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// We Can 
// Story: Sonic Boom To Sonic Rainboom 
// by Mat the Brawler 
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Chapter 6: We Can

Sonic fell to his knees and pounded the ground in frustration. I couldn’t help but shed a tear.
“Looks like you’re at my mercy for once!” Eggman gloated. “HOHOHO-OH-HOHO!!!”
“THAT’S IT!” I yelled.
As baldy laughed, I bucked Metal Sonic as hard as I could. When my hooves reached the metallic hedgehogs cheek, he flew to a tree and burst into scrap.
“Come on Sonic,” I tried to comfort. “You’ve been through worse, right?”
“Yeah, but I’ve never had so much on the line!” He said in a melancholy tone.
“What do you mean?”
“Two worlds, new friends, and old friends are all at stake.” He enlightened. “Granted that happened before but those were all in books.”
“What?”
“I’ve been sucked into two books, literally!”
I was dumb founded.
“I don’t know the slightest thing about this huge world,” Sonic continued, “And we only have this chaos emerald to dowse with.”
“Come on let’s head back, I’m sure the others can help.”
“Yeah.” He sighed.

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“So that’s what happened.” I finished the story.
Sonic was still bummed out, but the run back cheered him up a bit.
“That’s horrible.” Fluttershy said in a meager and shocked voice.
“It ain’t right.” Applejack agreed.
“Down right barbaric, if you ask me.” Rarity added.
“How could anypony be so cruel?” Twilight pondered.
Pinkie’s cheerful demeanor was replaced with a glum one. She wasn’t quite sure what to say.
‘I have to say something,’ Was all the only thought going through my mind.
I tried to look confident and said, “So what if the worlds rest on our shoulders again?”

“Again?” Sonic asked.
“We’ve saved Equestria twice already.” Twilight clarified.
“Well that’s reassuring.” Sonic smiled.
“We can do it again,” I continued. “With Sonic here it’ll be even easier. We have an emerald we can find the others in no time at all!”
“Especially, with my gem finding spell.” Rarity added.
“Spell, as in magic? Sonic asked.
“Unicorns can do magic.” Spike stepped in. “Now what did she say about an emerald?”
“Oh, uhh,” Sonic pulled the chaos emerald out, and showed it to Spike. “Here it is.”
Spike drooled as he announced, “Oh I can’t help myself!”
“No, don’t!” We all yelled as tried to bite into it.
Instead of the gem being broken, it zapped Spike and sent him flying across the room. He slammed into a bookshelf, and knocked the books all over himself. His mouth was smoking as he sat up and groaned.
“Sorry, I’d have warned you if I knew you’d try to eat it.” Sonic said.
“You knew?” I asked.
“I tried to destroy the emeralds once to keep Eggman from using them.” He elaborated. “It didn’t really work out.”
“Well Equestria’s huge!” Twilight got back on topic. “How do we find the overs?” 
“The chaos emeralds are attracted to each other.”  Sonic explained. “They react to each other.”
“Really?” I asked. “Let me see.”
As Sonic passed me the emerald its power was apparent. The power coursed through my veins and the emerald glowed in my hooves. 
“Wow,” Sonic commented. “I’ve never seen the emeralds this way to anyone but myself.”
“Maybe it’s ‘cause of the elements o’ harmony.” Applejack suggested.
“Elements of harmony?” Sonic was puzzled.
“They’re objects of power.” Twilight explained. “But they represent the elements that go into harmony, and we represent one element each.
“I’m laughter!” Pinkie declared.
“I would be Generosity.” Rarity stated.
“Ah’m honesty.” Applejack said.
“I’m kindness.” Fluttershy mumbled.
“My element is magic.” Twilight added.
“And I’m loyalty.” I boasted.
“That’s pretty cool!” Sonic said excitedly. “So these elements like your equivalents to the emeralds?”
“I guess.” Twilight said. “But we’re the only ponies that can use them. They’ve come in handy before though, we used them to petrify Discord and turn Nightmare Moon back into Princes Luna.”
“Not even gonna ask how that works.” Sonic scratched his head. “Gather the elements if you’re coming along though, we may need them.”
“Okay, we’ll meet up in town square in ten minutes.” Twilight said.
We all went to get our elements. The gold necklace with ruby in the shape of a lightning bolt fit perfectly around my neck.  I sped back to town square. Something caught my eyes on the way back. For a split second I thought a cloud was pink. It was nowhere to be found when I took a second look. I shrugged it off.
“Hey Rainbow!” He was stretching out his legs.
“Hey Sonic, is anypony else here?” I greeted
“Nope, you’re the first, as expected.”
Some time passed and one by one everypony showed up.
“You girls sure you wanna go through with this?” Sonic seemed legitimately worried.  “Admittedly, this is all my fault.”
“What do you mean?”  I was puzzled.
“I got too cocky and Eggman managed to capture my friends and me.” His hands curled up in anger.
“Sonic we’re sticking by you.” I asserted.
“I won’t stop you, but if you change your minds it’s okay.”
Sonic took out the emerald and stared in to it. Slowly, he spun around. The blue hedgehog eventually stopped.
“There.” He pointed to an open path.
“That’s toward mah apple orchard.” Applejack announced.
“Let’s go!” Sonic and I blasted off leaving everypony in the dust.
It was a short jog to the field when we stopped.
“This is about as reactive as the emerald is going to get.” Sonic told us as the others caught up. 
“Well, *puff* leave it to m-me.*pant*” Rarity told us. With a grunt her horn came to light. It pulled her forward.  After about thirty seconds we reached a glowing light, and Sonic and I sped forward. 
“Two more!” I announced as we picked the emeralds. One was silver, and the other the same hue of purple as Twilight’s mane.
“That makes three out of seven!” Twilight pointed the obvious out.
“But I have the fourth!” A male voice that everyponies hearts sink said.