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Sonic: Chaos in Equestria

by Snicket

Chapter 11: Road Less Traveled

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The warm rays of the midday sun are cast over Ponyville as a cloudless sky hangs overhead. The small town bustles with activity as its citizens go about their day. Small carts and stands line the streets as the town's multicolored ponies try to sell their wares, ranging from simple food and supplies to hardware and equipment to assist in daily activities, while others seem to stand to advertise for the town's shops nearby.

A certain blue hedgehog and white music-mixing unicorn travel down the busy streets engaged in idle conversation. "So you really think it’s worth a shot?" The white mare inquires as she stares at the hedgehog from behind her trademark shades.

Sonic shrugs and crosses his arms behind his head. "I said it's worth a try." He smirks. "Though I can't see why it wouldn't work," he adds as he turns to the unicorn and smiles, causing Vinyl to smile back before turn back to face the road.

"Since when did you become the expert?" The unicorn asks coyly as she glances at one of the stalls.

"Oh, far from it. I just know what’s got a good sound, and that definitely sounds..." Sonic cuts off mid sentence as he stops and notices a mint colored unicorn standing in front of a shop, staring at him slack-jawed.

"Uh… hi?" Sonic says as he gives the mare a slight wave, causing her to tense up and stare wide-eyed at the hedgehog.

"Friend of yours?" Vinyl asks as she stops besides him.

"Not really, but whenever we cross paths. She always seems to bolt when we make eye contact. Why is today any..." Sonic cuts himself off as a beige female earth pony with a two toned mane exits the shop behind the nervous mare.

"Hey Lyra, I thought you were going on ahead," the earth pony states as she lets the shop’s door swing shut and trots towards the three. The mint mare begins to tremble and breaks out in a cold sweat as the beige pony stops next to her."Oh, hello." the earth pony says as she notices Sonic and Vinyl.

"Hey," the white mare replies. "Sup?" the blue hedgehog adds as he acknowledges the pony's greeting with a nod.

The beige pony turns to the mint unicorn. "You never mentioned that you knew..." Her question is cut off as the mare zips away before she can finish the question; leaving an awkward silence from the sudden departure. "Give me a sec," the beige mare says as she smiles nervously and holds up a hoof, then chases after the mint colored pony.

"That happen a lot?" Vinyl inquires as she turns toward Sonic.

"More than I'd like to admit, sadly."

"Something happen?" the white mare adds.

"I have no idea," the hedgehog states turning towards the direction of the two mare's departure.

Suddenly, a loud shout can be heard from down the street, drawing a few heads towards its source. "Bon Bon, let me go!" The mint unicorn shouts as she's dragged back to the shop by her tail.

"Not until you tell me what’s going on!" the beige mare snaps through clenched teeth as she bites down on the unicorn's tail and pulls her back towards Sonic and Vinyl.

"But I don't wanna!" Lyra whines as she digs her hooves into the dirt.

"Then you're making your own dinner tonight!" the mare now known as Bon Bon spits back as she releases the pony's tail.

"Hey, no fair!" the unicorn pouts, then lets out a heavy sigh. "Ok, fine, you win." Bon Bon smiles smugly and leads the mare back towards the shop, which now stands only a few paces away. The two mares return to their previous position prior to Lyra’s sudden departure in front of the blue hedgehog and white unicorn, much to Lyra's discomfort.

"Go on now," Bon Bon urges as she motions towards pair in front of them. Lyra's upper lip quivers as she struggles to make eye contact with the hedgehog, only to suddenly bow before him.

"I'm sorry!" the mare wails as she stares at the ground. Vinyl and Sonic exchange glances.

"Uh… for what?" the hedgehog inquires as he scratches the back of his head in confusion. Lyra's head snaps upward as she returns to a standing position.

"You mean, you don't remember?"
"Should I..." Sonic trails off as tries to recall something, only to suddenly snap his fingers as he remembers. "Oh yeah. You're the one that tried to take one of my quills the other day."

Bon Bon glares at the mint unicorn, causing her to smile nervously and sink towards the ground. "I apologize for my friend's actions..." Bon Bon states as she turns back towards Sonic and Vinyl. "...She has a tendency to act before she thinks," the beige mare finishes as she gives the mint unicorn another dirty look.

The blue hedgehog throws his hands into the air and lets out a sigh. "If you wanted one..." Sonic begins as he reaches behinds his back pulls something from the back of his head. "All you had to do was ask," he finishes as he pinches a long blue quill between his index finger and thumb and holds it out to mint mare. "Though I don't know why you'd want one."

Lyra stares at the long blue narrow object resting Sonic's out stretched hand before her, gazing upon it as if mesmerized by the gesture. "I think she likes it, Needles." Vinyl states as she grins from behind her purple shades. Sonic lets out an amused snort and turns towards the white mare, unaware that Lyra is looking past the quill and is now inching towards his hand, still bearing an awestruck expression.

Suddenly, the mint-colored mare latches onto the hedgehog's hand, causing him to drop the quill he was holding. "Lyra!" Bon Bon snaps as she attempts to pry her friend’s death grip from Sonic's hand.

"Can I see them?" the mint unicorn pleads as she looks up at the hedgehog.

"See what?" Sonic asks, raising an eyebrow at her question.

"Your fingers… without gloves."

Sonic glances at Lyra then at Bon Bon, who gives him a perplexed look. "Sorry, I got nothing." He then turns to Vinyl, who just shrugs. He turns back to the mint mare, who now eagerly awaits a reply.

"Meh, whatever,” he says with a shrug, grabbing the cuff of his right glove and removing it from his hand, twiddling his now glove-less fingers in front of the mint mare, who goes wide-eyed as she clasps Sonic's hand between her hooves.

"Oh, wow this is so cool." Lyra states as she continues to gaze at Sonic’s fingers, turning the blue hedgehog's hand over and giving it an odd look before turning back towards Sonic.

"Awww, you have little brown pads on the other side," Bon Bon coos as she glances over the mint unicorn's shoulder.

"And claws..." Vinyl adds as she uses her magic to lift her glasses from her eyes. "Why do you have claws?"

Sonic lets out an amused chuckle as he removes his hand from the mare’s grasp. "I am a hedgehog, after all." He makes a few digging motions with his hand. "We burrow."

The white mare shrugs in response. "Fair enough.

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Numerous books of all types and genres levitate around the main entrance inside the Golden Oaks Library while Twilight dons a saddle bag, glancing at the many forms of literature around her before she uses her magic to place some into the bag while others are returned to their respective spots.

"Spike!" the mare shouts as she closes the flap on her bag.

"What?" an annoyed dragon shouts, out of view.

"I'm going to Rarity's to help her with some clothing designs. Wanna come?"

"You're helping Rarity design something? Either I've gone crazy, or you're...." Spike trails off as the lavender unicorn glares at him, now standing atop the stair case.

"They’re supposed to be era specific, and she's not very familiar with the time frame."

"Oh"

"So, you wanna come along?"

Spike bats the air with his hand. "Na, I'll pass."

Twilight tilts her head in response. "You're... not going?"

"Yep."

The mare stares at the dragon for moment, before using her magic to teleport beside him, causing Spike to jump back in surprise. "Gah, don't do that!" he snaps.

"Who are you and what have you done with Spike?" Twilight demands as she glares at the dragon.

"Relax Twilight, I’m still me. I just don't want to go."

Not buying it, Twilight leans closer to the dragon and scans him with piercing eyes, trying to find an imperfection. "What are you-" Spike starts before a hoof is placed over his mouth as the lavender unicorn continues her search, only to rear back in confusion.

"Huh, it really is you."

"I told you!" Spike snaps as he stomps his foot at the unicorn.

"It's just weird; you usually get excited at the mention of Rarity."

"Well, I'm not the same dragon I used to be!"

Twilight crosses her forelegs as she kneels to a sitting position. "Since when?"

"Since always!"

"Spike," she said warningly.

"Ok fine, I had a talk with Sonic the other day."

"A talk?"

"Yeah, I was asking him for advice on a couple of things and we got to talking."

"About what?" Twilight inquires as she returns to a standing position.

"Nothing really, just guy stuff."

The mare continues to stare at Spike.

"Though somehow we got on the topic of fillies and colts, except Sonic called it ‘the birds and the bees’."

"The birds and the bees?"

"Yeah, and let me tell you, it had nothing to do with either of those things."

Twilight lets out an annoyed sigh. "Let me guess, he told you, that your feelings for Rarity were wrong."

Spike smirks and crosses his arms. "Actually, he supported it."

The mare's eyes widen in surprise. "Really?"

"Apparently interspecies relations are rather common on his world. So he didn't find anything wrong with how I felt about Rarity."

Twilight grins sheepishly at this, but quickly regains her stoic composure."I'm sensing a 'but' somewhere in this."

"Well despite supporting how I feel about her, Sonic suggested that I wait a little while longer and go after someone my own age, since the age gap is rather big between us and it wouldn't be far to have Rarity wait until I can confirm if these feeling of mine are true or not."

The lavender unicorn blinks at the last part for a few moments before responding. "That actually makes a lot of sense."

"Yep, so now you can stop pining about 'you know who' and actually..." Spike trails off as Twilight gives him an annoyed look.

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"This is me," a certain white unicorn states as the duo stops in front of a large house a few blocks from the Golden Oaks Library.

Sonic glances at the building and focuses on the large record hanging on the door. "Ha, that's different."

Vinyl smirks. "That's nothing, check this out." She states as she motions towards the door, only for it to burst open with an annoyed gray female earth pony standing on the other side of it.

"You know Vinyl, it's not much of a secret when you tell everypony about it!" The gray mare snaps as she gives the white unicorn an annoyed look, breaking her glare when she notices Sonic standing in the doorway. "Oh, hello."

The blue hedgehog nods in response. "Sup" The gray mare, feeling quite embarrassed, looks around nervously and adjusts her pink bow tie.

"I do apologize for that little outburst uh... Sonic was it?" The hedgehog nods. "As I said, I do apologize. For you see, I had that little device installed because Vinyl here-" she motions towards the white mare in front of her "-kept losing her keys. And having the locks changed or keys made was getting increasingly frustrating, you see. Also, I do trust that you won’t use this knowledge to gain entry without our consent."

Sonic scratches his head in bewilderment. "You know, I had no idea where or what Scratch was talking about, until you told me just now."

"Oops" The white unicorn gives the gray mare her own annoyed expression.

"Nice going, Tavi. You ruined the surprise!" The gray mare gives Vinyl a perplexed look as she takes a step back.

"Surprise? What surprise? Also, why is your friend here calling you 'Scratch’?" Sonic shoots the gray mare his trademark grin before responding. "Vinyl here-" he gestures towards the white pony besides him. "-kept calling me ‘Needles’ on the count of my skills on a turn table and these awesome blue quills," he states as he runs his hand through the long protruding spikes on back of his head. "So I started calling her ‘Scratch’ and the name just kinda stuck."

The gray earth pony muses to herself as she tries to hold back a laugh, "That's rather amusing actually." Sonic crosses his arms.

"Glad to hear it..." He trails off and glances at the mare's cutie mark...."Treble clef." The gray mare turns towards her flank and then back at Sonic.

"That's quite clever, but not quite." The mare gives the hedgehog a solemn nod. "My name is Octavia Melody, or just Octavia for short, though…" she looks pointedly at Vinyl, "... some ponies call me Tavi," the gray mare snaps with a bit of venom in her voice.

"Aw c'mon, Tavi. It's all in good fun." Octavia lets out a snort at the unicorn's statement.

"I think I’d better get going." Sonic points to his left with his thumb. "There's somewhere I have to be, and..." The blue hedgehog is cut off as a brown hoof is placed on his shoulder.

"I do hate to be a bother, but I've seen you and Vinyl hang out quite a bit lately, and perhaps you can convince her that her 'project' is a tad unrealistic?"

"Hey!" The white mare snaps. "Once it's completed, it’ll be the best sound system in Equestria!"

"Maybe so, but I've gone over this blueprint a dozen times, and something seems off." Octavia turns to Sonic. "Could you look over it and try to convince Vinyl here that it just can't be done?"

The hedgehog lets out a sigh and lets his arms drop to his sides. "Ok."

The mare smiles. "Splendid!" she chimes as she disappears into the house.

"You're not really taking her side are you?" the white unicorn inquires as she turns to the hedgehog.

"Just taking a look. I don't think she'll let me leave until I do."

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Octavia returns a short time later carrying a clip board and holds it out towards Sonic. "Sorry for the wait, this is all I could find in that 'disaster' of a room of hers."

"Knock it off, Tavi!" Vinyl snaps. The blue hedgehog takes the clips board from the gray earth pony and begins to flip through its contents.

"So?" the earth pony asks eagerly as she leans towards the hedgehog.

"Give me a sec," Sonic replies as he flips through a few more pages.

"You understand any of it?" Vinyl adds as she turns to the blue hedgehog.

"A little bit, I had a friend that was good with stuff like this," Sonic sighs, but give his a shake to clear away the memory. "I was hoping that something would have stuck." Sonic turns to the last page on the clip board and hands it back to the gray mare. "Well you were right, this thing won't work."

Octavia grins smugly in triumph. "I tried to tell you, Vinyl. It was impossible."The hedgehog holds up his hand to silence the pony.

"Now hold on, I didn't say it was impossible."

"What?"

Sonic takes the clipboard, turns it to the last page, and hold it front of the now distressed unicorn. "This capacitor here, it’s the wrong kind. As it is, the bass is too high. It's enough to punch a hole into something, like a cannon. You need something…" His words are phased out as Vinyl grins and lets out an amused chuckle.

"Bass like a cannon..." she muses. She flips her glasses back down. "That gives me an idea." Octavia rolls her eyes.

"Oh please, don't give her any more ideas."

"Too late!" The white unicorn adds as she rubs her forehooves together.

"Oh, very well. If you must attempt another 'project' you have my support... if your designs are sound this time." Sonic scratches his head at the two ponies’ sudden change in mood.

"Uh what just happened?"

"Oh we do that." Vinyl begins. "We've been friends since we moved here. That's just how we talk to one another."


"Oh"

"Speaking of talk…" Octavia says as she takes the clipboard from the hedgehog's hand. "I've heard some rumors lately."

"Oh boy, here we go." Vinyl groans as she rolls her eyes.

"As of late, I've heard that you've been courting a certain pony."

"Courting?" Sonic asks as he scratches his head.

"I think she means dating."

"I know what I said!" Octavia snaps.

"Really, then who have I been 'courting?" Sonic demands as he uses finger quotes on the last part.

The gray mare's expression turns sour. "That's the thing; it depends on who you ask. Odiously, most say that you and Twilight Sparkle have a thing, since you've been staying at her home, though others, say it's Rainbow Dash because you two seem to be together rather often. And I've even heard that you're-"

"Ok, I think I get the point," Sonic scoffs. "I forgot all about the small town mentality."

"Really? And what would that be?"

Sonic opens his mouth to reply but is cut off by the chime of a bell off in the distance. "Oh crud, it's that late already?"

"Three bells, which means it's three past noon. Why, is there somewhere you have to be?"

"Yeah, I promised AJ that I'd pick up Apple Bloom from school, since she's busy with the new harvest and all."

Octavia smiles at the blue hedgehog before her. "Sticking to your responsibilities rather than blowing them off to hang out with your friends. I can respect that."

"Yeah Needles, if you have somewhere else to be, that's cool."

The blue hedgehog nods and takes a running stance and turns towards the two mares. "Alright, I'll be off then. See you two later." The ponies nod and Sonic turns back towards the horizon. "You two might want to step back."

"Hold up for a sec." Vinyl chimes as she trots next to the hedgehog.

"What's up?"

The white mare grins. "Swing by when you have a chance, I'll show you that new sound I was talking about."

Sonic gives the pony a thumbs up and flashes her his trademark smile. "Count on it."

Taking a ready position, the blue hedgehog charges away with a burst of speed, causing the air to let out a deafening crack as the sound barrier is broken, sending a gust of wind towards the unsuspecting mares.

"Oh my," Octavia says as she watches the hedgehog disappears from sight.

"Haha, I told you he was awesome!"

"Indeed, but I must warn you to be careful around him."

"Really? Why do you say that?"

"Some of these rumors I've been hearing include you as well."

"Bah, let them say what they want."

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Next Time!

Scootaloo: "HEY! That's just like Rainbow Dash's Cutie mark!

Rainbow Dash: "Ah, yeah. Now that's what I'm talking about"

Sonic: "So, uh, you gonna buck all them apples?"

Apple Bloom: "Are you two dating now or something?"

Author's Notes:

Our hero and Ponyvilles' music mixing unicorn talk shop. As they take a stroll around town. Meeting a few interesting characters along the way. All while Twilight helps Rarity with some 'destines.'

What lies ahead for our hero, find out next time!

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