Chapter 3
The Race Around The World: Sonic vs. Rainbow Dash
Part 1
Sonic and Rainbow Dash were making their way towards Canterlot at very high speeds.
‘Wow, she really is as fast as she says she is,’ Sonic thought. ‘This is gonna rock.’
‘I-I don’t believe it he really is as fast as me,’ Rainbow thought. ‘I could lose. No I won’t lose.’
And they both kicked it up to a higher gear
As they raced through Ponyville, several onlookers saw two blurs whiz through town.
“What the heck was that,” one of them asked astonished. She knew one of them was Rainbow dash because of the rainbow trail. But she had no idea what the solid blue blur was.
“Rainbow Dash racing someone,” A male next to her deadpanned. “What else is new?”
AT SWEET APPLE ACRES
The equestrians were excited and were wondering how the race was going. Then they saw that Tails was messing with his miles electric.
“What are you doing?” Twilight asked.
“I’m making it so that my electric will be able to project a video of the race to us via satellites,” Tails said as he placed his pad on the ground and a holographic screen popped up showing Sonic and RD racing neck and neck.
“Wow,” Twilight said, amazed at the device being able to do what she could do with her magic.
On the screen a small object appeared on it. It looked metallic and had a weirdly shaped body seemingly made up of oblongs. It had yellow eyes and yellow mouth, which was in a creepy smile. In its right arm was a microphone and had a propeller on its head reminding her of the propeller she enchanted for Tank.
“Hiya,” It spoke in a female voice. “I’m Omochao and I’m going to be the announcer for the race. And it looks like our contenders are neck and neck. Who’s gonna win?”
And it floated off screen allowing a full view of the racers, who were coming on a big lake.
WITH SONIC AND RAINBOW DASH
Rainbow dash was looking ahead and saw the lake and grinned.
‘Sweet, he’ll have to go all the way around it,’ Rainbow thought. ‘Time to break the news,hehehe,’
“What’s got you so happy?” Sonic asked.
“That lake,” Rd said and she pointed towards the lake in front of them.
Sonic looked and saw the lake.
‘We’ll skittles,’ Sonic thought. ‘Think you have the drop on me, well think again.’ And he slowed down and allowed RD to pass him until she was a few feet in front of him and they finally reached the edge of the lake.
Rainbow was feeling pretty good with herself as she made it halfway across the lake. Since she could fly over the lake, she would gain a considerable lead over her hedgehog opponent. Well she thought she would.
“Yo, Skittles,” a voice cried from next to her. She looked and gaped as she saw Sonic not only running on water, but he was running backwards. “Now you didn’t think a lake was gonna stop me, now did you?”
‘What the? How the?’ Rainbow dash thought as she stared and unfortunately she was slowing down a little bit, giving Sonic the time to pull ahead to the other side of the lake. She mentally scolded herself, and sped up and caught up to the blue blur just as they entered Canterlot.
IN CANTERLOT CASTLE
“Princess,” a guard spoke up. “We have just finished sending word to Shining Armor. He will arrive here at days end.”
“That is good to hear,” Celestia said to the guard. He bowed and exited. With the possibility of being kidnapped at any second, she and her sister had sent a message to twilight’s brother requesting his presence in Canterlot to help fortify defenses.
Just then two blurs raced by the castle rocking it and nearly breaking the glass windows.
Celestia regained her footing and looked out side and saw two blurs, a rainbow trail and solid blue trail racing away from Ponyville. ‘What’s Twilight up to now?’ the sun princess thought. She then heard her sister appear behind and walk up to her.
“Tia, what was that?” Luna asked.
“I don’t know, Lulu,” Celestia said. “But I do believe Twilight would be able to explain.” And she pointed towards Ponyville.
“Ah I see shall we go,” Luna said.
“Yes,” Ceslestia answered.
BACK AT SWEET APPLE ACRES
The mane 6 and sonic’s friends were looking at the race.
“Anybody getting’ hungry,” Applejack asked walking up to a tree.
After a murmur of agreement, she turned around before Silver stopped her.
“Please allow me,” he said. The ponies were confused when they saw him lift his arm up and then became surprised when he glowed cyan and the apples on the tree were surrounded by a cyan aura and floated into the hand of each of them.
Twilights eyes lit up at this.
She went up to silver and said, “you can do magic?!”
“Magic,” Silver said. “That wasn’t magic. That was my psychokinesis.”
“psychokiwhoziwahat,” Spike said.
“I can move things with my mind,” Silver said tapping the side of his head.
“Wow,” Twilight said amazed. “I’ve never heard of this ability.”
“Well, abilities like that are quite common in the future,” said Silver.
It was the word ‘future’ that got twilights complete attention.
“Y-y-you’re from the future,” twilight said, her wings flared and her eyes wide as dinner plates.
“200 years to be exact,” Silver said proudly.
It was at that point Twilight disappeared and then reappeared with a desk quill ink and paper and said, “Tell me everything.” And she began writing everything Silver said about the future.
But something strange happened when he finished.
“That’s probably not true since you’re here now,” said Silver “But it’s probably somewhat true since I’m still here.”
But as soon as he said that he was tackled from behind by a pink blur that revealed itself to be a pink hedgehog wearing a red dress, red boots, white gloves with gold rings around her wrists.
“Oh sonic I knew I would find you,” She said.
“Amy would ya get off,” Silver said loudly.
“No chance Sonic, your not gonna escape from Amy Rose,” Amy said, until she noticed something different with ‘Sonic’ and looked up and saw eyes of not green but gold. She then realized her mistake and pushed Silver away. “Oh my gosh, Silver I am so sorry.”
“Geez Amy, This is the third time you mistook me for Sonic,” Silver said exasperated. “No offense but are you color blind?”
“Who are they,” Amy asked, changing the subject.
“OWWW!!!” they heard a voice cry out. And saw Spike rubbing his cheek with a chaos emerald in his hand. “What the heck?”
It was at that point that Twilight noticed a tooth lying on the ground, a dragon tooth.
“Spike,” Twilight said in a motherly tone. “What did you do?”
“I was only gonna take a nibble,” Spike said in his defense, still holding his cheek. “But it was so good I just took a bite and it broke my tooth.”
“You tried to eat the chaos emerald?” Knuckles said.
Twilight sighed as she lifted Spikes tooth with her magic and fixed it into place. Spike then looked at the chaos emerald in his hand, it wasn’t damaged. Heck, he didn’t even scratch it.
“Why didn’t I damage it,” Spike questioned out loud.
“Because hun,” Said a seductive female voice. The looked up towards the speaker, who was sitting on top of the barn, and saw what looked like a bat in a heart themed jumpsuit with white fur on her head, and her uh assets and muzzle revealed tan skin. She also had blue eyes and eye shadow. “The chaos emeralds are indestructible.”
“Rouge,” Tails said.
“Heya, foxboy,” Rouge said.
She then jumped down and landed gracefully on her feet.
“What you doing here, Rouge,” Knuckles said taking a fighting stance.
The equestrians were puzzled by how he was acting so hostile.
“Heya, Knuckie,” Rouge said to Knuckles. “Guessing since you’re here that means my emerald is here as well.”
“For the last time, the master emerald doesn’t belong to you,” Knuckles said. “So quit trying to steal it.”
That explained a lot.
“Why does she want to steal it?” Twilight asked Tails.
“To add it to her jewel collection.” He responded
“Well who wouldn’t that handsome hunk of an emerald in her collection,” Rarity chimed in.
Rouge turned to Rarity and said, “Finally someone who has some sense.”
“Seems you’ve made a few new friends, Twilight,” a sweet sounding voice said. They all turned to see the diarchs of equestria touch down at sweet apple acres.
“Princess Celestia,” Twilight said, shocked to see them here. “Princess Luna, what are you two doing here?”
“We saw two blurs race by Canterlot,” Luna said.
“Oh, That was just Rainbow Dash and Sonic having a race,” Twilight said to them.
“How did I know that would happen,” said Celestia. “So who are your new friends?”
“Oh this is Silver, Tails, Amy, Knuckles and Rouge,” Twilight said pointing to each of them. “They’re friends of Sonic.”
“A pleasure to meet you all,” Celestia said to them.
“The honor is ours, Princess,” Silver said politely.
“And we found out more about Dr. Eggman from them,” Pinkie said.
“Do tell,” Luna said intrigued.
ONE LONG ASS EXPLANATION LATER.
“So we where transported to another dimension,” Luna repeated.
“Yes, princess,” Twilight answered. “That is everything we learned.”
This was a lot of information to take in. The royal pony sisters had begun the day believing everything to be right as rain to be all right, but they then find themselves, and their entire country, in another dimension entirely. They were surprised when they saw Tails bring up a holomap of the planet, showing on an entirely different world. They were also surprised when they learned about the chaos emeralds and master emerald, and agreed with Twilight, they were a lot like the Elements of Harmony and the tree respectively.
Princess Celestia, who was still coming over the surprise that something related to chaos was being used for good, turned towards Knuckles, who was still by the cellar doors, which lead to the master emerald, which he had reluctantly showed to her.
“Knuckles,” Celestia said to him. “You said that you are the guardian of the master emerald, correct?”
“Yes,” Knuckles answered.
“I was wondering if you would be able to use it to send us back home?” asked Celestia.
“Well I don’t think I could,” Knuckles answered. “Just because I’m its guardian, doesn’t mean I know everything about it. If the Chaos emeralds were in your dimension, then maybe I could do it and get you guys back to your home dimension. But since Eggman was the one who brought you here, I think he would be the only one who could send you back. And I highly doubt he would do it.”
“Thank you for your honesty,” Celestia said to him.
Knuckles nodded and returned to his guard duty.
She looked at everyone else and turned her attention to the hologram showing the race.
“So how is the race,” She asked.
“It appears that Sonic and Rainbow dash are evenly matched in terms of speed,” Her sister replied.
“I wonder who will win?” Celestia thought out loud.
After a murmuring from everyone that who either said “Sonic” or “Rainbow dash”, She conjured chairs for everyone, but before they could take their seats, they heard a voice that was familiar with the sun and moon princesses.
“Fortunately for you that will be none of your concern,” A voice with a slight british accent called out. Everyone there turned and saw something shocking. They saw a male unicorn pony wearing the armor of the captain of the royal guard standing right there, and behind him were a dozen egg gunners and several smaller robots that were red and were carrying laser blasters. On the pony’s armor was a symbol that strangely looked like eggmans face. “My master has asked me to bring you to him, Princesses.”
“StarStrike, what is the meaning of this,” Celestia asked, she looked appalled at the sight in front.
“Let’s just say I have seen the light,” Starstrike answered. “And I have been ordered by my new commander, Dr Eggman, to bring you to him.”
“Why,” Celestia asked. She was shocked that one of her own ponies would turn traitor.
“Let’s just say I like to be on the winning team,” He said snidely. “You are most certainly not the winning team.”
“What the hay is going on,” Twilight cried out, thoroughly confused. “Who is he?”
“Ah yes you should have met me after you became a princess, but circumstances kept that from happening,” StarStrike said. “I am StarStrike, before I was chosen by Sun and Moon here to be your brothers replacement as captain of the royal guard, I was your brothers second in command.”
The mane 6 all gasped at this. Someone Shining Armor trusted to be his righthand pony betrayed the royal crown.
“I knew making you captain of the guard was a mistake,” Luna all but growled. “I wish I saw you for the traitorous swine you really were. If I had I would’ve destroyed you on the spot.”
“But you didn’t,” StarStrike said. He turned to the robots. “Seize them.”
The smaller robots moved and one reached out to grab Princess Luna when suddenly a voice cried out, “CHAOS SPEAR!!” and an energy bolt had come out of nowhere and struck itself into the head of the robot and it stumbled backwards, firing a few shots from its laser rifle before falling to the ground in a heap.
They all turned to the source of the energy bolt and saw a male hedgehog standing on top of the barn. He had black fur with a small tuft of white fur on his chest and six spines on his head, though the outer 4 were pointed slightly up and 2 on his back. He had a tan muzzle. They saw that he had ruby-red eyes, which gave everyone there the impression that he might be looking into their souls. They saw that he had red streaks of fur on his head spines, and on his arms, legs, and around his eyes. He was wearing white gloves with red cuffs and a gold ring on his wrists. We was wearing strangely shaped shoes that were white on the front and red on the back, and appeared to be made of metal. There was also a gold ring on each of his ankles. All in all, he had a much more intimidating appearance compared to Sonic or Silver.
He jumped down and landed ten feet away from the group and stood up crossing his arms while continuing the intimidating stare. Fluttershy hid behind Tails because she was finding him to be scary.
“And who are you,” StarStrike asked him.
The hedgehog looked at him and Starstrike flinched which was weird for him because he only flinched when Luna looked at him. The hedgehog then gave his answer…
“I’m Shadow the Hedgehog,” He said. “The Ultimate lifeform.”