Chapter 8: Battle, recovery and answers

(Shadow POV)

The three brothers left the track and head off to a safe distance away from the girls, so they didn't hear them talking.

"You're such an idiot faker." Shadow started. "You just had to increase your speed and did what you did in those pictures, did you?"

Sweat dropped from Sonics forehead and started rubbing the back of his head.

"Sorry, I guess I got carried away." Sonic apologized.

"Sorry doesn't cut it Sonic." Silver said. "Now that they've seen you speed, they want answers from us."

"I know Silver." Sonic started. "But I still don't get how Rainbow was able to grow wings and animal ears. It just doesn't make any sense."

"For once I have to agree with you faker. These girls are probably not ordinary humans." Shadow agreed.

"So what do we do? Do we tell them who we really are, or not?" Silver asked.

(Twilight POV)

Meanwhile, Twilight and her friends were still on the track, still utterly shocked that not only Sonic beat Rainbow in the race, but are hiding something from them.

"I still can't believe he actually beat me. This is insane!" Rainbow blurted out.

"I know what you mean Rainbow. It's pretty odd that he was able to beat you in the race and did it with no sweat." Twilight said.

"I don't know who they are, but I know fer sure, they're hiding somthin from us." Applejack stated.

"I have to agree with Applejack." Sunset Shimmer said agreeing with AJ. "It's very clear that those three are hiding something from us, but they're not telling us why."

"So, what is it that they're not telling us?" Rarity asked Twilight.

"I don't know girls, but I believe very soon from now, we're going to get answers." Twilight said.

Suddenly, the three girls screamed.

"Girls what is-"

Twilight was cut off by the sight of a weird creature she has never saw before. The creature was black and stood on two legs. It had one large, beading red eye and had large three fingered crystal claws. The girls stood in utter fear at the sight of the creature.

"Twilight, what the heck is that thing!?" Rainbow asked almost shouting.

"I don't know Rainbow. I've never seen a creature like this before." She answered.

Before they could react, twelve more of the same creature emerged from the shadows and circled the girls. They all began to back up with one another, unable to think of a plan to attack. Then, Twilight realized something. She quickly dug into her bag and pulled out her element of Harmony and placed it on her head.

"Girls, we need to focus and use the magic of friendship to destroy these things." Twilight quickly told her elemental friends.

The girls nodded and focused on the element. Twilight's crown then started to glow and the main six transformed. The all grew pony ears, their hair growing into a ponytail and few of them grew wings. Then, a huge rainbow shot out and hurled to each one of the creatures and destroyed them easily.

In the distance, the green eyes witnessed the power of the crown.

"Hmmmm, that crown is more powerful than I thought, time to kick it up a notch." He thought.

He then called forth more of the creatures and ordered them to attack the group. The disappeared and appeared and charged. Twilight and the others saw this coming and prepared for battle.

One of the creatures hurled toward Rainbow, but Rainbow countered with a punch, sending it flying. Applejack gave them powerful kicks, making one or two disappear into thin air. The others did their best to keep them off of them and protect the young girls. They continued fighting for a good five minutes, but the creatures kept coming back, while the girls began to tire out.

"How many of these things are there!?" Rainbow asked.

"I don't know." Twilight started. "But we have to-"

She was cut off by a sudden punch by one of the creatures, sending her flying into the group. The girls collided with Twilight and fell to the ground with a 'thud'. They suddenly changed back into their original forms. They all managed to get back on their feet, but were extremely exhausted. The creatures once again charged to end the fight and end the girl's lives. Unable to fight back and completely exhausted, the girls embraced each other and waited for the final blow to come.

But it never came.

The girls finally gained the courage to open their eyes. They were completely shocked by what they were seeing. The creatures stood frozen with cyan aura covering their bodies.

"What just happened?" Twilight asked.

But before one could answer, a familiar silver haired boy landed in front of the girls, glowing cyan as well.

"What the?" Twilight could only say.

(No POV)

Silver caught the creatures just in time with his phsycokinesis before the creatures can lay a finger on the girls. He clutched his hands together and threw his hands forward, sending the creatures flying forward. Shadow then appeared in the air and began to build up yellow energy.

"CHAOS SPEAR!"

He threw his hand out and shot out a ball of yellow energy, destroying half of the creatures. Sonic then appeared next to Shadow and blue energy began to build up in his hand.

"SONIC WIND!"

A blue streak of energy then hurled to the rest of the creatures and destroyed them instantly. Sonic and Shadow then landed next to Silver. The three looked back at the girls who had shocked looks on their faces with their jaws dropped to the ground.

"Are you all okay?" Sonic asked.

They all nodded, unable to form words from what they witnessed. Before Twilight could speak, hundreds more of the creatures appeared. Sonic, shadow and Silver got into their battle stance and prepared for battle.

(Play 'For True Story...for Sonic vs. Shadow' From Sonic Adventure 2)

The three split up and began to attack. Shadow took the right and lashed out powerful combos of kicks and punches. Sonic took the center and did his traditional homing attack, and few fast punches at the creatures. Silver took the left and threw them with his phsycokinesis and lashed out a few punches and energy streak blasts. The girls were completely silenced and shocked by what they were seeing. They have never seen such bravery, and strength before.

"Who are they? What are they?" Twilight thought.

One of the crystal creatures punched Shadow in the face, sending him flying to Sonics direction. Sonic saw Shadow heading toward him and quickly grabbed his hand and threw him back. Shadow then curled into a ball and hit a few of them with his homing attack. One of the creatures then let out powerful lash attack and gave Sonic a deep gash in his stomach; blood poured from the wound. The girls were horrified by the sight, but Sonic continued fighting. One of the creatures picked up Silver and threw him near a trash can. Silver got up and threw another energy blast at them. Silver had cuts and bruises on his body from the creatures, but kept up the fire in his body. They continued fighting while more of them poured in and started surrounding the three. The mobians were now backed up by one another while the creatures were ready to finish the fight. Thinking quickly, Sonic came up with a plan to finish them off for good.

"Silver, grab them and keep them in place while me and Shadow charge up our light speed attack. Once we do, we'll give them everything we got." Sonic told them.

Silver nodded and grabbed very one of them with his phsycokinesis. Shadow and Sonic then started spinning in one place. While they did, beads of blue and yellow light began to gather around the two.

"Hurry up you two, I can't hold them forever." Silver grunted while trying to hold them all in one place.

"Hang tight Silver, we're almost there." Sonic called.

Sweat poured from Silvers face while focusing every ounce of his power to keep the creatures in place. Finally, Shadow and Sonic and stood in crouch position with blue and yellow aura surrounding them.

"Ready…" They both started.

The aura bursted and the two had victory in their eyes.

"GO!"

The two disappeared and only a blue and yellow streak were only seen, hitting each one of the creatures with a powerful attack. Rainbows jaw dropped again by the sight on how fast the two were going.

"How can someone go that fast? What is this?" She thought.

The streaks continued lashing out each one of the creatures for a few seconds until the two appeared. With a sudden snap of their fingers, the creatures disappeared into a puff of black smoke. The green eyes in the distance growled that the three won the battle.

"You three may have won this round, but this is only the beginning. I will have that crown and the chaos emeralds. Once I do, I will destroy you all!" The shadow spat in his thought and disappeared in the shadows.

(Song end)

Silver and Sonic panted with sweat pouring from their faces, tired from the battle. Shadow just stood there with his neutral look. The girls were still blown by what they witnessed from the three brothers. Before one of the girls spoke, Sonic then lost conscious and fell to the ground with a large 'thud'.

"SONIC!" Silver shouted as he ran over to him.

Shadow also ran over to his fallen ally. The girls started to panic and ran over to the boys. Silver flipped Sonic onto his back and saw blood pouring from his wound.

"Oh my goodness." Twilight said in a stage of shock covering her mouth.

"He's losing blood fast. We need to get him to a hospital now!" Silver said.

The girls still wanted answers from the three, but decided to keep the questions at bay for the moment. Silver picked up Sonic on one side while Shadow took the other. They all ran for the parking lot and got to Applejacks car.

"Quick, get him in." Rainbow ordered.

The three put Sonic in the car. Silver sat on one side with Sonic sitting in the center. Rainbow then sat next to him. Applejack got into the front and started the car with Applebloom and Fluttershy sitting next to her. The rest of the girls got into Rarity's car, leaving Shadow with no room to get in.

"Don't worry; I can keep up with you guys." Shadow said.

They all nodded and drove off to the hospital, with Shadow on their heels. In the car with Silver and the others, Rainbow looked at the blue teen that was still out cold with the blood still dripping from his wound.

"Rainbow, I need you to place him on your lap so the blood doesn't flow out that quick, I'll apply pressure to the wound to keep the blood from flowing." Silver said.

Rainbow nodded and gently placed him on her lap. Silver took his sweatshirt off and folded it into a square shape. He then applied pressure to the wound; blood soaked into the sweatshirt while the blue haired teen grunted in pain while still out. Rainbow gently stroked his cheek while a single tear ran down her cheek.

"Please be okay." Rainbow whispered.

"Don't worry Rainbow; Sonic has been in way worse conditions than this. He'll make it." Silver assured with a smile.

Rainbow softly nodded and carefully lifted his head and gently laid her head on his. Fluttershy looked and was growling a little by the sight. Finally, they all made it to the hospital. They all rushed in and the doctors saw the injured teen.

"He needs help!" Rainbow said.

"Nurse Redheart, get a wheelchair now!" The doctor called out.

She nodded and got a wheelchair for the teen. The gently placed him in and they all went to the emergency room.

"I'm gonna ask all of you to stay out here for a bit." The doctor said.

The all nodded and waited while Sonic was getting treated from his wounds.

(Half an hour later)

The group waited in the lobby impatiently for news about Sonic. Finally, the doctor came out with a clipboard in his hands. The all got up and went to the doctor.

"How is he Doc?" Twilight asked.

The doctor smiled. "Your friend is gonna be fine. You're all luck that you all got him here just in time, or he would've been in a worse condition. All he needs is rest and he'll be up and about in the morning." He explained.

They all sighed in relief that their friend was going to be okay.

"Can we see him?" Silver asked.

The doctor nodded and went to Sonics room. Sonic had bandages covered over his stomach and fluids were connected to pipes that went into his body. Sonic groaned as he woke up from his sleep. He turned and saw his mobian brothers and his friends.

"Hey guys." He said weakly.

"How are you feeling?" Twilight asked.

"Fine, I've been in worse." He said chuckling.

"Now I got a few question fer you three, who are you three, what were those things that attacked us and what was with the whole light show?" Applejack asked.

The three looked at one another and sighed.

"Well, since you all almost got killed back at the track, I believe you all have the right to know what's going on." Silver said.

Sonic sighed. "The truth is…" he started.

But before he could finish, Pinkie Pie cut in and spoke at a rapid pace, but was clear enough for them to understand what she was saying.

"You three are from an alternate world, where you three are actually powerful hedgehogs that saved your worlds from a powerful sun god called Solaris a couple of months ago. Silver is from the future and has read a prophecy that internal darkness is coming and that you three are the only ones that could stop it from spreading through your world and ours and if you three don't protect the magic of friendship and find out who is responsible this madness, our worlds will plunge into darkness for like a really really long time!" She said in one breath and finished with a huge smile and 'squeal'.

Sonic, Silver and even Shadow were completely blown away by what Pinkie just said. Their eyes widened and jaws dropped to the ground.

"H-how the hell did you know all that!?" Shadow asked in complete shock.

"Just a hunch." Pinkie shrugged while smiling.

"Wait, wait, wait so let me get this straight, you three are hedgehogs?" Applejack asked.

"You three battled a god?" Twilight asked in shock.

"You three are from another world?" Fluttershy asked with surprised.

The three looked at one another and then nodded to the group.

"That…is…AWESOME!" Rainbow shouted with her hands up in the air.

The group the circled the three and asked them a lot of questions until Sonic spoke.

"Whoa whoa whoa, time out. You guys are not freaked out by this?" Sonic asked in utter confusion.

"Of course not silly billy. Twilight here is from another world as well." Pinkie said.

The three looked at Twilight.

"Is that true?" Sonic asked.

"Yes." She answered.

"Okay, now that you guys have our answers, we would like to know a few things about you." Silver said.

"My question is how was Rainbow able to grow wings during our race?" Sonic asked.

"Well, what you saw from Rainbow was her bearer form." Twilight answered.

"Bearer form?"

"It's a form that is connected to the elements of harmony from my world." Twilight said.

"What's an element of harmony?" Shadow asked.

Twilight reached into her bag and pulled out her crown.

"This is an element of harmony. There are six in all. Kindness, Laughter, Generosity, Honesty, Loyalty, and the most powerful of all, Magic. This is the element of Magic; I'm also the bearer of this element." Twilight explained.

Shadow examined the element carefully and felt a faint power coming from the crown. Finally, the pieces came together in his head.

"Guys, I believe this crown is what the chaos emeralds were reacting to. I can sense a faint power coming from it." Shadow stated.

The two nodded in agreement.

"What are chaos emeralds?" Sunset asked.

Shadow then dug into his pocket and pulled out the green emerald.

"This is a chaos emerald." He answered.

The girls were completely awestruck by the emerald. Rarity eyes glittered like diamonds at the sight of the beautiful emerald.

"My word, it's gorgeous." Rarity said.

"The chaos emeralds are seven mystical gemstones that hold unlimited power and are connected by many races back in our world. Nobody knows why they exist or who created them, but it is said that these emeralds can transform people thoughts into power for those who can harness their incredible energy. Alone, they can unlock many abilities and power up machinery, but if one manages to collect all seven emeralds, that user will gain ultimate power; making him or her unstoppable." Shadow explained.

The girls were awestruck more that the emerald can do mostly anything.

"I never knew something that powerful can even exist." Twilight said amazed.

"You be surprised by what the emeralds can also do Twilight, believe me. We've experienced their power." Sonic said.

"You three actually collected all seven emeralds and harnessed their power?" Twilight asked in shock.

"We have. As a matter in fact, we have all seven with us." Sonic said pulling out his emeralds.

Silver also pulled out his emeralds, along with Shadow pulling out the remaining emeralds. The girls were amazed and shocked by the sight of the emeralds. They were more in shock when the emeralds started floating in the air.

"The emeralds also hold two different types of energy, Positive and negative energy. Positive energy reacts to those who have a pure heart and desires to protect those in need. Negative energy reacts to those who have a dark heart filled with anger, sadness, or hatred." Sonic explained.

"Have you three ever, you know, experienced negative energy from the emeralds?" Twilight asked Sonic and the others.

Sonic sighed. "That's something I wish not to talk about. It's too painful to remember." Sonic answered.

"I've experienced with their power many times over, and believe me, it's something you all wish not to see." Shadow said.

"I haven't gotten a lot of experience with the emeralds for a while, so I don't know what the negative energy feels like." Silver answered.

"Well, we appreciate you guys telling us this." Twilight said.

"No problem Twilight, but I got another question." Sonic started. "Where are me, Shadow and Silver gonna Stay?"

"He has a good point. We don't have a home to stay in for the time being." Silver agreed.

"Well, you guys can stay with one of us until this whole thing blows over." Sunset said.

"Silver is more than welcome to stay with me and twilight." Rarity said.

Silver blushed a little, but smiled. "I would love to stay with the two of you. Thanks Rarity."

"Not a problem darling." Rarity said with a smile.

"Sonic can stay with me and Sunset for the time being." Rainbow said.

"Sure." Sonic said with a smile.

"Shady can come live with me at my house." Pinkie said.

The girls and mobians chuckled. Shadow growled a little, but regained his cool.

"Fine." He answered crossing his arms.

"Then it's settled. Silver will stay with me and Rarity, Sonic will say with Rainbow and Sunset and Shadow will stay with Pinkie Pie." Twilight said.

They all nodded with agreement. The mobians not only made new friends, but also gained new, powerful allies. The girls then left the room, leaving the mobians behind for the moment to talk to each other.

"I just hope we can keep these girls safe, now that they know about why we're here." Sonic said to the two.

"Me to Sonic, Me to." Silver agreed.

Shadow nodded.

To be continued…

PHEW! Finally, chapter 7 is complete. I'm sorry for the delay for this chapter. Family reunions, work and studying for finals bit me hard in the ass. But, I'm glad I was able to get enough free time to get this chapter done. If you enjoyed, please review, like and support. Ch.8 coming soon. Until then, Peace out everypony.