//------------------------------// // 7. Welcome to Manehattan // Story: Sonic The Hedgehog x My Little Pony: Equestria Girls G5 // by BronySonicFan //------------------------------// Both Zipp and Pipp woke up from the explosion, feeling a bit dizzy and confused on what just happened. They just saw a lot of dust and smoke around. And then, when the smoke cleared out, they saw a big blue hedgehog lying face down on the dirt, partially covered in scorch from the explosion. That was all they needed to see to remember, and they both gasped with worry. "Sonic!" Pipp cried out, as she moved quickly towards the motionless hedgehog. Zipp followed right away and they both slowly got onto their knees, while Zipp pulled him up, but Sonic was still completely motionless. "No, no, no, no, no..." Pipp muttered in worry. Zipp then pressed her ear against Sonic's chest to find a heartbeat, and thankfully there was a heartbeat. "Hey. Come on, you're all right! W-We're gonna find help, but we need you to wake up. Come on, wake up. Wake up!" Pipp begged with worry. "He's still alive," Zipp said, which made Pipp sigh in relief. "But I think he needs help..." "But we have no idea of how to help him!" Pipp pointed out. Zipp knew her sister was right, but then she got an idea of who could help and smiled. "Maybe not us, but I think I know who can." Pipp didn't knew who was Zipp talking about, but she trusted her. She grabbed Sonic, and followed Zipp back to the almost destroyed truck, sitting on the backseat and resting Sonic on her legs, while Zipp turned the truck on and kept driving towards Manehattan. "Hang on, Sonic," Pipp muttered to the hedgehog with a worried expression. Robotnik leaned on to his desk, breathing heavily. He was feeling furious, almost to the point of unleashing his rage. For the second time in two days, he failed to capture Sonic. And he never fails. "Did we get 'em?" Agent Stone asked. "Oh, no. There they are. They're real survivors, those three." Robotnik slowly turned and glared at Stone. "Can we have a moment?" He asked calmly in an eerily tone. Not wanting to anger his boss further, Stone obliged as he followed him further away from the computer until they were near the wall. "Pin yourself to the wall," Robotnik ordered while facing away from him. With a sigh, Stone grabbed his collar and threw himself backwards toward the wall, then Robotnik turned and leaned his face closer to Stone's in anger. "Do you know why I won't miss you when you're gone? Human beings are unreliable and stupid, I care very little about them! But my machines are diligent, relentless... They're everything to me!" Robotnik stated. Before he could berate Stone further, he noticed a blue glow coming from Stone's inner jacket pocket. He slowly peeled Stone's jacket open, revealing the glowing blue quill that they took from the sisters residence. Curious, Robotnik took the quill out of Stone's pocket with his fingers and inspected it at every angle. "...Omoshiroi!" Robotnik uttered quietly in another language. For whatever reason, Robotnik slowly brought the quill close to his mouth and licked it, only to get a brief electric shock as a result. He recovered quickly from that shock and silently offered Stone to lick the quill, to which the latter refused. After an hour of driving, the sisters finally arrived at Manehattan. Zipp parked the almost destroyed truck in front of their vacation house. "Come on, Sonic, you're gonna be alright" Pipp said, as she covered Sonic with a blanket and got down from the truck with her sister and quickly walked towards the house's door. Zipp started to knock on the door rapidly, and soon enough Sunny came to open the door, just to feel shocked by finding the sisters with a few scratches and burn marks all over their faces, with Pipp carrying something in her arms covering it with a blanket. "Oh God! Girls, what happened to you?!" Sunny asked in shock, looking at the sisters with widened eyes. "It's... hard to explain..." Zipp replied. "We need to talk with you," Pipp stated. "With all of you," She added, referring to Hitch and Izzy as well. "Okay then," Sunny said with a serious expression. "Quick! Before anyone sees to two are here..." She moved away to let the sisters inside, then looked outside, making sure nobody saw them, then closed the door. As soon as Zipp and Pipp came in sight, Izzy jumped from where she was sitting and launched herself to hug Zipp. "Girls!" Izzy cried out with worry. "Where have you been?!" "We've been trying to contact you since yesterday!" Hitch pointed out with worry as well. "What happened?" "Okay, let us explain––" Zipp tried to say, but then Sunny cut her off. "What is there to explain, girls?! You're all over the news!" Sunny cried out with concern. "You've been framed about... about terrorism!" "Yeah, we know, but if you let us––" Pipp tried to say as well, but now Hitch cut her off. "Why you didn't picked up any of our calls?" Hitch asked, both worried and curious. "We ditched our phones so they couldn't track us," Zipp explained. "Track you?!" Izzy asked with worry. "L-Look, there's a lot of crazy stuff going on, a-and it's pretty hard to explain without sounding crazy, okay?" Pipp said with worry. "Uh, what is that?" Sunny asked, pointing at the what Pipp carried covered on a blanket. "Please tell me you didn't stoled anything!" Hitch begged. "No! Gosh, no, we didn't stoled anything!" Zipp assured. "Then what is that?!" Sunny demanded. "I-It's complicated..." Pipp said, starting to grow nervous. "Then uncomplicate it!" Sunny said with a frown. Everyone sins Pipp started to argue with each other. And then, Pipp heard Cloudpuff coming as he began to bark and growl at the blanket that Pipp was holding. "No, Cloudpuff! Down!" Pipp muttered. But the dog began to tug onto the blanket with his mouth, while Pipp pulled Sonic closer to her and tried to keep the dog off the blanket, like they're playing tug'o'war. Unfortunately, Cloudpuff successfully took off the blanket, revealing the unconscious blue hedgehog under it. The fight between the others stopped as they all saw the unconscious hedgehog, with Sunny staring at it in pure shock and Hitch fainting, while Zipp let out a sight of relief and Izzy just leaned her head curiously, not minding the presence of an anthropomorphic blue hedgehog at all. "Huh, don't know why, but I expected something like plutonium," Izzy said casually. "Oh, thank God!" Zipp said, feeling relieved that they at least finally knew what was under the blanket. Pipp, on the other hand, chuckled nervously. "Uh, can we get a glass of water? Please?" She requested with a sheepish smile. Back at his lab, Robotnik putted some headphones on, and then he scrolled through his playlist. He passed through 'Robotnik Rhythms', then 'Everybody Wants To Rule The World', then 'Crush 40', and finally stopped and picked 'Tunes Of Anarchy'. Robotnik spin around in his chair, clearly enjoying himself. At his workspace, a mechanical claw was holding the quill. The doctor grabbed it, pushing some buttons on a nearby computer to prepare a power tube, before grabbing a pair of jumper cables and them to the blue quill. However, that shorted the lab, leaving the whole room in darkness. The doctor came back, holding a lighter and searching for the fuses. He opened a metal box on the wall that listed a lever, with notes saying 'Self Destruct', 'Badniks' and 'Evil Lab'. He reactivated the lights, closed the lighter and started the music back up. The doctor started to dance as the quill was put into the tube by the mechanical arm. A holographic message appeared on top of it as it read 'Sample Detected.' Robotnik then went all-in, activating a holographic display behind him. The image of a snowy hill was displayed and he pretended to ski down from it. Now, above the tube showed another holographic message saying 'Measuring Quill Energy.' The image made room for a T-Rex, which 'chased' after the doctor through the streets of a city. He pretended to run, before throwing his headphones off, then turned around and lowered his head just when the T-Rex bitted his head off. Lights started to flicker and the dance continues, while the doctor turned again and spread his coat. At the next lyric to the song, he swayed back and forth. Another holographic message appeared which said, 'Finalizing Energy Measurement', but while Robotnik was doing the Robot, Agent Stone appeared behind him, trying to catch a groove as well. When Robotnik turned around... "AAAAH!" Robotnik yelled when he saw his associate. "I just thought you might like a latte with steamed Austrian goat milk!" Stone offered with a smile, while holding out cups of coffee. Robotnik gave him a look. "What do I look like, an imbecile? Of course I want a latte," He said, then snatched a cup from Stone. "I LOVE THE WAY YOU MAKE THEM!" Then, a few beeps where heard from the tube. The two men turned and ran over the see another message that said 'Power Analysis: Unlimited.' Robotnik chuckled deeply. "Ready the prototype," He said, then the lights illuminated over a white advanced flying machine. "With this kind of power, my machines can finally reach their full potential! And no one can stop me!" He then grabbed the green emerald he had on a capsule, and looked at it with a grin. He already ran tests for the emerald, and despite not having the same amount of power as the quill was showing right now, it was still useful. After all, he already knew how to use its power and take advantage of it. "And I know exactly how to take advantage of you, my precious Emerald!" Robotnik said with a sinister smile. Back with our heroes, everyone arrived at the kitchen, while Hitch went to look for his first AID kits after waking up. Everyone was staring at Sonic, who was still lying unconscious on the kitchen table. Pipp grew worried at the hedgehog's state, while Zipp patted her back and Sunny at him, still not able to believe that he was even real. Izzy, on the other hand, wasn't surprised with Sonic's presence at all. "Hey, Pipp," Zipp called out. "He's going to be okay." And then, Hitch entered the room with a first AID kit for both animals and people, putting them on the kitchen table. "He's gonna be okay, right?" Pipp asked to the Sheriff with concern. "I have healed animals before, Pipp, but I have no idea what am I looking at," Hitch said. "Well, he's a hedgehog. Or, so he says," Zipp explained, while the others sins Pipp looked at her in shock. "He talks?!" Izzy asked. "Almost constantly," Pipp replied. "No way..." Sunny muttered with a gasp. Hitch lifted Sonic's arm with one hand while looking at a wristwatch with the other. As soon as he pinched Sonic's wrist, his eyes widened. "Oh my goodness!" Hitch gasped in surprise. "What? What is it?" Pipp asked in a worried tone. "It's his pulse..." Hitch answered. "It's super fast!" "Maybe… that's normal for him?" Zipp offered. "So far, this little guy has proved to be fast at everything." "I-I don't know..." Pipp said with worry. "You gotta help him, Hitch." "I don't know his physiology, but he doesn't seem to have any broken bones. He's just really... banged up," Hitch said while observing the blue hedgehog. Once he reached his feet, he noticed the metallic snickers he was wearing. Despite still looking good enough, they were a bit rusty and dirty. However, he decided to not remove the snickers from his feet and just kept checking for anything out of place, but aside from the fact that he was unconscious, everything seemed pretty normal. "Anything?" Pipp asked. Hitch sadly shook his head. "I did everything I could, but he's still out cold." Zipp let out a frustrated grunt. "There must be something we can do to wake him up!" "But what?" Sunny pressed. "Oh! Wait a second, Hitch!" Pipp said suddenly. "Don't you have, like, vet smelling salts, like for cats or... parakeets or something?" "Um... no?" Hitch replied a bit confused. "There's not such a thing as salts for cats, or for any critter, actually." "Well, there should!" Pipp commented with concern. "But, I do have human smelling salts in my human first AID kit," Hitch said, as he unzipped his first AID kit and grabbed a vial containing smelling salts. Hitch broke the salt and held it close to Sonic's nose. "C'mon buddy…" Zipp said quietly. "Please come back to us, Sonic!" Pipp whispered. As soon as Hitch snapped the salt in half, Sonic's eyes suddenly flew open, and sat up straight. "Gotta go fast!" Sonic shouted. Soon enough, he started to run around all over the kitchen at hyper speed, knocking down some plates, pans, and knickknacks in the process. Sonic eventually zoomed back on the counter in front of the gang with a frantic expression. "Where am I? What year is it?! Is The Rock president?!" Sonic asked as he breathed heavily. "Whoa, whoa, whoa! It's okay buddy!" Zipp soothed, raising both her palms up. "It's okay! Calm down!" "You're safe now!" Pipp told him with a soft smile as well. As Sonic started to calm himself down, he noticed the presence of the other three people, who stared at him in shock and widened eyes. First, his sight stopped on the human Sunny: Her skin was still orange, her eyes were light blue, and her hair was tied back with 2 rubber bands, without the rainbow streak the other Sunny had. She wore a plum-colored jumpsuit with the same drawing that the earth pony Sunny had as a Cutie Mark, aquamarine bracelets on both wrists, as well as long socks of the same color with drawings of stars, a rosy blouse under the overalls and plum-colored lace-up sneakers with white soles. Then, he saw the human Izzy. She still had messy hair like unicorn Izzy, just like her eyes were still violet, but her skin was more periwinkle than purple. She wore a white long-sleeved blouse, long purple pants tied with a pink belt whose brooch was the Unicorn Izzy Cutie Mark, and white lace-up sneakers with purple soles. Lastly, he looked at the human Hitch. His hair was still aquamarine, his eyes were brown, and his skin was mustard, still keeping the white spot in the middle of his nose. He wore a brown button-down shirt, with a short-sleeved moss green jacket that had the Earth Pony Hitch's cutie mark on both sides of the sleeves, as well as a sheriff's badge on the right side. He also wore long brown pants and military-style boots, also brown. After analyzing them, he smiled a bit nervous. "Uh... hi there, everyone!" Sonic greeted, with a wave of his hand. While Hitch just stared at him in shock and Sunny smiled sheepishly, Izzy waved her hand back and yelled 'Hi!', not minding Sonic's presence at all. "Um, guys? Can we talk for a moment?" Sunny called out, as she walked backwards out of the kitchen. Hitch followed immediately behind her before fainting again, while Zipp and Pipp looked at each other confused. While Zipp decided to follow, Pipp stayed a moment. "Um, Sonic? You stay here and rest, I doubt you want to hear whatever Sunny's gonna tell us," She told him with a smile, while Sonic just nodded with a raised eyebrow and Pipp got out of the kitchen as well. Then, Sonic turned to see that Izzy was still there, looking at him with a smile. "Uh... I think you should go too?" He said with a side smile, pointing at the others waiting for her to leave as well. "Oh, right!" Izzy said, quickly running out of the kitchen. "My bad!" Before closing the doors, Sunny looked at Sonic and smiled nervously. "Y-You stay there, uh, big blue hedgehog," She said, slowly closing the doors. "Um, sure?" Sonic said as he shrugged. "And by the way, my name's Sonic––" The doors closed completely before he could say anything else. "...the Hedgehog..." He finished with a bored expression. "Man, I feel like I'm meeting my own friends for the first time... again!" Once Sunny closed the doors, she faced to Zipp, Pipp and Izzy, who seemed to be very calmed at all of this. "Um, first of all, can we just take a moment to acknowledge how under control I've been?" Sunny said with a little smile. "Yeah!" Zipp cheered. "You're taking this better than I expected." "Didn't freak out..." Pipp pointed out "Haven't fainted, nor screamed at all!" Izzy said cheerfully. "Yeah, you're totally calm, Sunny," Hitch said with a smile as well. "Thank you!" Sunny said a little too cheerfully. "Now, with that said… What the heck is going on!?" She screamed, startling the others. "Is that thing an... an alien?!" "Well, now that we're freaking out... Please explain us before I faint again!" Hitch said, now joining Sunny at her panic. "Okay, remember that the police was looking for a guy last week that they called 'the Blue blur'?" Zipp questioned. "Wait, what?!" Hitch shouted. "That thing is the Blue Blur? He's the guy the police named as the hero for homeless people? Really?!" "And what is he doing here? What are you girls doing here?!" Sunny questioned to the sisters. "Um, well..." Zipp said as she smiled sheepishly. "Zipp shoot our little blue friend with our father's tranquilizer gun..." Pipp said with a nervous smile. "I-I didn't mean to!" Zipp raised her hands in defense. "Okay, this is kinda hard for us to explain... and it's gonna sound a little bit crazy––" "Zipp, we just saw a giant, walking, blue anthropomorphic hedgehog in the kitchen," Hitch pointed out with a bored expression. "Yeah, I'm pretty sure it won't sound as crazy as that," Sunny said, as Hitch nodded in agreement at her side. "You're about to realize how wrong you are, Sunny," Sonic's voice was heard, starling both Hitch and Sunny, who screamed in surprise at the hedgehog's sudden appearance, while Zipp and Pipp just looked at him with smiles and Izzy waved again. "Oh, hi, big blue hedgehog!" Izzy greeted cheerfully. "Just call me Sonic," He said with a smile. "W-Where did you...? HOW did you...?" Hitch tried to ask in shock. "I can be sneaky whenever I want," Sonic said with a smirk. "Besides, I got pretty bored on that kitchen, so I wanted to see what you guys where up to!" He explained, now sitting normally since he was striking a pose over a couch near the group. "Anyways. Girls, shall we tell the whole thing?" "Yeah, I think it would be the best," Zipp said with a smirk. "Ooh! Story time!" Izzy said, as she sat on the same couch than Sonic, who looked at her with a smile. Despite being the human counterpart, this Izzy was as cheerful as the unicorn one. "Well then, this is what happened..." Pipp started. After at least an hour and 20 minutes, the entire group sat down on the living room, as the sisters and Sonic told everything without skipping any detail to the others. From Sonic's arrival to this universe, Pipp finding the Blue Chaos Emerald, Sonic causing the blackout across half of the country, him sneaking into the sisters house, them meeting Sonic, him loosing his rings and the Emerald, the sisters promising to help Sonic out, their fun time at the bar and the chase in the highway, that ended up with Sonic falling unconscious and being awaken by Hitch. They also mentioned the fact that Sonic was from another another universe, since he wasn't originally from Equestria, which explained why he was still a hedgehog and didn't turned into a human. At this point, Izzy was as cheerful as always, finding the story very interesting, while Sunny and Hitch where speechless about the whole situation. "...So let me get this straight..." Hitch finally spoke after a while. "You, blue... hedgehog... caused the blackout half around the country, right?" "Pretty much," Sonic said with a bored expression. "But he was just recovering one of 7 magic Emeralds to bring them back to his universe..." Sunny kept going. "Yup," Pipp replied this time. "And after you shoot him, he lost his bag with rings and one of those Emeralds trough a portal of the same ring... to the top of the Crystaller building," Hitch kept talking. "Yeah, that covers most of the things," Zipp said with a neutral expression. "And there's also this mustache guy with robots that's been trying to blow you three, right?" Izzy asked cheerfully. "Please don't say it like that," Pipp begged. "You make it sound like if he just tried to play a prank on us." "A prank called 'death'," Sonic deadpanned. "And so, all those theories my father made years ago about the possibility of alternate realities and universes are real..." Sunny added with an anxious look. "Yeah, that too," Sonic said, now with a smile. "We didn't skipped anything, did we?" "No, I think we covered everything," Zipp assured. Sunny and Hitch blinked in disbelief. "This… is a lot to take in..." Sunny said with a nervous chuckle. "I can't believe half of what I heard, yet this guy is the prove that you're telling the truth, but still..." Hitch said with concern. "Well, I don't find this weird at all!" Izzy said with a cheerful tone. "Why am I not surprised that you're the only one who sees this as something normal?" Sonic asked rhetorically with a smile. "Look, I know that this might sound crazy and all, but so far? This guy has helped us both Pipp and me, one way or another," Zipp said with a smile. "I'm still feeling like I ruined your life more than I fixed it..." Sonic confessed. "No, Sonic," Pipp said with a soft smile. "You have helped us too. I... I feel more courageous now, I know what to do at the end of my concert on a few days." "And thanks to your words about not letting mom choose my future, I'm not letting her push me to do something I don't want to anymore," Zipp stated with a smile as well. "Besides, we already came this far, so it would be stupid to step back now!" Sonic smiled at both sisters, thanking them quietly for their words. "Yeah, I guess if we already came this far, it would make no sense to not stay 'till the end." "So, Sunny, Hitch, Izzy. What do you guys say? Mind to gave us a hand?" Pipp asked to them. Sunny and Hitch looked at each other for a moment. They both still had doubts about all of this, like Sonic himself, but he seemed to be harmless so far, and both Zipp and Pipp seemed to be willing to stay with him 'till the very end. They ended up smiling and nodding at each other, looking back at the sisters. "I've been serving the law over friendship for years now..." Hitch started with a smirk. "I think it's time to finally choose friendship over law... at least this time." "This guy is the prove dad was right... I would have to be crazy if I didn't helped him!" Sunny said with a side smile. "I would have said yes no matter what!" Izzy said cheerfully, grabbing Sonic and hugging him. "Aww, thanks guys!" Pipp said, as she joined with Izzy to the hug, suffocating Sonic in the process. "You guys are the best!" Zipp said, as she side hugged both Hitch and Sunny. "Yeah, yeah, we know," Sunny said with a smirk. "Um, girls?" Sonic called out to Pipp and Izzy. "I-I hate to be that guy, b-but you're suffocating me..." "Oh, sorry!" Izzy said with a sheepish smile, letting the blue hedgehog go and giving him finally some space to breath. While the others were preparing, Sonic stood on the living room, looking at Cloudpuff with a stern face, while Izzy just looked on with a smile. "So... You're the doggo in this dimension for this guys, huh?" Sonic said, while Cloudpuff just looked at him with his tongue out while panting. "Yeah, sorry, but I don't see the appeal..." And then, Cloudpuff approached him and started to lick his face. "Hahaha! Hey, s-stop! That is very gross!" Sonic chuckled, trying to make him go away. Izzy just giggled at the scene, while the others came back, with Zipp carrying Sonic's backpack and Hitch carrying a bag. "Catch!" Zipp said, throwing the backpack to Sonic, who caught it and checked the inside quickly. "One, two, three... The four Emeralds are still here, great!" Sonic said, putting on his backpack. "Um, Hitch?" Pipp called out. "The truck still runs, but it's totally totaled... Can we borrow your car instead?" "Well... If yours its really that bad, I guess there's no problem," Hitch said with a smile. "Great!" Zipp cheered. Pipp then looked at Sonic and smiled. "Hey, I'll see you outside in a moment, I need to talk with Sonic for a second." The others nodded and left the place, leaving Sonic and Pipp alone. Pipp sat on the couch and made a gesture to Sonic, indicating him to seat at her side. Sonic sat at her side and looked at her expectantly. "So, Sonic... back in the highway, what was all that lightning that came out of you?" She asked curiously. "Oh, that? I got electrical powers," Sonic explained. "Apparently I was born with them, but I never discovered them until I arrived to this pony world I have told you about. Sometimes they get out of my control, though..." "Like when you caused the blackout?" Pipp questioned. "Yeah," Sonic replied with a nod. "Hey, um, what you and Zipp said before, about me having changing your lives for good... did you mean it?" "Why, of course!" Pipp said with a chuckle. "I'm more ready than ever, Sonic, and it's thanks to you. Yeah, I didn't took too well what Mom did years ago for our own good, but... Zipp is right, we're not kids anymore. We don't need her to tell us what's the best for us." Sonic smiled at her. "Glad I could help! So, should we leave now?" He suggested while still smiling, standing up from the couch. "Sure thing!" Pipp replied, standing up as well. While Pipp left the room, Sonic took out one of the Chaos Emerald he already collected and looked at it with a determinate look. "Hang on, I'm on my way," He whispered, putting the Emerald back on the backpack and following Pipp.