//------------------------------// // 8. Failed Goodbye and Final Showdown // Story: Sonic The Hedgehog x My Little Pony: Equestria Girls G5 // by BronySonicFan //------------------------------// On the streets of Manehattan, Sonic was driving Hitch's car really fast. Despite being good at driving, Sonic got a bit too excited in this occasion, because he almost crashed against another car and has been hitting a few stuff by accident on the way. Finally, he parked the car, thing that he miraculously did well, because the car was on a perfect alignment among the other cars. "Now that's what I call a prefect parking!" Sonic said with a proud smile, getting out of the car from the driver's seat. The others got out of the car, still shaken up from their experience. Well almost everyone... "That was so much fun! Let's do that again!" Izzy yelled excitedly. "NO!!!" the others, excluding Sonic, yelled in a panic. "Dude, was there anything you didn't hit?" Zipp groaned. "Why did we agree to let the alien drive my car again?" Hitch whined, placing a hand on his head. "Come on, guys, I got us here! And please, five stars," Sonic sassed with a smirk. He quickly speeded out of the car, stopping next to his new friends and staring up at the tallest building in Manehattan. "So, this is it?" Sonic assumed. "That's it. That's your building," Zipp nodded. "I must admit: I'm impressed. That thing is huge!" Sonic said, genuinely amazed at how tall the building is. "So, what happens now?" Sunny asked, but she soon got her answer when Sonic ran off. "Oh. He's... gone..." "Yeah," Zipp nodded. "It's sorta his thing," Pipp pointed out with a smile. And then, Sonic came back like 5 seconds later. "No good at all. You need a special key to get to the roof," he frowned. "Great, so what now?" Zipp sighed. As Sonic stomped his foot madly, while crossing his arms, the others tried to think on a solution. And then, Hitch gasped with an idea. "I think I know what to do, but let me say... you're not going to like it, Sonic." "In other circumstances, I'll probably feel worried, but right now I'm willing to take any risk I can," Sonic stated with confidence. "I take that back," Sonic said with regret, now hiding on a bag that Hitch was carrying. "Um, are you sure about this, Hitch?" Pipp questioned, both worried for the plan and for Sonic, who didn't seemed too comfortable inside the bag. "It'll be fine, trust me," Hitch stated with a confident smile. "Let's hope so..." Sunny said, also worried. The five friends got inside the building, while Sonic zipped up the bag and the others approached to the receptionist. "We got a jumper on the roof!" Hitch informed the receptionist lady, showing her a his badge. "We gotta get up there fast, or we have a human pancake on our hands." "Y-You came all the way from Maretime City?" The receptionist looked at Hitch's badge for a second before giving him a strange look. Hitch nodded in response. "Yep. That's how serious it is." The receptionist looked over at the girls behind him, before handing Hitch a keycard for the roof. "Okay." "Thanks, you just saved a life!" Hitch said to the receptionist, taking the keycard and walking off to the elevator, with the girls following behind. They approached the elevator, and Sunny pressed the up button. Suddenly, two business people stood alongside them while looking at their phones. "Guys? How much longer? I can barely breathe in here!" Sonic's voice muffled from the sports bag, causing the others to flinch in fear and horror. They're practically screaming in their minds, but they remain calm. "Hello? Is anybody there?" Sonic asked nervously. "Do you have a child in that bag?" The businesswoman standing next to Izzy leaned over and looked at the bag before asking Hitch. "No," Hitch replied before shaking his head. "I mean, yes. It's a child, but it's not mine." "...It's not your child..." The businessman said awkwardly. "Relax. I'm a Sheriff, okay? Plus, he likes it in there. Don't you, buddy?" Hitch gave the bag a little shake, basically telling Sonic to shut up. "Why would I like it in here?! I'd rather be in the dog cage from yesterday!" Sonic muffled furiously. "Such a kidder," Hitch smiled. "Hmm, okay..." Zipp laughed too, but the others were clearly not at ease. She zipped the bag full way and Sonic groaned furious. "Oh, come on!" Getting freaked out by this, the two business people slowly stepped back away from the scene. "Ugh, please tell me when we're there already..." Sonic said with a defeated tone. After a couple of minutes, the group finally made their way to the roof, with Zipp closing the door behind them. Hitch placed the bag down before unzipping it, causing Sonic to pop out, gasping for breath and coughing dramatically, while having a pair of underpants stuck on his forehead. "Ugh... What the heck were you keeping in this bag? A jar of pickled farts?!" Sonic asked in disgust before taking the underpants off from his head and threw them back in the bag, while the others sins Hitch just chuckled to themselves while shaking their heads. "Alright, alright, I get it," Hitch said with an eye roll. "So, what are we looking for?" Zipp asked Sonic. Sonic looked around for a bit, until he saw the bag of rings at the edge of the roof. He ran towards it and grabbed it, taking a look inside and sighing in relief when he saw the Blue Chaos Emerald still in there. But when he putted the bag away, he saw something that made him gasp: The Light Blue Emerald was below the bag of rings. Just to make sure he wasn't hallucinating, he extended his hand to grab the Emerald, and feeling its touch made him smile. He put the bag with rings around him, then the backpack back on his back and then ran back with the group, holding the two Chaos Emeralds. "This!" Sonic exclaimed with a smile, showing up the two Emeralds. "Ooh! Shiny!" Izzy said cheerfully. "Wait, I thought you said it was only one?" Pipp pointed out confused. "Apparently there was another one, here in the roof," Sonic said with a side smile. "Why? Plot convenience, I guess. Not that it matters, though. It means I'm just one Emerald left to go back home!" "So... what now?" Sunny questioned. "Well, now that I got my rings back as well, I just need to think of where I want the other end of the ring to appear, and... I throw it!" Sonic explained, putting the Emeralds on his backpack and pulling out a ring from the bag. "So, that's it? We did it?" Zipp asked on disbelief. "Pretty much!" Sonic said. "All this trouble for two gems that are pretty much nuclear weapons in the wrong hands... That sounded better in my head..." "Well then, I guess this is it..." Pipp said, now with a sad smile. "Yeah..." Sonic said on a sad tone as well. "Hey, um, I know I already said this, but I want to apologize again, for causing so much trouble to you two. You didn't deserved any of this, and I wish things would be different, but..." "Hey, dude, no need to apologize," Zipp said, as she and Pipp kneeled to face Sonic better. "Again, you kinda help us for the better at the same time." "And we're grateful to meet you, Sonic. We mean it," Pipp added with a smile, with Zipp at her side nodding in agreement. Sonic smiled at the sisters. "I'm grateful for meeting you, too." "You know, I never thought I'd say this, but I'm actually gonna miss you," Zipp confessed with a slight blush and a smile. "Yeah, me too, Blue Blur," Pipp added with a wink. "I'll miss you too, your majesties," Sonic said with a mocking tone and a reverence. "Oh, and girls? Thank you." "For what?" Zipp asked a bit confused. "For saving my life!" Sonic said with a smirk and a wink. Both Zipp and Pipp got a bit off guard, not expecting that from Sonic, but then they smiled at him back. Sonic turned around and looked at the ring he pocked out of the bag, then nodded to himself and threw the ring. He expected the ring to open a portal back to Canterlot City, where he would keep looking for the remaining Chaos Emerald, but the ring bumped into one of Robotnik's drones and fell off, while multiple of them started to show up as well. "Alright, who's the genius that leave their 'Find My Phone' on?" Sonic quipped. More drones surround them, almost causing Sonic to fall off the ledge. Sonic gasped as he regained his composure, slowly backing up to his friends. Suddenly, a giant flying machine appeared before them. Then the hood slides open, revealing to be Dr. Robotnik, wearing a red and black flight suit and black goggles with red lenses. While Sunny and Izzy looked in fright, Pipp looked with worry, and Zipp, Hitch and Sonic frowned at him. "Welcome to Manehattan, Ms. Storm, Ms. Petals. Are you enjoying the clam chowder?" Robotnik asked with a cold and sinister smile. "Oh, great. Now that he's got the red suit, he's slowly becoming Eggman," Sonic muttered with annoyance. "Uh, girls? You know this guy?" Sunny asked with worry and fear. "Ugh, it's the government wack-job who keeps trying to kill us..." Zipp explained to her friends, before turning her attention back to Robotnik. "Unsuccessfully!" She added in a mocking tone, making Robotnik stare daggers at her. "Nice for you to swing by on your way to Comic-con!" "Yeah, and what in the name of fashion are you wearing?" Pipp asked in disgust, looking at Robotnik's outfit. Robotnik looked at his outfit before looking back at her. "It's a flight suit: designed to modulate my body temperature and reduce drag," He gritted his teeth after saying the last word. "Yeah. And yet, you still are one," Zipp said with a confident smirk. "Ho-ho! Good one! You are catching fire, Zephyrina. Oh, and speaking of which, I see we have some guests!" Robotnik said with an evil grin, while the rest, Izzy included, frowned. "Do they have names, or should we just call them 'collateral damage'?" He laughed and slammed against the rims of his ship. "Hey, you better watch your mouth! Unless you want a little more of what I gave you earlier?" Zipp threatens the doctor before looking back at her friends. "I punched him in the face." "Oh, she punched him right in the face. It was awesome!" Sonic cheered at her. "The time for talking is over!" Robotnik yelled, enraged at having that moment being held over his head. "It's time to push buttons." "Your flying eggs are pretty impressive, Dr. Eggman, but let's face it! You'll never catch me!" Sonic said filled with confidence with his hands on his hips. Robotnik nodded with a twisted smile before changing it to a frown. "Confidence. A fool's substitute for intelligence," He muttered, and then smiled confidently. "But I'm pretty sure you're not as stupid as you act, little creature. In fact, I think you're wise enough..." He started, and then pulled out the Green Chaos Emerald, the last one on Sonic's list. "...to know what is good for you and what is not." Sonic stared at it in shock and then frowned with anger at Robotnik, who grinned sinisterly and opened the hatch of a button, which supercharges the quill he has obtained, while 'Prepping Quill Energy' appeared on a readout. At the same time, all of the drones surrounding the heroes simultaneously opened their flaps to attack mode. "Oh oh..." Hitch said, staring with fear at the weapons, while Sunny at his side gulped nervously. "That doesn't seem good..." Izzy commented. "Sonic, I know you've got super speed and everything, but my friends and I..." Pipp tried to point out. "I know, I know," Sonic retorted, frowning at the machines and at Robotnik. "You're totally defenseless and are probably gonna get blown up." "Pretty much, yeah," Zipp nodded. Sonic then looked at the edge of the roof, then back at his friends, then at his bag of rings and then at Robotnik, who already putted the Emerald away. He got an idea now, but he knew the others will hate it. "Don't worry. I think I know what to do," Sonic stated, turning to face the others. "But, you're not going to like it... and Hitch? Consider this my revenge for putting me in a bag." Without warning, he stopped time for a second and gathered his friends around, then he moved them to the edge of the roof... just to push them off it. They all started screaming as they're falling down the building, and Robotnik looked down at them in surprise, then sat back, staring in shock at the fact that Sonic just did that. "I was not expecting that..." Robotnik said before shrugging his shoulders. "But I was expecting not to expect something, so it doesn't count." All of the drones opened fire at Sonic, but they slow down and stop, just as they're about to hit the hedgehog. Sonic just looked at the bullets with a confident smirk, while his friends kept falling screaming and Robotnik tried to push a button with an insane but at the same time hilarious expression. Sonic stomped his foot and looked at his left wrist as if he had a watch, even though his actual watch was on the other wrist. "Now just look at that! I already took nine million steps, and It's just 3:00 p.m. in the afternoon!" Then, he waved some of the rockets out of the way, grabbed two of them and drummed down the bullets flying towards him. As Sonic dismantled the drones, Robotnik's finger inched closer and closer to the button. When he pressed it, the aircraft is now charged up and then flies straight upwards. Just as Sonic pushed two of the drones around so that they will fire at each other. He turned around and started to finger gun at the drones. "Pew, pew, pew, pew, pew, pew, pew!" Sonic mimicked the sound of shooting. But suddenly, he stopped as he heard the sounds of an engine, and his eyes widened in terror, when he saw the ship flying down towards him before pulling a trigger. He tried to get out of the way, but the beam blasted him out of his bullet time. When he regained consciousness, he saw his friends quickly coming closer and closer to the concrete below them. Sonic screamed in panic as he noticed he's surrounded by his scattered rings. He tried to grab one of them, which is just out of his reach. "Come on!" Sonic grunted as he started air swimming to reach the ring. "Come! Come, come, come, come, come! Come on, come on, come on!" Then, in a moment of quick thinking, the hedgehog pulled out one of his quills and fished the ring out of the air and found his footing. While running down the building, he threw the ring, teleporting his friends back to Canterlot City, flying sideways into an open barn, and then the portal closed. "Whoa, whoa, whoa!" Sonic skidded, fell down a tree and landed on the sidewalk, while crashing and clattering sounds of all kinds were heard as rings, broken drones and rubble fell down around him. Meanwhile, a woman with light orange skin and freckles on her cheeks that wore a cowboy hat and farm cloths, walked up to the open barn after hearing something crashing inside. She saw the five friends lying on the haystack and felt a bit confused. "Huh, I didn't expect ya' on mah barn of all places..." The woman said with a country accent. "Oh, hi, Ms. Applejack!" Izzy greeted cheerfully with a wave of her hand, while the others just smiled sheepishly. "Care to explain what yer doing on mah barn?" The woman, Applejack, requested. "Yeah... just give us a minute..." Zipp panted as she breathed heavily. Back with Sonic in Manehattan, he slowly got up on his feet. He shook his head to get his bearings, and then heard the sound of an engine echoing on his ears, as he looked at Robotnik in his aircraft with a frown. "Can I give you one genius piece of advice?" Robotnik asked. "Don't run. It'll only hurt more if you do. And it's bad for your joints, they've proved it." Sonic looked at him with frown, and then smirked. He quickly scrambled around to collect his rings, put his backpack back since it fell before and face at him. "All right, Eggman. You wanna get fast? Then let's get fast!" He stated, running away from the doctor. Robotnik putted his goggles on. "The hard way, it is," He said, and then blasted towards Sonic. Running through the frozen streets of Manehattan, Robotnik fired his lasers constantly, but they missed each time due to Sonic's speed and agility. Sonic took a sharp turn to the left, trying to give the mad doctor the slip, but he was still catching up to him. "That was an illegal left, by the way!" Robotnik grunted while controlling his steering. Sonic kept on dodging the blasts as he jumped off a car, while an explosion appeared behind him. The chase continued as he was dodging any obstacles in his way while dodging some of Robotnik's blasts. Sonic ran up on a building and through the edge of the rooftop. Seeing Robotnik going to fire him again, Sonic jumped off the rooftop, dodging a few laser blasts with a trick in the air, then slid down to the ground from another building. He kept on running while looking behind him, not noticing a tour bus with a Paris ad plastered over it in front of him. He looked back in front and his eyes winded in a panic, so he quickly slid down under the tour bus just in time, while an explosion nearly gets him from behind. Sonic, still in the lead, took a ring out from his bag. "The Eggman I know could never keep it up with me! How's this guy doing it?!" Sonic exclaimed before he threw the ring, activating a portal to Paris. Somewhere in Paris, a mother and her daughter were watching a mime doing his performance. The girl had a look of boredom, not interested in the slightest about the performance, but then her expression was turned into shock, when the mime makes a circle with his arms, revealing the ring portal. "Coming through!" Sonic warned them, speeding through the ring and passing the three occupants. The mother and daughter quickly moved out of the way in time, and the mime saw Robotnik's ship coming. "Sacré-bleu!" The mime exclaimed before ducking down. "Excusez-Moi, monsieur!" Robotnik said to the mime before chuckling. Sonic continued to run through the streets of Paris and run around and up the Eiffel Tower. He grabbed another ring and threw it, opening another portal to another place that may be able to escape him: The Great Wall of China. Sonic exited through the portal, with Robotnik still trailing behind him. "Here we go! Room to open it up!" Sonic said as he continued to run through the wall. Robotnik's ship swirled around as he struggled in the process, but Robotnik was still able to keep up with the blue alien, even though the hedgehog jumped and ran around the walls of the passage. "I can't lose him!" Sonic exclaimed as he quickly threw out another ring, leading them to Egypt. As they get through the portal, Robotnik started shooting lasers, causing the sand to fly up, but Sonic still kept on running. Robotnik kept on shooting, ending up destroying the Great Sphinx, until Sonic skidded in the sand. Suddenly, he saw down at the sand, then at Robotnik's aircraft and smirked, now with an idea. "If you can't beat 'em, blind 'em!" Sonic stated, then he swirled around the sand, circling Robotnik's aircraft and creating a sandstorm in the process, while blinding Robotnik's vision. "Lost... visual... contact!" Robotnik grunted, struggling to regain control. As the sandstorm slowly calmed down, he spotted Sonic, running up the edge of the Giza Pyramid. "You're not allowed up there! It's one of the Seven Wonders!" Robotnik warned. Robotnik managed to escape the slowly-clearing tornado and zoomed to where Sonic was. Just as Sonic threw out another ring, Robotnik activated his laser again, blowing Sonic through the portal. Back in Canterlot City, it was already night time. Some shops were closed for the day, and there were a few people outside walking by, minding their own business. But then suddenly, the ring portal appeared at the other end, quickly getting the attention of a few bystanders, and Sonic fell through it, landing on the cold asphalt, all ruffled up and defeated, while his backpack and rings bag slid along the road out of his reach. Robotnik's ship slowly and ominously emerged through the portal before it closed, towering over Sonic, like a predator finally caught on to his prey. Several people realized the danger and ran to get off the street, while the Human Mane 5 appeared on the scene and spotted Sonic on the ground and Robotnik laughed maniacally. "You're an astonishing little creature," Robotnik said after the windshield opened up and he lifted off his goggles. Sonic turned his head slowly to glance at Robotnik, while Zipp noticed Sonic's ring bag and backpack on the ground in front of her, as she quickly picked it up the bag and Pipp grabbed the backpack. "It'll be fun to take you back to the lab for a litany of invasive exploratory procedures," Robotnik said with a grin. "Any last words?" But big was his surprise when Sonic managed to stand up slowly and turn around completely at him. He felt weak and hurt, but he was willing to keep fighting no matter what. "You're not the first stupid scientist that tries to kill me," Sonic said with a mocking smirk that made Robotnik's blood boil. "What makes you thing you're the exception, huh? You think you're superior, but deep down you're just a pathetic scared child that doesn't wants to die forgotten. So, he chases around a blue hedgehog from another universe just to feed his ego. Does it sounds familiar, Robotnik?" Robotnik simply smiled sinisterly. "You speak too much, hedgehog, but you won't be such a speaker once I have blown you up," He stated, not noticing a portal opening up behind him, revealing Zipp, who carefully jumped onto the back of the aircraft. "Yeah, and you're a guy with a very low guard, because I was just distracting you, dumbass," Sonic said with a smirk. "Going my way?" Zipp surprised the doctor as she suddenly appeared next to him. "What the––" Robotnik tried to say, but didn't get to finish as Zipp punched him in the face again, knocking the goggles off his head. The aircraft shook as Robotnik tried to push Zipp over the edge. With new found strength, Sonic ran towards Robotnik and kicked his back, as Zipp managed to punch him in the face again. However, Robotnik smirked as he managed to punch Zipp on her belly and kick Sonic with a punch, then steered the aircraft sideways, causing them to fall off the aircraft. "Autopilot, adjust," Robotnik said, as he sat back down and picked his googles back on his forehead. The rest ran towards both Zipp and Sonic, as Zipp groaned and kneeled on the ground, while Sonic stood up as he held his arm in pain. "Guys! Are you okay?!" Pipp asked in panic, as Zipp just nodded while Sonic smiled at her, but then he frowned at the doctor. "Why? Why would you throw your life away for this thing?!" Robotnik asked before pointing towards the hedgehog. "That's why I don't have friends. Next thing you know, you're somebody's best man, they want to have the wedding out of town, like nobody has anything better to do!" "This guy really needs to get out more often..." Sonic muttered in anger. "Anyway, where were we? Oh, yes... you were about to die," Robotnik stated. Tired of all of this, Sonic closed his eyes and concentrated... on the Chaos Emerald he managed to steal from Robotnik when he attacked him on his aircraft. The gem glowed, and then, the Mane 5 where out of sight. In fact, they were on the pavement, confused on what just happened, as Sonic putted the Chaos Emerald away and looked at Robotnik with a smirk. "So you want my power, don't you?" Sonic retorted. "Then come and get it!" He challenged with a smirk, as he awakened his electrical powers and his eyes turned blue. "Also, you have a little something that belongs to me!" Sonic balled his hand and lightning flew from the aircraft to his fist. Robotnik struggled to maintain his aircraft in control until the glass surrounding the quill powering his machine broke, and the quill itself came out of it to Sonic's hand. "This is my power, and if you want it, you'll have to take. Me. DOWN!" Sonic warned with a frown. Robotnik put his goggles back to his eyes, with Sonic's charged state reflecting in them. Several rockets appeared along the rims of the ship and laser pointers crawled towards the asphalt and pointed directly at their target. Sonic got down to his hands and knees, getting ready to run straight at his target. After a few seconds at their death staring contest, Robotnik made the first move. The rockets flew towards Sonic, who evaded them and launched himself towards walls of the buildings and towards the aircraft, making a direct hit. He kept doing this process over and over, and getting faster and faster from every single hit until Sonic stopped and skid across the ground on his starting position, leaving the aircraft severely damaged by this point. Robotnik grunted inside the aircraft, and then looked at Sonic with anger. "Now you've done it!" Robotnik screamed. "Guess what, Eggman?! I'm not leaving this universe without kicking your ass!" Sonic stated with a smirk. He then looked at Zipp and winked at her, while Zipp nodded, getting the signal. She sprinted around the battlefield, fishing out another ring from the pouch. She threw the ring behind the aircraft, opening the portal, revealing the only place that came to her mind: a dangerous island called Island of the Dead Dolls. Rocketing the engines, Robotnik charged towards Sonic, and so did he. Sonic, in his ball form, hurled himself against the nose of the ship, completely wrecking it. The impulse caused the doctor and his aircraft to fly through the ring, and therefore, to the island. Robotnik screamed as the portal closed, and Sonic's powers gradually dim down and the light disappeared. Sonic then hear the sound of the crowd cheering around for his victory as his new friends run over to Sonic. "Hope you guys enjoyed the show!" Sonic said with a smirk and a wink. "By the way, Zipp, where did you sent him?" "Let's just say he won't bother anyone ever again," Zipp said, winking back at him. "I believe this belongs to you," Pipp said, extending his backpack. "Thanks!" Sonic said, grabbing the backpack and putting the Chaos Emerald he got from Robotnik inside. "Also, you dropped these," Zipp added, showing up the bag with rings. "Thank you very much!" Sonic thanked her, but before he could retrieve it, Zipp holds the bag back. "No more pushing people off of buildings, alright?" Zipp warned him. "Oh please, never do it again," Hitch pled with an anxious look. Sonic smiled. "Sorry guys, but I can't promise anything." Zipp rolled her eyes, then gave him back the bag that he catch. "Well, now that we've taken care of that guy, what now?" Sunny questioned. "I'm supposed to go back home now..." Sonic said, which caused sad looks on the rest, and a disappointed one on Pipp. "But... I believe I can stay a few days before I go back." The others cheered loudly, with just made Sonic's smile grow bigger.