Sonic and Fluttershy arrived in front of Principle Celestia's office. Fluttershy knocked on the door. They then heard a voice from behind, "Come in."

Fluttershy opened the door and Sonic followed. Inside was a woman sitting in her desk. She wore a golden jacket with dark violet purple pants with a Sunbelt across her waist, and gold shoes. Her hair was a mixture of chartreuse green, teal blue, and taffy pink. Her skin was very bright pink and her eyes were mauve purple.

"Hello, Fluttershy. What can I do for you, and who is this boy with you?" the woman asked.

"This is Sonic, Principle Celestia. He's new here, and he defended me from being harassed by Sunset Shimmer," Fluttershy answered, "He just needed me to help him find you."

Celestia smiled, "That is kind of you, Fluttershy. I'll take him on an orientation. You get to class."

Fluttershy nodded. She then turned her head to Sonic, "Thank you, again," she said.

"No problem," Sonic said as he winked at her.

Fluttershy blushed but smiled as she left. Sonic then sat down a chair in front of Celestia's desk. "Hello, ma'am."

"Hello, Sonic," Celestia said, "I'm Principle Celestia. Welcome to Canterlot High School. Now, before we get started, let me ask you, was Fluttershy really being harassed by Sunset Shimmer?" she asked.

"Yeah," Sonic answered, "And I wasn't going to just let her scare Fluttershy like that. And don't worry, I didn't take things too far."

Celestia smiled, "That's good. Now let's get started," she said as she took out a piece of paper and a pen and began asking Sonic questions, "First, may I have your middle initial and last name?"

Sonic stayed calm as he remembered Tails was his brother, and his real last name was Prower, "My middle initial is H and my last name is Prower."

Celestia wrote them down and asked where he was before coming here. Sonic said, "I lived in Emerald Town and went to Emerald High."

Celestia then asked what kinds of classes he was into. Sonic answered, "I'm really into history, math, athletics, and music."

"Thank you for cooperating and here's your schedule for the year," Celestia said as she handed Sonic a schedule, "And again, welcome to Canterlot High. Oh, and since it's your first day here, and you're a really bright young man, you can walk around and say hi to some other students."

"Thanks, Celestia. I'll see you later," Sonic said as he left her thinking.

"Hmm, that was an interesting orientation indeed. I've never heard of Emerald Town or Emerald High before," Celestia thought as she sat in her chair, "I'm going to have to keep my eyes on him very closely."

Sonic walked down the halls as he looked at his schedule. His first period was free period, his second was PE, his third was math, next, there was lunch break, and his last period was music. "At least I have two classes that I like," he said.

He then saw a clock on the wall, and it said, 12:00 PM. That was when the bell rang for lunchtime. He saw some students leave their classes and they saw him and waved hi to him.

"Hey, Sonic," a familiar female voice said behind.

Sonic turned around and saw Fluttershy standing there with her backpack. Sonic smiled, "Hey, Flutters," he said.

Fluttershy blushed a bit, "That's what people sometimes call me for short, how did you know that?"

"Just a little guess," Sonic said, "Say, do you think you can show me the way to the cafeteria? I'm feeling hungry."

"Of course," Fluttershy answered, "I'll come with you."

Them and the other students went to the cafeteria. When Sonic saw hot dogs and a bowl of hot chili, he smiled, "Oh man, I haven't had chilly dogs in such a long time."

"Are chilly dogs your favorite?" Fluttershy asked.

"Yep," Sonic said, "I think I'll choose some other foods as well."

When they got in line, they chose their foods. Sonic chose two chilly dogs with two slices of peperoni pizza, French fries, an apple, and a can of orange soda. Fluttershy was a little surprised at what he got as she grabbed her food. They found a table, sat down and began to eat their food.

Fluttershy noticed Sonic's medallion under his bandana, "Hey, Sonic?"

"Yeah, Fluttershy?" Sonic asked as he took a bite of one of his chilly dogs.

"What's that under your bandana?" Fluttershy asked pointing at his medallion.

"Oh, this? This is my medallion. It was a present of mine from my mother since I was a kid," Sonic explained.

"It's really nice," Fluttershy said staring at it.

"Thanks," Sonic said as he continued eating his food.

"Wow, you must be hungry," Fluttershy said.

"Mm-hmm," Sonic said as he drank his soda.

"So, um, I've been hoping to ask you," Fluttershy started, "Why were you defending me from Sunset?"

Sonic whipped his mouth with a napkin. "I wasn't trying to prove anything," he said, "I was just doing the right thing. I like to be a nice kind of guy."

Fluttershy smiled, "Also, I've never seen anyone have this amount of gears and accessories before. How come you have so much?" she asked.

"Um, just for my style," Sonic answered, "Anyways, what are students like here at Canterlot High?"

"Well, lots of us are very different from each other. We like to do many different interesting things. I'm like an animal caretaker," Fluttershy explained.

"Oh, really?" Sonic asked, "Well, how much do you like animals?"

"Actually, I love animals," Fluttershy said, "I have many cute bunnies, birds, and squirrels back at my home. I take very good care of them every day."

"Then that represents who you want to be," Sonic said.

"Um, what do you mean?" Fluttershy asked.

"Nothing, it's just that you love animals and I just have a hunch that you want to be an actual animal caretaker, and it's good," Sonic said, "And that's what also makes you a very special person."

Fluttershy couldn't help but blush at how kind Sonic was being to her. She smiled and went back to eating her food with Sonic while she thought about him. Then Fluttershy gently placed her hand on Sonic's shoulder, making him look at her.

Fluttershy hesitated and blushed again, but then leaned towards Sonic and gave him a soft kiss on his cheek. Sonic blushed as well, but he smiled.

"Sorry, that was only for how kind you're being to me," Fluttershy said.

Sonic still smiled. And then he thought of something, "Hey, Fluttershy."

"Yes, Sonic?" Fluttershy asked.

"Maybe after what you did for what I did for you, I want to do this, just because you are one of the nicest friends that I have ever met in my life," Sonic said.

"What?" Fluttershy asked as she began to blush once more.

Sonic gently placed his hand on Fluttershy's cheek as he whispered to her, "This."

Sonic slowly leaned towards Fluttershy and he gave her a soft kiss on her lips. Fluttershy went wide-eyed as she blushed deeply, but then her eyelids slowly drooped as she softly kissed Sonic back and placed her hands on his shoulders. When they broke the kiss, they looked at each other and smiled.

"Thank you, Sonic," Fluttershy said.

"You're welcome, Fluttershy," Sonic said.

Fluttershy then wrapped her arms around Sonic and she gave him a soft, but caring hug. Sonic smiled as he hugged her back.

After a nice lunch, Sonic walked on through the hallway looking around. He was completely lost again. "Man, it wish there was a map here," he thought, "This school is like an endless maze."

He was about to continue on when a female voice from behind spoke, "Excuse me, young man, are you new here?"

Sonic turned around and saw a purple woman with pink and purple striped hair and green eyes. She was wearing a white shirt under a brown vest, a green skirt with a flower pattern, and brown boots.

"Yes, ma'am, I'm new here, and I'm kind of lost," Sonic said.

"I can understand that," the woman said, "My name is Ms. Cheerilee. Have you had an orientation?" she asked.

"Yep," Sonic answered, "And since it's my first day here, Celestia said I can walk around and say hi to some other students."

"All right," Cheerilee said, "How about you meet Pinkie Pie? She's in the gym. Keep walking down this hall and you'll see the doors to the gym on the right."

"Okay, thanks," Sonic said as he walked off.

"What an extraordinary young man," Cheerilee said to herself as she walked back to her classroom.

Sonic walked down the hall as he was told. Then, a moment later, he found what he was looking for. Two doors that looked like ones that led to a gym. He opened them and it was a gym. It was very quiet at the moment.

Sonic then saw a young girl in the middle. She had fuscia-strawberry pink fluffed up hair, blush pink skin, and sky blue eyes. She wore a white shirt with a lavender pink heart at the middle and amethyst purple across the top of the shirt, a short sleeve cerulean blue jacket, a cerulean blue bracelet on each wrist, an amethyst bow around her waist, a lilac purple skirt with three balloons; two sky blue on the bottom with yellow strings and one sunflower yellow on the top with a blue string, and cerulean blue boots with white laces and pink bows on the top of them. She looked like she was pondering something.

"Um…hello?" Sonic spoke.

The girl turned around to see him and smiled. "Hi! My name's Pinkie Pie! And I…" she said but didn't finish when she looked at Sonic.

Pinkie stared at Sonic with awe. She looked at his shiny shoes, his clothing, and especially his possessing emerald eyes. She was blushing deeply at him.

"Yo, Pinkie, you okay?" Sonic asked snapping his fingers in her face.

Pinkie shook out of her trance and went back to what she was doing before. "Sorry, I was in a trance for a second."

"I'm Sonic, I'm new here," Sonic said.

Pinkie put her hand to her chin and squinted her eyes closely to Sonic, "Hmm, I thought you didn't look familiar," she said.

"What?" Sonic asked confused.

"Oh, nothing," Pinkie said smiling.

Sonic decided to cut to the chase, "So, what're you up to, Pinkie?"

"I'm trying to decorate the gym for the Fall Formal, but I can't figure it out. I want to do it. I must have a really bad case of Party Planner's Block," Pinkie explained.

Sonic saw Pinkie frowning. He wanted to cheer her up. He placed his hand on her shoulder, causing her to turn her head and see him giving her a smile.

Pinkie's frown turned upside down instantly, "OOOOH! That's an amazing smile!"

Sonic's smile grew a little, "Maybe I can help you, if you like," he said trying to cheer her up.

Pinkie gasped loudly, "You'd do that for me?!"

Sonic's smile grew more, "Anything for a friend."

Pinkie then suddenly gave him an unexpected hug, "THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!" she squealed.

Sonic was struggling to speak, "Pinkie…I…can't…breathe."

"Oops, sorry," Pinkie said as she let go of him from her breath-taking hug.

Sonic gasped quite a bit, "Wow, I haven't had a hug like that since I was a kid."

After he got his breath back, he decided to make things fun, "Pinkie," he said as he picked up many rolls of streamers, "Watch this."

In an instant, Sonic ran fast all over the gym rolling multiple colors of streamers in the ceilings and on the walls instead of throwing them. He arranged them in good places, tied some to the center of the ceiling where a disco ball was hanging, and placed on some spots of tables that were around the walls. Pinkie was awestruck at what she was seeing in front of her eyes.

A few minutes later, the whole place was covered with enough streamers. Sonic smiled, "Now all that we need is the balloons," he said.

Then, as he turned around, Pinkie thrust towards him and gave one of her most big, tight, and painful hugs. "THANK YOU SO MUCH SONIC!" she squealed as she held him tightly.

Sonic tapped her shoulder, which caused her to remember it was a breath-taking hug. She put him down and Sonic panted for a moment. He chuckled, "It's no problem. So how about we blow some balloons together?"

"Sure," Pinkie said as she and Sonic grabbed the balloons.

"Fluttershy said she'd probably be in here," a voice said.

There was a lavender purple skinned girl with dark berry blue hair with two streaks; one violet purple and the other magenta pink, and violet purple eyes. She was wearing a light arctic blue button up shirt with a magenta purple bowtie, a lapis blue backpack on her back, a dark violet purple skirt with a picture of a pinkish purple starburst on the side with five small white stars around it, and dark violet purple and hot pink legwarmers on top of black dress boots. Right behind her was a small iris purple dog with apple green eyes, parakeet green spiked up hair, chartreuse green ears, and a denim blue collar with silver spikes and a gold dog tag with a pink heart in the middle.

"INCOMING!" Pinkie shouted from above.

An oncoming storm of streamers attacked the girl and the dog, completely covering them. They came out of their streamer cocoons and saw Pinkie blowing some balloons with Sonic.

"Hi, my name is Twilight Sparkle and-" the girl started, but stopped and ducked her head as Pinkie turned around with a long balloon in her hand, swinging it like a sword. Sonic turned around and saw Twilight too.

Twilight's eyes widen when she saw Pinkie's face, "Pinkie Pie?"

Sonic and Pinkie stopped dead in their tracks when they just heard Twilight say that. Pinkie then let the air out of her balloon, allowing it to blow the air in her face, while Sonic let go of his, letting it swirl around in the air and hit him in the face, "OW!"

Pinkie then instantly came up in front of Twilight, grabbed the collar of her shirt, and pulled her close to her face with bulging eyes. "Are you psychic!?" she gasped.

"Uh, no, I don't think so, unless, of course, that's something you can do here," Twilight answered with a nervous smile.

Pinkie dropped Twilight on the floor, "Huh, no usually," she said as she approached Sonic who was on the floor after getting hit in the face by that balloon, "You okay, Sonic?"

"Ugh…" Sonic groaned as he got up, "That hurt, but otherwise I'm fine."

As soon as Twilight looked at Sonic, she went a little wide eyed and blushed at his look, "So, um…who are you?" she asked.

"My name's Sonic, what's your name?" Sonic replied.

"I'm Twilight Sparkle," Twilight answered.

Sonic's eyes widen, "Hey, I've heard of you, Fluttershy told me about you."

"You met Fluttershy already?" Twilight asked feeling as shocked as Sonic.

"Yeah," Sonic answered, "I heard from her earlier that you defended her from Sunset Shimmer, and a while ago, I did the very same thing."

"Okay…" Twilight said as she then turned to Pinkie who was blowing up another balloon, "Anyways, Pinkie, Fluttershy said this is where I could find the head of the Fall Formal Planning Committee."

Pinkie perked at the mention of the name, "Fluttershy, huh?" she asked as she tied up the end of the balloon, "Don't let the whole shy thing fool you, she can be a real meanie."

This caused Twilight AND Sonic to look surprised.

"You two aren't friends?" Twilight asked in shock.

Pinkie walked towards Twilight backwards while leaning back. "We need to get your name on the ballot, huh?" she said, "Dance is day after tomorrow."

Sonic flexed an eyebrow and asked, "Hey, Pinkie, what's this 'Fall Formal' you're talking about?"

Pinkie perked again, "Oh, right, I forgot you're new here. The Fall Formal is a dance that we have every fall here at CHS! Why don't they just call it 'autumn'? That way, it would be called 'The Autumn Formal'! But then there'd be no words to play. OHHHHH! Now I get it!"

Sonic was completely confused by Pinkie's rambling, but got his message. But he felt that something wasn't right.

Twilight then replied to Pinkie, "Well, I'm brand new here."

"Ooooh!" Pinkie said, then put her hand on her chin, "Just like Sonic, I thought you didn't look familiar."

Pinkie then rushed up to Twilight and examined her in a few weird and awkward ways. "Though, now that I'm really looking at you," she started, then backed up and asked, "Do you have a twin sister who lives in the city? Has a pet dog named 'Spike' that looks just like that one?" she asked pointing at Twilight's dog that was chewing on a balloon.

"Uh, maybe?" Twilight answered awkwardly.

"Thought so," Pinkie said as she then pulled a clipboard out of her hair and held it in front of Twilight, "Any who, you just need to fill this out, and you are officially up for the coveted Princess of the Fall Formal crown!"

Pinkie also pulled a pen out of her hair, making Sonic confused.

"How did she put those in her hair? That's just like when I also put my stuff in my quills," Sonic thought.

Pinkie was waiting for Twilight to take the pen. Strangely, Twilight took it in her mouth, while Pinkie still waited patiently, like she wasn't finding it weird, but Sonic was. Twilight then took the pen out of her mouth and began writing.

"That… was… odd," Sonic thought.

When Twilight finished, Pinkie looked at it, "Wow! You have really bad handwriting. It's like you never held a pen before."

Twilight chuckled nervously as she dropped the pen on the floor, "Is it?"

Sonic put his hand on his chin, thinking about why Twilight was acting like that. He felt suspicious about her.

"Somebody order a dozen cases of fizzy apple cider?" a female western voice asked from the main entrance doors.

That caught everybody's attention. "Ooh! Ooh! Me, me, me! Me! Yeah! Uh-huh! Me!" Pinkie called out flailing her arms.

Putting down a crate of apple cider on a table was a girl with light orange colored skin, blonde yellow hair tied up in a ponytail that fell to the middle of her back, a few specs of white on both her cheeks, and bright green emerald eyes just like Sonic. She wore a Stetson tortilla brown cowboy hat, a white jacket with shamrock green in the middle, a light denim blue jean skirt with a walnut brown belt with a ruby red apple-shaped buckle on the front, and tawny brown leather boots with a logo of three ruby red apples on each foot.

The girl held her hat and wiped some sweat from her forehead. When Twilight saw her, she then had a surprised look on her face. Sonic noticed, "Strange, why does she look like she recognizes that girl?"

The girl then put her hat back on, "Can you bring in the rest?" she asked someone.

"E-yup," a male teenager answered as he carried four more crates.

Pinkie bounced on her foot towards the guy holding the crates and the blonde-haired girl lifted the top crate from the guy's load, revealing what he looked like. He had green eyes and orange hair. He was wearing a red and brown jacket, a white shirt, brown wristbands and blue jeans. He looked like he was the girl's big brother.

The blonde-haired girl walked with the crate until she saw Twilight and Sonic. "Hey, I know you two," she said.

"You do?" Sonic and Twilight asked at the same time.

"Sure, you're the new students who gave Sunset Shimmer the what-for today," the girl said as she put down the crate, took out a bottle, removed the top with her teeth, and began to drink it.

"Twilight Sparkle here is gonna run against Sunset Shimmer for Princess of the Fall Formal," Pinkie said as she blew one of the left over balloons.

The blonde-haired girl went wide-eyed in surprise, spit out the amount of cider she didn't swallow and turned to Twilight in shock, while Pinkie began to float in the air by the balloon she was inflating.

"I'd think twice about that. Oh sure, she'll probably approach ya, all friendly like," the blonde-haired girl said as she grabbed Pinkie, took the balloon from her and started drawing on it while Pinkie started to blow up another one.

"I sure am lookin' forward to some friendly competition!" the girl imitated holding the balloon with a picture that looked like Sunset Shimmer.

"That's so good to hear!" she imitated again, holding another one with a picture that looked like Twilight.

The girl then turned the Sunset balloon around revealing a tack taped to the back, "But then, here comes the back stabbin'," she said in her normal voice popping the Twilight balloon.

Sonic just stood watching as the girls talked. The more he thought about this, the stranger it got. But that wasn't the only strangest thing; while Twilight was standing right next to him, he could sense a really small amount of strange energy coming from her.

"That's strange, I can sense a bit of energy coming from Twilight," Sonic thought, "But it doesn't feel like Chaos energy."

"About the only girl in this school you can trust less than Sunset Shimmer is Rainbow Dash," the blonde-haired girl told Twilight.

"Rainbow Dash?" Twilight asked, sounding like she knew whom she was.

This was getting very confusing for Sonic, "What weird names this world has," he thought.

"She's the captain of like every team at Canterlot High," Pinkie said bouncing on a giant balloon.

"Seriously, how does she do that?" Sonic asked.

"Believe me, I have no idea how she can do that either," Twilight said.

"She's also the captain of the saying she's gonna do something for ya, and then turnin' around and not even botherin' to show up," the blonde-haired girl said crossing her arms.

"Thanks for the advice, Applejack, but this is something I really need to do," Twilight said revealing the girl's name.

"Eh, suit yourself," Applejack said.

Sonic suddenly went wide-eyed by what he just heard. "Wait! How did she-!?" he thought.

"Hey…" Applejack started, "How'd ya know my name was Applejack?"

Twilight then just perked by what she said, "Umm, I uh, heh-heh, didn't you say?" she asked blushing nervously.

"E-nope," the orange-haired guy answered for Applejack bringing in another crate of cider, while Pinkie was drinking from a bottle.

"Well, uh, it was sure nice meeting you three. I'm sure I'll be seeing you around," Twilight said as she and her dog rushed out the side door.

Sonic knew that girl was hiding something.

Applejack then turned to Sonic, "So, I haven't asked, what's your name?" she asked.

Sonic smiled, "Name's Sonic. Nice to meet you," he answered as he winked at her with a thumbs up and a smile.

Applejack couldn't help but just stare into Sonic's emerald eyes. She could see courage, strength, and happiness, even honesty. Her cheeks turned bright crimson, which meant she was blushing. "Wow, I've never seen anyone have that much style before. And I'll be, his eyes, they're as green as an emerald," she thought.

Sonic was going to follow Twilight, but looking at the apple cider made him thirsty. He walked over to the table that had the crates of cider. He took out a bottle, removed the lid, and drank the entire bottle in a solid four seconds. Then he took two more bottles and did the very same thing. Applejack and Pinkie both had awestruck looks on their faces.

"Ah… refreshing. Great apple cider, AJ," Sonic said as he took the empty bottles and put them in a recycling bin.

"Well, um, it was nice meeting you two. I, uh, gotta go too. See you later," Sonic said as he began to take Twilight's way out.

"Wait, Sonic!" Pinkie called out.

Sonic stopped and turned to Pinkie. Pinkie ran right up to Sonic and she gave him a quick kiss on his cheek. Sonic's eyes widen in surprise the very second that Pinkie did that as he felt his cheeks burning red. Applejack was wide-eyed in surprise and a little bit of jealousy.

"Sorry, I couldn't help it," Pinkie said as she herself blushed deeply, "That was only for helping me with the decorations. Thanks, Sonic."

Sonic gave a little chuckle, "Hehe, you're welcome, Pinkie. Glad to be of help. If ya need anything else, call me. See ya around!"

Sonic ran through the same way Twilight went through. As he went after her, he thought in his mind about her, "I don't know what's going on, Twilight, but we're gonna need to have a long talk about this."

As soon as Sonic had left the gym, Pinkie and Applejack were left alone in there.

"Twilight is trying to keep a secret, but I am totally onto her!" Pinkie said, then she whispered to Applejack, "She's psychic."

Applejack looked at her a bit confused, "Uh-huh, if you say so. Say, what else do ya know about that Sonic guy?" she asked.

"Well…" Pinkie started when…

SLAM!

A sudden sound of the main entrance doors bursting open loudly interrupted Pinkie. She and Applejack turned to see who it was. Standing in the doorway, were two weird-looking teenage boys, one short, plump, and green skinned, the other tall, skinny, and with orange skin, and standing in from of them was the girl that bullied Fluttershy earlier, Sunset Shimmer.

"This. Looks. Terrible!" Sunset commented as she stormed in.

"There should be more streamers by the stage and fewer balloons!" she said as she popped two balloons at once with just a tap of her finger and walked away, much to Pinkie's dismay.

"Yeah, streamers!" the plump guy said ripping a streamer in half.

"And fewer balloons!" the skinny teen said while trying to pop a balloon in his arms, but failed miserably.

"Fizzy apple cider?! UGH! This is my coronation, not a hoedown!" Sunset told Applejack disgustedly.

"Well, now, it ain't necessarily gonna be YOUR coronation any time soon," Applejack said angrily.

Sunset got in Applejack's face while Pinkie backed away. "Oh, is that so?" she said.

Sunset turned Applejack's hat around and placed in on her face, "Your country folks really AREN'T that bright, must be why the other students say such awful things about you."

Applejack burned through the top of her hat with anger alone, growling and her face turning red.

"Obviously, it's gonna be my coronation. I'm running unopposed," Sunset said.

"Not this time! The new girl just signed up!" Pinkie burst out holding the clipboard.

"What!?" Sunset exclaimed as she took the board from Pinkie's hand.

"I know, her handwriting is really bad. And it's too bad you don't like the decorations, Sonic worked on them so hard for me," Pinkie said.

"Wait, who?" the boys asked.

"The new guy, you mean you don't know him? He's fast, he's skilled, and awesome, not to mention cute," Pinkie said blushing a bit.

Sunset lowered the clipboard from her face and gave off an angry scowl. "Where is this Twilight Sparkle and Sonic!?" she shouted.

Sunset then turned her head around and saw Pinkie and Applejack looking at her confused. She chuckled nervously, "Heh-heh, I'm looking forward to meeting the competition. And I guess how nice of Sonic," she said calmly as she left with the teen boys following her.

Applejack and Pinkie felt that something wasn't right, but they couldn't put their minds on it.

"Maybe this 'Sonic' is the new guy who got in my way earlier. If he's forgotten what he did to me, he'll get what's coming to him," Sunset thought, "Although he is kind of cute, when I get the crown, I can probably have him as my slave."