//------------------------------// // Chapter 5: Welcome to Ponyville - Boss // Story: Sonic New World // by ColossalParadox //------------------------------// The looks of excitement and fright were practically beaming from Applebloom and Sweetie Belle's faces. Question after question came to their minds. Questions such as "What happened to you Scootaloo" and "What did the homing attack look like" also "Is it as powerful as Sonic said it was". All these questions, however, would either go answered or unanswered for Sonic decided to cut in. "You two might be able to see it too, if we were to get to Ponyville that is," Sonic said to the two fillies who were curios as to what happened. They immediately snapped their attention from Scootaloo to Sonic, reminded of what the main task at hand, or, hoof was other than this silly race. Scootaloo turned to Sonic and began to speak to him. "I guess you really are faster Sonic," Scootaloo stuck out her hoof, "congratulations," she said with a sorrowful sigh. Sonic eyed her hoof for a second before reaching out for it with his gloved-hand. But instead of shaking it like everyone expected him to, he simply lowered her hoof with his hand. Scootaloo looked up to Sonic in surprise and locked eyes with him, waiting for his reasoning for not shaking her hoof. "You got caught up in that forest and barely survived thanks to your friend Zecora. If I were to accept the hand-shake it would be a dishonorable win." All three fillies just stared at Sonic with mix feelings, Scootaloo the most intrigued at his response. Not only was he a hero, but he was also an advice giver and a lesson teacher as well. Scootaloo kept the words he spoke with her, storing them in the recesses of her mind. "I would be more than happy to race you again someday, but right now your friends in Ponyville need help. So come on, LET'S JUICE IT!!!" Sonic said the last words with more excitement and passion than needed and/or expected, causing the fillies to jump a bit at his sudden outburst. They quickly recovered however and prepared to ride off. Scootaloo prepared her scooter and motioned for Applebloom and Sweetie Belle to get in the wagon. Scootaloo secured her own helmet before handing the other two fillies their respectable helmets. Putting them on and buckling them quickly under their chins, giving them slight taps to test their tightness, they were ready to go. Scootaloo looked to Sonic, who also turned his attention to Scootaloo, and gave him the okay with a small nod. Sonic got into take-off position, Ponyvile just a ways in the distance; probably no more than a mile. Then they were off, off to rescue the Crusader's friends. Sonic didn't know what to expect in Ponyville, other than more talking horses. That didn't matter right now though, what did matter was that others were in trouble and he planned to save them, he planned to save them all. o.0.o Smoke plumes from small fires in Ponyville and a foul stench fill the air as, along with spike, five of the mane six: Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Rarity, AppleJack, and Pinkie Pie are surrounded by three timber-wolves on each side with other small groups of background ponies on each side are being closed in on by timber-wolves. Princess Twilight Sparkle was on her way to Canterlot to tell Princess Celestia of what was happening in town. AppleJack pulled out one of her lassos to use against the timber-wolves. Holding it in her mouth, she began to twirl it around to get a good momentum to throw it going. After the lasso was at a good speed, AppleJack said through clenched teeth, "take this ya' varmit," and threw it at a timber-wolf. The timber-wolf was able to dodge the lasso, however, and catch it in its mouth. The timber-wolf gave it one good tug and AppleJack came flying forward towards the wooden animal. She landed in front of the wolf with a hard thud, its looming figure looked down at her with snarling teeth. AppleJack gave a sheepish smile at the wolf, only for it to rear back and roar loudly right in her face, sending a torrent of its foul smelling breath into her face. One good whiff of the smell and she was out like a light, dropping faster than a rock ever could. The wolf began to lean its head back to take one good, quick bite out of AppleJack. All of the other four, including spike, yelled in unison at the wolf, "NOO!!" The wolf didn't even take a second to reconsider eating AppleJack. Its head shot down fast, with a very loud and audible crack from its jaw connecting with the upper portion of its mouth. The timber-wolf had a wide smile on its face, but opened its eyes to notice that no orange horse resided in its mouth or on the ground. Instead the wolf only saw a light streak of blue, while the other four saw something, plus spike. The other four of the elements of harmony, plus spike, looked on at amazement of the quick blue blur bouncing around the different buildings and off of street lamps. The Crusaders rode underneath the same timber-wolf and came to skidding halt in front of the group to notice the others watching the blue streak, with a hint of orange, bounce from one object to another. The streak eventually bounced to the front of the group and dropped off the unconscious body that was AppleJack. The streak continued to bounce around for a short bit until finally stopping in front of AppleJack's body and jumped into the air, spinning in a circle for a few seconds before opening to reveal a strange blue animal and dropped to the ground, catching itself in a kneeling position. Sonic stayed like that for a few seconds, everyone staring at him with slacked jaws, even the timber-wolves. All the ponies and timber-wolves around just stared at him, everything and everyone was quiet. Sonic slowly rose up from his kneeling position on the ground at gave a very cold, emotionless stare to the timber-wolves. All the ponies around still waited to see what feat he would perform next. Sonic crossed his arms and closed his eyes, giving a cocky grin. Sonic's eyes shot open, pointed at the timber-wolves and shouted, "IT'S SONIC TIME!!!" After his pronouncement, Sonic jumped into the air with everything and everyone still staring at him. He targeted the leading timber-wolf first to take him out. "Sonic," he said before bringing his leg back and shouting, "WIND." After Sonic said that, he did a back flip in mid-air, causing a stream of air to fly straight towards the timber-wolf. The air connected directly with the timber-wolf's face, causing it to go into a daze and stumble in its spot. Now that it was in no fighting condition, he also targeted the other two with it. Sonic shot out in his ball form and hit the timber-wolf directly in the head, causing it to fall apart in an instant. After the first one was gone he then shout out for the other two and made them fall apart at the hinges as well. Sonic landed on the ground and looked back the others, who still had looks of pure shock adorned on their faces. Sonic wasn't done yet though, their was still a bunch of other timber-wolves to take out. Sonic was soon on the case of destroying the rest of the timber-wolves. o.0.o Sonic finished off the last of the timber-wolves just as Princess Twilight, along with Princess Celestia and Luna, were arriving in a royal golden chariot. All three stepped out of the chariot to rubble from building and fruit stand carts and piles of sticks and wood. Sonic landed right in front of the three princesses and wiped his hands together, with bits of dirt and pieces of wood shaking off as he did. All the ponies still looked at him with shocked expressions, but not as much as the princesses gave him now. Sonic whistled before speaking, "Man, is that it? I was expecting more of a challenge." At this point, AppleJack came to and looked around at all the broken wood and damaged buildings. "Di-Did I get im'," AppleJack asked to basically anyone. "No, but he almost got you," Sonic said as he pointed to AppleJack, "good thing I was here though." Now it was AppleJack's turn to give a shocked expression like everyone else. There were three certain fillies who were not frozen in amazement and came out from behind everyone else cheering for Sonic. "Wow, that was awesome Sonic," Scootaloo started, "you are just as powerful as you said." Now all the ponies looked to the Cutie Mark Crusaders, expecting to find out how they knew him. "How," Twilight began, "how do you three know this... thing." "Standing right here," Sonic said with a serious, hurt tone to his voice. They all looked to Sonic, he stood with his arms crossed and looked off in any directions but theirs. Then everypony turned their attention back to the Crusaders and waited for a response. "We met him while trying to get out Cutie Marks in Wildlife Exploration. When we didn't get them we decided to go home, but a weird noise came from a nearby field in the part of the Everfree Forest we were in. We went to go check it out and saw a huge, weird vortex. We approached it and after a few seconds we heard a screaming coming from it. We ran and hid behind some trees, then out popped Sonic. He passed out and we took that as our chance to go meet him when he awoke." Scootaloo went on to explain the rest of how they raced, how she was saved by Zecora and Sonic, and when they arrived in Ponyville. Then Sonic explained about his world, told them about Eggman, the chaos emeralds, and his other friends back home. "Wow," Princess Celestia began, "that is some story, and you say you took out these timber-wolves single hoofedly," Celestia asked. "That's right, nothing I'm not used to though. Fighting evil is basically my job, a passion even," Sonic responded. "Well," Twilight began, "we can't thank you enough for your help and for rescuing us." "Ya', 'specially me," AppleJack added. "It was seriously no problem, those timber-wolves were super easy to take out," just then, all the pile of sticks began to glow green and float into one area in the air as sonic rambled on, " I mean, seriously, what is with those things. If they are easily defeated like they were, they shouldn't even exist now," at this point, Sonic hears they magical reconstruction of the timber-wolves and starts to turn around, "those timber-wolves were even easier to defeat than... the.... bots....." Sonic trailed off as he looked up at the twenty foot tall timber-wolf that had reconstructed itself behind him. The timber-wolf emitted a loud roar, causing all the ponies to cover their ears, sonic included. After the roar was over, he looked up to it again, straining to see the top of it. Sonic didn't panic though, instead he just gave a cocky grin and a smirky laugh and said, "finally, a challenge." And with that, Sonic jumped straight into the air and began charging what looked like a mid-air spin dash. Magical balls of energy floated in and out of him as he spun. The others on the ground could only look on in awe as they watched the strange creature just float there. The Giga timber-wolf didn't know what to expect, until it was too late. After a moment of charging, Sonic shot out straight towards the timber-wolf. The timber-wolf look horrified and opened its mouth as a result. Sonic went in the timber-wolf's mouth and shot out its "other end" in a fraction of a second. When Sonic was out in the open he stopped in mid-air and came out of ball form, with strands of the force he used still flying a foot forward before dissipating into thin air. Sonic dropped to the ground, landing with a gentle thud as everyone watched with hanging jaws again. The timber-wolf just stood there unmoving, it blinked before moving its head around. It smiled evily and growled as it turned around to Sonic, growling. It bent its legs and pounced at sonic while roaring. Sonic didn't even react, he just stood there with a cocky grin plastered to his face. The wolf was almost at Sonic, ready to take a bite out of him. But right before it got him, the wolf fell apart into small bits of wood and string. Sonic had his arms crossed as he looked down at the pile in front of him with an eye-brow raised and said, "guess not," before chuckling victoriously. All the ponies looked from the pile to Sonic, the pile to Sonic, before any of them said anything. Twilight knew she spoke for everypony when she says, "Wow."