticed its shadow covering them and turned around. Fluttershy gasped loudly with fright when her eyes landed on it, while Sonic's eyes widened.

"You know, I think I prefer the egomaniacal panda." He said.

Gillwing lunged at them, but Sonic dashed both of them away on its right, making Gillwings teeth land on top of the sphere. Sonic put down Fluttershy and he faced Gillwing and hopped in place.

"Let's have some fun big guy!" He shouted, making Fluttershy turn to him. She didn't get how he could actually be excited at a time like this.

Gillwing opened its mouth and launched three giant fireballs. Fluttershy floated above to avoid them, while Sonic jumped and he landed in front of Gillwing's face.

"Hey, you're too slow!' He taunted as he waved his finger.

Gillwing responded with a roar and its body began to slither in motion. Sonic noticed this and he dashed off with Gillwing in pursuit.

"Sonic, is provoking it really a good idea?" Fluttershy called down to him.

"No, but it makes things more exciting, don't ya think?" Sonic said as he was chased.

Gillwing fired fireballs at Sonic, who easily moved from side to side to dodge them as they exploded on the sphere. Fluttershy looked on as Sonic led Gillwing in a circle around the sphere. When he came back to the top. Sonic stopped running and he watched as Gillwing approached him.

"Thanks for the exercise, but I think that's enough for today." He decided as Gillwing again tried to bite him as he stood still, but Sonic dashed up in the air. Mid-air, he looked down at Gillwing and became a blue streak towards its neck. Just before he reached it, Gillwing's entire body began to crackle with white electricity. When Sonic touched it, he received a large electric shock throughout his entire body as he stopped mid-air. Fluttershy looked on with panic as Sonic was electrified and he began to spaz out as his x-ray flashed a few times. When it was over, Sonic was left with smoke coming from his body and his eyelids began to close as he landed on the ground. He didn't move. He was completely knocked out. Fluttershy flew down to him as fast as she could.

"Sonic, Sonic!" She yelled desperately as she shook his body. He didn't respond. She continued to shake him, alarmed. As she did, Gillwing came up behind her, causing her to yelp as she noticed it above them. Gillwing brought down its jaws near them and Fluttershy closed her eyes in fear. As she did, three pink butterflies emerged from her body as she glowed bright pink and began to circle her. A round pink barrier was then formed, repelling Gillwing. It became confused and shook its head. Fluttershy's eyes opened and she saw the barrier.

"Thank goodness. This'll keep me safe for a while. But I need to help Sonic." She said with relief as she turned her attention back to Sonic and continued to shake him. As she did, her body still glowed and her hands began to release a pink sparkling wave over Sonic. The wave continued to cover his body and Sonic's eyes began to flicker and his hand twitched. Fluttershy saw this and she stopped moving him. Sonic woke up and he rubbed his neck.

"Wow. I feel great. Fluttershy, how'd you do that?" He asked her with an impressed tone, making her look down at her hands, which were still releasing the wave.

"I-I don'-. " She began to reply before Gillwing released a large fireball from its mouth, which caused a giant fire explosion where the barrier once was. When the smoke cleared, Sonic and Fluttershy were gone from their previous location. They were now on the left of Gillwing thanks to Sonic's speed.

"Ok, so touching its body was a 'shocking experience'." Sonic quipped and Fluttershy lowered her eyelids. "Sorry, I couldn't resist. So, now what should we do?"

Gillwing noticed the two of them on its side and it began to move towards them. Sonic prepared for another fight, but Fluttershy floated up to it with a stern and angry look. It roared again but this time, Fluttershy didn't flinch. She gave it the 'stare', making Gillwing stop its roar suddenly and it looked up at her.

"Now, you cut that out! My friend and I were just trying to find our way out and then you come up and suddenly decided to attack us?! What kind of behavior is that!" She scolded as she pointed towards it, making Gillwing look at her confused.

"If you were stuck in a strange place, would you like it if suddenly something came up and attacked you? I don't think so! My friend and I are guests here! You should treat us as such! I think your mother would be very ashamed of you!" She continued. Gillwing eyes moved down, looking a little guilty while Sonic watched the whole thing. He couldn't believe what he was seeing.

"You have got to be kidding me..." He said as he facepalmed. "(Actually this is a good plan, now that it's distracted, I can maybe look for a weak point.)"

Sonic dashed off, not being noticed by Gillwing and Fluttershy, who was still giving it a piece of her mind. Sonic ran around Gillwings body and at the end, he saw a red sphere on its tail which caught his interest and he stopped to look at it.

"Could it be? Well, only one way to find out!"

Sonic became a blue streak and he hit the orb once, causing a red crack to appear on it. Gillwing didn't seem to notice as its body didn't even flinch once. Sonic continued to dash through the orb, making larger cracks appear each time with each strike. Eventually, he came crashing down on it, causing the sphere to crack into pieces. As it did, Gillwings eyes widened as its body began to disappear, section by section. Fluttershy became surprised and she turned around to see it vanishing before Gillwing popped out of existence and she floated down where its head used to be. Sonic then dashed next to him. Fluttershy gave him a slight glare.


"What? I beat it." Sonic asked.

"Was that really necessary?" She answered, mildly displeased as she folded her arms.


Silver and NiGHTS floated through the smallest section of the Nightmare Zone. It was a purple mist surrounded by many golden rings and the two headed deeper into it.

"I have to hand it to Wizeman. He can be creative when he wants to be. And not in a fun way." NiGHTS said as he looked around.

"Creative is one way of putting it. I've time traveled and that was nothing like this. Are you sure we're going down?" Silver replied. "I've seen that golden ring like three times. I think we're going in triangles."

"The whole place is covered in golden rings. You have to be more specific." He pointed out. "Anyway, I think...we should take a left here."

"Are you sure that's even left."

"I think it's the only direction we can go in here and its left. I think."

Silver sighed and just continued to follow NiGHTS. NiGHTS took a notice of the keytar strapped to Silver and flew back to him.

"Been meaning to ask, how come you keep carrying that around with you?" NiGHTS questioned.

"Oh, this thing belonged to Rarity. We used it along with emerald to come here." Silver explained. Hearing this made NiGHTS slightly smile to Silver, who looked at him confused.

"Oh, so it's hers then. She must be important if you're holding on to it. You seemed pretty ready to come to her rescue." NiGHTS teased, making Silver get slightly flustered nd he stopped flying suddenly.

"Well, yeah, as a friend she is, I mean, all friend are important of course! Not that it makes her any less important! It's that her importance level is that of a friend! You know, a 'friend' friend, not a 'friend' friend." Silver fumbled as he rubbed the back of his neck, making NiGHTS stare up at him strangely as he floated upside down, making Silver sigh again.

"Well, let's keep moving." Silver said.

"Ok, but now that we've stopped moving..which way is up or down?" NiGHTS now asked.

"Oh, well..." Silver said as he looked around. NiGHTS had brought up a good point.

Beneath them, a dark blue mist began to form, grabbing their attention as the two saw it began to take shape. It formed a five-fingered hand and the smoke dispersed, revealing itself to be a giant version of one of Wizeman's hands.

"Just a hand? I'm insulted Wizeman. I think I deserve something special. You didn't give anyone else more exciting threats,
did you?" NiGHTS called out to the hand.

"You're complaining?" Silver said, bewildered.

The eye of the hand began to flash purple and it fired a large white glowing sphere towards the two of them. NiGHTS headed straight towards it, much to Silver's surprise. Before they touched the sphere, NiGHTS flew around it, leaving a trail of starry dust as they did. The dust formed a swirling hole around the sphere and caused it to vanish, leaving Silver in awe at NiGHTS's feat with flying. NiGHTS continued to fly down to the hand, which generated five smaller spheres from its fingertips. NiGHTS quickly managed to perform the same maneuver as before on the spheres, rendering them harmless. NiGHTS was now even closer to the hand, which charged up another larger sphere. NiGHTS again flew around it, but this only 4 times, making a sort of starry cross on it. They then proceeded to spiral dash towards the top of it, sending it back down towards the hand. When it collide with the hand, there was a large purple explosion, destroying it. Silver covered his face due to the explosion and when he lowered his hand, he saw NiGHTS ahead of him, performing a bow. Silver then joined them shortly.

"Wow...just wow. I've never seen anyone fly like that." Silver praised.

"That was nothing too special. Just a practice fly at best. Wiseman's going to seriously need to try better if he wants to take us out." NiGHTs said.

A red glowing dusty circle appeared behind NiGHTS immediately after they said that, making Silver look past NiGHTS to see it. NiGHTS turned around and saw it as well. Rising from it was Reala, who floated above the two of them, putting them on the defensive.

"Don't worry my dear sibling. You haven't even seen a fraction of Master Wizeman's new power." Reala warned.

"So, finally decided to stop hiding, huh? Let's go Reala." NiGHTS insisted.

"Believe me, I'd love to. But.....my new 'partner' insisted on dealing with you." He said with a slightly bitter tone, which didn't go by unnoticed by Silver and NiGHTS. They lowered their hands and NiGHTS put theirs on their hip.

"You don't like her much, do you?" NiGHTS realized.

Reala sighed heavily.

"Of course not! She's vain, condescending and petty! All she does is belittle me and admire herself! She's driving me insane!" He complained as he put his hand on his face. NiGHTS chuckled a bit and Silver did a slight smile.

"You know, if you defected from Wizeman like me, you wouldn't have to deal with her." NiGHTS offered.

"That's a good point." Silver agreed.

Reala glared heavily at them and took his hand off his face.

"Nice try, but it's a small price to pay in the long run. Farewell." Reala said as he descended back into the red circle, which then disappeared.

Shortly after the circle vanished, a large dark blue glittering mist began to form in front of Silver and NiGHTS. The two exchanged glances before they turned back to the mist.

"That's probably where Rarity is." Silver guessed. He then took out the green Chaos Emerald from his pocket and offered it to NiGHTS, making the latter look at him with uncertainty.

"Why are you giving me this?" They asked.

"Remember when Tails explained how having an emerald lets one travel through dimensions? Well, I saw your flying skills and I figured if you had an emerald, you could combine the two and travel out of here and find the others." Silver explained as NiGHTS took the emerald.

"That sounds like it might work and pretty fun! I wonder what'll it feel like?" NiGHTS pondered as they stared off into space and began to daydream the feeling. They then turned to Silver with a stern expression quickly.

"Wait, then what are you going to do?"

"I'm going to Rarity. I'll try and bring her back to her senses."

"Are you sure you'll be fine? I'm not really ok with leaving you alone." NiGHTS replied.

"I'll be fine. I have this planned out. Besides, you can just come back for me if I'm in trouble." Silver reassured.

NiGHTS looked at Silver for a while before they floated up away from them.

"Ok. Anyway, I hope you have luck with your 'friend' 'friend' NiGHTS finally said as they winked at Silver, making Silver sigh again.

"Haha. Anyway, good luck NiGHTS. I'm counting on you." Silver responded.

"Same to you." NiGHTS said as they clutched the emerald in their hand and began to perform their paraloop. As they did, their body was enveloped in a green aura and they teleported in a green flash after flying around 4 more times. Silver was now alone and he turned towards the dark mist. He clenched his fist.

"Ok Rarity, here I come." Silver declared as he flew inside the dark portal.