"Uh, just to make sure that I heard you right, but did you just say that you three are gonna give both me and Twilight all of your magic?!" Sonic asked, still extremely shocked about this revelation.
"That's right Sonic." Princess Celestia confirmed, "There is a chance that Tirek does not know that there is a forth alicorn princess along with a crown prince who has seven colorful gems that contain a seemingly endless amounts of power. Although Discord might have told him about you both, there is the chance he neglected to warn Tirek about you. If we transfer our magic into the two of you, you both must stay hidden, and Tirek will never know where it has gone."
"That last part is understandable, but what I don't understand is the part where you give me and Twilight your magic." Sonic said, "Unlike Twilight, I can't use magic, and I don't think giving a large amount of magic to someone who's never had experience in using magic would be a good idea."
"There a simple solution to that; you could store most of the magic within the chaos emeralds." Princess Luna suggested, "From what I have heard, the chaos emeralds' work incredibly well with all forms of magic."
"While that's true, we always powered up magic using the chaos emeralds, not the other way around." Sonic argued, "Plus, doing so might increase the chance of Tirek being able to absorb the chaos emeralds' energy."
"And while we're on the topic, I'm not sure about this either." Twilight spoke up, "I'm only now learning how to control my own alicorn magic, and adding even more to my supply-"
"While I know that you both have some concerns, I trust that you could live up to the task." Princess Celestia said, cutting off Twilight, "Twilight, you represent the element of magic, if anyone could handle being given a large amounts of magic, it's you. And Sonic, while you may be concerned about being given magic, you must realize that this is a risk that we must take for the safety of the world."
Although the duo were still uncertain about it, they knew they didn't have any other choice.
"Alright..." Twilight began, "This is going to be very difficult, but with the help of our friends-"
"I'm sorry Twilight, but you both must keep your new abilities a secret." Princess Celestia interrupted, "I fear that your friends being aware of your new power could put them at great risk. Do you both still think you can take on this responsibility?"
"This is my role as a princess of Equestria." Twilight said, "I won't fail you."
"And as crown prince, I'm willing to do anything it takes to keep equestria safe." Sonic said, "If the time were to ever come, I'd be more than happy to sacrifice myself for everyone's sake."
"Then we must begin immediately before Tirek arrives." Princess Celestia said before she, Princess Luna, and Cadence make their way towards the duo.
After a moment, we the three princesses standing around the duo in a triangular formation before lowering their horns towards them.
With that done, the princesses begin transferring all of their magic into their horns, causing them to sweat due to all of the strain the process was putting them in.
After a few seconds pass, the princesses opened their eyes simultaneously (all of which were completely white), as their horns fired all of their magic above the duo, forming a massive sphere of magical energy.
While this was happening, the duo were astonished (and admittedly intimidated) by the sphere, but couldn't help but stare at it as it began to slowly float towards them.
As soon as the sphere made contact with them, the duo let out a gasp as their eyes began to flash white.
Once the sphere engulfed the duo, the sphere became blindingly bright as it's energy flowed into the duo (although he was having trouble doing so, Sonic was able to transfer most of the magic inside the chaos emeralds while keeping some of it within himself).
After the light died down, the three princesses are seen on the floor, extremely exhausted while being completely drained of their magic (Princess Celestia's and Princess Luna's manes and tails no longer flowing as well).
Once the princesses regain some of their strength, they see Sonic and Twilight floating in the air, their eyes still glowing white as alicorn magic radiated off them (Twilight's mane and tail were flowing similar to how Princess Celestia and Princess Luna's did, while the quills on the back of Sonic's head were now longer, long enough to reach his tail).
After a moment, the duo floated back to the ground, groaning as they began to regain control over themselves (Twilight's mane and tail turned back to normal while Sonic's returned to their original length).
Once they were back on the ground, the duo made their way to Princess Celestia to hug her, but they both gasped when they saw that she no longer had her cutie mark.
Looking towards Princess Luna and Cadence, the duo noticed that they no longer had their cutie marks as well.
"It has been done." Princess Celestia said.
"Let's just hope that we don't end up screwing this up." Sonic said.
About an hour later, we find the duo silently entering golden oak library in an attempt to avoid waking Spike.
As they made their way to their rooms however, Spike (who has his bed placed downstairs) awoke and saw the duo.
"You two haven't been gone long." Spike groggily said, causing the duo to stop in their tracks, "Does that mean everything is fine?"
"Yep! Everything's fine!" Twilight said both quickly and nervously, "Absolutely fine!"
Immediately after she said that, Twilight's horn released sparks of magic before causing two books to fly off a nearby shelf.
Thankfully, Spike bought Twilight's lie due to how tired he was.
"In that case, I'm going back to bed." Spike said before lying back down and covering himself with his blanket, "Sun's not up... and neither am I."
Hearing this made the duo slightly confused.
"That's weird, the sun should be up right now." Sonic whispered to Twilight before the both of them remembered that Princess Celestia and Princess Luna didn't have their magic anymore, "Oh right, that's kinda our job now."
Hearing this made Twilight frown in nervousness.
"Do you think we could do this?" Twilight asked before her horn flared up again.
"No time to see otherwise." Sonic said before jolts of magic suddenly sparked around his body for a moment before stopping, "...Ignoring that sudden flare up, I'll handle the sun while you handle the moon."
Although she was still uncertain, Twilight nodded before she and Sonic approached a nearby window.
Once they got a clear view of the sky (mainly the part where the moon was located), Twilight pointed her horn to the sky while Sonic did the same with his right hand and, after a moment, their appendages were surrounded in a magic aura (Twilight's usual purple while Sonic's was blue) as they tried to grasp the celestial bodies, unknowing floating as they did so.
After a moment the moon began to descend from the sky before the rose and took it's place, only for it to wobble around before suddenly going back down and having the moon come back and do the same.
After a minute, the duo managed to set the sun in it's correct position without the moon being beside it.
"Mom and Aunt Luna makes that look so easy." Sonic said as he and Twilight made their way towards the library's door, but magic flared off him body before he suddenly teleported to the roof of the library.
With it being so sudden, Sonic didn't have time to save himself as he ended up crashing face-first into the floor.
"Sonic, Are you alright?!" Twilight exclaimed as she ran towards him.
"Just dandy." Sonic sarcasticly said, his voice muffled by the floor.
After getting back up, Sonic quickly made his way to his room before returning with his enchanted scarf around his neck.
"I'm going to stay on the safe side and take this with me in case I randomly teleport off the ground again." Sonic said, "But that aside, we should find somewhere where I could safely practice using my magic."
Nodding her in agreement, Twilight tried to open the library's door with her magic, but ended up making it explode instead.
"...I think it would be best if I did the same." Twilight said.
"Then I suggest we go to the castle of the two sisters." Sonic said, "It's out of sight from anyone else's eyes and it'll provide us shelter if necessary."
After considering this for a moment, Twilight responded, "Sounds like a plan."
"In that case, I'll go there first, just to make sure it's safe to do so." Sonic said as he was about to use chaos control, only to remember that the magic within in might make it unstable, "...On second thought, I think I'll run over there instead."
Turning in the direction of everfree forest, Sonic quickly took off...
...At more than three times his usual speed.
"WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAH!!!!!" Sonic screamed, taken completely off guard by the sudden burst of speed (that's more intense to what he was used to when he isn't in his super/hyper/dark forms).
"Sonic!" Twilight exclaimed before taking flight to give chase, only for the the same thing to happen to her (only she flew around at Sonic's normal speed), "WOOOOOOOOOOAH!!!"
While having trouble adjusting to the speed, Twilight ended plowing through a cloud that Rainbow Dash was resting on, prompting the pegasus (Spike, and the rest of the mane six who heard their friend's screams) to follow her.
Back on the ground, Sonic was seen running around ponyville, adjusting to the speed boost.
'This is crazy!' Sonic thought to himself, 'Not only did I get a power boost when it comes to my chaos abilities, in also got a boost in my physical abilities! Granted, alicorn magic is the combination of all the pony types' magic, including earth ponies, how specialize in strength, but I didn't think it would in boost me this much!'
As he ran, Sonic was unaware that Twilight was speeding towards him. When he did notice the alicorn's shadow, it was too late and Twilight crashed into him, causing Sonic's head to be dug into the ground as a ditch was formed when they stopped.
"That was certainly a rush." Twilight said to herself, unaware that he was sitting on top of Sonic.
"Get! Off!" Sonic groaned, his voice muffled by the ground.
Upon hearing that and seeing her current position, Twilight quickly got off of Sonic, allowing the hedgehog to stand up before dusting himself off.
"Oh, my goodness, are you two all right?" Fluttershy said as she and the rest of the duo's first caught up to them.
After spitting out some dirt that was in his mouth, Sonic replied, "Aside from being dug into the ground and getting dirt in my mouth, just fine."
"How the heck did you fly so fast Twilight?" Rainbow Dash asked, "You were flying around the same speed I do.
"That would be my doing." Sonic said quickly, scratchingthe back of his head as he let out a nervous laugh, "I wanted to help train Twilight's flight and figured it would be a good idea to super charge her with some chaos energy. Looks like I was wrong."
"Yeah, that's what happened!" Twilight said, quickly going with Sonic's lie while having a nervous smile on her face, "But he mainly did it because my magic was acting a bit weird today. And as much as I want to, I don't have the time to figure out why."
"Are you going back to the castle of the two sisters again?" Rarity asked. "We would be more than happy to accompany you both."
"NO!!!" Sonic and Twilight exclaimed simultaneously.
Upon seeing the others looking at each other in confusion, Sonic cleared his throat before saying, "With Tirek still on the loose, she wanted to ensure ponyville's safety by having you all make sure you have everyone stay in their homes, while me and Twilight continue to see if we can learn anything more about the tree of harmony."
"Making ponyville is understandable, but what I don't understand is why only the two of you should go." Applejack said.
"It's for our safety." Twilight said, "On the chance that Tirek found out about us, he wouldn't be able to find us easily, hence why she wants you all to have everypony stay indoors.
Although they were a bit sceptical, the group nodded in understanding.
"Okay you too, we'll do our best." Applejack said, "But be sure to stay safe."
"Don't worry Applejack, we will." Sonic said before he prepared to take flight, only to remember that the alicorn magic within them might make them go crazy again.
Deciding to not take the risk, the duo began walk into everfree forest.
After making sure that the group was out of earshot, Twilight turned to Sonic before saying, "Although we're not supposed to let them know, I don't like that we're leaving our friends in the dark of what's really happening."
"I hear you, but we don't have a choice." Sonic responded, "If we told them that Discord betrayed us, it'll make them worried. Especially if they found out that we have the other princesses magic."
Knowing that Sonic had a point, Twilight nodded her head before turning her attention back to the road.
Half an hour had passed as the duo tried to take control over the alicorn magic within them.
While Twilight tried to using the magic in hopes that she could have better control, Sonic tried to keep the magic stabilized so that it wouldn't act up when he used chaos abilities.
Although Twilight was improving, Sonic had to resort to turning into his super form upon discovering that he had better control over his magic whenever he used large amounts of chaos energy.
We currently find Twilight standing on the edge of a cliff while Super Sonic stood at the bottom.
"You can do it Twilight!" Super Sonic cheered, "You've been doing well so far, and I know you'll get this in the bag soon enough!"
After hearing Super Sonic's cheer, Twilight began to concentrate for a moment before teleporting in front of the super charged hedgehog.
"Ha! I did it!" Twilight cheered. "Perfectly controlled teleporta-!"
Before she could finish, Twilight's horn began to glow before she suddenly disappeared again.
"Guess it still needs some more practice." Super Sonic said to himself.
After waiting for a moment, Super Sonic heard Twilight reappear close by, with the sound of her growling in frustration leading him to a large boulder with a big crack.
"Need help getting out?" Super Sonic asked as he floated above Twilight.
"It would be much appreciated." Twilight responded.
"PRINCESS TWILIGHT AND PRINCE SONIC!!!" A voice (who the duo immediately assumed to be Tirek's) boomed, "YOU BOTH HAVE SOMETHING THAT BELONGS TO ME!!!"
"Oh no!" Twilight exclaimed, "It's Tirek!"
Out of instinct, Twilight immediately took flight (destroying boulder as she did so), but upon having trouble controlling herself, Twilight decided to land and ended up skidding up to Tirek.
"You're going to give me what I want!" Tirek yell before attempting to absorb Twilight's magic, only to be knocked away by Super Sonic.
"Sorry, but alicorn magic is off limits!" Super Sonic exclaimed before teleporting himself and Twilight to the highest balcony of the library.
Quickly turning the telescope to Tirek's position, Twilight looked through it and looked through it, only to see Tirek turn towards them before firing a large beam at them.
Gasping, Twilight quickly teleported them inside before grabbing Owlowiscious and dragged Sonic to the door, only for them to be blasted out as the beam Tirek fired reached the library.
While they were fine, Sonic and Twilight gasped in horror as they saw that the library, the home they lived in ever since they moved to ponyville, had reduced to nothing but a burnt stump.
Nothing had survived the explosion: the books, furniture, their belongings, everything was gone.
After Owlowiscious flew out of Twilight's grasp, angry expressions formed on the duo's faces.
After getting back up, the duo immediately teleported back to Tirek before they both unleashed a large beam upon the centuar.
Having been taken off guard by the large beam, Tirek crossed him arms and created a barrier around himself just as the beam engulfed him.
After the duo stopped their attack, they saw that Tirek was unharmed as he powered down his barrier.
"Now I understand what your fellow princesses have done." Tirek said with a smirk on his face, now realizing that Sonic and Twilight had the princesses' magic.
"Good, cause now we're going to give you a taste of alicorn magic, by kicking your flank with it!" Super Sonic exclaimed before he and Twilight took flight and charged towards Tirek.
Not wanting the duo to have the upper hand, Tirek charged them head on, determined to get their magic.
Once they were close, Tirek fired a beam at the duo, but before it could hit, Super Sonic used chaos shield to block it before he and Twilight moved out of the way.
Having gained a clear shot, Twilight shot a beam at Tirek, managing to hit him in the face.
As Tirek was distracted, Sonic quickly moved behind him and began shootings chaos spears at him.
Angered, Tirek grabbed the duo in his magic grap and hurled them to some nearby mountains.
Before they could take flight again, they noticed Tirek charging towards them and quickly activated a barrier around themselves before being hit, and forced through the mountain.
After dismissing their barriers before teleporting above Tirek and released a burst of energy, forcing him to the ground.
Not wanting him to recover, the duo charged a beam before unleashing it on top of Tirek, causing an explosion upon contact and driving him into the ground.
Not too long afterwards, a beam shot out of the group began moving around until it formed a circle, which was picked up Tirek, who hurled it at the duo.
Sonic simply countered by shooting a chaos spear, obliterating the hurled earth.
Deciding to meet him head on again, the duo charged towards Tirek as they charged up a beam.
Deciding to retaliate, Tirek fired a large beam at the duo, who unleashed beams of their own that matched Tirek's when they combined.
When the two beams connected, they created a large explosion as their combined power obliterated almost everything that was caught in it (which luckily excluded any nearby towns).
The shockwave sent the duo to the ground and caused them to skid across the ground. Tirek on the other hand was buried by rubble made from the explosion.
As Tirek got the rubble off himself, the duo approached him.
"Well, it seems as though we are at an impasse." Tirek said as he dusted off any remaining rocks that were on him.
"I guess we are." Super Sonic said, "But don't expect it to stay that way for long!"
"You took the words right out of my mouth." Tirek said as a smirk formed on his face, "How's about we settle this with a trade."
After saying that, Tirek snapped his fingers, teleporting their friends and the magic-less Discord (who were trapped inside impenetrable bubbles) hovering above himself.
After recovering from the shock of seeing their imprisoned friends, Super Sonic exclaimed, "Let them go!"
"I will..." Tirek began, "... in exchange for both your magic, and all of the energy within the chaos emeralds!"
"Don't do it, Twilight!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed.
"We aren't worth it!" Fluttershy added.
"Oh, but you are, Fluttershy." Discord said in a glum tone, "You're the pony that taught me that friendship is magic. I had magic and friendship, and now I don't have either."
"ENOUGH!!!" Tirek yelled, "I want an answer, now!"
"Hold on, how do we know that we could trust you!?" Super Sonic asked, "For all we know, you'll just attack us as soon as you take our energy!"
"I'm a centuar of my word." Tirek said, "I vowed revenge and I'm doing it, now I vow to leave you be once I'm done."
Although they knew we would more than likely come back for them on a later date, they didn't want to risk their friends' safety for now.
"...The magic and energy is yours, in exchange for our friends." Super Sonic finally said shocking said friends.
"As you wish." Tirek said before releasing everyone sans Discord.
"All of our friends." Twilight said, gesturing towards Discord.
"After the way he has betrayed you, you still call him a "friend"?" Tirek asked, confused.
"Release him!" Twilight yelled.
"If that's what you want." Tirek said before releasing Discord.
"Thank you Twilight." Discord said before whispering to Fluttershy in an ashamed voice, "I'm sorry."
"I know." Fluttershy whispered back as tears formed in her eyes.
"Now for your end of the bargain." Tirek said, causing the duo to braced themselves.
Opening his mouth, Tirek began to drain the duo of their magic (along with the chaos emeralds' energy), causing them to scream in pain while it happened.
As their energy was being drained, Sonic's super form began to weaken as he slowly began turning to him normal self.
After the duo were completely drained, they collapsed onto the ground, Twilight landing on her side while Sonic fell on his knees before following over as well.
"Yes!!!" Exclaimed the know titan sized Tirek before walking off to conquer equestria.
"Guys! Why did you do that!?" Spike asked as he and the rest of the mane six rushed to their friends' sides.
"Considering what Tirek could of done to you all of we refused, we didn't have a choice." Sonic said.
"Wait, aren't the chaos emeralds make endless amounts of energy?" Rainbow Dash asked, "Maybe you could go hyper and make a comeback!"
Figuring that Rainbow Dash had a point, Sonic concentrated for a moment before summoning the chaos emeralds, only for them to immediately fall to the ground.
Taking a closer look at them, the group saw that the chaos emeralds had lost most of their glow and only emitted a dim glow.
"Looks like Tirek wore them out." Sonic said, "It'll take a long time for them to completely recharge. But by then, Tirek might be too much for me to take on, even in my hyper form. I'm sorry guys, but it seems like we've hit the end of the line."
Hearing this made everyone feel glum. He had a point, without the chaos emeralds or the elements of harmony, there was no way they could defeat Tirek.
Deciding to break the silence, Discord spoke up, "Tirek tricked me into believing that he could offer me something more valuable than friendship. But there is nothing worth more. I see that now. He lied when he said that this medallion was given as a sign of gratitude and loyalty. But when I say that it is a sign of our true friendship, I am telling the truth.
After saying that, Discord took off the medallion Tirek gave him before putting it on Twilight.
Twilight looked down at the medallion, feeling the sincerity of the gift Discord gave her. He really was honest, not even joking in the slightest. She then gasped, feeling a strange light very close to her, and it was around her neck. The medallion shimmered brightly like a rainbow, which everyone saw, shocking them all as Discord was the one creature she needed to teach an important lesson. Not in magic, but in friendship.
"Looks like we found Twilight's key." Sonic said, only for a small bit of sadness formed on his face, "If only there was a way I could help."
"Sonic, you've done everything you can." Twilight said, "But now, you should leave the rest to me and the girls."
To better comfort him, Twilight and the rest of the mane six hugged him.
After letting Twilight's words sink in for a moment, Sonic smiled before trying his best to hug the girls back.
"Thanks girls." Sonic said, "You're the bestest friends anyone could ever ask for."
As the group hugged, the rainbow auras had began to form around the chaos emeralds before they began to levitate on their own.
Once in the air, the chaos emeralds made their way to the group, each one stopping above one of them.
After noticing the chaos emeralds, the group stared in awe as they descended into their hooves/hands.
Once Sonic and each of the mane six had a chaos emerald in their grasp, the emeralds released a bright light, blinding them.
After the light died down, the group was shocked to see that the chaos emeralds were now rainbow colored, similar to how they were near the end of the plunder vine incident.
The emeralds then levitated out of everyone's grasp be surrounding Sonic and began to circle around him.
After a moment, the chaos emeralds released another flash, which when it does down, everyone was shocked to see Sonic in his rainbow form.
"My rainbow form!" Rainbow Sonic exclaimed in shock, "But how!?!"
"Maybe it has something to do with what happened when we first found the tree of harmony." Twilight said, "When the elements fired a beam into the chaos emeralds, it must have infused them with their energy. And being that me and the girls were the bearers of the elements of harmony, the energy will only react when we activate it."
"So that means we technically still have the elements of harmony with us!" Rainbow Sonic exclaimed, "Huh, should of known the elements of harmony wouldn't leave us without some way to use their energy."
"But how is it that Tirek wasn't able to take the elements magic as well?" Spike asked.
"If I had to guess, it resisted Tirek's draining due to him being evil." Rainbow Sonic said, "But enough of that, you all should go to the tree of harmony, I'll go distract Tirek and make sure he doesn't cause any more damage."
Nodding in agreement, the mane six, Spike, and Discord began to make their way to the tree of harmony, while Rainbow Sonic flew in the direction Tirek left in.
It didn't take long for Rainbow Sonic to find Tirek (mainly because of how big he was), as the centuar could be seen blasting and stomping everything in his sight.
'Even though I'm glad that he isn't, I would of figured he would do this when he reached a town or a city.' Rainbow Sonic thought to himself, 'But since neither of those are around, I could do this!"
Immediately after he said that, Rainbow Sonic charged towards Tirek and rammed him in the face, causing the centuar to fall over.
Although surprised by the sudden attack, Tirek growled as he got back up.
"WHO DARES TO ATTACK ME!?!?" Tirek demanded.
"I do!" Sonic yelled, getting Tirek's attention.
"What!?!" Tirek exclaimed, "I drained all of your energy! How could you still have some!?!"
"I have my ways." Rainbow Sonic responded, "But now it's time for us to finish what we started!"
Growling, Tirek fired a beam at Rainbow Sonic, but it was ineffective as the rainbow hedgehog had used chaos shield to block the blast.
Moving out of the beam's blast, Rainbow Sonic fired some chaos spears at Tirek's face, causing the centuar to yell in pain.
Deciding to take a more direct approach, Tirek charged towards Rainbow Sonic and tried to deliver a massive punch, but Rainbow Sonic managed to hold the punch back with his arms.
Taking advantage of him current situation, Rainbow Sonic grabbed onto Tirek's hand before lifting the centuar up and repeatedly smashed him into the ground.
After smashing him into the ground a few times, Rainbow Sonic threw Tirek to a nearby canyon, but before he could continue his assistant, he felt a large surge of energy near the tree of harmony. For some reason, he felt like he needed to go there immediately.
Deciding to see why he felt like this, Rainbow Sonic teleported himself to the tree of harmony to see what was going on.
Arriving at the tree of harmony, Rainbow Sonic managed to see that the tree of harmony was currently pumping large amounts of energy into the girls, restoring their magic while also altering their appearance.
All of their hooves were clad in markings matching their cutie marks, manes and tails were much larger and literally rainbows of color. Twilight, Fluttershy, and Rainbow's wings were larger as well, wrapped in colors matching their manes.
"Woah." Rainbow Sonic said, "There is definitely no way for Tirek to beat us now."
With the girls nodding in agreement, Rainbow Sonic joined them before using chaos control to teleport him and the girls in front of Tirek.
"How are you getting your magic back!?!" Tirek demanded.
"You may have taken our magic, Tirek, but there's on kind of magic your powers can't steal from us!" Twilight said.
Growling, Tirek charged up all of his magic before unleashing a large beam at the group, but did was blocked by a barrier that appeared around them.
"Let's finish this!" Rainbow Sonic said as the girls began to give him energy.
After storing enough energy, Rainbow Sonic exclaimed, "Rainbow blast!" before unleashing a large rainbow colored beam that began to engulf Tirek's.
Having been taken completely off guard, Tirek couldn't defend himself as the rainbow beam had engulfed him as well.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!" Tirek screamed as he was sent back to tarterus, having lost all of the magic he stole and was revered to an elderly state.
With Tirek gone, the group flew all around equestria, helping guide all of the stolen magic back to their rightful owners.
After all the magic was returned to the ponies of equestria, the group flew back to the tree of harmony.
Though the gift of holding the elements of harmony's power without needing the gems were incredible, the mystical tree wasn't done rewarding them.
The chest began to glow along with the tree of garmony, surprising the group as a rainbow shot up from the opened flower where the chest rested. The box rose up, transporting the the group elsewhere as it floated through the air, following the trail of the translucent rainbow.
The rainbow shot out of everfree forest and made it's way near the outside of ponyville.
Wheb the chest sank into the ground, the earth began to shake before a crystal spire poked up from the ground, shifting the ground before rising up, revealing a large castle made of crystal.
When the group appeared in front of the castle (returning to their normal selves when they did), they were completely amazed at the magnificent palace the rree of harmony gave them.
"Sweat Celestia!" Rarity exclaimed, "Are you all seeing what I'm seeing!?"
"I see it, but I'm kinda having a hard time believing it." Sonic said, still amazed.
"But, who does this castle belong to?" Twilight asked.
"I believe it is both, yours, and Sonic's." Replied a voice.
Turning around, the group saw the princesses before them, along with Spike and Discord who were behind them.
"You've been wondering what you are meant to do as a princess." Princess Celestia said as everyone made their way through the newly made castle, "Do you know now?"
"As princess, I believe I have the power to spread the magic of friendship across Equestria." Twilight began as they reached the doorway to the throne room, "That is the role I am meant to have in our world! The role I choose to have! But I didn't defeat Tirek on my own – it took all of us to unlock the chest!"
"Then it is unlikely you are meant to take on this task alone." Princess Celestia said before opening the throne room doors.
Everyone sans the princesses gasp as they saw eight crystal thrones sitting around a golden circle on the floor with a white eight-pointed star in the center. On the thrones were the Mane Six's cutie marks (and Sonic's symbol), their assigned seating for their royal duties, the smaller one between Sonic's and Twilight's being Spike's throne.
Eager about their new thrones, the group quickly made their way to them before sitting in their respective thrones.
"You are now Twilight Sparkle, the princess of friendship." Princess Celestia said, "But what is the princess of friendship without her friends?"
"Wait a minute, where's my throne?!" Discord asked.
"I don't think you're quite there yet." Fluttershy said.
Discord chuckled before saying, "Yes, well, I suppose not."
Several hours had passed, and we now find the group in sugarcube corner, celebrating their latest victory.
"Nothing like a cupcake after saving equestria yet again." Pinkie said before stuffing a cupcake in her mouth.
While atmosphere was happy, Sonic let out a slightly depressed sigh.
"What's wrong, Sonic?" Twilight asked.
"It's nothing." Sonic responded, only to receive blank stares from everyone, "Okay, okay, I'll talk! Well, it's nothing big but, I kinda wish that I was able to keep some magic."
"What do you mean?" Twilight asked.
"As you all know, I can't use magic." Sonic began, "But I had the opportunity to use magic, but couldn't due to how dangerous it been. Now that I don't have the magic anymore, I realize all the spells I could of used are no longer available to me. Heck, if I still had magic, it wouldn't hurt to do something as simple as picking up a cupcake and putting it in my hand."
Not too long after he said that, a weak blue aura appeared around Sonic's right hand before the same colored aura appeared around one of the cupcakes on the table.
The cupcake then levitated off the table and into Sonic's hand, surprising everyone.
"...I think that I may have spoken too soon." Sonic said.