A strong wind picked up in the open field. The small creatures that were roaming around in the open all ran for cover in some bushes or the trunks of hollowed out trees. Leaves and twigs started to float off the ground a bit at first before they became a full on twister of natural debris. All the animals hidden at the edge of the Everfree forest shook in fear and in anticipation. They looked up and saw a giant tear in the sky. A swirling vortex with a purple hue and white streaks turned in the sky as they heard a yelling.
Out of the vortex fell a familiar pink-skinned Zeti screaming with bit and pieces of his maniacal laugh as he fell towards the grounds of Equestria. Zazz was halfway to the ground until the rest of the Deadly Six and General Hewdraw fell out after him as well. Thanks to Eggman's Egg Mobile he did not have to worry about falling and possibly breaking his leg or his back. General Hewdraw did not fall for long as well as he stretched out the armor on his sides, using a powerful force of magic to allow him to gently drift down.
Zazz landed on the ground with a loud grunt, leaving a small crater where he landed. He slowly stood up to stand on both legs to scope out the scenery, imagining what the world past the immense forest would look like. He could just picture all the ponies now cowering from him in fear and running away from open fires or the other six, seeking help or some form of shelter. It was all for not, though, for he was ordered by everyone to remain hidden for now. He was at least smart enough to obey, because he would be severely punished for going against everyone's wishes, who also landed on the ground during his day dreaming while Eggman just hovered above.
His sadistic smile slowly fell as the realization that he was just to look for the chaos emeralds and keep out of sight of others dawned on his conscious. He got a look of annoyance and anger on his face as he mumbled a few key things to himself and lightly kicked at the ground.
The other six had their eye on Zazz, but soon looked away to examine the scenery themselves when they made sure Zazz wasn't about to go on a wild spree. Zazz was hunched over sliightly, gazing down at the ground until he got a feeling that he and the other six werebeing watched. He slowly turned his head to the left and saw a few woodland critters spying on them behind the bushes and trees. Zazz plastered on a wicked smile as he turned his entire body towards the small, defenseless creatures. They cowered away a little bit as they noticed he had spotted them.
Zazz was told not to be spotted by other ponies, so he says he couldn't scar a few animals for life. Zazz chuckled and began to slowly walk towards them. The shivering that came from the critters would have been visible from two feet away; unable to run due to being frozen in fear. The others stopped examining the new world to cast their attention to Zazz.
"Whats the matter little guys, it looks like you've seen a GHOST!!" Zazz practically shouted the last word as he lurched forward and started yelling and flailing his arms around. The animals only made sounds that Zazz could only guess were screams of sheer terror as they ran off into the forest with memories of what just happened still fresh in their minds and will haunt their dreams for the rests of their lives.
Zazz fell backwards on the ground and started rolling around laughing. He ceased his rolling and clenched his gut as he struggled to breathe from the aftermath of the stunt he just performed. The others ran over to him quickly and crowded around him. Zazz noticed the immediate shade that covered him and slowly opened his eyes to look up at 7 pairs of angry ones staring back down at him. His laughing came to a screeching halt as he looked at the faces they made at him.Zavok picked him up by the skin on his collar bone and stare darkly at him for a second before talking.
"Zazz, WHAT, do you think you're doing? We are supposed to remain hidden and search for the chaos emeralds, remember?" Zazz knew the question was rhetorical, but he didn't understand. He thought it was only for the ponies that could actually do something to them. It was now his turn to get a look of anger on his face.
"WHAT!! I thought that only applied to the ponies that could actually give us trouble, not some stupid woodland animals." Zazz said every word with a drop of venom in his voice, but not too angrily so as to avoid getting himself into a bad situation with awful consequences.
"We do not know what anything is capable of in this world. So it is best to assume that everything can be a threat, even if it is a small humming bird." Zazz understood what they were getting at, but how could the animals be a threat. Zazz, though, decided it was best to not argue with him, he simply nodded and Zavok release his grip on Zazz, dropping him to his feet. Zazz began to brush himself off as Eggman began to call everyone to gather around him. They all walked over to the Egg Mobile as it slowly lowered is altitude to be at eye level with everyone. Then Eggman began to explain the strategy for right now.
"Alright everyone, here is the plan for right now. Now that we are in this new territory, General Hewdraw will lead you all out to begin hunting for the chaos emeralds. Sonic will be more than likely searching for them as well so he may return home, so we must find them first to prevent that. We will also have to periodically check from time to time on the E.R.T because I am not sure if the power will leak out of it or not. If it doesn't, then we have nothing to worry about," Eggman paused to make sure that everyone was following what he was saying then began again," and while you all are doing that Orbot, Cubot, and myself are going to do some reconnaissance on Sonic. Now you all are aware of your job so hop to it, quick as a bunny," Eggman said as he made a shooing motion with his hands. Eggman was about to take of until he was stopped when Zor rose his hand.
"So, how long are we supposed to remain hidden from everything until we actual do some confrontation."
"Well, I have noticed with my plans in the past that I always rush into things and never take the time to actual sit down and right out a strategy, that is how this plan is going to be different. So for right now we are just to keep a look out, take in the details of who he might be close to, and use that to our advantage. Also this land is pretty big so it might take a long time to find all the chaos emeralds unfortunately, I will say about a maybe a month or two. Time enough to find the emeralds and right out a plan. Does that sound like a suitable amount of time?" Everyone simply nodded and began to disperse from their gathering, only to gather again at General Hewdraw.
Eggman began to take off to search the land for Sonic. He activated the cloaking device on his Egg Mobile to hide from any eyes that might see him flying over head. The others watched as the Egg Mobile instantaneously vanished from their sight. They all then turned to General Hewdraw who had them at the ready to begin their search. Not before he went over the plan once again with them.
"Remember, stay hidden and stay together while we search. There is to be virtually no noise if we get close to anything. Got it? Good. No-," General Hewdraw was cut off as Zazz sped past running towards the forest. General Hewdraw shouted "NO!" at him but Zazz didn't care enough to listen. He wanted to get this show on the road and the General was just delaying it. He almost made it to the forest until he tripped and fell, hitting the ground and immediately spinning around to grab his knee.
"Ahhh, Son of a saltine cracker," he said as he held the skinned knee in both hands, rocking forwards and back while breathing in sharply through his teeth. He looked to the ground and began to look for what might have tripped him with his left hand. He felt along the ground to no avail until he took his attention away from his knee to search with his eyes. He froze almost immediately, completely forgetting about his knee. Using both hands he parted the grass and looked at the ground. His frozen state of shock soon became a wide devilish grin as he began to chuckle darkly.
o.0.o
A chuckle found its way out of Sonic's throat as he stepped up to Discord. He look at him with the up-most confidence in his eyes as he walked around Discord with his arms behind his back, taking in every detail of the draconequus.
"I guess you are who they call Discord, the god of chaos. I've gotta to say, you don't look near as threatening as I thought you would." All the ponies gasped at this as Discord sputtered and stepped back, disgusted and offended. He got a look of hate in his eye as he lowered his head to be leveled with Sonic's and stared him straight in the eye while Sonic just stood their with a cocky grin.
"You are lucky I'm reformed and takes a lot for me to get mad," Discord said as he poked a claw to Sonic's chest, "or else you would have regretted those words."
"Heh heh, I like you. You remind me of my friend Shadow."
"Ah, Shadow," Twilight began, "the black and red hedgehog you told us about," Twilight asked.
"Yep, that's him," Sonic responded.
Discord looked from Sonic to the ponies baffled, amazed that he was already buddy buddy with the other ponies. Discord somehow easily excepted it, but still wanted to lay a few ground rules down.
"Alright, a friend of theirs is somewhat an acquaintance of mine. But just you remember, do NOT get on my bad side or else you'll regre-," Discord was cut off as a ringing came from somewhere. It couldn't be far though because it was right next to Discord's ear, he knew it was.
Sonic looked to his back pocket with a shocked expression. All Sonic could say was a barely audible whisper, "How?"
That is when Discord eyed Sonic with suspicion. "Just what are you playing at?" He asked in jokingly serious tone.
All the ponies looked on curiously as Sonic pulled out a giant, yellow piece of plastic with a display on it that said, "Tails." Sonic was quick to answer it. Soon the image of a yellow fox was displayed on the screen, along with a red echidna and black hedgehog. Tails eyes soon filled with joy as the all too familiar hedgehog finally answered.
"Sonic," tails began, "What happened, where are you, why haven't you answered."
"Woah Woah Woah, buddy, calm down. I'm fine, Egghead built a portal to alternate dimensions and used the power of the chaos emeralds to make it work. We got into a scuffle and I was sent to this land called Equestria where I met these guys." Sonic then stepped out of the view of the camera and showed all the ponies in the area, even Discord, before beginning to explain who they were individually to the three friends on the other line.
"Wow," tails said, "I built our handhelds to be long distance, but I didn't think the signal would be able to reach through to a whole new dimension."
"Look, tails, I am trying to find the chaos emeralds so I can try and come back home. That may take a while, so I am counting on you and the others to stop Eggman if he causes any trouble there, okay?"
"Alright," tails responded enthusiastically.
"Good. Okay, I have some emeralds to find, take care bud."
"Good luck Sonic." With that, the call ended. Sonic was unsure if the signal would reach again, but he remained hopeful it would. The real problem was the batteries could possibly die on him, so he was going to try and reserve them as much as possible. He stored the handheld away as discord walked up to him.
"Sooooooo," Discord began, "chaos emeralds," he asked.
"Probably completely different from the chaos you create. They are basically these special artifacts from my world that can turn thought and passion into power."
"Hmph," was all discord could respond with.
"Well Sonic," Twilight began, "based on what you told us, it could take a long time to find the chaos emeralds, and since they are your only way back to your home, we could help you look for them," twilight said as she pointed to everyone, who nodded in agreement.
"Yeah," Rainbow Dash began, "And with the way you single-hoofedly took out those timber-wolves, nothing can stand in our way of getting them. Which, by the way, was So. Awesome."
Sonic looked out all the colorful equines as they nodded at first but then began to whistle and cheer and stomp their hooves. Sonic was more than thrilled to have so many help him search.
"Thank you everyone, truly. I am so grateful that you are willing to take time out of your busy lives to help me search. Although I can almost guarantee you that the emeralds will not all be in this town alone. They will have more than likely spread out all over the entire planet. It is completely random where they end up. Some of you may not be able to travel that far to search, it means more than enough to me to have your moral support.
"Hey man," began a muscular, white, Pegasus pony with blond hair and red eyes, "it is the least we could do for you for saving all of our rear ends." "Yeah," shouted another pony. "You rule Sonic," said another pony. "I wouldn't mind staying here for a while," Sonic thought as he put on another cocky grin, "things are about to get interesting."
"SONIC, SONIC, SONIC," shouted all the ponies in unison. Sonic felt so appreciated here, everyone was so nice. All but one pony wasn't cheering though. They slipped away from the crowd and around the corner into an alley. An evil smile spread across their face.
"Well Well," they said as a green flame engulfed them and their body became black and got pure blue eyes with legs that were riddled with holes," looks like we've got ourselves a new hero, the queen will be most pleased to hear this," it said, chuckling darkly.