Crystal Brighthouse
“Y’know what Zipp, I’m gonna go for a run around town. Hopefully to clear my head, from all of the stress.” Zipp nodded with a smile.
The Hedgehog had one of his own before running down the path towards the town, leaving the Pegasus behind. “Oh yeah tell them that I went on a run, if they’re wondering where I went!” He called back to her.
Maretime Bay
Sonic ran into the streets with optimism, although he still felt the guilt from before. It wasn’t nearly as strong this time, and he felt fine for once.
He went up onto the roof of a building and watched the town residents, happy to see peace amongst the different ponies.
He then remembered the beach that was nearby, and decided to go and relax a bit. After all of the things that have been happening recently, he might as well get a small break.
With that in mind he ran down the building into the streets and ran through them, not noticing Posey who he passed by. “You’ll wish you hadn’t taken her away, Hedgehog.” She hissed.
She proceeded to walk the other way, to hopefully find something more worthwhile.
Maretime Bay: Beach
Sonic arrived at the sandy shores of Maretime Bay, and sat down leaning up against the nearby wall. He placed his hands behind his head, and closed his eyes breathing in and out calmly.
He reopened his eyes and took in the sight of the blue ocean, that stretched out beyond the horizon. This was peaceful, just the way he liked it. “Why can’t things ever be normal for once?” He asked himself.
Then something in the corner of his eye, caught his attention. He turned to see a purple object, sitting in a dug up part of the sand.
He stood up and walked slowly over to it, curiosity piercing his very mind. He then got close enough, to see the object and it was an… egg. This confuse him greatly, as he processed this new discovery. “Why is there an egg, sitting here all by itself?”
He noticed the water coming in, to which he reacted by picking up the egg quickly preventing it from being taken by the tide. He analysed it, questioning internally about why the egg was there, and who it belonged to.
“Maybe Hitch can figure it out and take care of it, after all I’m not exactly ready for parenthood yet.” He said to himself.
With that in mind he was ready to run off when he took notice, of a Unicorn and Earth Pony arguing. “She tried to sabotage my sand castle!” The Earth Pony pointed at the Unicorn accusingly.
“No, I didn't! My magic was just gone!” The Unicorn retorted. Sonic also took note of Hitch who was also there.
“Okay, okay. Everypony just—“ But Hitch was cut off. “Magic shouldn't even be allowed on the beach!” The Earth Pony continued.
A small Pegasus walked over to the sheriff. “Is magic allowed on the beach, Sheriff Hitch?” He was about to answer, but a new voice came in.
“Of course it is!” They turned to see Sonic walking over, with an egg in hand. “In all honesty, while I am conflicted with magic. I do believe it can be a good thing if practised enough, so all I can say is maybe be a bit more careful.”
This caused the Pegasus to smile at him. “Thanks Mr. Sonic!” The Hedgehog chuckled. “Eh don’t worry about it. And please just call me Sonic.” He told while wagging his finger, with his free hand.
The Pegasus flew off afterwards, and Sonic faced the other Ponies who were surprised by what he had said before. “Listen not to sound rude, but can you please get over it. We’ve only had magic for three months, everyone is still practicing and it’s just a sand castle.” After that was said, he began walking off with Hitch following behind him.
“Woah I can’t believe you just said that!” Hitch exclaimed.
Sonic faced the Earth Pony sheriff with a smile. “Honestly that was gonna get really bad, so I just did what I could to diffuse it.” Sonic explained.
Hitch nodded, then took note of the egg in the Hedgehog’s hand. “Hey where did you find that egg?” Sonic looked at the object in his hand.
“I found it on the beach, a little bit before coming over to help. I don’t know where it came from, it was just there and could have been taken by the tide.” Sonic explained, as they made it onto the streets of Maretime Bay.
“I was also wondering if you could take care of it, since you’re more of an animal expert than I am.” Sonic asked Hitch.
The sheriff went wide eyed. “Me take care of an egg, by myself… okay then I guess I’ll give it a shot.” This made Sonic’s smile grow.
“Thanks buddy, you know what I’ll hang out with you for a while, and hopefully you can tell me about Maretime Bay Day.” Hitch nodded his head and both silently made it to the station.
Maretime Bay: Sheriff Station
They both arrived at the station and Hitch grabbed the egg from Sonic, and placed it into his cabinet where he turned on the heat lamp that was inside. “All roasty and toasty. I'll just keep you safe here until we can find who you belong to, okay?” Hitch spoke to it.
Sonic was confused. “Okay why do you have a heat lamp in your cabinet, I’ve never seen you use it.”
Hitch gave him a funny look. “Just in case of emergencies.” Sonic laughed, then a familiar voice appeared.
“Sheriff Hitch!” Both Sonic and Hitch froze, that was Posey and she was coming into the station.
Hitch quickly closed the cabinet and grabbed a plant, then grabbed a mug pretending to pour water.
“Who were you just-“ She stopped speaking and saw Sonic, a familiar scowl crossed her face.
“What is he doing here.” She growled with gritted teeth. Sonic felt the guilt come back, and he wasn’t in the mood to continue dealing with it. “Oh you know just, talking to sheriff Hitch here about life.” Sonic joked trying to hide his nervousness.
“Doesn’t seem like that to me.” She continued, glaring heavily at him.
Sonic walked towards the door and faced her. “Listen. Once again I’m sorry for what I did, but keep in mind that your talking to a guy who’s dealt with world ending disasters on an almost weekly basis.” He went through the door and outside.
He then facepalmed. “Man she is never gonna give me a break, I had to joke just so she wouldn’t make me feel worse.”
He looked towards the Brighthouse, and smiled a little bit. “Might as well go check up on everyone, after all they probably want to see me.” He then ran off towards the Brighthouse, ready to hopefully contribute to this event and learn of it.
But he thought back to what had happened, while he was gone. Arguing Ponies, Magic mess-ups, a random egg and Posey still hated him.
The more he thought about it, the more he felt on edge. ‘If anything else weird happens, then I know that things are gonna go wrong.’
He refocused back onto the path, as he stopped right in front of the Brighthouse doors.