Sonic was walking back and forth on the rooftop of a building, thinking on what his next move should be.
"Alright, alright, let's see: I caused the blackout last night, so maybe I should help to restore it?" Sonic told himself. "Nah, at this point the power probably already has returned..." He pointed out, since he was also standing in front of a massive building with big screens.
And then, a news report showed up in one of the screens. "The government is currently looking for the source that cause a massive blackout in half of the country and beyond!" Said the female news reporter on the screen.
That totally called out Sonic's attention. "The what now?!" He asked with widened eyes, now paying attention at the report. "Did she just said half of the country and beyond?!" He questioned in disbelief.
"The investigation is being lead by one of the best agents in the country: Dr Ivo Robotnik––" Said the male news reporter on the screen, but then Sonic frowned with frustration at that thing.
"Seriously?! There's an Eggman counterpart in this world too?!" Sonic groaned. "Great, he probably knows about me now," He theorized, crossing his arms and closing his eyes to think. "As long as I don't ran into my human self, I don't care what he does."
After saying that, Sonic ran to his hideout and gathered a red backpack he also stole, again, out of need. He putted the bag with the warp rings on it, the Chaos Emeralds he found so far and three chilidogs wrapped around a cloth napkin, in case he gets hungry.
"As much as I love to help those in need around, I don't want to cause any more trouble to these people," Sonic told himself, putting on the backpack. "Also, I'm still not used to the human forms of the ponies I know, specially after seeing Dazzle and Skye as news reporters with fingers and proper uniforms... it felt weird."
He then closed his eyes and concentrated on his connection with the Chaos Emeralds, to feel the closest one and go after that one. After a while, he felt the Blue Emerald 'spark', and then opened his eyes. He ran towards the rooftop of the building, and stared at a big golden-y mansion at the distance.
"Of course... some spoiled rich must have found the Emerald... Why am I not surprised?" Sonic said with a bored expression, boosting towards said mansion to take back the Blue Chaos Emerald.
Zipp and Pipp were in Zipp's room, with Zipp having a struggle to put her clothes on a suitcase.
"Just... a bit... more!" Zipp groaned, as she pushed the whole suitcase, until it finally closed. "Finally!"
"You know, if you just used a second suitcase instead of just one, like Mom told you to, you could have saved the struggle," Pipp said with a bored tone, while scrolling on her phone.
"I already have enough struggling with the incredibly tight dress Mom buy for me to use on your concert," Zipp said with a frown. "I don't need another suitcase to deal with."
"You also should have prepared all of this yesterday, knowing that we leave today, in two hours," Pipp pointed out, still with a bored expression, now looking at her sister.
"You're sounding like Mom again," Zipp said in a mocking tone with a smirk.
"Right now? It's necessary~" Pipp stated, smirking back at Zipp. And then, her phone started to ring, so she checked the name and saw it was Sunny. "Hey, Sunny-bunny~!" Pipp greeted, turning on the cellphone speaker so Zipp could hear too.
"Hey, Pipp!" Sunny greeted from the other side.
"Hey, Sun," Zipp greeted as well. "I'm guessing you already arrived to the house, right?"
"Yup!" Sunny replied in a cheery tone. "By the way, this place feels more like an hotel than a Vacation House, to be honest," She said a bit sheepishly.
"Izzy, for the last time, don't grab my taser!" Hitch's voice was heard from the background, as well as Izzy giggling.
"Just 20 minutes since we arrived, and Izzy's already messing with Hitch," Sunny commented, and both Pipp and Zipp smiled and giggled, knowing Izzy too well to know that Sunny is telling the truth. "By the way, how did you handled the blackout last night?"
Pipp panicked and chuckled nervously. "Oh, p-perfectly fine!" She replied, sweating a bit and looking in al directions nervously. "I totally didn't hugged my blankets and plushies the whole night until I fell asleep after cancelling last night's livestream!"
She decided not to talk about the glowing emerald, because she just drop it on her desk after she felt something electrical on her hand, and then wrapped on her blankets and plushies like she said.
"I felt asleep after a small chat with Pipp last night," Zipp replied, smirking at her sister's attitude. "You guys were lucky, though. I heard there was a lot of chaos out in the city."
"I heard something about the government investigating the blackout," Sunny said. "At first I though they were just being too dramatic... but half of the country suffered the blackout, so..."
"Half of the country?!" The two sisters shouted in shock.
And then, they heard a loud crash coming from outside. The two sisters moved to the corridor, just to find it empty. However, they soon heard a voice, a male voice, coming from Pipp's room, making Pipp panic and Zipp put on 'alert mode'.
"Sunny, we'll call you back later!" Zipp said, ending the call and not letting Sunny reply anything, also giving Pipp her phone back.
"T-There's someone in my room!" Pipp whispered with panic, hiding behind Zipp.
"Do not panic yet, sis!" Zipp stated, going back inside of her room, and then coming back with a tranquilizer gun on her hand.
"W-Wait!" Pipp whispered, pulling the gun down in fright. "I-Isn't that dad's tranquilizer gun? W-Why do you have it?!" She asked, both concerned and surprised.
"I found it on the attic a while ago," Zipp explained with a smirk. "And now I'm using it to scare this brat!"
"B-But shouldn't we call the police or something?!" Pipp pointed out in fright.
"You wanna get controversial with the police arriving to our house, three days away of your concert?" Zipp pointed out back, and Pipp realized that she was right, so she shook her head saying 'no'. "I won't shot him, I'm only scaring the brat, promise!"
And then, Zipp walked slowly towards the door, with a scared Pipp following close behind. Zipp then stopped in front, looked at Pipp and instructed her to stay quiet, while Pipp just nodded. Now, Zipp kicked the door open and pointed the gun through the room, with Pipp not wanting to enter because she felt scared.
"Alright, buster!" Pipp heard Zipp shouting. "Hands in the air and shut your mouth, or else I'm kicking you out of––" She tried to warn, but she suddenly stopped talking.
That scared Pipp even more. "Zipp?" She called out, but there was no response. She was a bit hesitant at first, but then she nodded to herself and entered the room. "Zipp, what's going on?" She asked her, just to find her with widened eyes and a terrified look. "What's gotten into y––" As soon as she looked at what Zipp was looking, her eyes widened too.
Right in front of them, there was a blue creature, standing in two feet and wearing red snickers with a white stripe in the middle and a gold buckle on the outermost side. His arms and belly had a warm ivory color, just like his mouth and inside ears. His eyes where big and green like emeralds, and right now, they were as widened as the sisters eyes. He also wore white gloves, a red backpack on his back and he held a bag on his left hand, while he raised a golden ring on the other one. As for his head, he had some kind of big spikes in the back of it, looking pretty much like quills.
After staring at each other for a while, the creature finally broke the silence.
"Uh... meow?" He said, putting on a sheepish smile.
A few minutes before, Sonic managed to reach the mansion.
The place was being guarded by some security guards wearing black suits and sunglasses, as they walked back and forth to keep an eye on every corner of the mansion.
'Body guards with black suits. How cliché,' Sonic though with a smirk, quickly climbing up until he reached a window. Standing in front of it, he felt his connection with the Emerald stronger. 'It must be here!' He though again, as he quietly moved the window to the left, since it was one of those kind of windows, and then entered the room quietly, closing the window behind him as well.
"Perfect! I'm in," Sonic told himself. "And with no damage to private property as well!"
Since no one seemed to be on the room, he decided to put his backpack on the bed's side, and took a moment to appreciate the room better: Everything on it was pink, even the bed, with some plushies of animals around the room, a dog bed in the corner for some reason, a giant dresser with a mirror with pictures, a desk with some kind of PC stuff and a small bookshelf.
"Yup, just as I expected... A spoiled rich found the Emerald," Sonic said with a blank expression.
Then his sight returned to the dresser when he saw something blue shining bright. It was at this moment that he realized how smaller he was on this human world: While he usually was taller than the bed, his head couldn't even see what was above of it in this world.
"I finally understand Tails..." Sonic muttered to himself with a smirk.
He then quickly jumped from the ground and landed on the desk, but he accidentally hit a a flower pot that crashed and broke in the ground, although Sonic didn't give it any importance for the moment. He then saw the Chaos Emerald and smirked.
"Now this is what I'm talking about!" Sonic said with a smile, grabbing the Emerald and looking at it.
However, he couldn't help but notice the photos on the mirror with a critical eye. He slowly walked towards one and grabbed it, and then his eyes widened: That picture was of the Mane 5... in their human form. Sonic felt shocked at this, and as he saw the other pictures, only of Pipp, he realized that he didn't arrived just to any spoiled rich's house.
"Oh no..." Sonic muttered to himself a little panicked, as he grabbed the Emerald and putted on the bag of rings, then he putted the backpack on his back and grabbed a warp ring from the bag. "Alright, I have what I was looking for, time to get out of here!"
But once he was going to throw the ring to open a portal, the door of the bedroom opened suddenly, and then Sonic stared with widened eyes and shock at the girl that entered the room.
"Alright, buster!" She shouted. "Hands in the air and shut your mouth, or else I'm kicking you out of––" She tried to continue, but then stopped and stared at Sonic with widened eyes and fear.
The girl had a white skin, light blue eyes, a pink blouse, a black jacket without sleeves, blue jeans and brown large boots. However, she also had a pink hair with a light blue stripe on one side, and a pink and light blue lightning draw with a crown at one side of her jeans. That draw, Sonic could recognize it anywhere: This was the human Zipp, and boy, she definitely looked like how Sonic pictured her to be in her human form.
"Zipp?" Another voice spoke from outside the room, and Sonic panicked even more, because he could recognize that voice anywhere. "Zipp, what's going on?" She asked, entering the room and looking with worry at Zipp, while Sonic blushed a bit, but then it faded away when he realized that, even if it was Pipp, it wasn't his Pipp. "What's gotten into y––" As soon as she looked at Sonic, she also got terrified and her eyes widened as well.
The human Pipp had a lighter pink tone as her skin. She was wearing black heeled boots with very large black socks, a purple mini skirt with a draw of a music letter with a crown inside of it, a black jacket with short sleeves and golden bracelets on both of her hands. Her eyes where just as green as he remembers them, and her hairstyle was the same as the Pipp he knew, but instead of a tiara, there was a golden diadem that shared a similar style to his girlfriend's crown.
Sonic stared at the sisters with panic for a while until he finally managed to say something.
"Uh... meow?" Sonic said, putting on a sheepish smile.
The girls screamed in fright, causing Sonic to scream as well. In a panic, Zipp instantly pulled the trigger of the gun, shooting the tranquilizer dart right on Sonic's leg before he had time to react.
"Ow!" Sonic cried.
The effects of the tranquilizer dart immediately take effect as Sonic's vision became blurry and his body started swaying. Sonic blinked a few times, trying to clear his vision, and he started to look on all directions, until he managed to read something on some kind of poster.
"Mane...hat...tan?" Sonic slurred as he was reading said poster.
Sonic unknowingly dropped his ring and it rolled towards the sisters, before it fell to its side. The ring suddenly glowed and it grew into a large portal with an image of Manehattan in a bird's eye view, much to Zipp and Pipp's shock and awe. The girls were so stunned, that Zipp unknowingly dropped the gun to the floor.
Sonic walked staggeringly towards the portal in hopes to escape until he collapsed to the floor as more effects of the dart kicked in. Unfortunately, in the process, he accidentally dropped his bag of rings into the portal, and with the rings, the Emerald he just regained. With his one blurry eye, Sonic watched helplessly as the bag of rings fell through the portal and it landed on top of a roof of a very tall building, while the portal began to shrink rapidly.
"No…" Sonic moaned.
He reached out towards the portal, trying desperately to chase after the bag, but the effects of the dart became too much for the blue hedgehog as he weakly dropped his arm to the floor and passed out. At the same time, the portal disappeared, like if it was never there in the first place.
Zipp and Pipp just stood there in shock, processing everything they just witnessed.
"...What. The. Heck?" Zipp said after a moment of silence, while Pipp just fainted into the ground.
20 Minutes later, Zipp encaged Sonic inside Cloudpuff's dog cage. The little white dog was at the vacation house on Manehattan, that's why he didn't showed up when Sonic arrived at the mansion. Also, Zipp managed to convince the guards that she and Pipp screamed because of an insect that Zipp already got rid of, so they didn't knew about Sonic yet.
As for the sisters, Zipp had no idea what the heck he was, or if he was a he at all, while Pipp just stared at him in fright. Who was this creature? What was him? And most importantly, why did he appeared on her room? She was so confused right now, and she had no idea of what to do with him.
The sisters were in front of the dinner table, near the living room, while Zipp used a spatula to move Sonic's head, inspecting his quills curiously.
"What the heck is this thing?" Zipp said with a critical look, moving the spatula away from Sonic.
"Why are we keeping him at all?!" Pipp questioned, not feeling comfortable around the blue hedgehog. "We don't know if he could be dangerous!"
"Pipp, whatever this thing is, we cannot just ditch him on the trash, or tell anyone about his existence at all!" Zipp resonated. "The government can get involved, and that not only would lead to a legal struggle for Mom, but also to us!"
While the two sisters were busy talking, they failed to notice that Sonic was slowly waking up from his slumber. He couldn't remember exactly how he was inside this cage since his memory was a bit fuzzy, but something told him that he needed to get out of there. He tried to open the door, but it was locked with a padlock, so he pulled out one of his quills and opened the cage, throwing the quill to the other side of the table. Despite feeling all groggy, Sonic managed to unlatch the lock and pushed open the cage door in front of him. As he was crawling out of the cage, he heard a part of the sisters conversation.
"Legal struggle?" Pipp asked confused.
"They will make thousands of questions that we cannot answer, Pipp, and you'll get more viral than you already are for finding a strange creature no one has ever seen!" Zipp explained with a worried face, which caused Pipp to panic. "So we must make sure he doesn't gets out of here!"
"That's gonna be a problem..." Sonic muttered, still feeling dizzy since the effects of the dart haven't dissipated at all.
Both Zipp and Pipp were startled as soon as their eyes were on Sonic, who somehow escaped from the cage. Pipp immediately hid behind her sister, while Zipp stroke a battle pose in case the creature tried to attack. But instead, he just stared dazedly at them in recognition and... joy? He was smirking, for some reason, that was weird.
"Hello, young ladies..." Sonic greeted, with a little groan, still feeling the effects of the dart.
"T-That thing can talk!" Pipp cried out, looking at Sonic in fright.
"Are you… are you here to abduct us?" Zipp questioned, still striking a defensive pose.
Sonic gave her a bored expression, feeling a bit recovered. "Abduct you? If anything, you abducted me!"
"...Okay, good point" Zipp admitted with a sheepish smile.
Pipp managed to calm down a bit and pocked her head out of her sister's back. "Uh, w-what are you? And what were you doing in my room?!" She questioned confused and worried.
"It's not my fault that you took the Blue Chaos Emerald, Little Pipp," Sonic replied with a smirk. "If you haven't, I wouldn't had to sneak on your room just to take it back."
"Wait, how do you know her name?" Zipp questioned, now frowning at Sonic.
"Did you just called me 'little'?!" Pipp cried out, now glaring daggers at Sonic as her face turned a bit red in anger.
"Sorry, I like to joke on situations like this––" Sonic tried to explain, but he almost tripped in the table, if it wasn't because he grabbed the cage to recover his balance. "Damn it, Zipp! What the hell did you putted on that dart?!"
"How do you know my name?!" Zipp cried out. "You better start talking, little brat!" She warned, pulling out the tranquilizer gun again.
"Pipp called out your name back on the room, and you named her when you discussed something about the government a few minutes ago..." Sonic pointed out with a blank expression.
"...Again, that's a really good point," Zipp replied with a bored expression.
"Hang on! You said something about taking a blue emerald, right?" Pipp suddenly asked, confusing Zipp in the process. "It didn't happened to be on my dresser, did it?"
"At last, you do know what I'm talking about..." Sonic said with a smile. And then, memories hit him like a bullet train. "Wait a minute... why am I still on this house?" He questioned, as he started to look around the room. "I grabbed the Emerald, then put it on the bag, then Zipp shot me, a ring opened and I––" His eyes widened and let out a loud gasp. "The Emerald... I lost the Emerald and the bag of rings!"
"The what now?" Zipp asked, even more confused now.
"No, no, no, no, no, no, no! This is bad! This is very, very bad in so many levels that I cannot even describe!" Sonic panicked.
"What?" Pipp asked, now as confused as her sister.
But before the sisters could ask anything else, they suddenly heard a loud rumbling noise coming from outside.
"What was that?! W-What's going on!?" Pipp asked in panic.
"Was that your mother ship?" Zipp asked Sonic, as she then walked towards a window to check the outside for the source of the rumbling. "Because neither of us wants to get probe right now!"
"You think you're worried? I'm not even wearing pants!" Sonic cried out. "I'll usually will complain about use them at all, but right now? I think it would be proper."
As Zipp pulled the curtain open a bit, Pipp joined her by her side. The sisters watched as a huge black truck with bright red stripes and a circle at the front pulled up near the mansion.
"You didn't rented a private party truck to take us to Manehattan, did you?" Zipp questioned to Pipp with worry.
"Ugh, puh-lease! If I did, you know I wouldn't be talking about any other thing for days!" Pipp pointed out in an offended tone, while Zipp just rolled her eyes.
Sonic glazed over the girls to see what was outside. As soon as he saw that truck, his eyes widened, and let out a scream and quickly shut the curtains.
"You've got to be kidding me!" Sonic cried out with a worried face. "That crazy good-for-nothing old man is after me!" He said with panic, looking at the girls.
The sisters immediately turned to see Sonic. "I'm sorry, who's coming for you? And what does that has to do with us?!" Zipp asked.
"No time to explain at all!" Sonic stated. "Look, I really hate to do this because I promised myself that I wouldn't interact with any human on this world so they could stay out of trouble, but right now I have no choice! You have to help me!"
"What?!" Pipp cried out in disbelief. "No we don't!"
"Yeah, why should we help you at all?" Zipp questioned, placing an arm in front of Pipp to 'protect' her from Sonic.
"Well, my legs, which normally would be classified as lethal weapons, feel like spaghetti because someone shoot me a dart on the leg," Sonic said, staring at Zipp with a bored expression. Then he looked over at Pipp, now with a pleading expression. "Please... I'm not joking when I say that the destiny of everything as you know it it's in danger... it's a life or death situation."
Sonic usually wasn't the kind of guy that begged for something, but right now, he literally had no choice. As for the sisters: Zipp still didn't trusted this guy. He literally confessed that he brake inside Pipp's room to take something she had, and whoever was outside was chasing after him. Pipp, however, she couldn't be mad at him. For some reason, and despite how cocky and arrogant this guy acted, she could tell he was being honest, and he really needed help, his look was pleading for it. She let out a sigh, then looked at him with a determinate look.
"I'm taking him to the attic," Pipp stated, looking at Zipp. "Can you slow them while I take care of our guest?"
"The what now?!" Zipp cried out. "Pipp, we're not––"
"Can you slow whoever's chasing him or not?" Pipp asked again, now frowning and leaving no room for arguments.
Zipp stared at her for a moment before she slowly nodded. "Alright..." She said, still hesitant, but she knew that Pipp won't change her mind now, so she decided to play along.
As Zipp ran to the entrance, Sonic gave Pipp a thankful look. He could tell she was a complete different person compared to the Pipp he knew and loved, but he still could see some of her in this human Pipp.
"Follow me, uh, blue strange creature," Pipp told him with a nervous smile.
With a nod, Sonic took a step to follow her, only for him to fall face-first onto the floor due to his legs still not working due to the dart's effects.
"Uh… little help?" Sonic called weakly.