The blue bipedal creature stared at the six with a look that said, What in the world am I looking at? Each of the six ponies stared back at him with the same look, before each spoke up, all of them reacting frantically to the sight they saw before them.
"What is that gruesome thing?!" Rarity spoke first.
"I don't know Rarity," Applejack responded, "But that creature is definitely freaky looking!" The bipedal creature looked at her, obviously annoyed by what she just said.
"Not him dear, his shoes!" Rarity replied, "His shoes are SO last year!" The creature looked at Rarity, even more annoyed than before.
"Oh, that poor animal. It must be so scared and lost." Fluttershy said in a quiet, yet caring voice. The creature looked like it was on the verge of doing a "facehoof," yet instead of a hoof, it was a rather strange looking claw.
"Ooh! I wonder if it likes parties!" Pinkie Pie said with a tone of voice that did not fit the situation.
"Pinkie, now's not the time!" Rainbow Dash declared to her friend, "This thing is probably what the Princess was talking about!
"You're right Rainbow Dash!" Twilight agreed, taking a defensive stance towards the creature, causing everypony else to do the same, with the exception of Fluttershy, "This has to be the cause of the intense surge of energy Princess Celestia felt!"
Are they serious? Are they really going to fight me, even though I did nothing wrong? I'm feeling the love guys. Sonic thought to himself. He smirked, then started to stretch, before doing what he does best.
Running circles around them.
Before any of the ponies could do anything, Sonic ran around them multiple times, causing them to become dizzy and fall down.
"What? Is that it? A few laps around you, and you're already dizzy?" Sonic taunted. "Eggman really needs to stop hiring other people to fight me, and just stick to making robots. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to pay a visit to the doctor." And with that, Sonic dashed off through the path that the six ponies trekked through.
"Ohh my head." Twilight said first, still slightly dizzy. "That thing is fast. I didn't even see him move!"
"Yeah! He might even be faster than Rainbow Dash!" replied Pinkie, who was the first to fully recover.
"What?!" Rainbow Dash said, obviously infuriated. "There's no way that thing could be faster than me! I'll show you that I'm the fastest thing in Equestria!" And with that, Rainbow Dash flew off after the bipedal creature, more eager to beat it in a race than to capture it for investigation.
"Rainbow, wait!" Twilight began, but she knew that she couldn't stop her friend when she was already too far gone.
"Uh, Twi?" Applejack began to ask Twilight. "Don't ya find it kinda odd that that blue critter could talk?"
"I'm also concerned about this 'Eggman' fellow the creature mentioned." Rarity added.
"I'm wondering that too. It seemed as if he thought we knew this Eggman..." Twilight answered. "Pinkie, what do you think?" but received no answer. "Pinkie? Pinkie!" *sigh* "She must've already gone ahead after them. Come on girls, let's go after them!" Twilight and her friends ran back down the path, with Fluttershy thinking,
Oh, I hope that poor animal will be alright. It seems so lost, like it's not from this world.
Those things sure are boring. I thought Eggman would send something that can at least last five seconds against me. I'd say he's losing his touch, but did he even have it in the first place? Sonic thought, chuckling to himself.
"Get back here you copycat!" Sonic heard someone say.
"Huh?" Sonic looked back, noticing that one of the ponies was catching up to him. "Well, this'll be more interesting than I thought it would be!" Sonic slowed down a little to let the pony come beside him.
"Ha! Looks like I'm still the fastest!" the pony gloated, and sped ahead of Sonic.
"Hey, not bad!" Sonic replied before jumping high into the air. The pony looked back, no longer seeing Sonic, before she felt a gust of wind above her, and looked up.
"What the-" The pony began, before Sonic used a homing attack to dash towards her, and hit her with so much force that he smashed the pony to the ground.
Sonic ran up to where she landed and mockingly asked, "What was that about being the fastest? It seems to me that I'm still the fastest thing alive!"
"Ugh. Wha- what are you?" the pony asked, her pride hurt more than anything.
"Heh." Sonic chuckled, remembering a time when he was once asked that same question, and answered it the same as last time, "What you see is what you get! Just a guy that loves adventure! I'm Sonic the Hedgehog!"
"Rainbow Dash!" Sonic heard someone else yell. He turned around to see that the five other ponies had caught up to them while they were talking, and each of them looked either scared, angry, or a mixture of both. Sonic was about to get ready for another fight before the yellow pony stood between them.
"WAIT!" the pony shouted, and then turned to Sonic and the blue pony, saying, "You don't have to run away you poor creature. I know you don't mean any harm, and," she turned toward the blue pony, "I know you were only defending yourself when Rainbow Dash chased after you."
So that blue pony is named Rainbow Dash? Weird name, but that doesn't matter. Why is the yellow pony not attacking me? Well, I'm not complaining. I might as well introduce myself. Sonic thought. "Uh... thanks I guess. I'm glad that not everyone here jumps to conclusions. I'm Sonic the Hedgehog. Nice to meet ya!"
"It's nice to meet you too." the pony said with complete kindness. "My name is Fluttershy, and these," she pointed a hoof to the other four ponies, "are my friends."
"It's, uh, nice to meet you Sonic." the purple pony introduced herself. "My name is Twilight Sparkle."
"My name is Rarity," The white one started next, "and we need to make you new shoes, because the ones you're wearing don't match at all!"
"Uh, that's not necessary. My shoes are fine." replied Sonic.
"Oh, I insist!" Rarity replied.
"Gosh darn it Rarity, can't ya see that he doesn't want new shoes?" the orange pony cut in, "I'm sorry, but sometimes she can't help but make clothes fer everypony. My name's Applejack! Nice to meet ya Pardner!"
"And I'm Pinkie Pie, and let me be the first to welcome you to Ponyville, well, I'll welcome you to Ponyville when we get there, because we need to get out of the Everfree Forest first, but when we do, I'll throw you a welcome to Ponyville party! What do you say to that?" the pink pony fittingly named Pinkie Pie exclaimed in one breath.
"Uh... okay, I guess." Sonic replied, walking back slowly from the hyperactive pony.
"And I'm... uh... Rainbow Dash." Rainbow replied in a depressed tone.
She's obviously hurt that I'm faster than her. Sonic thought, Maybe I can cheer her up. "Hey," Sonic began speaking to Rainbow Dash, "hey, don't be sad that you lost. You might not be faster than me, but you're still probably the fastest thing on this world."
"This world?" Twilight Sparkle asked.
"Yeah, I'm not from this world. Really, I'm not even from this dimension." Sonic answered.
"Then you really were the cause of that energy surge Princess Celestia told us about!" Twilight replied.
"Probably not. I guess you're really not with Eggman." said Sonic, "The energy surge you're talking about was probably caused by him. He's an evil scientist from my dimension that tries to take over my world, and is going to try and take over your world too now."
"That's terrible! Why would he do such a thing?" Twilight asked.
"I don't know. I keep forgetting to ask him after I kick his face in every time he tries to take over the world." Sonic answered.
"If that's the case, then we need to tell Princess Celestia about this." Twilight said to nobody in particular. "We need to get back to Ponyville. Sonic," she turned to Sonic, "would you please come with us? The princess would probably like to hear about your world as well."
"Well, I guess. As long as nobody else tries to attack me." Sonic joked.
Twilight chuckled, "I'm sure they won't. They'll probably run around Ponyville, screaming their heads off." The group laughed, and started walking back to Ponyville, where Sonic's next adventure was really about to begin.