//------------------------------// // Chasing Timberwolves! Hints of Darkness? // Story: Sonic/MLP: Equestrian Chaos // by Penguin Lagann //------------------------------// TV-PG-DV Canterlot Castle My most faithful student… Princess Celestia crumpled up the paper she was writing on. ‘No, that doesn't sound right anymore,’ she thought. She grabbed another piece of paper, and started to write on it with a quill. Dear Twilight Sparkle… She crumpled up that paper as well. ‘Not that either, its needs to be formal.’ Princess Twilight Sparkle… ‘No, no NO! That’s way too formal for her!’ Celestia kept angrily rewriting her letter, while Princess Luna, her sister, walked by, showing fatigue from a long night. “Good morning sister.” She stopped in place, seeing that her sister was stressed. “Sister?” Celestia woke from her anger trance. “Huh, oh, hi Luna." She went back to the letter, while Luna trotted in frustrated. “Tia, this is the fourth time since she was crowned that you’ve had trouble writing to your former student.” Celestia looked down and sighed. “I’m sorry Lulu. I just don't know how to do it anymore. Should I do it formally since she's a princess, or do I call her my former student? Its driving me crazy!” Luna grabbed the quill. "How about… this?” To my friend, Twilight Sparkle… Celestia smiled at Luna, and then hugged her. “Its perfect sister. Thank you!” "It twas nothing sister. Now come. You need to attend day court.” Celestia sent out the letter, and then walked her way to the court, but not before looking at her room. “Maybe it needs to be more casual?” “Come on Tia!” Luna grabbed and dragged her out. … Sonic was running around the marketplace, trying to find the items listed from Twilight. He took note at how there were a few ponies who were trying to scam him. ‘Sheesh. No need to be an ***hole,’ he thought, as he paid a cherry guy 20 bits for 2 cherries. Sonic pulled out his list. “Okay now, cherries, gems, hay, tomatoes, and soda. That looks to be about it for today.” He then sped on his way back home, but not before he got a familiar thought in his head. ‘If I die protecting the Master Emerald, then so be it.’ Sonic stopped and shivered. “Where did that come from?” I couldn't have thought of that without a reason.” He then looked around for red. “Is Knuckles somehow here?” He stopped talking to notice that there were a lot of ponies giving him weird looks. “…and I just realized I humiliated myself. In front of everyone.” He then continued to run back to Twilight’s castle. … “Bungee jumping? I dunno Ropewalk, we've tried it before, and it didn't really work out," Scootaloo pointed out. She and her friends, Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle, were trying to help a small filly find her cutie mark. And she wanted to do it in stunt work. “I got this girls! Trust me!” Ropewalk said. She tied the safety rope around her harness, and then jumped. “Geronimo!” At that moment, the rope snapped, sending Ropewalk tumbling and screaming down the cliff. “The rope broke!” Apple Bloom exclaimed. Scootaloo became mad. “Seriously? Your concerned about rope, when someone is falling?!” “Ah am concerned about her! Ah'm just saying, if we payed attention to the rope and its condition, none of this would even happen!” “The rope doesn't matter anymore! It snapped, end of story!!” “Stop you guys!” Sweetie Belle chimed in. “Someones falling, and we need to help them!” Pinkie Pie popped out of nowhere. “Unnecessary remark to pad out the story!” The crusaders ignored the 4th wall breaking pony, and continued to argue. “Weird. No one’s ever ignored those types of comments.” She then disappeared from the scene. The crusaders were broken from their argument from seeing their friend got saved by a mysterious blue thing. “Thank you mysterious blue porcupine!” An ecstatic Scootaloo said. “Scootaloo, ah think you mean a blue rat,” Apple Bloom chimed in. Before Sonic sped off, he answered the girls question. “To answer the question, I'm not a rat or a porcupine. I'm Sonic. Sonic the Hedgehog.” Sonic ran right into the castle, leaving a breeze for Twilight to get while reading. “That was awfully quick.” He smirked, wiping dirt off his arms. “Would’ve been faster, but I had to save a kid from falling. Little rugrat tried bungie jumping.” Twilight got up. “That was awfully sweet of you. Did you get…” “Mr The Hedgehog?” Twilight and Sonic turned around to find Ropewalk. “Thanks for for saving me! Its an honor to be in my savior’s presence!” Sonic was confused for a moment, but then just grew a grin. “Kid, just call me Sonic. None of that mister or savior junk. Now run along. I believe your parents are worried sick about you.” ‘Kinda reminds me of Cream a little bit.’ “Ok Mister Sonic!” When the filly left, Twilight looked down at the floor. “You must be very popular at your world.” “I am. All those Eggman beatings really make you noticed. Especially when it brands you as a rebel." Sonic noticed that Twilight was looking awful down. “Was it something I said?” “Wha.. no. Its just,” Twilight hesitated for a moment but then spoke, “I’m a princess. I have wings, I have a horn, and I have a crown. Yet I just don't feel like I can do it.” She walked to her window. “I’ll have so many responsibilities, I won't see my friends often cause I’ll likely be involved in very dangerous stuff, and I’ll have to rule Equestria alongside the other princesses, none of which I even asked for in the first place!” Her sclera flashed lime green for a second. “(Sigh) But, its my duty. And I know Princess Celestia has her best intentions in mind. I can't let her down, but I'm deathly worried that I’ll just mess up.” Sonic wrapped his arm around Twilight, and his hand went through her mane, which confused her. “I know whatcha mean. When I first fought Eggman, I was afraid my close friends would get harmed by him. Especially when they wanted to fight back as well.” Sonic smiled. “But after a while, I got used to it. They helped me out a lot, to the point where we drove Eggmans force to the ground. And best of all, we came out stronger because of it.” Twilight wiped up any tears she had. “Thank you Sonic.” Sonic started ruffling up her mane. “Stop being so mushy and lighten up! Your around the coolest hedgehog around!” Twilight tried to be serious, yet she couldn't help but giggle. “Stop that! Besides, you were being sappy as well!” “I have a pass to do it!” “Let me see it!” “I left it in another world!” “Likely story!” Sonic and Twilight were snapped out of their (totally not love) talk by the screams from outside. “What the?” Sonic and Twilight went out to find Ponyville under attack by a timberwolf. … Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, and Rarity were surrounded by the Timberwolf. Instead of running, like any other pony, AJ grabbed her lasso and started to wrangle it around the wooden dog. “Come on girls! Help me wrap this around him!” The other three began to wrap it around his legs, while Rarity knotted the rope. 'Just because its a plain old rope, doesn't mean it can't be used eloquently.’ She thought. The rope didn’t hold up for long though, as the wolf reanimated outside of it. While Rarity cursed the rope for not holding up, the others were surrounded by the wooden dog yet again. “Get here soon Twi. We need you,” AJ said. … Twilight and Sonic arrived to where the others were. “We’re here girls! I have a plan to defeat him.” “Weird thing is, a giant wooden dog isn't the weirdest thing I've seen all day,” Sonic said before getting into the group huddle. “So here’s what we’re gonna do. Applejack, you and the others distract the wolf while I gather up enough magic to keep him in place. Any questions?” Everyone shook their heads. “Good. Now 3, 2, 1, go!” The others started to distract the wolf. “Hey, mutt! Fresh meat!” Sonic said while slapping his butt. The girls couldn't help but laugh. … Twilight stood in place, focusing on the magic that she needed to produce. She kept struggling. ‘Come on Twilight,’ she thought. ‘You need to do this.’ She thought back to how well she knew her friends, and how if she didn’t do this, then she would lose her town and friends. When she opened her eyes, she felt she had the right amount of magic needed. “Alright you Everfree monster, take this! Magical Halt!” She yelled as she released the built up magic, trapping the Timberwolf. Twilight panted, and then smiled. “We did it!” Sonic went up and hugged Twilight. “I know I'm not a ‘hugging’ person, but c’mon, that was awesome!” Twilight just smiled at that. All of a sudden, the wolf broke free from the magic, and took a swipe at Sonic, leading him to fall. “Did not see that coming,” he said, before coughing up some blood, while the wolf proceeded to destroy the town. Twilight started to tear up. She would lose everything that she loved to a wolf, and she didnt want tat to happen. ‘Use the Dark arts.’ Whatever the voice was, it made Twilight snap. Her horn began to flare black, green, and purple swirls, the sclera of her eyes turned a sickly lime green, and purple wisps flowed out from the corners. ‘I’m going to make him suffer,’ she thought. “Kneel!” The timber wolf looked at her in confusion. This angered Twilight. “I said kneel!” The wolf, not wanting to anger her anymore, sat down. “Now, I want you to listen to me and obey every single thing I say.” She closed her eyes, then reopened then, her pupils hardly showing. “Get lost.” The timber wolf went out on his way, but not before an angry Sonic shot a black beam at him. He too looked different, as his fur darkened a bit. The two went back to normal, as Twilight fainted. Sonic went over to comfort her, while Tails, who was away for an hour, found them. “Sonic! There you are! I couldn't find you in all of this…” He then noticed that Sonic was being serious while holding Twilight. “Sonic, we need to tell them everything.” Sonic just sighed, as he took Twilight home. … In Twilight’s mind “Did I just, kill him?!” Twilight worried, her pupils surrounded with a lime green color. ‘No worries, Princess. You didn’t kill him. You just stripped him of his free will, forever condemning him to never know of what freedom is,’ a voice that she didnt recognize said Twilight scorned at the invisible voice. ‘Oh, right. That’s even worse.’ “Who are you? And why are you doing this?” ‘Trust me, I’ll make you wish you regretted what you did to me.’ “Tell me who you are! What did I even do to you?!” ‘Im going to slaughter your friends, and watch as you lose your threads of sanity, one by one.' Twilight’s eyes leaked purple mist from them, while tears flowed down from them. “Get out.” ‘Hm?’ “I said, get out!!” Twilight kept shooting black lasers into the dark background. ‘My my! This is coming along much better than I hoped!’ The voice said when he was out of hearing point. Twilight just sat there and cried, wondering what’s happened to her.