In the morning, Twilight began to stir, slowly opening her eyes and waking up from her sleep. She saw Sonic sleeping peacefully on the book bed beside hers. Twilight thought it was cute. "Awww!" she cooed.

"Shh!" Spike whispered," You'll wake him up."

Then they both saw Sonic's eyes slowly opening. Sonic yawned as he woke up from his sleep. "Wow, what a great sleep," he said as he then turned to Twilight and Spike, "Hey, you guys."

"Hey, Sonic," Twilight replied, "Think you can come help me find some votes?"

"Sure," Sonic said.

As down rose up in the sky, students came walking to Canterlot High. Then a voice said on the speaker, "Good morning, students, and happy Thursday. Just a reminder to pick up your ballots for the Princess of the Fall Formal today, they are due by the time the dance starts tomorrow night, so don't forget to turn them in and make your voice heard."

"Fluttershy said I'd need to over all those different groups if I want to become Princess of the Fall Formal, so I've compiled a list of talking points," Twilight said holding a bunch of papers in her hand.

Spike laughed, "You made a list? That's so unlike you."

Twilight turned around with a serious look on her face, lowered her backpack open, and pointed in it, telling Spike to get inside it. Spike made a sheepish laugh, "Uh. Please. Continue."

"I'll start introducing myself," Twilight explained, "Sprinkle in some of things I've learned about their world into the conversation. Show them how I fit in here."

Twilight walked towards the doors and then stopped. Sonic then walked over to her and placed his hand on her shoulder, "You can do it, Twilight. I believe in you," he said.

Twilight nodded as she then looked at the door. She then took a deep breath. "Okay, guys," she said as she opened the doors, "Time to make a good first impression on my fellow students."

Twilight gazed out into the hallway, as she then turned to Spike and Sonic, "The whole world sort of depends on it."

"You go ahead," Sonic said, "I think my medallion's still upstairs."

"All right," Twilight said as she walked out of the library.

Sonic quickly rushed up to grab his medallion and put it on. Twilight was a little bit ahead, but Sonic decided to walk. As Twilight walked past some students, they started to laugh at her, making her feel strange about this. But then, when they saw Sonic walk past them, they all stared at him with awe-like expressions and began to whisper amongst themselves.

"Look! It's Sonic from the video!" one male student said.

"Yeah! How did he turn into a blue ball with that ring and take down that robot?" another asked.

"Is it weird that his guitar is actually a necklace and a laser blaster?" a female asked.

"What was that laser sword he used?" another asked.

"Where did he get that gem he had and why did it glow?" another male said.

Twilight stopped in her tracks and saw this. Sonic walked up to her and asked whispering, "Um, Twilight, what's going on?"

"I don't know," Twilight whispered back, "Just a second ago, everybody was looking at me and laughing, but now they seem to be talking about you."

"What are they even talking about? I can barely hear a-" Sonic's sentence was cut off as a hand grabbed Sonic's arm and another grabbed Twilight's arm, and they were pulled into a room, "WHOA!"

Sonic and Twilight slipped a little and had bumped into a table. Sonic's head had bumped into a pile of books, knocking them over. Twilight quickly hid Spike in her backpack.

"What the-? Hey! What was that for-?" Sonic had stopped midsentence when he and Twilight turned to see who it was that snatched them had quickly shut the door and leaned against it.

It was a girl with pure white skin like Sweetie Belle, slightly dark violet purple curly hair with a cerulean blue triple-diamond hairclip resting at front, and cobalt blue eyes. She was wearing a light pale blue shirt that had elbow-length sleeves, an iris purple skirt with three arctic blue diamonds, around her waist was an dark violet purple designer belt with a cerulean blue belt buckle, on both her wrists were bright golden yellow bracelets, she was also wearing long violet purple boots with iris purple outlines at the top and a arctic blue diamond centerpiece on each boot.

"Rarity?" Twilight asked as Spike poked his head out of Twilight's bag.

Sonic then remembered the photo he saw in the yearbook and knew Twilight was right. That girl was Rarity.

Rarity quickly approached them with a measuring tape. She measured the length of their clothes, checked the size of their heads, and examined their footwear.

"Um, what are you doing?" Sonic asked, but got no answer.

Rarity put her hand to her chin, pondering something. She then put her finger in the air, as if she figured out something. She then rushed to her bag and bent down to dig something. She threw aside a couple pieces of clothing until she found what she was looking for.

"Perfect," she said.

She approached Sonic and Twilight with whatever she got, "Wait, what are ya-?" Sonic's sentence was cut off when Rarity had swung something onto Twilight.

Then in an instant, Twilight was now wearing a light and dark green outfit with a belt with a spiky sun symbol in the center around her waist and a long blonde wig. The only thing she still had was her backpack with Spike still in it.

"Ooh, yes. This is good. No one will recognize you," Rarity said with a smile.

"Um, why wouldn't she want to be-?" Sonic started, but was cut off.

"And we'll need a disguise for your dog, Twilight," Rarity started as she bopped Spike's nose with her finger and scratched his chin with both her hands, "Which is too bad, he really is so adorable."

She then turned to Sonic and blushed, "Oh, I do wish I had something for you, but… oh, it's so nice to meet you, Sonic darling."

Sonic blushed a bit at what she said, "Uh, thanks… I guess… Rarity, right?"

"Indeed, and has nobody ever called you handsome before?" Rarity said and asked blushing as she touched Sonic's cheek.

Sonic's blush increased as he placed his hand on his head, "Uh… maybe?"

Then Rarity put her hand on her chin for a moment, and then had her finger in the air. She quickly ran back to her bag and found something, "I have just the thing."

"Oh, for the love of-YIKES!" Sonic yelped when Rarity had instantly put something on him.

Sonic was now wearing a crimson red jacket, a merigold shirt, shadow grey pants, and the strangest thing was he was wearing a wig that looked just like the hair for Shadow if he was a human.

"There you go, Sonic," Rarity said, "Now no one will recognize you or Twilight."

"Umm, thanks," Sonic said, "I really appreciate it, and your help, but…" his sentence was cut off by Rarity.

"You know, Twilight, with a little work, I think I can your dog look like a rabbit instead," the girl suggested while standing in a fashion-looking pose.

"Huh?" Spike said as he fell out of Twilight's backpack and fell to the floor with a "Thud!"

"A rabbit?" Twilight asked confused, while Sonic gave the same look she had.

It was then a certain blonde-haired cowgirl walked in the door, "Twilight. Sonic. There you two are."

Sonic and Twilight turned around to see it was Applejack while Rarity crossed her arms, "So much for the disguise."

"I've been lookin' all over for you two," Applejack said as she walked into the room.

Fluttershy then appeared just outside the side of the door, "Me too."

Pinkie Pie suddenly appeared hanging upside down from above the door with a smile on her face, surprising Fluttershy, "Me three!"

Twilight stood beside Sonic when Pinkie rushed up to look them over, with that smile of hers as bright as ever, "I like your new looks."

"I do have an eye for these sorts of things," Rarity commented, butting into the conversation, "Not that you seem to care."

"What?!" Pinkie exclaimed at that blunt remark.

"Why do you think she doesn't care?" Twilight asked curiously.

Pinkie bit her lower lip in frustration, while Fluttershy put her hands over her mouth and Applejack desperately motioned to Twilight not to ask.

"No, never mind. Why were you all looking for us?" Twilight asked as she took off her wig.

"What's going on?" Sonic asked as he took off his wig.

"Oh, they haven't seen it yet," Fluttershy said.

Twilight and Sonic looked at each other then both asked at the same time, "Seen what?"

Pinkie pulled out a pink laptop that belonged to her and opened it. "Oh, it's really not that bad," she giggled nervously as she finished.

Sunset's voice spoke as Pinkie played a video from the Internet, "Twilight Sparkle wants to be your Fall Formal Princess."

As the video played, it showed some embarrassing footage of Twilight. "But what does it say about our school if we give someone like this-" Sunset's voice said as it showed a very embarrassing freeze frame of Twilight with a book in her mouth, "such an important honor? Oh, and look, Sonic wants to be her friend," one last freeze frame but of Twilight and Sonic came and the video ended.

Twilight gasped in horror and shock by what she had just seen. "I… I…" she stammered as Sonic quickly closed the laptop.

"I take it back. It's pretty bad," Pinkie commented.

"But all this happened yesterday. At the library," Twilight suddenly became nervous as she turned to her friends, "Has everyone in the school seen this? Is that why they were all looking at me that way?"

"Mmmm…" the four girls hummed.

"Wait a minute," Sonic interrupted to get the girls' attention, "If this is about Twilight, then why am I wearing a disguise?"

"Well, since you were in the video, people would laugh at you for being friends with Twilight," Rarity answered.

Sonic nodded as he sat down in a desk away from the group so they could talk. But he listened.

"What am I gonna do? No one is going to vote for me after seeing this!" Twilight said worriedly, motioning to the laptop.

Fluttershy walked up to Twilight, "Not that it'll make any difference, but I'll still vote for you."

Twilight just slammed her head onto the desk.

"You were so nice to stand up for me when Sunset Shimmer was picking on me yesterday," Fluttershy added and suddenly blushed, "Especially you, S-Sonic. You deserved that little kiss that I gave you."

Sonic smiled and gave her a thumbs up. That was when everyone else looked at Fluttershy. "You kissed him?" Twilight asked.

"Only for defending her from Sunset," Sonic said as he held his hand out, "Calm down."

"If you still want to run, maybe there's something I can do to help," Pinkie offered for Twilight.

"Word of advice, don't accept her help. She doesn't take anything seriously," Fluttershy advised bluntly to Twilight.

Pinkie scoffed, "Why do you have to be so awful to me?!" she asked as she stomped her right foot on the floor.

"Oh, pphht!" Rarity remarked, brushing off what Pinkie said, "Don't play innocent, Pinkie Pie. You're NO better than she is," she finished while pointing at Fluttershy.

"And what is THAT supposed to mean?!" Pinkie asked in a raised voice in Rarity's face.

"I am happy to offer up my assistance as well. To someone who would APPRECIATE what I have to offer!" Rarity countered.

Pinkie, Fluttershy, and Rarity began to bicker themselves. Spike panicked, jumped into Twilight's backpack and zipped it up for good measure.

Applejack finally spoke, "Listen to y'all carryin' on!"

All eyes were on Applejack.

"Get over it and move on!" Applejack said as she dropped an apple core in a trash bin, looking away with her eyes closed and her arms crossed.

"You mean like how YOU'VE gotten over what happened with Rainbow Dash?" Rarity accused.

Applejack's eyes snapped open, "She said she'd get the softball team to make an appearance at my back sale, Ah tell everybody they're comin', and not one of 'em shows up. She made a liar outta me. That's different."

"Is not!" Pinkie, Fluttershy, and Rarity countered Applejack.

"Is too!" Applejack counter-countered the girls.

The group continued their argument without showing any signs of stopping. Twilight and Sonic were nearly at their breaking point. Hearing enough of this, they both stood up from their desks and they yelled at the same time very loudly, "STOP!"

Everyone was quiet and surprised by Twilight and Sonic's outburst. "All of you!" Twilight said.

"That. Is. Enough." Sonic said.

Sonic tapped Twilight's bag and Spike unzipped it and poked his head out. Sonic then held his hand out and Spike handed him the yearbook. Then Sonic passed it to Twilight.

"We want to show you something," Twilight said as she opened the book.

"You girls were friends once," Sonic said as he and Twilight showed the girls their photo.

Each of the other girls looked at their photo and it reminded them of something from long ago.

"The Freshman Fair. Y'all remember?" Applejack asked the others.

"Yes…" Pinkie, Fluttershy, and Rarity sorrowfully agreed.

"But something happened," Twilight started as she closed the book, "I think that something…"

"Was Sunset Shimmer," Sonic finished as he gritted his teeth by saying that name.

"Well, that's a nice theory, darlings, but Sunset Shimmer had nothing to do with it,' Rarity replied.

Sonic tried his best to stay calm, "Is that true?" he asked.

"She's right," Fluttershy agreed, "Sunset Shimmer isn't the one who ruined my silent auction for the animal shelter by bringing fireworks and noise-makers. It was supposed to be a serious event, and Pinkie Pie ruined it," she said as she crossed her arms and turned away with her eye on Pinkie.

"What are you talking about? I got a text from you saying that you didn't want a silent auction, you wanted a BIG party!" Pinkie reported holding her phone out in front of her.

It was in the second that Fluttershy felt surprised, "I-I never sent you a text," she replied as Sonic perked up at that.

"You didn't?" Pinkie asked confused as she looked at her phone to see if she may have had a misunderstanding.

"You don't think she's the one who's been sending me those emails, do you?" Rarity began, "Every time I volunteer to help with decorations at a school function, I get an email from Pinkie Pie saying she has plenty of volunteers. And then I find out she's done everything herself."

This began to make Sonic and Twilight think very curiously about these anonymous messages.

"I never sent you any emails," Pinkie said as she turned her head from her phone to face Twilight and Sonic.

"Maybe she's the reason Rainbow Dash didn't show up for my bake sale," Applejack suggested.

"Well, didn't you ever ask Rainbow Dash why she didn't show up?" Sonic asked.

Applejack smiled nervously, but then she became depressed, took off her hat from her head and held it in front of her, "Ah guess ah kinda' stopped talkin' to her at all after that."

Sonic smiled as he got up out of the desk and walked up to her. "You know," he started as he took Applejack's hat and put it back on her head, "…I think maybe now would be a good time for you to start."

Applejack blushed as she chuckled, "Thank you… Sonic."

Sonic smiled and placed his hand on her shoulder, "No problem, AJ."

"CHIME! CHIME!" Suddenly, Pinkie's phone went off.

"Ooh! Ooh! I got a text from Vinyl Scratch!" Pinkie declared.

"What does it say?" Rarity asked.

"It says 'check out the new video! CHS's New Hero Theory!' Weird," Pinkie said.

Pinkie went to her laptop, opened it, and typed the name of the video. Luckily enough, it popped up right in front of them. Pinkie clicked on it and it played.

A male voice spoke as it played, "Thanks to a recent video uploaded by a user named, 'snailsrox115', we have found a strange robot with a cannon and a sword was spotted in the Canterlot High school," it said as it showed a scene of the Egg Fighter Sonic fought.

Sonic was shocked that he was being spied on, but the video continued, "And the new student, Sonic, fought it with a guitar that shot a laser, with some kind of glowing gold ring, as well as a laser sword, and a glowing emerald," the voice said as it showed Sonic using his guitar, beam sword, power ring, and the blue Chaos Emerald.

Twilight, Spike, and the other girls all gathered around the laptop fascinated by the video. Sonic knew his cover was completely blown now, so he began to sneak away to the door as the video kept playing, "Is Sonic a friend? Or foe? We'll find out more as we gather information. Good luck out there, fellow students," the voice said as the video ended.

The girls were completely astonished and amazed with smiles, even Twilight and Spike. But when they looked up from the laptop, they saw that Sonic was nowhere in the classroom to be seen.

"Phew, that was close," Sonic sighed in relief.

He then saw a boys' bathroom near him. He quickly checked to see if no one else was around. Then he rushed inside and changed back into his original clothes. When he came back out, he started to walk down the hall until…

"Ahem," someone said clearing their throat.

Sonic slowly turned around and saw Applejack, Rarity, Pinkie, Fluttershy, and Twilight standing right there, all with serious looks on their faces. "Uh-oh…" Sonic thought.

"Now just where do ya think you're goin'?" Applejack asked.

"Um, I was just, uh, going out for some fresh air, heh," Sonic half-truthfully answered with a nervous smile on his face.

"Ah don't think so," Applejack replied as she stepped forward towards Sonic in front of him.

"Yeah! What was that robot you were fighting?!" Pinkie asked as she just popped up right beside Sonic on the right.

"I concur! Where did you get that fabulous ring and shiny glowing emerald?!" Rarity asked, getting beside Sonic on the left.

"Um, could you please tell us what's going on, if you don't mind me asking, Sonic?" Fluttershy asked, staying behind the others.

Sonic was trapped. Each of the girls stared at him. This made him feel more and more nervous, and he couldn't come up with the right words, "Um, I…" he stammered.

Applejack leaned very close to Sonic's face, "Sonic, look at me… right in my eyes and tell me that you're gonna tell us what's goin' on here," she said pointing at her eyes.

Sonic knew his lying couldn't fool them any longer. So he took a deep breath, looked at Applejack in her eyes, and spoke, "I will tell you what's going on. But we should talk about it outside. And please back up before it gets any more awkward than it already is."

Later, Sonic and the girls came outside to the playing field. They were walking towards the bleachers.

"Once we sit down, you'll tell us everything?" Applejack asked.

"Yeah," Sonic said, "I promise I won't try to r- OOF!"

Sonic forgot to watch where he was going and bumped into someone, "Oh, whoops. Sorry. Are you okay?" he asked who he bumped into.

The person who Sonic had bumped into was yet, another teenage girl. She had cyan-blue colored skin, rainbow hair, and pink magenta, violet eyes. She was wearing a short sleeve cerulean blue button up shirt over a white shirt with a symbol that looked like a white cloud with a primary colored lightning bolt on the chest, a bright fuscia pink and white striped skirt with tight-fitting black bike shorts underneath, a primary colored wristband on both of her wrists, and primary colored socks in cerulean blue converse style high top boots.

"It's okay, I'm fine," the girl answered as she looked at Sonic.

Sonic noticed the girl's rainbow hair and guessed that was Rainbow Dash, "Let me guess, you're Rainbow Dash?"

The girl had a soccer ball in her arm. She threw in the air, and spun it in circles on top of her finger, "The one and only," she answered.

Before Sonic was able to say anything else, the group then suddenly heard someone screaming. They all looked and saw three familiar young girls being attacked by three Egg Fighters. It was Apple Bloom, Scootaloo, and Sweetie Belle.

"It's Apple Bloom, Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle!" Rarity exclaimed.

"And they're in trouble!" Applejack said worried.

Sonic would try to run away, but he knew he had to help them. He ran towards them. "Stay here! I'll take care of them!"

"But, Sonic…!" Twilight started.

"I'm gonna be fine, trust me," Sonic said.

"A-all right," Twilight said, "Just be careful."

With that, Sonic then turned and called out to the Egg Fighters, "Hey, over here! Looking for me?"

The Egg Fighters turned their heads and saw Sonic challenging them. They flew towards him, giving Sonic's friends a chance to get to the girls.

"Apple Bloom!" Applejack said as she hugged Apple Bloom.

"Sweetie Belle!" Rarity said as she hugged Sweetie Belle.

"Scootaloo!" Rainbow Dash said as she hugged Scootaloo.

"I'm so glad to see you, big sister," Apple Bloom said as she hugged Applejack back.

"Me too, sister," Sweetie Belle said as she hugged Rarity back.

"Same here," Scootaloo said as she hugged Rainbow Dash back.

Back to the battle, the Egg Fighters were trying to shoot Sonic with their cannons, but Sonic just kept moving out of the way and blocked them with his beam sword. Then in a flash, he charged at one of them and slashed his sword across the body and it exploded. The second one took out its sword and tried to slash Sonic from behind, but Sonic saw through it and jumped in the air doing a back summer salt and slashed the second Egg Fighter's back where the exhaust hose was. It then lost power, fell to the ground and blew up.

While the fight was going on, Rainbow Dash kept watching Sonic's moves and tricks. "Wow, he's so fast, confident, and awesome. And cute," Rainbow thought as she felt a small blush form on her face.

Sonic was now down to one last Egg Fighter. But this one was different. It had two double swords in both its hands. It looked extremely tough. The girls were worried.

"Let's see if you're a match for me," the Egg Fighter said.

"Suit yourself," Sonic smirked.

Sonic placed his hand behind him and pulled out another beam sword and its blade was bright blue as well. He swirled them in his hands and got into a fighting stance, "What do you say we make things interesting?"

"Very well, boy," the Egg Fighter said.

It charged at Sonic, but Sonic jumped over it and slashed from on top. His beam swords then hit something. It caused him to be bounced off.

"Oh, great, this one has a deflector shield," Sonic thought, "This one won't be easy."

Sonic then flipped one of his beam swords in the air and grabbed it upside down. He then collided it with the other and they both stuck together, making his two beam swords into a double beam sword.

He then charged at the Egg Fighter as it swung its swords at him. Sonic crouched and slid under it. He tried to slash, but the Egg Fighter's body part turned around and blocked with its sword. Sonic then secretly unlocked his two beam swords from each other and used one of them to slash the robot's hand. He managed to hit it.

The deflector shield was offline, and Sonic had a chance to attack. He charged at the Egg Fighter and swung his beam swords straight into the body. The Egg Fighter still stood up. It then saw the girls and took out something.

"I'll give you a choice, boy," it started as Sonic took his beam swords out of its body listening.

"Surrender to my master," it said as it then pulled out a laser rope and swung at the girls.

The rope caught Apple Bloom and pulled her towards them. "APPLE BLOOM!" Applejack cried.

The Egg Fighter then grabbed and held Apple Bloom, "or this girl shall be gone, forever."

Sonic stood there for a moment, then turned his beam swords off and said, "Fine, just let her go."

The Egg Fighter dropped Apple Bloom who was frozen in fear. Sonic then smirked and turned his blades back on and rushed at the Egg Fighter. He jumped in the air and slashed at its head. It was then about to blow up, so Sonic quickly turned his beam swords off, grabbed Apple Bloom and rushed off as the Egg Fighter blew up.

Sonic stopped when he and Apple Bloom were far away enough from the explosion. He then looked down at Apple Bloom as he put her down, "Are you okay?"

Apple Bloom was calm now and answered, "Yeah. Thanks for saving me, Sonic."

"Apple Bloom!" Applejack said as she ran over to them.

Applejack hugged her little sister tightly with tears of joy, happy that she was all right. Sonic smiled. But Applejack then broke her hug with Apple Bloom, grabbed Sonic by the collar of his shirt and pulled him close to her face.

Sonic shut his eyes and turned his head away because he thought Applejack was going to do something to him, but nothing happened. Sonic then opened his eyes again and saw Applejack smiling, "This is only for saving my little sister, and nothing more," she said.

"Wait, what?" Sonic asked, not understanding what she meant.

Applejack then did something that surprised him tenfold. She slowly closed her eyes, leaned her head forward, and placed her lips onto Sonic's. Sonic was completely shocked by her action. He really wasn't expecting her to kiss him. Then, he slowly closed his eyes and kissed her back as he gently wrapped his right arm around her waist and placed his left hand on the back of her head while Applejack let go of his shirt and placed her hands on his chest.

The other girls were completely blown by what they were seeing as Sonic and Applejack continued kissing. Rainbow Dash was shocked with rather jealously and her eye twitched. After a minute, Applejack finally broke the kiss and stared into Sonic's eyes while smiling and blushing.

"Ah rather enjoyed that. Y'all are a pretty good kisser," Applejack said.

"Well, you're not too bad yourself. Now, I'm assuming that was only a 'thank you' kiss," Sonic said.

"That's right, partner," Applejack said.

Rainbow Dash then calmed down since it was as a thank you. Rarity then walked up to Sonic and asked, "Now that that's over with, are you gonna tell us the truth about you now?"

Sonic sighed, "All right, I'll tell you everything. And since your sister and her friends saw this, Applejack, they deserve to know as well."

Applejack examined him closely, using her Apple Family trait to find any insincerity in his voice, "Hmm…"

She then realized by looking deeply into Sonic's possessing green emerald eyes that he was being completely honest, which she had to admit, was admirable, "All right, then."

"Maybe we should sit down," Sonic suggested, "This is going to be a long story."

With that, Sonic and the girls walked over to the bleachers. But what they didn't know was that Sunset Shimmer was watching from a corner wall of the school. She heard and saw everything that happened. She then thought of something.

"Snips, Snails!" Sunset said.

The boys stood in a soldier stance listening to her. "Get some footage on this. I want to find out who and what Sonic really is," Sunset demanded.

The boys saluted as they took out their phones and started recording them.

Sunset grinned, "Once I find out who you really are, Sonic, you'll be mine."