//------------------------------// // Losing Faith & Newfound Hope // Story: Sonic Enters A New Generation // by Idiotboy24 //------------------------------// Location: Crystal Tearoom The group knew that they had been caught, and there was no excuse they could use to talk their way out. “An Earth pony.” Alphabittle said in an intimidating tone. “And Pegasi!” Zipp spoke up. “And a Unicorn, which you knew already!” Izzy stated. “And a Blue Hedgehog.” Sonic spoke in an almost similar tone to Alphabittle. Sunny stepped forth, “I know it doesn’t look like it, but we’re here to help.” Alphabittle scowled. “Help? We don’t need help. Especially from ponies and Hedgehogs like you. Give me the crystal.” Sonic’s face turned angry while looking Alphabittle, he stepped forth and pointed at him. “Listen here, Gandalf we won and honestly you’re not that scary, so don’t step any closer or I’ll say the forbidden words.” He warned causing fear to wash over the Unicorns. “You wouldn’t.” Alphabittle spoke angrily, to which Sonic smirked. “I would.” “You wouldn’t.” “I would.” “You wouldn’t.” “I would.” “You wouldn’t.” “I wouldn’t.” “You would.” “Thanks for the permission. Magic, Wing, Feather!… MAYONNAISE!!!” Sonic yelled. All of the Unicorns froze before beginning to do the ritual. All of them were yelling Bing Bong, which gave the group a chance to escape. “Go, Go, Go!” Sonic directed, while putting the crystals into his quills. Location: Bridlewood “Sorry about that! Uh thanks for the Tea!” Izzy called back to them, the sign fell in front of the door. “That was clever Sonic!” Sunny exclaimed. “Eh it was nothing, but let’s get away before something bad happens!” Sonic said. They all ran for a few more seconds before seeing something move in the bushes ahead, causing them all to stop. Queen Haven came out from the bushes. “Mom!” Both Zipp and Pipp said in unison before running to her. “Oh, my darlings! Thank hoofness!” “You escaped!” Zipp said. “How did you find us?” Pipp asked. The bushes rustled again revealing Cloudpuff, who jumped at Hitch knocking him down on the ground, with the badge in his mouth. “Ah! My badge! Yes!” Hitch held the badge in victory. Queen Haven turned back to her daughters. “Oh, I'm so glad I found my little fillies. Now, I know that if you just come back with me, we can explain everything. Spin the story, and they'll love us again. R-Right?” she said nervously. They all heard hoofsteps coming their way, revealing the angry Unicorns running towards them before stopping. “Let us explain.” Sunny pleaded, only for a voice to interrupt. “There she is!” They all turned to see a bunch of guards from Zephyr Heights appear. “Your criminal highness! Your coming with us!” Zoom ordered only for Thunder scream. “Ah! Unicorns!” He then threw the Tennis Ball at Alphabittle who had frown on his face, which went unchanged after it hit him. “Give me back my crystals and leave Bridlewood!” Alphabittle demanded. “Your crystals? That crystal belongs to me!” Haven spoke up. “Not anymore, it doesn’t! I won it fair and square.” Alphabittle lied, to which Sonic snapped his head towards him. “What the what!” Alphabittle ignored him. “Hah! I certainly doubt it! Unicorns are known to be cheaters!” Haven countered, Sonic’s blood was boiling once more even more so than back at Zephyr Heights. “You Pegasi always thought you were better than us!” Alphabittle spat back, to which the guards and the other Unicorns got involved. “Hey, that’s our queen you’re talking to!” Zoom retorted. “She’s not a queen here!” “Who do you think you are?!” “We’re gonna zap you with our horns!” “This is our land!” You’re not welcome here!” The arguing continued on with the groups getting closer ready to fight. “Surrender the crystal, or I’ll use my powers against you!” Alphabittle threatened. “I’d like to see you try!” Haven responded. But Sonic had enough he was done being silent, it was going to become a full on fight soon. With a lift of his hand he swung it down, “ENOUGH!!!” Out of nowhere a red projectile landed in between the two parties, catching them all off guard. ‘Did I just… eh forget it.’ They all turned to Sonic who was breathing heavily, before looking back up. “That’s enough! I’m sick and tired of this, stupid nonsense! We’ve been trying to restore magic, while all of you have continued to fight! How come someone like me who isn’t even from this world, has managed to become friends with Two Earth Ponies, Two Pegasi and One Unicorn in three days while all of you haven’t in who knows how long!” Sonic pointed out, causing them to be dumbfounded. “Bing-Bong!” “Look if I know anything it’s that you can all become friends with one another, even if it seems impossible. Just look at us six.” He pointed at himself and the others who stood in shock. “Did he just say, “Magic?” A random pony said. “This is a trick.” Zoom guessed. Sonic smirked in return, “Lady if you knew what I’ve been through you would find bringing back Magic very possible.” He then turned to Sunny and Izzy, grabbing the crystals from his quills, “You two want to do the honours.” Sonic asked to which they both nodded, he handed them both one crystal each. They both stood up on a rock, and began slowly connecting the crystals together making everyone smile, but when they did connect nothing happened. “Why didn’t it work, daddy?” The Unicorn foal asked. “Because it was all just make believe.” His father answered, before starting walk away along with the other Unicorns and Pegasi. “We can try it again! Maybe… maybe w-we did it wrong somehow.” But the Unicorns and Pegasi still walked away. “Wait. Wait, don’t go Oh, come on. Work. Work! Please work! Come on!“ but it still didn’t work, Hitch walked over and put his hoof on her shoulder. “Sunny. It's okay. You did everything you could.” he said. It didn’t do much to help Sunny. “I... I thought it would work. I was so, so sure of it.” Sunny got back up and began walking towards Alphabittle. “What do we do now, Sunny?” Zipp asked in sadness. Sunny gave back the Unicorn crystal to Alphabittle, and walked over to Haven and gave back the Pegasus crystal. “I’m sorry for all the trouble I caused you.” She then began walking home. “Sunny! we can’t give up!” Pipp spoke up making Sunny stop before turning around to face her friends. “I thought I could make a difference.” She looked at the sad Unicorn foal who looked back at her. “But everywhere I go, I just make things worse.” This made her friends look in disbelief. “That’s not true. We’re all in this together, right?” Izzy turned to the others who agreed but Sunny still looked sad. “I’m so sorry I let you all down.” She turned to face Sonic who had a sad frown. “I’m sorry Sonic, that we won’t be able to get you home.” Sunny then continued to walk away. Hitch sighed before walking after her, but he turned to face the group. “I guess this is goodbye… friends.” He admitted. “Better hurry sheriff.” Zipp said in a solemn tone, Hitch walked away with Sunny. Sonic looked up at the sky with sadness not being able to see his friends again, sure he could try and do what he did before, and try to travel back but who knows where he could end up. He wasn’t going to take the risk, he then walked back over to the rock and sat down before looking at Chip’s bracelet with a sad smile. “At least I’ll have someone by my side always.” He whispered. The others looked over, seeing him talk to the bracelet made their hearts melt. They walked over and sat down near him. “Hey guys.” Sonic spoke in a sad tone. “Hey before we go back to our homes, I like to ask one more thing.” Izzy asked. “Sure, fire away.” Sonic insisted. “Okay can you tell us what happened earlier with that thing you did? Secondly can you tell us some of the adventures you’ve had?” Izzy requested getting nods of agreement from both Zipp and Pipp. Sonic smiled, glad that he’s earned their trust now. “I’m not really sure what happened earlier, but I can tell you my first few adventures.” After getting some nods he proceeded to tell the tale, keeping the Unicorn and Two Pegasi interested. There was the occasional question, to which he answered all that came to him. After an hour of telling them his first four adventures their jaws dropped to the floor, “That was amazing.” Zipp said after being silent. “No kidding.” Izzy voiced her opinion. “That was fabulous.” Pipp said in a singsong voice. “Yeah, and there’s plenty more I could tell but I think I said enough stories for one day.” Sonic admitted. But then he started laughing, “What’s so funny?” Izzy asked. “Y’know it’s weird that the crystals didn’t work, I mean sure maybe it wasn’t supposed to work but I feel like there’s… something… missing.”Realisation hit him like a bullet train, ‘of course there are three ponies kinds. Unicorns, Pegasi and Earth Ponies meaning a crystal for each individual breed.’ He then stood up. “I know why the crystals didn’t work!” The three ponies became confused. “What do you mean?!” Zipp asked. “You know how there was a crystal for both Unicorns and Pegasi!” Sonic asked receiving nods, only for their eyes to widen after realising what he meant. “No way!” Izzy said, Sonic nodded. “Exactly, we need to head to Maretime Bay, asap!” He along with the three ponies ran past, Alphabittle and Haven. “Where are you four going?!” Haven yelled, to which Sonic quickly yelled back at her. “We figured out what went wrong, now we’re gonna fix it.” They continued running back to Maretime Bay with the Guards and Unicorns following closely behind.