//------------------------------// // Making new friends, with some surprises // Story: Chaos Kids, Harmonic Travels // by HedgehogofRed1999 //------------------------------// Jade POV I awoke in the spare bedroom, as the sunlight glistened and shone on my face. True I didn't really need to wake up, but I didn't like being secluded to one place, or being lazy and laying in on a beautiful day like today, the ground, was enveloped in the golden rays of the sun and the trees started swaying in the breeze. I opened the window to have the bracing winds fly past my face, waking me up completely. I started to crack my bones and stretch my body to make sure I didn't sprain any muscles before I started running anywhere. I opened my door and went downstairs to find Vanilla, already up and making a baked breakfast. I looked at her as she started flipping the bacon and started to speak. "I didn't know you were an early riser?" I questioned, to which she froze up and flipped the bacon off of her pan and my eyes followed the bacon till it eventually fell on my head. Vanilla apologised, to which I said there was no need. "In any case to answer you earlier question, yes I've been quite an early riser as of late, which should be reversed, what with me nearly being a midwife and all" Vanilla answered, which I just simply smiled at, I decided to ask if Cream or Fluttershy were awake yet. My answer came from a high pitched 'NO!' coming from the living room. I immediately went into the room to find two Chao fighting over a crumb of Chao food and both of them getting angrier at the other, I raised my eyes to see Cream looking down at me. "Chocola, that was Cream's piece of food, I'll get you some more later, come on guys!" Cream begged, as the two Chao continued to fight over the crumb of food. I then thought of something. I put my hands together, whilst shouting Chaos Matter and in an instance there was another piece of Chao food, in my hand. Both Chao looked at it and started drooling, I, not wanting to be mean decided to make another piece of food in my other hand and each gave the Chao one each, they both happily chewed on the food and started nibbling on my fingers, I couldn't help but smile at each and they started to chow down on my fingers I looked over to Cream, who had her mouth agape in amazement, and asked me how I did that, to which I went and sat with her on the sofa and started to explain. "So you can make food appear from your hands using the power of the Chaos Emeralds?" Cream asked. "No I use my own chaos energy to make the food, since I'm linked to the colour of Nature and Peace when I say Chaos Matter, what I create will be natural, whether that be trees, food, or anything else to do with our planet" I explained, she nodded in awe and asked if I could make something for her, she whispered in my ear and immediately my face lit up into a smile. We decided to go outside and at once I put my hand to the ground and shouted 'Chaos Matter' again and at once a tree rose from the ground, but it sported its own personal slide and also grew to the size of a treehouse, even with a personal made ladder to get up it. Cream at once, looked on at awe at my connection with Chaos and hugged me tight and told me how much she loved my power of nature. I responded by being as modest as possible and just saying it was nothing, but before I could speak she dragged me up the ladder to the slide bit and told me to slide down with her. We both went down the slide enjoying each other's childlike innocence, after we got off the slide, we went inside to see a fully awake Fluttershy, coming down the stairs but what shocked us most was how she now looked, She had turned into a rabbit! Tails' Workshop (Lightning's POV) I awoke from being in the spare room that Tails had provided for me after working 4 hours straight on a new invention, since I wasn't allowed to use my super speed to make it any quicker, Tails had fallen asleep 3 hours in and I had put him on the couch and worked at his set pace on his invention for another hour before succumbing to the dreaming void known as sleep. I went downstairs to find Tails still huddled up in his blanket and just sleeping so soundly, I decided, out of the kindness of my own heart to make some breakfast for the three of us. I had really taken a liking to Twilight and Tails, both were very studious and hard working as well as having lots of ingenuity like me, the only thing that made me better was my speed, I could get things out faster than they could, but still it was nice to be surrounded by like-minded people. 20 minutes later Having made the breakfast I decided to dig in and leave enough for Twilight and Tails, after that I went into the living room to relax. As I sat down I heard Tails awaken and after removing the sleep from his eyes and approaching me, he asked "Who cooked that food?" "I made it Tails, I hope you enjoy" I said cheerfully, to which his jaw dropped. After recovering he proceeding to ask about me. "So you're Sonic's Intelligence right?" Tails asked. "No, I'm the Chaos Embodiment of the Colour I am, which is yellow, which is the colour of Sunlight, The colour of electricity in some senses and the colour of intelligence" I explained. "So you're saying that I'm only smart due to my colour?" Tails suggested. "It could be that, it could be your mutation of your two namesakes that somehow increased your IQ to rival Robotnik, we will never know, even with someone as smart as me" I explained. "Guys what are you talking about?" Twilight slurred as she walked in to the room and she looked like a fox, no not that type of fox like the same sort of fox as Tails, she lost her alicorn wings, in exchange for a two tails and having purple fur with a sort of six point star with diamonds of the end of each point appearing on her rear. Needless to say, I was stunned by her sudden transformation. Amy's house (Tang's POV) I got out of bed and started to head downstairs to see Pinkie already up, and Amy asleep on her couch, cuddling her Sonic toy, the less I say about that the better. In any case, Pinkie was making a baked breakfast as I could see the toast pop out of the toaster and immediately she started bouncing towards the toaster and trying to use her hooves to grab the toaster and then trying to put the toast on her back hooves to flip them onto the plate, though I could tell she was having a tough time with it. "Yo Pinkie, you ok?" I asked, she, obviously in shock started to hide the breakfast from me. "Yeah totally fine, no problem here" Pinkie said struggling to cram the breakfast behind a tight corner. I had obviously seen and didn't want her to strain herself, so I asked if she wanted my help and made it clear I had seen the breakfast. "Aww Tangy-Wangy you're no fun!" Pinkie whined. "Let me fix that, Chaos Control!" I yelled and at an instance the whole of the house froze in time except me and Pinkie. "What did you do Tangy?" Pinkie asked. "I froze time, so we can just leisurely walk around with no rush at all, but I also wanted to make you happy, When you see my shoe say Quantum Halt and I'll be frozen in time but you will be able to work like nothing is bothering you, and for bonus points when you finish your surprise, shout Chaos Teleport and then Quantum Halt and you'll appear beside me with all the breakfast already ready" I said. "Ok, Thanks Tangy Wangy" Pinkie said, as she pulled me close and gave me a kiss on the cheek, I immediately turned away, but replying with "No problem Pinkie, Say Chaos Rewind to make things the way they were before I came in" I yelled and at that moment she spoke the words that made me, actually I can't remember. Don't you mean that version of you doesn't remember? Who are you? I'm you from the future bye bye past me! Wait, What? A few minutes ago Hello, I'm the Tang from the future of these events, and I'm going to continue these events, in any case, Pinkie told me what my past self had told her, this is why time travel doesn't work in our universe folks! "Anyway, Tangy, enjoy your breakfast, " Pinkie said, gorging my mouth with all the breakfast, I immediately at the smells of the baked food, gobbled it all up, and to my own embarrassment burped. "Oh, Tangy!" Pinkie said as she patted my head and to add insult to injury I started hiccupping. "Hey *hic* quit *hic* it!" I tried to say, under each hiccup. "Here drink some water!" Pinkie said, unlocking the bottle and feeding me like a child. "There, there Tangy" She said, in my ear, honestly I wanted to fall asleep then and there with her baby talk, which was pretty cute and just her energy, but I tried to force her off me, only for her to start hugging me like crazy, and to add super painful insult to super painful injury started stroking my quills, which was the one weak spot of Sonic, if he got stroked there he'd most likely fall asleep. My eyes started to droop and sway, as I tried to stay awake but the feeling of Pinkie's hoof on my quills was so calming, my body became loose and I fell asleep in less than a few seconds needless to say I was pretty knocked out. Angel Island (Crimson POV) "Hey Crimson, you awake?" Applejack said, to which I jumped in place and as a result fell out of my hammock, Applejack at seeing my goof up started laughing and also fell out of her hammock, I caught her and immediately looked into her eyes, we both blushed only for a moment before dropping to the floor in laughter at the goof ups we'd made. As we started to recover, we decided to find Knuckles. I knew the way to the shrine as that was my birthplace, and as we got through the forest Applejack started to question me about how strong I was. "I'm made with the most amount of Power out of all Sonic's clones and as such not only can I access a super form, which is stronger than Hyper Sonic, but I am also the most physical out of the group, meaning I'm the strongest out of all of them and even stronger than Knuckles, and that guy's renowned for his strength and power" I explained. "What are these Chaos Emeralds? I mean you barely talked about 'em" Applejack asked. "The Chaos Emeralds in short are 7 gems of ultimate power and when 7 are collected you either gain ultimate power to save the world or end it" I replied. "So they're like the Elements of Harmony then?" Applejack questioned. "I guess, I don't know what those are, but I'm gonna assume they're on the same level of power" I responded. I didn't know what these Elements of Harmony were it seemed to be another characteristic I noticed our world shared. "Those babies allowed us to gain our bearer forms" Applejack added. "What are those?" I asked as we walked up the stairs of the shrine of the Master Emerald. "Well they're kind of a power boost from the Elements of Harmony, ya see in one of our old adventures when we first faced off against Tirek, the buckaroo was completely infused with Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, Princess Cadence and Twilight's Magic. Our friend Discord gave Twilight a medallion which was the last key needed to unlock this box that had spawned from the Tree of Harmony when we gave the Elements back to it. When we gave the last key for the box , it opened and we were struck by beams of energy that gave us incredible power, Princess Celestia decided to name them bearer forms as they themselves are us at our strongest and at our most connected with each of our elements, I'm the Element of Honesty, ya see" Applejack explained. "Cool, but why did you leave your world to go to the one we found you in?" I wondered. "Twilight as the Princess of Friendship, felt a royal duty for herself to go to this other world to spread friendship there too, we as her friends and as our separate princesses of our elements decided to go along and help her, we swore to be back around a year, we kinda left without saying goodbye, since they kinda forced our hand" Applejack explained. "What do you mean forced your hand?" I asked. "Well seeing as Twilight was now a princess, she'd need a prince right? To carry on if anything happened to her, she had a boyfriend, and his name was Flash Sentry. But they were being forced to marry, Flash Sentry saw it as doing it for the people and Twilight fulfilling her royal duties to her people, but Twilight didn't want to be doing things strictly for her people, she wanted to do things for herself, so on the night before the wedding she travelled to that other world, to escape her royal heritage and her royal status, bringing us along with her" She answered. "I'm sorry to hear that Applejack," I said, sympathy apparent on my lips. "Don't worry about it, you wanted to know and so now you do" She said. "Hey! You two! Been enjoying the island? How did you sleep?" Knuckles asked. "I slept like a rock, this place ain't so bad once you get used to it, I'd probably want to live here" I replied. "It was beautiful Knuckles, how does nobody know how good this place is?" Applejack wondered. "Few people really ever come here because of this," Knuckles said, putting his hand on the Master Emerald. "What's that?" Applejack asked. "It's the Master Emerald, it's the control Emerald for the other 7 emeralds, and it's so powerful and rare without it, this place would've fallen into the ocean" He explained. "Well if it controls those other emeralds then why not just have the emeralds come to you?" Applejack pondered. "That's not what I meant by control emerald, I meant control in terms of control of power, controlling the energy of the emeralds, I can either make them dead as a doorstep or powerful enough to take down Dark Gaia, which is essentially the equivalent of a God of Evil, who lives in the planets core" Knuckles said. "Woah, that's a lot of power!" Applejack said, her mouth agape. "That's why you need a POWERhouse like Knuckles to HOUSE all that power," I said, trying to make them laugh with my puns, they admittedly smirked but then their smirks turned to disapproving shakes of the head. "Please god no don't PUNish us with these bad PUNchlines" Knuckles said, mockingly. "What you got to say for yourself PUNk?" Applejack said, to which we all started balling out in laughter. Rouge's Club (Rarity's POV) I woke up in my bed, and in an instant started to get dressed, and after I took a shower I had a double take, as I couldn't feel my fore hooves anymore underneath me, I now fully awake and panicked looked at my body and was still shock at my transformation into a white panther, I had short whiskers and very pulled back ears and sharp nails on my feet and hands. Of course my physical features and beauty stayed intact but I was still shocked by this sudden development. I thought I was the only one with a shock that morning but that theory was trashed by a high pitched wail coming from the other room. I turned to see Rainbow Dash had been turned into a hedgehog like Sonic's clones. She looked at me with a face of surprising fear, which was unnatural she was usually so calm and collected and held her insecurities well, but at that moment do one thing. That was to scream.