"Say! ... Words! ... Can! You! Understand! Me?!" Sonata asked.
Little Sonic ran off then returned with Twilight's miniature white board, [I can not speak!]
Sonata tilted her head, "Why cant you speak?"
[Because I]
"Because what?"
Sonic looked at the board and returned with a new marker, [Because I was kicked in the throat. Long story, small board.]
"What is that T word?" Sonata asked. Sonic shook his head before pointing to his neck.
[This.]
"Does it hurt?"
[Only when I tr] Frustrated, he ran off and returned again, [Only when I try to speak.]
"Oh... So, what were you trying to tell me earlier?"
[Where's Tails?]
"Oh! You mean the yellow fox with the two tails?" Sonic nodded in response.
"He's in Canterlot City, America. Do you want me to take you to him?" Nod. "Oh, can we get tacos on the way?"
[Sure, why not? Its nearly lunch time.] They entered Twilight's Castle and did the usual, place Twilight and Sunset's harmony emeralds in the two chaos emerald slots and jump through the mirror. Before jumping Sonic thought, If Tails is in Canterlot City, then why are the emeralds out of place?
At Taco Bell, Aria and Adagio were fired after the former got employee of the year within her fourth week on the job while the latter was upset that she put in as much effort for months.
"Nice going Adagio..." Aria said, tossing her black cap on the ground.
Adagio fell to her knees sighing, "Well, I wasn't the one who destroyed the soda fountain!"
"Whatever, I'm going to find a job." Aria walked off, rolling her eyes.
Before Adagio could leave, Loco Taco came out with a mop, "Clean."
Adagio looked up, "D- Does this mean..."
"Yes, you get a second chance. Now go clean!" he said between his teeth and stroking his mustache as he handed her the mop. He calmed down some, grabbing her shoulder, "Oh, and tell Aria that if she wants her job back she will have to work the hours."
Adagio remembered the hours. They were either during her lunch break or midnight with interesting characters. "Y-yes sir!"
"You will love this place, Sonic!" Sonata said with a smile as the two humans walked the sidewalk towards Taco Bell. "There's these chips called Doritos that they put into the most delicious food ever! Tacos!"
Screech, screech, squeak, [I doubt they're better that chili dogs.]
As the walked inside Sonata smirked, "Prepare for your mind to be blown!"
[This better not be another hamburger vs burrito thing. There's already two idiots doing that debate with no winner.]
"Sonata?!"
Sonata looked down at him, "Did you say anything." Unamused, Sonic gave her a slow set of claps before pointing to a tired looking yellow girl with frizzy and curled orange hair wearing the usual uniform, eyes wide, and jaw hanging. Sonata turned her attention, "Oh, hey Adagi!"
"Don't "hey Adagi" me! Where have you been?!" Adagio questioned, getting in the blue girl's face.
Sonata put a finger to her chin, "Either Equus or Mobius. Despite the debate: Ponyville!" She finished with a grin.
"Debate?! Why is there a debate on a planet's name?!" Sonic tugged on her sleeve. "What is it?"
[A lot has changed. It used to be Mobius, now its Equus, but now time has merged the two into one.] Sonic smiled.
"Whose the kid?" Adagio asked.
Sonata held her hand, looking at the menu, "Hold on..." She looked down, "What would you like Sonic?"
[One of those Dorito Tacos you mentioned and a nuclear taco.]
"But it says its not for kids!"
A black guy leaned over the counter, "We can take out the peppers, miss."
Adagio turned her head, "Can it Robert, I'm the one talking!"
"And I'm the one who knocks. You better get back to work before the boss returns, I don't want to see you without a job." Robert returned his attention to the two customers, "Would you like the meal or just the tacos?"
Adagio groaned, "Why and how are you in the pony world?!" she asked, leaving a wet floor sign. Behind her, Lyra slipped on an ice cube, causing her to nearly drop her tray. Luckily, the former siren leader bounced the tray off her mop handle and caught it. As the food fell, she caught everything in a fluid motion while Lyra was between her arm and mop. Handing the tray to Lyra, she smirked and said with a fake-happy tone, "Watch your step! Have a nice day~!"
The room clapped as Adagio mopped the floor and left more wet floor signs. Sonata clapped along, "That was amazing!"
Adagio glared, "You're not off the hook, yet."
"Tell Aria I said hi!" Sonata said, walking off with Sonic to a table.
"Stupid tacos. Stupid Adagio. Stupid boss watching my (you thought this was cursing, eh?) butt..." Aria said as she neared her apartment. On the door, a reminder about their due rent money brought more anger to the purple girl. She walked inside and sat on the junkyard couch, flipping on a TV with static. "Adagio forgot to pay the cable bill! That f(got ya, again!)ch!"
From behind, a woman's voice broke the silence, "Now that's not nice to say~."
Adagio turned her head, falling to the ground, "HOW DID YOU GET IN?!"
In front of her stood a woman that looked similar to her, with a single ponytail, wearing a pink sweater with two horizontal black stripes in the middle and cream colored jeans with a mark of a blue star with streaks coming off it. "I think the question is "what can I do for you?" My name is Starlight Glimmer, servant of King Sombra the Time Eater." She points her finger at Aria, who is somehow back in her Canterlot High clothes. "We want you to join our team!"
The whole room was engulfed in shadows while the only audible words heard now from Aria was, "What's going on?!" Before the apartment was once again empty...
Adagio slumped in her seat, "So you live in Equestria and our old world is overrun by these humanoid animal things?"
"Yes, and I'm one of 'em!" Sonata said, returning from getting more water for Sonic, who ate the nuclear taco with the peppers still inside.
Adagio's attention was away from the little kid with tiny fireballs leaping from his mouth that took the drink from her sister, "You are?!"
"I'm a pony one!"
"hmph. Figures..." she replied, head on her arms. Sonic, out of water, suddenly gained a bubble of fire around him. He punched it out of existence, only for a new one to form with a bwop sound.
"There's also three Sonics and one to two of his friends." Adagio's head rose up. "I don't understand either. I was told to believe time is like spaghetti."
[Wibbley Wobbley Timey Wimey... stuff.]
"What he said," Sonata said, pointing at the white board. Sonic glared at her while slowly eating another taco in his flame shield. "Oh... hehe... Sorry."
"Why is this guy mute? I mean, no offense, but were you born like that?" Adagio asked. Sonic made a poorly drawn picture of a blue mobian hedgehog being kicked in the throat by a robot chicken, tossed by a green thing... Adagio couldn't tell what is was. There yellow circles all over the place... that looked like a... bar? There was a slot machine so... a casino? "Wow... um... That's some active imagination!"
Sonic jumped from his seat, homing in on a cup on the ground, tossing it around in focused homing attacks before kicking it in the trash and finally touching the ground without his shield... which caught up to him. He arched an eyebrow at the yellow girl. [A true blue story, lady! I take offense to those who say otherwise.]
"How did you do that?!"
[I don't know how my future me's do it, but I have a thing on my shoes.] He said, pointing to a protected computer chip inside his buckle. [Homing attack is way past cool.]
"'Way past cool?' What're you from? The 90's?"
[Says Ms. Frizzle's daughter at Taco Bell. I'm from the year 3230. Born day 162, 3220.]
Adagio moved some hair back inside her cap then shrugged, "I have no clue what that means."
They continued to converse with each other, not knowing that they were being watched...