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// Chapter 3 
// Story: Friendship, Disharmony & Sonic 
// by natedeanmaan 
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Sonic ran through the forest dodging the trees and jumping over some boulders with ease, running in Angel Island’s direction. Discord reappeared a few feet behind him and continued his chase, managing to keep up. After noticing the flash of light, Sonic turned his head around and saw Discord. He then started running backward and wondered to himself, “How did he catch up so fast?” Discord was surprised to see the hedgehog was still able to run at a fast pace, even though he was running backward. Sonic then sidestepped to his left, catching Discord by surprise as he crashed into a tree, not having enough time to react to Sonic’s action. Sonic grinned to himself after he saw this. He then turned around and continued his run at a faster pace.

After shaking off the pain he sustained from the crash, Discord teleported himself a good distance ahead of Sonic. In a very Discord manner, he tried to block Sonic’s path with a blockade, having a wall that was as tall as he was, and ‘Dead End’ signs and ‘Do Not Enter’ signs scattered along the path, while he donned a police officer outfit and was “directing traffic” from the area. Seeing this, Sonic didn’t slow down, and once he was close enough, he jumped onto Discord’s head and easily jumped over both him and the wall with ease. “Jeez, somebody’s persistent,” Sonic thought to himself with a grin. Once he was back on solid ground, he continued his run, leaving an upset Discord behind. The draconequus then tried slowing him down by having the path torn up with floating pieces here and there, with some fallen trees and flying boulders coming towards Sonic. He dodged each obstacle Discord threw at him, by demonstrating his quick reflexes, not fazed by the change of scenery, causing the draconequus more frustration with each foiled attempt. The sun had started setting once Sonic arrived at Tails’ workshop.







Inside the workshop, we see Tails working on one of his projects peacefully, nothing distracting him in the slightest. His concentration was interrupted when he heard someone open the door and suddenly barged into the workshop. The intruder asked, “Hey Tails, you got a minute?” After hearing that it was Sonic, he chose to stop working on his project and wanted to hear what he had to say. “I got some spare time, what do you need Sonic?” asked Tails. “I need some help getting to Angel Island,” he simply said.

Tails looked at Sonic questioningly and he was about to ask what the trip was for, but Sonic interrupted and continued telling him what had been happening. “There’s some new guy that calls himself Discord. He’s some kind of a mismatched creature, and he has powers to manipulate anything he desires.” Skeptical about what Sonic was talking about, he says, “Manipulate things? Do you mean magic? That’s just absurd.” Sonic responded and said, “I know what I saw Tails, he turned the sand on the beach into ice. But that’s not the weird part, I also have a feeling he was responsible for the chocolate rain from earlier,” he said. “Chocolate rain? Now I know this is just crazy, even for you,” said Tails, not believing what he was hearing.

Sonic feels Tails’ disbelief and breathes a sigh of frustration. He said, “Look, I know this might sound weird, but even this part is something that I know you’d believe. Somehow, Discord knows about the Chaos Emeralds.” Hearing this, Tails dropped his wrench in shock and yelled, “WHAT?!” Seeing that he now had his attention, Sonic continued saying, “Discord revealed that he was trapped in stone, and was freed. I asked him if Eggman was the one who released him, but he said that he didn’t know who that was.” Still reeling from the Chaos Emerald news, Tails said, “Wait, Eggman’s not behind this?” Sonic shook his head and said, “Apparently not. I don’t know who released him, but I do know we need to get to Angel Island to have Knuckles scatter the emeralds before Discord gets his hands on them. Can you help me do that?”

After letting all of this sink in, Tails nodded in agreement and got up. Tails ran to the Tornado and got it started; Sonic jumped onto the wings after hearing its startup and was ready for takeoff. The doorway then opened up and with that, he and Tails took the flight to Angel Island.







Discord had just arrived at Tails’ workshop, exhausted from chasing Sonic. He leaned on the door and started catching his breath. “I never thought it would be this hard to catch one hedgehog,” he thought to himself. He then heard a loud humming noise from inside the workshop and saw an airplane come out and fly off, with Sonic on the wings.

“Seriously!? He has an airplane too?! Why would a hedgehog need that?!” Shouted Discord. After the plane takes flight, he followed the direction it was flying toward and noticed an island was floating above the ocean. “A floating island? This just got more interesting…” he said with a smile on his face. He then snapped his fingers and appeared behind Sonic and Tails, causing one of them to notice the flash. Tails turned his head around and sees the mismatched creature Sonic described to him earlier.

“Hey Sonic, I think we have company,” he worriedly said. Sonic turned around to see Discord on their tail. He gritted his teeth in frustration and yelled, “Can this thing fly any faster?!”

Tails nodded to Sonic’s question and accelerates the plane’s speed. With the added speed, it gave the duo plenty of distance from Discord. “You're not getting away from me that easily Sonic,” Discord said to himself after seeing the plane zoom away. He then snapped his fingers, and the cotton candy clouds suddenly appeared in front of the Tornado. While flying through them, some of the cotton candy clouds got sucked into the engine. The Tornado sputtered, and it started losing both its speed and power. With the Tornado slowly fading, it started going into a nosedive. Sonic said through gritted teeth, “Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on!” Despite the engine loss, it was still able to make its trip to Angel Island. After the plane crash-landed, Sonic immediately jumped off of the plane and sprinted to Knuckles as fast as he could.

After seeing the plane crash, Discord saw the hedgehog jump off the plane and run straight to a worn-down shrine. What he saw was a giant emerald as well as seven smaller emeralds, believing that they are the Chaos Emeralds, leaving the draconequus with a big grin after seeing them. He snapped his fingers and disappeared.

Once he was close enough to the shrine, Sonic yelled, “KNUCKLES, SCATTER THE CHAOS EMERALDS NOW!!!!” Surprised by the sudden outburst, Knuckles turned to Sonic and said, “What are you talking about Sonic?” But before Sonic could say anything, Discord reappeared before the echidna, surprising him with a sudden flash of light. After seeing Discord, Sonic broke the sound barrier and ran at top speed. Seeing the intruder, Knuckles said in confusion, “What the?” The draconequus casually said, “I’ll be taking those if you don’t mind.” He lifted his lion paw and was about to lift the Chaos Emeralds with his magic, but before he had the chance to do so, Sonic crashed into Discord with great force and pushed him as far away from the emeralds as possible. After getting a good hold of him, Sonic yelled, “DO IT NOW!! NO TIME TO EXPLAIN!! SCATTER THE EMERALDS!!!”

After seeing the draconequus, Knuckles didn’t question Sonic this time and went over to the Master Emerald as fast as he could. He channeled his energy with the giant emerald, and the Chaos Emeralds started lifting off from their respective pillars. Discord seeing this tried to fight back with Sonic to break free, but Sonic’s determination kept him in check. “Now I know what Time Eater meant when it said Sonic was a lot stronger than he looked,” Discord thought to himself bitterly. After a few moments, the emeralds shot up into the sky. As the Chaos Emeralds floated into the sky, a portal suddenly opened up, revealing Time Eater, attempting to steal the emeralds.

Sonic felt the wind blowing and looked up. He was shocked to see Time Eater was there again. “No way! How did you survive?!” he questioned in disbelief. While in shock, Sonic lost his grip on Discord. He broke free and laughed evilly as if he and Time Eater had won, but just as before in white space, the red Chaos Emerald’s power activated and Time Eater lost its grip on the emeralds and they scattered in different directions.







In Ponyville, everything was calm and quiet, the moon had risen, bringing nighttime to the small town. Everypony was sound asleep, letting another day of work go by. None of the lights were on in any of the homes, except for one single tree. In her library home, Twilight Sparkle was on one of her nights where she was doing some stargazing and late-night studying, and with the night sky clear, she wasn’t going to pass this night up. While she was looking at the stars, she took notice of a purple light flying over the town at a fast pace. Unknown to the pony, the purple light was the purple emerald that had been sent away from Angel Island.

Twilight was going to get a better look at the purple light when she heard a gentle knock on her door. She went downstairs and opened the door to reveal Fluttershy standing on the other side shaking in fear. Concerned for her friend, Twilight let her into her home and asked, “Fluttershy, what’s wrong? You look as if you saw a ghost.” Still shaking, Fluttershy said, “Actually, I had a very bad dream.” She was on the verge of tears over being reminded of the nightmare she had gone through. In an attempt to calm her down, Twilight wrapped Fluttershy in a hug and rubbed her back with her hoof. After calming down, Twilight asked, “Would you mind telling me about it?”

Hesitant at first, Fluttershy nodded and was going to tell her, but before she could, another knock on the door was heard. Twilight answered it and saw Pinkie Pie, Applejack, Rarity, and Rainbow Dash standing outside Twilight’s home. After letting them in, Twilight had seen that each of her friends was about as scared as Fluttershy. Rainbow tried her best to hide her fear, but it was still noticeable that she was also bothered by something. Once they were comfortable, Twilight asked, “What’s everypony doing here?” Applejack spoke up for everypony and said, “Uh, Twi. We need to talk…”

And with that, each of the ponies explained to Twilight that they had a nightmare. Fluttershy said that she saw an incredibly large dark creature, with evil blue eyes and a sinister blue mouth. It also had clock gears in its miasma-looking form. After seeing the creature, she couldn’t help but get an evil vibe from it. She also said that it destroyed the Everfree Forest, causing all the creatures to run away from the forest. Fluttershy’s dream ended once the creature was about to attack her, not before hearing a familiar laugh in the background when the creature attacked.

Pinkie said that she also saw the same creature Fluttershy described. In the dream, it had opened up many portals and was sucking up every pony in Ponyville. She tried to save the other ponies with her friends, but they also got sucked into the portal. She said that she saw herself floating in space after she was sucked into the portal. She saw each of the ponies that were sucked into the portals, and she felt helpless once she saw them disappear. Pinkie woke up once she saw red misshapen eyes staring back at her.

Applejack saw the dark creature that the others described. She saw the creature ripping out all the apple trees with its large hands, and opening portals, sucking up Big Macintosh, Apple Bloom, Granny Smith, and the rest of the Apple Family. She tried to stop the creature, but it shot some purple orbs at her and after it hit her, it stopped her in her tracks, leaving her helpless to do anything. She heard a snap of a finger, and the ground she was standing on had been destroyed, allowing her to fall into an empty void. Applejack woke up once she had fallen in her dream.

Rarity saw the dark creature as well. She saw that it could freeze time and use some sort of beams that tracked where she was running. She was able to dodge the shots, but the dark creature was able to freeze time again and fired three shots at her. Rarity was going to use her magic to have something block the shots, but she heard a snap of a finger, and her horn was missing. She woke up after the shots made contact.

Rainbow Dash saw the dark creature in Cloudsdale, but she also sees another figure with it. The dark creature had used a powerful laser and it destroyed Cloudsdale with one single blast. She flew and tried to attack the creature, but her wings were taken away from her and she crashed onto one of the clouds. The dark creature charged up another laser and blasted her with it. Before it made contact, Rainbow had woken up from the shock in her dream.

After hearing about the last dream, Twilight was surprised to hear that the ponies had seen the same dark creature in their nightmares. With what each of them had explained, the creature can manipulate time and space, and it has unique abilities of its own that she never thought were possible. The other thing that got to her was a second creature with this dark one, but with what was described, she had a bad feeling regarding the identity of the second being. Twilight pushed those thoughts out of her head, thinking it was just a bad dream her friends had and thought nothing of it. She allowed them to stay for the night, seeing how scared they were. While the ponies were getting ready for sleep, a yellow light flew through the sky.







Mordecai and Rigby were finishing up some late work, after the hologram incident. They had walked back to their home in the park and were very tired from cleaning up Skips’ garage. After organizing Pops’ stuff, Mordecai and Rigby took them to his room. Pops thanked them for getting his things from the garage, not wanting to add more work on them, he said that he would put his things away himself. After going to their room, Mordecai decided to sit outside on the roof to get some air and some quiet time.

Rigby joined Mordecai a few moments later after he found him outside. He said, “Hey Mordecai, what are you doing out here?” Mordecai said, “Just trying to relax man, and I was just thinking to myself,” he said the last part under his breath. Rigby however, caught his mumble and asked, “I’m sorry, what was that?” Mordecai waved off his question and said, “It’s nothing dude, don’t worry about it.”

A few moments later, Mordecai saw a light blue light flying through the sky and yelled, “Dude, shooting star!” Rigby took notice of the star after he pointed it out. He was going to ask him what he would wish for, but Mordecai said, “I wish I could ask Margaret out.” In a snarky attitude, Rigby said, “Pfft. You know that’s not how wishes work on a shooting star.” Mordecai rolled his eyes at him and said, “Pfft, whatever.” Rigby continued, “Come on man, even I know that saying a wish on a wishing star out loud wouldn’t make it come true.” Even if what Rigby said were true, Mordecai was too tired to argue about it as he lays on the roof, looking up at the night sky.

Mordecai said in a serious tone, “But seriously, I do want to ask her out, without feeling all of this pressure.” Rigby shrugged at his response and said, “If you say so. But, if it doesn’t work out with her, and I’m not saying it won’t, someone better should come along for you man.” Mordecai gave him a questioning look, but shrugged it off, knowing that that was as nice as Rigby was going to be concerning the whole “Margaret” situation. The blue jay and raccoon went back inside after a few moments of relaxing.







Finn and Jake were exhausted from another long day of adventures. They saved another princess that had been captured by the Ice King. He tried to put up a fight, but they defeated him with ease. Jake hung out with his girlfriend Lady Rainicorn, while Finn helped Princess Bubblegum with an experiment she was working on. After finishing up their tasks for the day, the duo went back home and prepared to go to sleep.

Jake climbed into the open cabinet drawer in the room, while Finn changed into his pajamas, got into his sleeping bag, and lay on his bed. The duo fell asleep almost instantly after they got into their beds. They were woken up when a bright red light was seen through the Tree Fort’s window. Finn got out of bed and saw the bright red light fly over the Tree Fort and it crash-landed near the Fire Kingdom. Finn said, “Dude, did you see that?” Jake tiredly said, “Yes, I saw it, Finn.” Feeling excited, Finn said, “We gotta check it out.”

He was about to jump down the stairs, but Jake extended his arm, grabbed his leg, and said, “Not now man! I’m too tired to travel. Can’t we just do it tomorrow? When we feel better about this, I know you’re tired too Finn.” Finn was about to protest and just go check it out, but his body was showing signs of being tired. Finn slumped in Jake’s hand and reluctantly says, “All right, we’ll rest up right now, and we’ll check it out once it’s morning.” Feeling relieved, Jake said, “Thank you,” and he went back to sleep instantly, snoring loudly in the process. Finn stayed up a little longer than he should have as he looked out the window. All he could think about was the red light. He wondered what the light was, and he wanted to check it out so badly. After a while, Finn finally relaxed, and he fell asleep in his sleeping bag.







The cul-de-sac kids accepted Ed, Edd, and Eddy, something they had worked hard for the longest time, and after that adventure of looking for Eddy’s brother, despite some unwanted abuse being shown, the other kids stood up for the Eds and now call them their friends. Since then, their lives couldn’t have been any better. The Eds have been invited to join the other kids with their activities and hung out at their houses and the Kanker Sisters haven’t bothered them in a while. They still pull some scams here and there, but all in all, they are more appreciated than before. The Urban Rangers decided to go on a camping trip and chose to invite the Eds so they could enjoy themselves for the night, and for once, Eddy had nothing bad to say about them.

The Eds were resting on a log outside their tent and were just looking at the stars. Double D being Double D, was talking nonstop and was pointing out all of the different constellations he could see in the night sky. Eddy was bored out of his mind hearing Double D talking away, he was also getting more aggravated with him by the second, while Ed wasn’t paying attention to the conversation at all, just tuning everything out.

Unaware of Eddy’s anger, Double D continued pointing out each constellation he knew and talked about what they represented. He said, “And that constellation there is Ursa Major. Don’t you see the patterns that look-” Eddy interrupted his babble and yelled, “SHUT UP DOUBLE D!!! I just want to relax out here, not hear you babble on and on about the star constipations.” Double D corrected Eddy and said, “It’s ‘Constellations’ Eddy.” After hearing the correction, Eddy glared at Double D. The duo got into an argument, one arguing over learning star formations, while the other did not care and just wanted to relax. Ed had blocked out the argument and was absentmindedly looking at the stars, when suddenly, he said, “Ooh, ooh, look guys! Shooting Star!”

Both Eddy and Double D stopped their quarrel and saw what Ed pointed out to them. They saw a dark blue light shoot through the sky with great speed. They made their wishes to it quietly, but unaware of the trio, it flew over the trees and crash-landed nearby. Excited about the “star,” Ed said, “What did you guys wish for? I wished for a big tub of gravy.” Double D looked at him questioningly and asked, “Ed, don’t you already have a tub of gravy?” He retorted by saying, “Yeah, but not a big tub.”

Not surprised by his wish, Eddy interrupted and said, “Of course lumpy would want a big tub of gravy. I wished for something simpler, like, a jawbreaker.” Double D said, “Everyone has their own choices of a wish, Eddy.” Eddy then asked, “So what did you wish for smart guy?” He simply said, “I didn’t wish for anything. I don’t believe a star can have any ability whatsoever to grant a wish.” He says this, but deep down, he made a personal wish, and he heard all of the stories about this subject and knew better than to say the wish out loud, for it may not come true if he did.

Annoyed with his answer, Eddy said, “Always the killjoy, aren’t ya Double D?” Ashamed, Double D said, “It’s a curse I’m afraid. Besides, what makes you say that you will get a jawbreaker?” Eddy then pulled out three quarters from his pocket and said, “Our last scam got us some good cash. That’s how.” Ed yelled in joy, “Jawbreaker for Ed tomorrow!” Feeling happy as well, Eddy said, “That’s right Ed, now let’s get some shuteye.” The Eds went to their tent and fell asleep in their respective sleeping bags, getting ready for a trip to the candy store tomorrow for jawbreakers.







Danny Fenton, transformed as his ghost alter ego Danny Phantom, his girlfriend Sam Manson, and his best friend Tucker Foley, were chasing down Skulker. He was on another one of his hunting sprees, trying to capture Danny, but his plans got foiled. His battlesuit was destroyed in the process, and he is now on the run. Danny pulls out the Fenton Thermos and catches the little blob. “Way to go guys!” Danny said while tossing the thermos in his hand. “Yeah, and with Skulker down, the rest of the ghosts will be easier to catch,” Tucker said. Wanting to finish ghost hunting, Sam said, “Come on guys, the sooner we catch the ghosts, the sooner we can get some sleep.” Danny nodded and said, “You’re right, we can catch the remaining ghosts at this rate if we keep a sharp eye out.” Tucker pointed towards the sky and said, “Like that one up there?”

Danny turned around and saw a green light flying through the sky with great speed. He rolled his eyes and said, “I’ll get it.” He then flew to the sky and chased down the green light. He didn’t hesitate with the light; he pulled out his thermos and caught it, unknown to him, it was the green Chaos Emerald. After Danny caught the green light, the Box Ghost flew by and tried to sound like a threat to Danny and his friends and yelled, “I am the Box Ghost! Beware!” Danny shook his head in boredom and annoyance after seeing the Box Ghost. “I so don’t have time for this,” he said flatly. He then opened the thermos, pointed it at the Box Ghost, and captured him. 

“And with that, we can call it a night,” said Danny after turning back into his human self.  “Hey guys, we got a shooting star,” said Tucker. Danny and Sam looked up and saw a white light flying through the sky. Sam quickly checked to see if Desire was around. With no signs of her around, on account that Danny’s ghost sense wasn’t going off, everyone smiled and made a wish for themselves. After they made their wishes, everyone got on their electric scooters and went their separate ways home.







Discord and Time Eater disappeared through the portal after the Chaos Emeralds vanished from their sight. “What the? Where did they go?” Sonic asked. “How should I know?!” Knuckles snapped. “Time Eater had them, and once that red emerald made contact, they flew off in different directions,” he said. Seeing Time Eater again made Sonic feel uneasy, something Knuckles took notice of. Knuckles put his hand on Sonic’s shoulder and said, “Are you all right Sonic?” Shaken from his thoughts, Sonic said, “Yeah, I’m fine. Let’s meet up with Tails, I’ll fill you in on what’s going on.” The duo left the shrine and started walking over to the Tornado. As they walked, Sonic told Knuckles everything about his encounter with Discord, what powers he had seen and what he could do with them.

“I still can’t believe Time Eater was the one that let Discord out, I mean, it only makes sense if Eggman isn’t involved,” Sonic said in disbelief. “Yeah, I thought you destroyed him when Eggman and his younger self tried to use it as a personal fighting machine,” questioned Knuckles. Sonic shrugged in response to this and said, “I was sure I did. I destroyed that core and we all saw Time Eater explode, that should have been it.”

Before the duo could continue their conversation, they had reached the edge of Angel Island where the Tornado had crash-landed, and Tails had gotten the last of the cotton candy clouds out. “Hey Tails, finished with the repairs?” Sonic questioned. “Yeah, I just finished,” he responded while wiping the sweat from his forehead. “So, what were you guys talking about with Time Eater?” he questioned. “Time Eater survived the fight, and it was the one who got Discord out of that stony prison of his,” he said. “Seriously?!” Tails questioned in shock. “Dead serious,” he said. The idea of Discord and Time Eater worried the fox, and realization struck him. “What happened to the emeralds? Did they get them?” he asked in horror. “Don’t worry about the emeralds, I was able to scatter them before Discord could get his hands on them,” said Knuckles in an attempt to calm Tails down. “And Time Eater?” questioned Tails. “Time Eater tried to get them, but the red emerald activated and they ended up scattering in different directions far away from here,” said Sonic. “As long as they don’t have them, I think we’re good,” said Tails, starting to feel better about the situation.

Wanting to change the subject, Sonic looked at the Tornado and asked, “So, any damages to the engine?” Tails looked at the plane and said, “No, it was just clogged, thankfully.” Knuckles asked, “What clogged it?” Tails said, “The stuff that clogged the engine was cotton candy,” showing the substance to the duo. “Cotton Candy?” asked a confused Knuckles. “Yeah, I was surprised too, that stuff was everywhere in the engine. Everything is working fine now, we can go back to my workshop and get my radar to help look for the emeralds,” he said.

Tails jumped into the plane and it started up instantly. After hearing the engines go, Sonic jumped on the wings of the Tornado. Before they could leave, Knuckles decided to join them. The flight back to Tails’ workshop didn’t take long. Once the plane landed, Sonic jumped off the Tornado and decided to look for one of the emeralds while Tails and Knuckles looked for the radar. “Sonic, we need that radar first,” said Tails. Sonic turned and said, “I saw where one of the emeralds went, I can go get that emerald and you guys can meet me there.” Before they could talk him out of it, Sonic took off in the direction of the closest emerald. “I know that radar would be helpful, but we can’t afford to waste any time. We’re not just dealing with Discord, but Time Eater is also back, and I won’t let either of them get the emerald first.” Sonic thought to himself determined to get the first Chaos Emerald.

Chapter End