Ch. 10: New Blood

The next day, students from both schools were walking around with gold medals hanging around their necks when Cadence sat down next to Twilight.

"I guess that was one way to finish up your time at Crystal Prep," she said. "Pretty sure Cinch will be fast-tracking your application after all of this."

"Y'know, I've been thinking about it and…" said Twilight. "I'm not so sure now is the time for me to apply to Everton."

"Really?" asked Cadence.

"I may know about a lot of things, but friendship isn't really one of them," said Twilight. "And I'm defiantly not going to learn more about it by being alone all the time."

"So you're staying at Crystal Prep?" asked Cadence.

"Well, it seems the students here at CHS know an awful lot about the subject," said Twilight, watching two girls hug nearby. "I don't suppose…"

"You could transfer to this school instead," said Cadence.

"Really?" asked Twilight hopefully.

"You'd certainly be missed at Crystal Prep, but…" said Cadence. "I think that's a great idea. I'll be sure to speak to Principal Celestia about it right away." Meanwhile, the rest of the team was hanging out near what was left of the statue.

"Any word from Princess Twilight?" asked Sonic. Sunset opened her book and checked but the pages were still blank.

"No, nothing yet," she said. "But on the bright side, I think I may have figured out how magic works in this world. We pony up when we're showing the truest part of ourselves. I was so busy waiting for someone else to give me the answers that I gave up looking for them by myself."

"There are bound to be more magical mishaps that appear in this dimension," said Shadow. "But it's like you said, Knuckles, Princess Twilight has more than enough problems to worry about in her own realm. We can't expect her to always be around to help us."

"But maybe I can be?" asked Twilight as she walked up with Celestia.

"It seems we have a new Wondercolt here at Canterlot High." said Celestia.

"Make that eight new Wondercolts," said Sonic.

"What do you mean?" asked Rainbow.

"My team's enrolling too," said Sonic.

"Seriously?" asked Sunset happily.

"Yep. Talked it over with Celestia last night," said Sonic. "She didn't have any problems with it."

"Anyway, I'm not sure how much help I could be, but I'd like to try if you'll give me a chance," said Twilight. Everyone smiled and nodded.

"I'm sure I can count on all of you to make her feel at home," said Celestia.

"You sure can!" said Sunset, wrapping her arm around Twilight's neck.

"Group hug!" said Sonic and they all slid together into a big hug.

"Looks like a new age is dawning in this world," said Shadow, watching the sunrise. "I wonder what other adventures await us here."

"Guess there's only one way to find out." said Sonic.

"Which would be?" asked Twilight.

"Run headlong into any danger that gets in our way." smirked Sonic.

Epilogue

At the remains of the Wondercolt Statue, Sonic, Sunset, and the others were having a picnic when all of a sudden, the Twilight of Equestria shot through the portal.

"I'm so sorry I didn't get here sooner!" she said. "I didn't get your messages until just now because I was caught in this time travel loop and, honestly, it was the strangest thing that's ever happened to me!" Then she saw her human doppelganger shocked. Sci-Twi meekly waved at her as Silver just hovered between them.

"Awkward," he said in a sing-song voice. Twilight blinked.

"Make that the second strangest." she said and zipped back through the portal.

"Okay. That was awkward," said Sonic. Then everyone laughed a bit at how funny that was and smiled.