Rainbow Dash
Rainbow went back to the Everfree Forest to look for… whatever came crashing down with that other thing. She found three other craters, one bigger than the others, but there was nothing in any of them. Before she could leave the Forest, she found herself so much further in than she ever went in her life. Normally, in circumstances like these, she’d gain some altitude and find her way back from there, but another thing about being a Pegasus, is you can feel the air current stability above you, and it was too violent for flight since those things fell.
Even this far in, Rainbow knew that her friend Zecora the Zebra’s place was not too far away. If Applebloom was there she would be in luck. Applebloom was the only pony besides Zecora (If you count her as a pony) who could navigate the Everfree Forest like a Professional. Suddenly, seemingly out of nowhere, Rainbow was attacked by Basilisks, serpent-like creatures with limbs and frills on the side of the face that turned anything that looked at the wrong moment to stone. There were five of them that she could see, but it was so dark in the forest she couldn’t tell how many there actually were. They had her cornered against the side of a cliff one moment, and the last thing she saw of them, they were ganging up on her.
Sonic
Sonic ran into the forest, to look for Rainbow Dash or whoever it was who saved him. He heard her voice from the south, in a very loud shout for help. Following her voice he saw another Pegasus, this one with blue fur and rainbow mane, cornered against a cliff by… what looked like Hybrid Snake/Lizard things. Before they could tear her apart, Sonic Dashed a way through to the front, knocking… Whatever they were out of the way.
Sonic charged whatever Dash Power he could, and shot through the rest of them, either in spin dash, or just head first. There were enough of those things that, by the time he got through the last one and skidded to a stop in front of the horse, he was lightly panting. Then there was a movement from the cliff. What came over the side was the first thing EVER to paralyze Sonic with fear.
Rainbow Dash
Rainbow Dash looked up at what the blue thing was scared of. It looked like Spike did when he grew up that one time and nearly brought Ponyville to the ground. The only difference was this thing was made entirely of stone, with eyes that glowed white… all six of them. Rainbow couldn’t bring herself to assure the blue thing that it was going to be okay; she wasn’t as kind as Fluttershy, or as honest as Applejack. Loyalty couldn’t do anything here; she just looked up at the golem, afraid for her life for the first time ever.
Then she heard a deep voice say something she didn’t understand, not like Zecora’s Nursery Rhymes from her home, more like one of Twilight’s Explanations.
“Chaos… Control!” a black form shot right up into the Golem’s Face Knocking it back a few miles. Then the form landed in front of her, and the other thing. The blue creature looked more relived at this than she felt, mostly because this thing was shaped very closely to the Blue thing.
“Shadow!” the blue one said.
“Sorry I’m late, Sonic,” Shadow said. “Ready to double team this thing?”
“As ever!” Sonic said. They grabbed each other’s hand and shot themselves right for the head of the monster. It was in this confusion, that Rainbow saw a small chip missing from the chest of the creature. She found herself backing up far enough to run up and use the Buccaneer Blaze on this weak point. With contact the creature fell apart. And they all landed at the top of the Cliff. mal>
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