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A New Dawn Chapter 20

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Comm: Sonic, Rainbow Dash, Spitfire - Awestruck by BroDogz



Rainbow Dash lay on her stomach, her hind legs tucked underneath her and her fore legs crossed in front of her. She and Sonic were in a storage room located on one of the lower decks of the small airship. It was here they had decided to stow the non-functioning Metal and despite his lack of mechanical skill, Sonic had become quite determined to get him operational.

“Sonic, would you relax,” the cyan pegasus said as she was beginning to grow tired of his futile attempts to turn on the robot. “The Princess said something about him repairing himself and that he would wake up when he was done.”

“Metal can auto-repair while he is awake,” Sonic responded, he hoisted the limp robot into the air with grunt and laid him on his back. “C’mon, there has got be like an on switch or something…” he mumbled to himself, before directing his voice back at Rainbow Dash. “Besides, there are some questions I gotta ask him.”

“Ugh, fine,” she grumbled as she rose to her hooves stretched and began to fly around the room. She rolled onto her back and stared at the ceiling as she buzzed around the hedgehog. Sensing he wasn’t going to give up on his endeavors she ventured to change the topic of conversation. “Man, I can’t wait to get back to Equestria.”

“Oh?” Sonic commented taking interest in her enthusiasm. “Got some special planned or something?”

“No, just miss it guess,” she mused. Then her face lit up with a smile as she flipped back over to face the hedgehog. “Dude, you’ve never been there! I totally gotta show you around the place! You’re gonna love it!”

“Alright,” Sonic said with a smile, as he paused his work and looked up at the pegasus.

“Can’t wait to see it.”

“Dude there is so much to see, there is Ponyville, Cloudsdale, that’s where I was born, Canterlot, Appleoosa, and bunch of other cool places. Some I haven’t even gone to yet! Oh, I gotta ask the Princess if we can touch down in Baltimare, I gotta show you Mane Street!”

“Main Street?”

“Yeah, now this is cool, check it out!” Rainbow Dash said excitedly as she flew about and found some paper and pencil and began to draw out a crude outline of Equestria. “Now, you see here,” she said drawing an ‘X’ in the middle of east coast of the country, “This is Baltimare. This,” She said drawing another ‘X in the middle of the west coast. “Is Las Pegasus, and right here in the middle…,” She drew her final ‘X’ in the middle of the country between the two other cities. “Is Ponyville, that’s where my friends and I stay.”

“Okay,” Sonic said as he kneeled down next to her trying to make a mental image for himself.

“And Mane Street,” she began as she drew a giant line from one end of the country to the other crossing through Ponyville connecting to the two coastal cities. “Connects them all! One big straight road that runs through the entire country!”

“That’s a pretty serious road!” Sonic chuckled at her enthusiasm.

“The road isn’t what’s cool; it’s what’s on it.” She said as she rolled eyes. “I had to make a few deliveries, back when I was a mail pony and they go all these really cool landmarks on Mane Street in Baltimare.”

“Okay, that does sound a bit more interesting.

“Told ya, I’m telling you Sonic, I can’t wait to get back and see all my other friends. There’s Blossomforth, The twins Flitter and Cloud Chaser, Thunderlane, Oh you have gotta meet Thunderlane he’s such a goofball! Oh and the rest of Wonderbolts, especially Derpy and Soar-“ Rainbow Dash smile quickly faded.

“Hey,” Sonic said taken notice of her attitude flip flopping and placed a hand on her shoulder. “Hey, what’s up?”

“Soarin’, he was hurt real bad last time I saw him. Metal here stabbed him with a spear.”

“Oh,” Sonic said taken a comforting tone. “I remember you mentioning a stallion back in the cave, was it him?”

Rainbow Dash stared at the ground as the image of a wounded Soarin’ being held tightly by Spitfire, tears streaming down her Captain’s face. “Yeah, it was him.”

“You think, you think he might be…”

“I don’t know what to think, I just pray to Celestia that he’s okay.”

“You really care for this guy. Is he like a…” Sonic teetered on his choice of words for a moment. ”Boyfriend? Or husband?”

“What? No, he’s just a guy I really li-“ Rainbow Dash quickly changed her words. “Just some guy, you know. Just a teammate.”

“Dash,” Sonic sighed. “You’re a terrible liar. You clearly like him.”

“No, no,” she argued shaking her head. “It’s not like that, it’s, it’s” she rested back on her haunches and let out a sigh as she realized the hedgehog was right. Since the days after the contest back in Cloudsdale she had been trying to convince herself otherwise, but there was no denying the truth that she still had a spot in her heart for him. But then there was Spitfire, and Soarin’ saying he was going to quit the Wonderbolts, and then their battle with Metal and then she had met Sonic and now… Without lifting her head she raised her eyes from the floor to Sonic and offered him a weak smile. “It’s complicated.”

“You’re a girl who likes a guy,” Sonic responded with a grin. “What’s so complicated about that?”

“He’s dating me, that’s what,” Spitfire said loudly, her angry voice filling the small storage room and startling the two of them to their feet as the fiery haired mare trotted in.

“Not any more, he’s not,” Dash corrected her bitterly.

Spitfire gritted her teeth at the insult and closed the distance between herself and Rainbow Dash, invading her personal space to point they were practically nose to nose.

“Whoa, that is complicated,” Sonic said.

“I was looking for you Hero, Princess needs to talk to you.” Spitfire called out to him sarcastically, all the while, her eyes focused squarely on Rainbow Dash who, despite shrinking under gaze, stared angrily back at her. Then after a moment or two she snorted hot air through her nostrils before whipping back towards the door and beginning to head out. “I’ll take you to the bridge.” Sonic fell in line behind her while mouthing the word ‘Yikes’ to Rainbow Dash while pointing at an unaware Spitfire which drew a smile on the blue Pegasus’ face as she followed as well.

Once on the bridge they were both shocked to see everyone else had been gathered and that Princess Luna was not wearing her normal royal attire. Everyone had worried looks on their faces and Princess moved to meet Sonic halfway in the room.

“Sonic, you told me earlier that you believed the yellow terror, this Shadow, could be stopped. That he could be reasoned with. Do you honestly believe you can do that?” the Princess asked with a voice filled with worry that caused Sonic to shuffle nervously at the request.

“If it’s my buddy Shadow from back on my world, I’m sure I can. Even in his super form, he’s still not a bad guy,” he assured her. Then he cautiously ventured forth a question.

“Why do you ask?”

Princess Luna lowered her head for moment in thought and then looked Sonic in the eyes once more. “How powerful... what would he be capable of?” she asked, not answering his question. Sonic could tell by her tone that there was a reason for her asking him these things.

“Princess,” Sonic implored. “What’s going on here?”

“We think Shadow is loose, and we think Equestria is in real danger,” Twilight Sparkle answered. “Princess Luna’s older sister Princess Celestia has written us letters telling us to turn back and that Equestria is burning.”

“Is this Shadow capable of such a thing?” Princess Luna asked again.
Sonic didn’t respond, his head dropping as he looked at his feet. His hands balled into fists as his whole body shook, but with sadness, fear, or anger no one knew. However, the Princess had her answer in his body language. Without a word, Sonic turned and left the bridge, leaving the rest of attendants bewildered, but Luna realized that there was little he could now; they were still days from Equestria.

Spitfire however didn’t share in her belief and headed after him with Rainbow Dash hot on her heels, anxious to see if Sonic was okay. They caught him walking hurriedly back to the storage room were Metal was being kept.

“Hey! You didn’t answer the Princess’s question!” she yelled at him. Sonic stopped and turned to look at her. “Is this guy really that dangerous? Because we’re going there, regardless of what Celestia says. You owe it to us to at least let us know what we are up against!”

“Yes,” Sonic sighed deeply, “He is that dangerous, but that’s why I’m gonna go stop him.” With that statement, he turned into the room and grabbed his bag which he had laid casually against a support beam in the room.

“Oh really? And how are you gonna do that? We’re days away Equestria.” Spitfire hissed with sarcasm.

Sonic looked over his shoulder back at the Wonderbolt Captain and Rainbow Dash as he held the bag by its ends and emptied its contents on the floor.

The two mares stood with confused looks as they saw seven large, expertly cut, luminous jewels tumble out onto the floor. They were each colored differently but seemed to just be ordinary gemstones until they began glow, and levitate around the hedgehog.

“Sonic?” Rainbow Dash mumbled.

Sonic turned away from them and began to hover in the air, hunching over, bringing his arms, legs and head as close to his chest as possible as the gems spun faster around him and began shine brightly illuminating the whole room in their glow.

“What kinda chuck wagon bullsh-“ Spitfire began before she was cut off by furious scream that was issued forth from the hedgehog as his flung out his arms, legs as he yelled upwards to the sky. The room was bathed with brilliant white light as energy exploded throughout the room from him, knocking both mares from their hooves onto the ground.

Spitfire slowly rose back up from the fall and rubbed at her eyes to restore her vision once the light had dimmed. As soon as she could see again, she felt her breath catch in her throat as she beheld the sight before her. Sonic was gone, and before her floated a golden hedgehog with upturned quills that shimmered with energy and whose very essence radiated with power. The Captain marveled at the sight, her lower lip quivered as she stood awe of his presence as he hovered mere feet in front of her. Was this the power that made the princess tremble? Spitfire felt her kneels buckle as her body instinctively lowered into a submissive position.

“Sonic?” Rainbow Dash called out from beside her. She still hadn’t picked herself up off the ground, “Sonic is that you?”

The golden hedgehog turned, his warm, friendly green eyes now ruby red and filled with fierce determination and a burning sense of purpose. “It’s alright.” He spoke with a smile in comforting tone, easing both of their fears. “It’s still me.” He saw they were shielding their eyes from light that came from him. “I’m just a little bit shinier.”

“I’ll say,” Rainbow Dash said happily as she realized he was still the same Sonic she knew. “I thought you said you couldn’t fly,” she said with smile which the hover Sonic only offered her shrug.

“Wha, what are you gonna do?” Spitfire said, still not sure what to make of all this.

“I’m gonna save the world.” he said, not so much a statement as it was a promise.

“Told you he was a hero,” Rainbow Dash gloated to her Captain.

“I suppose he is,” Spitfire chuckled to herself, allowing herself to have glimmer of hope. “So, Hero, how you gonna do that?”

“I told you already, I’m gonna stop Shadow,” then he turned his attention to the lifeless husk of Metal “But first…” he mused as he placed his on the robot chest and with a loud ‘ZCHUNK,’ Metal’s chest lurched forward and the LED’s that made up his eyes flashed on as his engines whirred to life as Sonic imbued energy directly into him. The force of the phenomena sent a shockwave through the compartment bathing Spitfire and Rainbow Dash in raw energy. As the yellow glow flowed over her Rainbow Dash felt her whole body tense and her spine tingle as she was suddenly filled with a sense of invulnerability. It only lasted for the briefest of moments, but once the rush of power that overcame her passed, she felt like she could fly 100 laps around Canterlot!

“Spitfire! Spitfire did you feel-" she stammered as she turned to the mare beside her but paused when she saw her. The Captain of the Wonderbolts had her forelegs outstretched in front of her with her head lowered as her back legs stood strait rearing her hindquarters high into the air as she arched her back. Her eyes rolled into the back of her head before she shut them tightly as labored breath passed through her parted lips as her legs quivered in ecstasy. “I guess you did,” Rainbow Dash said as a grin spread across her face seeing her Captain clearly enjoying the feeling more than she had as her body shuddered with euphoria. She leaned close to her with a cocky smirk and whispered into Spitfire’s ear. “You can stop presenting, now, Captain.”

Spitfire’s eyes shot open as she immediately straitened herself out and tried to hide her embarrassment, running a hoof through her mane before shooting a dirty look at Rainbow Dash.

“System recovery complete,” a pleasant sounding female voice announced as all of Metal’s systems came on line.

“Get up.” Sonic commanded.

Metal rose obediently. “Assessing….Presence of The Super Sonic dramatically increases probability for survival.”

Sonic grinned at the realization that Metal was on his side for this one. “We’ve got work to do.”







The rest of the crew was left speechless at the sight of the floating Super Sonic making his way to the ship’s deck with Metal behind him and both Rainbow Dash and Spitfire behind them. Indeed, Luna was quick to prepare a spell as soon as she saw him. Luckily, the two pegasus intervened and informed her that he was on their side. Left with little choice, they all parted to either side of the hallways to let him pass and joined the two Wonderbolts on their way to ship’s deck. Once there, they all gathered around him, wondering what he was planning as he gazed around the ship before signaling for Metal to come close. The wind was blowing and sound of the airship's motors masked the conversation he had with the robot, but the saw him pointing at the support beams that held the ship to its balloon canopy. They saw Metal Sonic nod in compliance before bursting into the air and flying off the side of the ship.

“Hold on to something,” Sonic said calmly but loud enough that they could all ear.

“Sonic!” Rainbow Dash yelled out to him. “What’s going on? What are you doing?” She got her answer as Metal flew past spinning into a buzz, slicing through two of the support cables causing the airship to lurch and toss her passengers about sending all of them scrambling to the guard rails for support.

“What in tarnation does that overgrown lightning bug think he’s doin’?” Applejack shouted out.

“Ooh, Ooh, I’ll ask!” Pinkie Pie said, despite their situation in a cheerful tone. “HEY SONIC!! WHATCHA DOIN’!!” she yelled out to him over the noise as Metal cut another two support cables.

“I’m going to carry us to Equestria.”

“OHHH, OKAY!” Pinkie Pie yelled back, before turning around back to Applejack. “He’s gonna carry us back to Equestria.”

“Come again,” Applejack said, disbelief and worry in her voice.

“Pinkie Pie, Darling,” Rarity shouted to her, “does he even know where it is?!”

“Hmmm,” Pinkie thought hard for a moment. Then she smiled, “don’t worry girls, I’ll take of this!” Then the earth pony let go the guard rails and bounded her way over to Sonic, ignoring the effects of Metal flying past again, slicing two more cables, leaving just two cables left and the ship, balancing precariously on a delicate balance. Not to be deterred, Pinkie casually made her way next to sonic. All of the others mares held with bated breath as to what Pinkie Pie had up her sleeve.

“HEY SONIC!” She yelled again, causing him to look down at her. Then she gave him a big smile and pointed due west across the ocean. “EQUESTRIA’S THAT WAY!”

“PINKIE WHAT ARE YOU DOING!!” an exasperated Twilight yelled, not believing her friends lunacy.

Sonic nodded, gave her a small smile and thumbs up just a Metal sliced the final cord’s and sent the entire passenger airship into a free fall towards the ocean. The passengers all screamed as they plummeted. Rainbow Dash saw the earth pony Pinkie Pie fly off into the air, and her instincts kicked in as she took to the sky after her to rescue her, but a golden blur flew past her and grabbed Pinkie before disappearing beneath the airship. She chased after the yellow trail that guided her to the keel of the ship, where she saw the impossible.

Sonic held Pinkie pie in his free arm as he reached above his head, his right hand gripped the keel. The ship stopped it’s decent as he held fast without any sign of strain.

“Whoa, that’s cool…” Pinkie Pie said as she gawked at the sight.

“Hey, Dash?” Sonic asked coolly as he looked to the blue pegasus. “Can you bring her up top for me? I kinda got my hands full.”

Rainbow Dash nodded deftly and moved to grab onto her friend, just as Metal flew down next to Sonic. The golden hedgehog nodded his approval to Metal and then turned his attention back to Rainbow Dash.

“I don't know about you, but I hate being late to a party. You guys better get up top and hang on,”

Once again, all she could manage was a head nod as her voice was still caught in her throat, then she lifted Pinkie Pie back to the deck and they both grabbed on tightly to rails along with Metal Sonic who to up position in the back to watch everyone else.
“He’s carrying the ship, ain’t he?” Applejack said nervously as they landed and hung on to the rails.

“I’d hang on real tight if I were you.” Rainbow Dash said as she felt the ship begin to move forward and begin to rapidly pick up speed, and the pegasus saw the familiar haze of a mach cone forming at the prow of the ship.

“What in Celestia’s name is he gonna do now?” Twilight asked nervously as they all gripped tightly to the guard rails.

“You ever wonder what it’s like to do a Sonic-Rainboom?”

The everyone else passed nervous, confused glances back and forth between each other. Then they all came to the sudden realization of what she implied and in unison screamed at the top of their lungs “NO!!”

“Too bad!” She shouted back and with a sudden jerk the small airship bolted forward through the sky at a terrifying pace, a golden ring ripping across the sky behind them as they hurtled through the air towards Equestria.
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Sonic has pulled out all the stops, and now as Super Sonic he rockets our hero's towards an uncertain fate. Will he have what it takes to stop Shadow?

Looks like tension between Rainbow Dash and Spitfire over Soarin' hasn't mellowed but has Rainbow Dash started to grow attached to a certain blue hedgehog...is Spitfire enamored with certain yellow one?

You won't want to miss our next thrilling chapter because it's the beginning of the end on the next installment of A New Dawn!!!



HOOO BOY! So let me be the first to apologize, I had REALLY wanted to start the fight this chapter, but I realized the majority of the heroes were days away so I had to fix that plus I had to toss in a Chechkov's gun in this chapter that they won't have another chance to put out before it would be to late. Plus I wanted to revisit Spitfire's and RD rivalry over Soarin' I had always wanted to flirt with the idea of RD liking Sonic and being torn between the two, but for some reason I loved the idea of Spitfire being drawn to Super Sonic's raw power and commanding presence...with an added monkey wrench thrown in.

SHIPPING IN A NEW DAWN...IT'S COMPLICATED!!

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At the end, I just wanted to play sonic boom from sonic CD