Chapter 5: Sightseeing The Island
Two weeks have passed since Twilight first came here and since then they still haven't figured out how to get Twilight back to her own world, but Twilight still tried her hardest to find a way to get back as she tried to solve her conundrum. She couldn't figure out as she stays up all night and still would never find a clue. Sonic would try to comfort her but he couldn't to no avail, now as she was trying she immediately breaks down trying to figure out, Sonic came in trying to give her something to eat by trying to give her breakfast,
"Hey Twilight are ya hungry, you look like you haven't eaten in a while?" Sonic asked worried about Twilight's health.
"I'm sorry I haven't eaten it's just. I have to figure out how to get back!" Twilight told him urgently at him.
Sonic was feeling a bit sorry for her as she was still turning pages through the pages and was looking like she trying to find the answer, she was trying desperately to find a way back to no avail he then started to think.
"Jeez, she looks like she hasn't gotten any sleep for today," Sonic said thinking to himself.
And then he came up with a thought that she hasn't even gotten outside to see his world often because she was cooped up in his house just reading books all day. So he gave more thought to himself and he came up to a conclusion that maybe Twilight needed to get out so she could see some of the sights of Sonic's world and probably take her mind off this problem at least for today.
"Hey, Twilight?" Sonic asked questionably.
"What?" Twilight said annoyed that Sonic was bothering her for the second time.
"I think you've been in my house for too long I think maybe you should get out and see outside," Sonic said sincerely as he could.
Twilight pondered on what Sonic said that and thought maybe she should get out for a while.
"OK then you make a good point, I have been stuck here for a while and maybe would be nice to go outside," Twilight said.
She then ate the breakfast he gave her to at least fill her stomach. Sonic in a blur went to the kitchen and packed a picnic basket, and he went to also pack a tent into a backpack then went to Twilight.
"Alright, I already packed something to eat for our little camping trip," Sonic said to Twilight as she was confused on what he said.
"Wait I thought we were going for a walk?" She said looking at Sonic.
"Yeah we are, but we're gonna go and camp in a place called Emerald Hill that's not too far from here, don't worry we'll come back tomorrow," Sonic said as he was putting on his stuff on.
"Alright, then I trust you." She said ok with going camping with him.
She went into a dressing room to change her clothes into a purple tank top and dark purple shorts to match and was all ready to go. Then out of nowhere, Sonic came from behind her, also dressed into what looks to be clothes for outdoors, and placed her in his strong arms in bridal style (to which Twilight was blushing fully), then told her.
"Now the shoes on the other foot huh," Sonic said him having a smile on his face, it was probably payback from last time. She remembered and now realized that this was maybe well-deserved vengeance for her, though maybe she was just over thinking it too much?
Then he ran out (with Twilight in toll) out of his house and out to the world. As they were going Twilight with her hair was flapping in the air that was going through her face, she was noticing the plains and everything around her she also wanted to try something assuming if Sonic would let her.
"Hey, Sonic!" She yelled hoping he would hear her,
"Hmm, do you need anything Twi? He stopping and was hearing her question.
"Well, I want to walk the rest of the way because I'm curious about the surroundings and I want to see what this place looks like," Twilight said with a big smile that a kid would look like when he's getting candy,
Sonic thought about it and thought that maybe it was alright to stop and let her view the scenery (especially with Twilight he secretly wanted) he stopped and let Twilight down, so she can go around and explore the surroundings of the forest and Sonic went with her.
As they were traveling, Twilight was walking though the grass, the deep green grass covered the forest floor. Small patches of multicolored wildflowers cropped up here and there. The leaves of the trees overhead cast a shadow over the landscape, allowing small patches of light to seep through and speckle the forest. It made the forest feel, oddly enough, a bit warmer to Twilight she was seeing more than just the scenery and was marveling at its beauty, she then wondered that this forest is so different than the one in her world. But as they went on their journey, a surveillance bot that was flying above them watching their every move.
"Wow this forest is amazing, it feels more serene than the Everfree forest." She said to herself as she looks around the green forest, as Sonic was watching her look around.
MEANWHILE SOMEWHERE IN SPACE
A giant planetary station was floating with five planets chained up on the planetary station, on the said station robots were hard at work building what seems to be an amusement park. Then somewhere else in the station an obese man sitting in his chair he is Doctor Eggman, he's Sonic's arch-nemesis, looking at his construction on the amusement park.
"Yes my amusement park is going perfectly as planned in a few weeks my park will be complete and once I everyone in the world will come and visit it! wahHahahahahahah" He said and was laughing evilly to himself. Then as he was laughing he got an alert on his computer as it was sounding its sounds at Eggman.
"Huh who dare disturb my maniacal laughter?" He yelled at the computer. The screen then showed footage of Sonic and Twilight walking through the forest.
"Hmmm? what's that pesky blue human doing on South Island?" He then sees Twilight with him. "And who's that purple girl with him." He said looking closely at the girl with Sonic.
"She looks interesting I'd better keep tabs on them just in case, Sentry Bot 221, follow them and keep yourself hidden from them." He said calling to the robot and went to check on his construction on his park.
They were now out of the forest and were walking into Marble Zone, most of the time Twilight was inspecting all the marble things, though Sonic told her to get a move on so they can get to Emerald Hill Zone. They were carefully trying to traverse through the lava filled the place, they then were hopping through the platforms that the underside was filled with lava. Twilight as she was hopping to another platform, she lost her balance,
"Whoaaaaa!" Twilight yelled as she almost fell in the lava, Sonic saw this and tried to come to her rescue, but she used her wings just in time and placed herself back on the platform.
"Whoa that was close," she said regaining her footing. "Hey be careful, you almost became barbecue right there." Sonic said talking with her, "Hey I can take care of myself you know I have magic and these." She said winking at him and flapped her wings, he cracked a smile and they continued hopping the platforms, with Twilight flying over them and her looking down at Sonic then they continued on their expedition.
They came across an entrance that leads to a place called "Labyrinth Zone", Twilight then noticed Sonic was cringing as they were getting in said zone.
"Hey, Sonic are you ok?" Twilight said worried about her friend.
"Oh I'm alright Twi, I just afraid of water because I can't swim." He said looking down and feeling embarrassed.
She then was falling down laughing at this revelation."Really? The great Sonic is afraid of a little water?" She said while laughing herself silly, he then got a bit ticked off at Twilight's reaction to his fear. "
"Hey, that not funny Twi, I literally fall down like a rock in water, it scares me to death!" He said trying to justify his fear. Twilight got off the ground and then smiled and tried to cheer up Sonic.
"Hey it's alright if you're afraid of water, I was just messing with you, if you want when we go in, you want to you can hold my hand in the water so we can go on and if you feel a little scared, just pull a tug and will go back." She said holding her hand to Sonic.
He hesitated at first probably because of his pride and dignity, but then again he had no choice and wanted to continue on with their adventure, they were now holding each other's hands, and both were blushing and both were looking away from each other.
Thanks, Twi, it means a lot." He said honestly, she smiled and they provided to the water.
They were now swimming in the water, well Twilight was swimming, Sonic was almost sinking if not for Twilight holding his hand, he felt as if her they were traversing through the zone with them avoiding the spears and spikes. They then saw two spike balls on their chains swinging too close to each other than they wanted, Sonic's eyes shuttered as he saw the balls as he was getting PTSD from the balls swinging around.
"Oh GOD, MEMORIES!" He thought to himself as he was frozen. Twilight saw this and tightened her grip on him to get him focus, he noticed this and nodded to her making her assured that he's focused. Then very tightly, they both one-by-one swam/crawled under them, then they're almost losing oxygen though they see at the bottom of the floor there's a pocket of air bubbles so they can breathe, they opened their mouths and a bubble went to each of their mouths, they then continued their swimming, Twilight then wondered to herself.
"How does this work? Just bubbles go into my mouth?" She thought, though if she asked Sonic he'd tell her to just go with it.
Then as they were swimming they saw a current was going faster, they couldn't swim away, they both got caught in the current, Sonic was flailing around trying to grab something and Twilight was just trying to swim back but failing to do so, they both saw the pole and Sonic grabbed the pole and grabbed Twilight's hand , he tried to stay grappled to it, as they were now fighting the current. Stiffly, Sonic tried to maneuver themselves upwards and then let go of the pole, which made the current carry him right over the spiked wall, and plunged them to another similar section in which they did the same, they saw the surface and quickly went up, they got out of the water and they were trying to catch their breaths, Twilight came to him and placed a hand on his shoulder.
"There..now.. that..wasn't.. so bad..now...was it?" She said catching her breath. "Yeah, it wasn't, thanks...for...your...help Twi, you're a good friend." He said also catching his breath as well. "Your welcome!" She said as they then proceeded forward to the next zone.
After the watery terror that was the Labyrinth Zone, they now go through Starlight Zone. Twilight was dazzled on how this place looked, from the urban areas in the back to the setting of the sky on how it's nearing the midday. They ran through the zone and then see on the ramp above a see-saw-rescue platform with a spike ball at the end of it, up above they see more of the city, Twilight thought and went to Sonic.
"Hey, Sonic!" She said calling to him, " Yeah, what is it?" Sonic questioned her. She then realized what she was about to say and blushed about the implications of her sentence, but asked anyway.
"C-C-Can you carry me?" She said and was blushing real redder than fire, he thought to himself and wondered what she meant, he then looked at the seesaw and up top, "Alright, Twi hop on." he said putting his hands forward as if he was carrying something, she went up to him and hopped onto his arms, he went to the see-saw. He jumped on the top part, then the spiked ball, then it went down, and they flew up, as they went up to the ledge and then proceeded onward, she then noticed how in some parts of the zone it had a lot of loops, Sonic then looked at her.
"Hey, Twilight you wanna go for a ride?"He said with a grin on his face and Twilight was worried about what was he going to do. "Ummm, Yes?" she said carefully, and he then ran as fast as he can. She was watching what she was doing and she then was watching the whole background was going into hyperdrive, she was then putting her head on his chest just for safety and to her, it felt really comfortable she couldn't stop thinking about that. He ran through the loops and were going through the zone at breakneck speed, but as they were going fast he didn't notice how they were over a bottomless pit, he then was falling with Twilight in tow, though as they were falling she got out of her trance and she had an idea, she used her magic to lift up Sonic and herself, and placed them on a platform.
"Whoa, that was close." "Hey be careful Sonic you need to watch out where you're going, it's going to be one of these days." Twilight said scolding him for almost falling off with her with him,"Well you know me, Twi always living on the edge of danger." He said giving a shrug.
"OK, just be careful next time OK?" she said with a worried tone, he nodded and they then went off to their destination, with the security bot still on their tails.
They now reached their destination Emerald Hill Zone, it was sunset time as of right now and the said zone had waterfalls that were cascading amidst the tropical meadows. They reached a hill so that they can see a wide eye view of the zone.
"Sonic why did we get here at night time?" She said questioning him.
"Well, I want to show you how cool this place looked in the sunrise." He said getting stuff from his backpack, as he was putting up their camp, though Twilight she was looking at something else, namely someone. She was looking at Sonic as he was looking around to seeing the surroundings having that same goofy smile on his face, then she wondered that these past few weeks would have been bad for her if not for Sonic giving her a place to stay and she was really grateful for his hospitality. She was starting to think about Sonic and how he is.
He's caring, kind, a bit cocky, and sometimes when she's researching he sometimes tells her something about the thing she's looking at, she's slowly starting to lose herself with Sonic's green eyes, all in all she was starting to have a crush on him but to herself she didn't want to admit that she does. They were walking through taking a long way and they were enjoying it, for the most part, Twilight in particular as she was glancing at Sonic in particular, as he was setting up the tent, luckily for Twilight he didn't notice she was looking her.
After he set up the tent, Sonic was behind her placing a mat on the ground, and he made a fire so they can see. He also placed a basket that might have contained food, Twilight went to him and sat down next to him, they were also sitting near where they can see a beautiful sight of the mountains. Sonic reached into the basket and was putting everything out so that Twilight and he can have lunch, he had made sandwiches for both Twilight and Sonic, and also two lemonades for each other, as they started eating, their hands were then touching without either of them noticing. They then looked down and were seeing their hands on top one another, they retracted their hands and were blushing from that.
As the night let on they were busy talking with each other, comparing things with each other, like how Sonic became a werewolf when he was adventuring the world, or when Twilight was desperate to send her teacher a letter of a friendship problem then went nuts and tried to force a friendship problem on somebody and that one specifically got Sonic interesting "Wait, wait, wait, how did you go crazy?" he said wanting to learn more about this tidbit.
"Well uhh... I went sort of went crazy out of stress, I kinda don't work well under stress OK?" She confessed embarrassed cause she told him that.
"OK, I won't ask you again if it bugs ya Twi." He said calming her down.
As they went on they got tired and went to sleep, though they were sleeping away from each other, Sonic woke up seeing the sunlight, and preceded to wake up Twilight.
"Hey Twi, you got to see this." He said trying waking her up. "Ok I'm coming," She said getting up, she gets out of the tent as she sees the sunrise. As they both got out of the tent they saw the sun rising from Emerald Hill. Then they were sitting on the hill and watched the sun come up.
"Wow this looks amazing Sonic, I'm glad we came here to see this" Twilight said to him feeling really glad that she's watching the sunrise with him.
"Well, I'm glad to see it with you Twi." He said as they both watched the sunrise go up and what they both didn't see was with their hands going on top of on another, they saw this and blushed, but they left them there as they were, though what that and behind them, the security bot was still spying on them.
"Hmmm my readings indicate that there's a powerful energy resonating within the girl, this may be interesting, maybe once my theme park is ready for Sonic, I'll need to get a closer look at the girl, and I know just how to do it." He said with a scheme in his head.
"Orbot, Cubot!" he ordered and came two oddly shaped robots, one was orb shaped and the other was cubed shaped. "What is it your lordship," Orbot said questioningly to his boss, "Yeah what is it?" Cubot asked as well,
"Keep in charge of the construction, I'm going back to Mobius for a little test run. HEHEHEHAHAHAHA." He said and chuckled as he went towards the door.