//------------------------------// // Orders // Story: Sonic Universe: Equestrian Adventure // by Arcing Light //------------------------------// Warning! This chapter has not yet been edited. I had no time to do it before the chapter was posted so please bare with it. Enjoy. Zone Unknown Equis Somewhere In The Everfree Forest Depths Snively sat in the chair that was located in the middle of the airships bridge, typing away furiously at the command console in the chairs arms as he tried to get the airships communication networks back online. The overlander had been sitting there for about two hours, ever since the airship itself had stopped shuddering underneath him from the crash. He didn't have the same intellect as his uncle, but he was smart enough to rival both Tail's and Rotor, which he reveled in as the network booted up in front of him. "Finally!" The overlander exclaimed in relief. Swiftly he pulled up a communications channel that he never thought he would have used in normal circumstances and a window popped up, requesting a password and the users vocal conformation. Speaking into his headset he said "This is Snively Robotnik, requesting cross zone communications with Mobius Prime, New Megaopolis's Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik. Password S-U-E-A-06." The screen blinked green once in confirmation before it began working on the overlanders request. As the network processed the information, Snively couldn't help but silently praise his uncle for having the foresight to even program the system for cross zone communication. After a few seconds his uncles face appeared on the screen. "Snively!" The oversized overlander basically yelled through the speakers. "Where have you been?! I've been trying to locate my flagship for hours!" "I have no idea where I am Uncle Robotnik, but the sensors are telling me I'm not on Mobius anymore." Snively replied. Thanks for the concern. He thought sarcastically. "Well if your not on Mobius, then where are you?" Eggman growled, clearly not happy with his nephew. "Like I would know that." "Watch what you say when your talking to me Snively." Eggman glared through the screen. "Just because I'm not there, doesn't mean your safe from my reach." As if on cue, two of the Egg Pawns on the bridge turned, walked up beside Snively, a stood there threateningly. Snively gulped as he got the message. "Understood Sir." Snively said, trying to ignore the robots beside him. "Good, make sure it stays that way." Eggman grinned menacingly at Snively. "Now, while I find a way to get you back here, I want you to launch some surveillance drones to do reconnaissance around your immediate area. See if there is anything worth bringing back. And send me a report on the ships status as well." "I already launched some drones over a half hour ago." Snively told his uncle as he typed a command into the chairs console. "I'm sending over the report and initial findings now." Something on his uncles end beeped, drawing Eggmans attention away for a few moments. "Interesting." Eggman said, looking at the data he had received. "These quadrupedal beings, do they seem like a threat?" "That,s unclear sir. Some of them seem like they have wings and can fly. Other than that nothing stands out." Snively informed his uncle. "Hmmm…" Eggman stroked his mustache thoughtfully. "There seems to be three main species among them. Grab a few of each for testing. I want to see what makes them tick." "At once Sir." "Oh, and Snively." Eggman continued. "Don't ever crash any of my ships again. There will be consequences next time." … Zone Unknown Equis Sweet Apple Acres Bunnie couldn't help let the embarassed blush run across her cheeks because of her current position. Right now she was sitting in a small bright red wagon as the group of creatures, that she discovered called themselves ponies, pulled her through the apple orchard that apperently belonged to Applejack and her family. Earlier, they had all agreed to move Bunnie to a more suitable place, that place decidedly being Applejack's barn for the time being. Applejack had said that they would have brought her to her house, but they had no idea how one of her family members named Granny Smith would react. They had then grabbed the red wagon she was now in, which Applebloom revealed was her and her two friends main mode of transportation, and began making their way through the orchard. That was ten minutes ago. Now they were at the orchards fringe and Bunnie could make out a large red barn and a smaller farmhouse connected to it through the trees. The rabbit hypothesized that this was there destination. Stopping just outside the treeline, Applejack turned back to Bunnie and smiled. "Well Bunnie, this is it." Applejack started, her voice filled with pride. "Welcome to Sweet Apple Acres, home of Equestria's most delicious apples." "This is a nice righ' place ya got here." Bunnie complimented the orange pony. "But ya sound kind of egotistical when ya'll say that yer apples are the best in your country. That must not sit well with the competition." "There ain't no competition." Applejack explained as she continued on towards the barn. "The Apple Family are the only apple farmers in Equestria. We started here in lil ol' Ponyville, which mah family helped found by the way, an' spread out across tha rest Equestia ta increase business around the country. An' we've always made sure our apples are top quality an nothin less. What about you, what do ya'll do for a livin'?" "Well ahm not sure about mah blood family, havn't seen them in years, but me an' mah husband are Freedom Fighters." Bunnie relpied, staring at the ring on her roboticized hands ring finger. Oh Antoine, ah hope your safe. The rabbit thought to herself. "Whats a Freedom Fighter?" Applebloom asked from beside the rabbit as they entered the barn doors. Her friends were beside her to, but still kept a bit of distance between themselves and the mobian. "Freedom Fighters are groups of people like mah'self that have taken on the responsibility of protecting our world from evil people that try ta take it over." Bunnie explained to the young filly. "So yer like some kind'a hero?" Applebloom questioned. This caused Bunnie to chuckle lightly. "Nah, ahm not ah hero." Bunnie denied. "Ahm just ah farm girl that won't stand on the sidelines as her worlds destroyed by madmen." "Sounds pretty heroic if ya ask me. Noble too." Applejack said as she stopped the wagon beside a bale of hay and walked back to stand beside the rabbit, offering Bunnie a hoof. "C'mon girl, lets get ya out ah there." Giving the pony her unroboticized arm, Bunnie lifted herself out of the wagon with her arms and the help of Applejack, and sat on the hay bale. As she sat there, Bunnie looked around the barn, observing every detail of the large building. The bottom level was a single completely open room that held an array of farming equipment. From a large wagon that was most likely meant to haul large amounts of apples at a time, to a large rusted plow and a few saws that were probably ment for cutting down trees when they died, the barn seemed to be filled with the tools that Applejack and her family used to tend the farm. There also appeared to be a second floor that took up the whole top half of the barn. Bunnie couldn't see what was up there, but she guessed that it was part of the main house. Bunnie looked around a bit more until she noticed something. The pink pony wasn't among them anymore. "Hey Applejack, where did yer friend Pinkie Pie run of to?" Bunnie asked confused. "Oh, ah just sent her ta find Twilight." Applejack told her. "Who's Twilight?" "One of mah best friends." Applejack replied. "Ah realized that ah normal doctor might not be able ta help ya, so ah thought that Twi might be able ta help. She's in ta all that sciencey stuff, an' shes really, really smart, so who better ta ask." "Makes sense ah guess." Bunnie said stretching her flesh arm behind her back. "How long do we haf'ta wait?" "Shouldn't be that long. Ten, twenty minutes tops." … Unknown Zone Equis Road to Sweet Apple Acres "I still can't belive you were going to tie me up." Tails complained as he hovered alongside the two unicorns while they walked down the dirt path that led to Applejack's Farm. Ever since Spike had returned with the rope he had gotten from the basement of the library, Tails had been fuming after finding out they had planed to tie him up. Twilight had managed to explain that it was only in case if Tails ended being a threat, and since he wasn't, they didn't need to. "I said I was sorry, it was only a backup plan." Twilight said as she looked up at the two tailed creature. "How would you react if a strange creature from another dimension showed up in your home?" "Thats a fair point," Tails replied as he landed beside the unicorn and started walking with them. "But don't you think that could cause more problems than it would solve?" "I guess so." Twilight turned away from Tails and stopped walking. "But I didn't know what you were, and I was kind of freaking out in my head so I wasn't thinking straight at the time. I really am sorry." Out of the corner of her eye, Twilight saw the two tailed creature stare her down, deep in thought. After a few seconds, his hardend face melted away to a friendly smile as he held out his paw. "I guess I can't really stay mad at you for doing what you thought was right. C'mon lets start over." "Sure." Twilight smiled back as she placed her hoof in his paw. Hiya Twilight!" A pink earth pony exclaimed as it appeared beside the purple out of nowhere. Both Twilight and Tails yelped and fell on their backsides in surprise, each of their hearts now beating a million miles an hour thanks to the pink ponies sudden appearance. "Pinkie!" Twilight yelled at the pony in front of her. "Please stop doing that!" Unfortunately for the unicorn, the pink pony ignored her in favor of the bipedal canine on the ground beside her.  "Oooh, who are you?" Pinkie grinned as she got what Twilight would feel as uncomfortably close to Tails' face. "Now we can have a second party, so whats your name, mine's Pinkie Pie, but you probably already figured that out since Twilight just yelled it out, how did you end up with her anyway, and where did Rarity and Spike go… "Pinkie!" Twilight yelled at the pink pony again. Once the unicorn was sure she had her friends attention she continued in as less harsh tone. "Right now isn't a good time for this." "Why not Twilight?" Pinkie asked the unicorn. "Remember those big metal things that flew over ponyville a few hours ago?" Twilight asked. She got a nod from the earth pony in response. "Well Tails here say's that there dangerous. So now we're looking for that light that shot off this way because we think that it might actually be one of his friends. Please tell me you found it." "Well we didn't find a light," Pinkie told the two. "But we did find an alien that looked kind of like your new friend here, but different. Her left arm and bottom half are made of metal, her ears are really long and her name is… "Thats Bunnie!" Tails exclaimed, jumping to his feet. "Wow, thats what I was gonna say. are you some type of mind reader?" Pinkie asked the creature. "No, I'm not a mind reader." Tails answered her question before quickly asked his own. "Where is she?" "We brought her back to the barn at Sweet Apple Acres." Pinkie pointed down the road in the direction that Twilight and Tails had been heading in the first place. "We had to use Applebloom, Scootaloo, and Sweetie Belle's wagon to pull her there because her legs were really banged up for some reason." Tails said nothing in response. He just started running down the road towards the farm, taking off into the air after a couple of strides. "Tails, wait up!" Twilight exclaimed, galloping off after him. "He can fly?! Thats so cool!" Pinkie squeed as she bounded off after the two. … It didn't take long for the mobian, the unicorn, and her friend to reach the the barn. Once Tails had spotted the building he had instantly doubled his speed, making Twilight struggle just to keep up while her friend, Pinkie Pie, was able to bounce along beside him without a problem, and even got in front of him once they got close.  "I found her Applejack!" Pinkie called out as she opened the barn and entered it. Tails followed her in and spotted his half roboticized friend. Twilight came in a few seconds later. "Bunnie!" Tails exclaimed as he hovered over to the rabbit. "Tails?" The rabbit gaped, looking surprised to see the him. "What are ya'll doin' here?" "I came looking for, well, you I guess." Tails explained. He then pointed to the purple unicorn who was gasping for breath by the barn doors. "Ya guess?" Bunnie asked raising her eyebrow. "Heh, yeah well I didn't exactly know it was you until Pinkie came along." "Who the hay is this?" Another creature that looked like Pinkie and Twilight asked from behind him. Looking over his shoulder, Tails saw it was hornless like Pinkie, but had an orange coat, blonde hair, and wore a stetson similar to Bunnies. "Thats… Tails." Twilight panted. "I found him… at the library… Say hi Tails." As the unicorn finished, she flopped back on her haunchs and started to take long deep breaths. "Hi." Tails said to the orange one, giving a small wave of his hand before tuning back to Bunnie and started to look at her legs. "Howdy." The orange one said walking up to him, but not before checking on the unicorn. "Ya gonna be alright Twi?" "I'll… be fine" Twilight panted. "Just… just give me… a few minutes… and… I'll be right there." "Okay Sugarcube, just take it easy for now." Applejack said, turning back to the mobian. "How is it?" Bunnie asked the younger mobian. "Pretty bad, but not unfixable." Tails replied as he examined the exposed robotics in the legs. "I'll need proper equipment to fix them completely, but if I do this… there now try moving them." The rabbit followed his orders and tried to move her damaged limbs. She was pleasently surprised to see that she could move her legs now. slower than normal and with less prescision, but they were moving. "Ah can move them again!" Bunnie whooped and pulled Tails into a hug. "Yur ah lifesaver Tails. "Well would ya look at that." Applejack happilly praised the mobian. "How'd ya know how ta do this?" "It was nothing," Tails blushed a little. "I did help build her legs after all. All I had to do was increase the pressure in the hydrolics systems, calibrate them to react at a lower level of movement, and do a bit of rewiring. She'll move slower until I can fix them properly, but this is better than nothing." "Ah have no idea what ya jus' said." Applejack replied looking to Bunnie for an explination, but she just shrugged. Before anything else was said, something burst into the barn, destroying most of the half open doors and kicking up a cloud of dirt, obscuring everyones vision. There was coughing and hacking heard from the group as the dirt floated around the room, before it quickly started to settle down. In the settling dust was a cyan and rainbow colored creature like the others, but with wings, struggling to get on its feet. "Rain*hack* Rainbow?" Twilight sputtered, recognizing the newcomer. "What are you doing?!" "Twilight!" The cyan creature exclaimed, rushing up to the unicorn. "Listen, me and a few of the pegasai I brought with me were on our way back to town to resupply on rainclouds. We got about halfway here when… when… uh, who are they?" She asked, pointing at the two mobians. "Well that ones Tails." Twilight said, motioning to the younger mobian. "Rarity, Spike, and myself found him in the library when we went to look for that light. The other ones name is Bunnie. Applejack and Pinkie found her here at the farm." "Actually, It was Applebloom an' her freinds that found 'er in the orchard." Applejack corrected. "Yeah, and then Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle found and told us where she was, then we brought her here in the crusaders' wagon, and then I went to find Twilight, who had Tails with her and I brought them back here where Tails fixed bunnies legs, and then you showed up." Pinkie added, recounting all the events that had happened in the last hour. "Right." Rainbow said, drawing out the word until it appeared her brain had caught up with pinkies explination. "Anyways, nice to meet you two, the names Rainbow Dash, Equestrias Fastest Flier." "Hi." Tails waved, grinning at the way Rainbow puffed up with pride as she introduced herself. She almost reminded him of Sonic. "Howdy, the pleasures all mine." Bunnie smiled and tipped her hat. "Now Rainbow, what was it you were saying?" Twilight asked. "Well we were almost here when I spotted some weird metal creatures walking through the forset, taking orders from another pointy muzzled creature floating in a ball." Rainbow explained in a hurry. "I caught a bit of what it was saying, and it didn't sound good. Something about capturing test subjects in a nearby settelment, and since Ponyvilles the closest town to the Everfree…" … Unknown Zone Equis Outside the Everfree Forest Sonic had to sheild his eyes as he and the Fluttershy exited the forest, causing him to almost drop the weasel on his back. The hedgehog was surprised to see it was the middle of the day and not night like he had thought while he was in the forest. In front of him, about half a mile away was a small, cozy looking little town that was filled with brick buildings with straw thatched roofs. "So this is Ponyville?" Sonic asked the pegasus beside him. "Looks like a nice little town." Fluttershy didn't answer the hedgehog audibly, she just nodded her head and avoided looking at him. This was how the entire walk through the forest had been. Sonic would try to strike up a conversation with the pegasus to pass the time, only to have her shy away from him. "Which ways the hospital?" Sonic ignored the pegasai's shy demeanor. He wasn't going to force her to talk if she didn't want to. "That way." Fluttershy replied, barely audible, pointing in a direction about fifteen degrees th there right. "It's on the other side of the town." "Alright, lets get going." Before either the mobian or pony moved from their spot, the weasel on Sonic's hacked and spat up blood on the hedgehogs shoulder.  "Nice." Sonic said irritably, as he wiped as much of it off as he could. Turning back to the yellow pegasus beside him he stated. "Listen we should probably pick up the pace. How fast can those wings carry you?" "Not very." She mumbled. "Then can you hold onto me?" "W-why?" The pegasus stuttered. "I'll show you, come on." The hedgehog offered her a hand. Hesitantly, the pegasus reached out and placed her hoof into the hedgehogs palm. Grasping her hoof firmly, the hedgehog blasted off without warning, causing the pegasus to give off a small 'eep', and sped off towards the town, and soon though it at extreme speeds.  As he ran he took in the sights of the buildings and ponies he passed. There were buildings built to look like a carousel, a gingerbread house, a tree that had windows and a door, along with a big blue box that had the word 'police' written on it sitting off to one side of the street. He also noticed that the ponies in town werent all pegasai. Some of them had horns sticking out of there forheads instead of wings on there sides, and others had neither. He didn't find this completely odd, he had put together he was in another zone already, but he decided to ask someone about it later. In just a few seconds the trio had made it across the town to the building Sonic guessed was the hospital, seeing how there was a large red cross with hearts on the sign in front of it. Not slowing down, Sonic ran through the doors and stopped in front of the reception counter with Fluttershy frozen beside him in shock. Probably should have warned her about how fast I am. the hedgehog though to himself as he turned to the startled pony behind the counter. The pony was a soft white with a head of pink hair that was tired into a bun at the back of her head which match her tail. On her thighs were marks that matched the cross and hearts on the sign outside. "Hi there." Sonic greated the white pony with a smile. "Listen, my aquaintince here was trapped under some logs and broke some ribs. We think there might be some internal bleeding too. Do you think you could help him?" The pony didn't respond right away. She just sat there for a few seconds, looking at the hedgehog like he was some type of monster that would lash out and eat her any second. Then she noticed Fluttershy beside him and her expression changed from fear and confusion to what seemed to be half curiosity, half relief. "Of course," she turned back to the hedgehog and looked at the weasel on his back. "Just follow me and we'll get him into the operating room." The mare then dropped down from her seat and lead the hedgehog to a room down a hallway to the left, while Fluttershy stayed behind. Once they entered the room, she told Sonic to carfully place Nack down on a bed that was in there and called in one of the horned ponies she called Dr. Stable. He didn't react to seeing the hedgehog and the weasel the same way that the mare had. He was more profesional about it, approaching them without hesitation, but with caution in his steps. He looked over Nack for a second before asking Sonic what the hedgehog could tell him about the weasel's anatomy.  Sonic explained all that he knew about the basic mobian body, which wasn't very much, but enough to go by. He told the horned pony where most of the major organs were located in the body, and what he knew of the circulitory system. After sonic was finished, Dr. Stable thanked him and had the mare, who he addressed as Nurse Redheart, escort him back to the waiting room where Fluttershy was waiting for him. "How's your friend?" Fluttershy asked as the hedgehog approached. She seemed to be over her initial shock from him dragging her her as fast as he did and had sat down on a bench in the lobby. "Will he be alright?" "The doc said that they'll do what they can," Sonic said sitting down next to her. "Which I guess is the best we can hope for since I assume there's no doctors here that know how to treat Mobians." "What's a Mobian?" "Mobians are the dominate race in my zone." Sonic told the yellow pegasus. "Its belived that we evolved from small little animals to what we are now because of some type of mutation in our genes that fused them with overlander DNA because if something called a 'Gene Bomb'." "I'm sorry, I don't think I understand." "Heh, don't ask me," the hedgehog chuckled. "I barely understand it myself." There was a few seconds of scilence between the hedgehog and the pegasus before Fluttershy picked the conversation back up. "So you really are a hedgehog?" Fluttershy asked, staring at the hedgehog curiously. "Yep." Sonic answered her as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. "Wow, what other kinds of Mobians are there?"  "Well Nack back there is a weasel, but there are thousands of other species like…" Sonic never got to finish his scentence as the front doors of the hospital were thrown open by a mint green pony with a horn, followed by a cream colored pony carrying an unconscious grey pegasus. A magenta horned pony and a smaller greyish horned pony entered just after them, the little one balling its eyes out. … In an instant Nurse Redheart was with the group of five ponies that had just come in. The first two ponies she recognized were Lyra Heartstrings and Bon Bon. The hospital had a history with Lyra. She used to come once a week for therapy because her marefriend Bon Bon had gotten worried about her obsession with the mythical creatures called Humans. She had eventually come to terms with her obsession and had been told she was free to stop seeing her therapist a few months ago. The second set of ponies were Ditzy Doo, Dinky Doo, and Amythest Star. Ditzy and her family had a history with the hospital as well, but it had been more for the constant injuries the wall eyed pegasus sustained when crashing into things.  "Lyra, Bon Bon, what happened to her?" The nurse asked as she walked up to the cream colored earth pony. "There's a bunch of metal monsters out there attacking the town!" Bon Bon said, sounding very panicked. "They came out of nowhere and started rounding us up, saying that we were now slaves of the Eggman Empire or someting like that." "They attacked mom when she tried to stop them from taking Dinky." Amythest Explained, holding her little sister as she tried to comfort the young sobbing unicorn. "Don't worry Dinky, your moms going to be fine." Nurse Redheart crouched down and gave the young unicorn a warm smile to try and help calm her down. "Luckily Princess Celestia showed up with a bunch of royal guards and two weird creatures, letting a bunch of us escape." Lyra continued for the Bon Bon. "We picked up Ditzy and her kids while we were escapeing and came here to get her medical attention." "Were there anymore wounded when you left?" Nurse Redheart asked. "No," Bon Bon shook her head. "After Ditzy was knocked unconscious, everypony started to cooperate with them. Nopony wanted to get hurt." "Well don't worry," Nurse Redheart said, leading the three ponies through the lobby and towards the hallway She had just gone down. "With the Princess here keeping them occupied, we should be…" There was a loud crashing noise from behind the mares as a group of the metel monsters burst in through the hospital doors. Dinky let out a high picthed scream at the sight of the monsters who spread out among the hospital's lobby. "They followed us?!" Amethyst cried out, instictivly putting her sister in a protective death grip. "This land has been claimed by Dr. Eggman of the Eggman Empire." One of the monsters proclaimed, pointing something at the group of ponies. "You will surrender and wait to be transported to…" The monster never got to finish its sentence as a spinning blue object slammed into the side of the monsters head, knocking it clean off. This continued with the rest of the monsters in the lobby as well, until all that was left of them were piles of scrap metal littering the floor. Standing in the middle of the wreakage was the bipedal creature that Nurse Redheart had just assisted, looking at the remains of the monsters it had destroyed before bolting out the hospital doors without a thought. "Mr. Sonic, Wait!" A canary yellow pegasus called out following the creature. "W-w-what was that? And w-why was Fluttershy with it?" Bon Bon stuttered, she and the rest of the remaining staring in bewilderment at the carnage in front of them.