On a nice sunny day:
Dragon Ruby invited Sakura and Eden for a special mares only spa day at the Ponyville Spa. The girls are having a relaxing time at the spa. Right now, they are relaxing in a crystal mud bath from the Crystal Empire.
Ruby, Eden and Sakura are glad that this is a good way to spend some girl time. Ruby is reading a fashion magazine. Sakura is reading a Daring Do book. Eden is just petting her pet bunny name Angela. They are glad to finally relaxed everything that they been through.
Sakura feels so relax and says, "This feels so nice."
"I know. This is why I love the Spa," Ruby says agreeing with Sakura.
"I'm glad you are able to come for our annual spa day," Eden says feeling relaxed and tired.
"I'm glad too. I never been to an actual spa before, but I'm glad I can spend it with you guys," Sakura replies feeling happy and relaxed from everything that has happened on her birthday.
"Yeah," Ruby and Eden say feeling relaxed.
Things are going really smoothly and relaxing for the girls. Until Raspberry Pie burst into the Spa screaming, "Guys!"
Everyone in the spa, including Sakura and the girls hear him and look at him with a confused look on their faces. They are wonder why Raspberry come barging in screaming like it's the end of the world or something.
"Raspberry, what is the matter," Eden asks sounding very concern.
"You look like you just got a major sugar rush or something," Sakura replies.
Raspberry takes out a newspaper from his hair and screams, "Look at this!"
Sakura use her magic to levitate the newspaper to herself, Ruby and Eden, to see the article for themselves.
Sakura begins to read the article and says, "Sakura Hinata and Dragon Ruby are actually cousins for they are both hybrids and Twilight Sparkle known Sakura Hinata's mother hatched Spike the dragon known as Dragon Ruby's father."
After they finish reading the article, everyone in the spa are staring at Sakura and Dragon Ruby. They are wondering if Sakura and Dragon Ruby are really related to each other.
Dragon Ruby is not very pleased about the article. In fact she is so unpleased that she transform into her dragon form and angrily screams, "What kind of nonsense is that?!"
"I don't know why someone wrote it in the paper," Raspberry replies sounding very scared.
Sakura starts to think about the article and remember about her mother hatched Spike.
Sakura says, "Come to think of it."
Ruby faces Sakura with a shocked look on her face and says, "You are actually believing this Sakura!"
"Well my mom is the one who hatched your dad during her exam so why can't we be related," Sakura says explaining her reasons.
Ruby starts to think of Sakura's suggestion. She remember her father telling her that Twilight hatched her when she was a little girl. So in a way they could be related in some way.
Then Ruby says, "You do have a point Sakura, but how do they know of it and why would somepony wrote it in the paper."
"I don't know, but it's possible someone was able to get some information on our family and put two and two together and thought it will make a good story, don't you think?" Sakura suggests.
"It is possible," Eden replies think about the situation.
Sakura decides to look the article and is curious about this story and decides there's only one pony who may have an answer to this mystery… And that pony is her mother.
Sakura and the girls visited her house and going to ask about the article. When they explain the situation to their mom, Twilight is just as shocked as they are. She has no idea on how anyone can get that kind of story and that information.
All Twilight can say is, " This sure is a problem."
"A problem! This is outrageous!" Ruby screams in anger and in her dragon form.
Sakura is a little scared of Ruby acting so vicious in her dragon for. She never seen Ruby act like this. She knows one this is that you shouldn't do anything to make Ruby super angry.
"Ruby you have to calm down," Eden says shyly.
Dragon Ruby realized she's been in her dragon form for some time. She decides to calm herself down and fix her mane and tail.
Then Sakura says, "All we have to do is go to talk to the editor and see if we can ask who wrote this and why."
"Like they're going to tell you," Ruby bluntly says with annoyance.
They decides to go to the News station to talk to the editor and chief of the Ponyville Times. It isn't much trouble to get the answer they are looking for.
"Nosy News wrote the article," The editor admit seriously.
"And who is Nosy?" Eden asks shyly.
"That will be me," A female voice comes out.
Sakura and the other mares turn to see a mare in her mid 20s. She has a cream like skin, black mane in a bun and tail straight down, and brown eyes. She is wearing small glasses a black tie, and a white collar. Her cutie mark is a small notebook with a pencil writing words on it.
"Nosy News of the Ponyville Time, love the story I wrote,"
"Honestly it's little weird."
"And you shouldn't have report it," Ruby says angrily.
"Calm down Dragon Girl," Sakura bluntly says.
"Don't call me Dragon Girl," Ruby screams at Sakura with anger for the nickname.
Sakura decides to ignore Ruby's outburst and see if she can reason with Nosy.
Sakura calmly explains. "What I'm trying to say is that you need to be careful of what you wrote in the paper. It can cause some problem."
"Sorry girl I report as I see it. Now if you excuse me, I got to find a scoop for my story," Nosy says acting like she doesn't even hear Sakura at all.
Then Nosy decides to leave to find more stuff to report, but before she does, Nosy loudly calls, "Pen Pal!"
"Coming!" A Young colt's voice comes out.
The colt called Pen Pal is Nosy's assistant and he is young, about three or 4 years old than Sakura and her friends. He has light orange fur, blue eyes, bright yellow mane and tail. He is wearing a small reporter's hat, a camera on his neck, a brown vest and large glasses. His cutie mark is a small camera with three flashes next to it. He is also wearing a small pin that looks like a camera on his vest
Pen Pal comes over to Nosy after hearing her call and asks, "Hi Nosy, you call."
"Yes. We're going out to find more exciting stories," Nosy answers with pride.
"Okay," Pen Pal replies.
As Nosy and Pen Pal are about to leave. Pen Pal recognize Sakura and happily says, "Hey! Aren't you the alicorn hybrid I heard about. Your name is.. Sakura right."
"Yes. I am," Sakura replies sounding confused.
"It's nice to meet you," Pen Pal happily says.
Sakura, Ruby, and Eden are glad to meet a nice colt like Pen Pal, but there is something that is still bothering hi.
Sakura asks. "Pen Pal how did you and Nosy get the idea about me and Dragon Ruby for your article."
Pen Pal starts to feel a little sad about Sakura's question and decides to explain to them about their reason, "Well, you seem so interesting that Nosy and I want to do an article about you and when she learns about your's and Ruby's family she figured you two are a family."
Sakura, Ruby, and Eden are feeling questionable about Nosy wanting to know more about Sakura's family. Then again, they did question about the information they put in the article and wonder if it's really true.
Then Pen Pal says, "I need to get going a reporter's assistant's work is never done.
After that, Pen Pal leave to go catch up with Nosy leaving the girls feeling kind of questionable about Nosy News and Pen Pal.
"Talk about an odd mare," Sakura bluntly says.
Yes darling. At least Pen Pal is a sweet colt," Ruby replies.
Eden simply nods her head agreeing with her friends about their opinion.
During the week Nosy has been putting up more reports about not only ponies privacy, but also putting up stories that ends up not being true. Some of the ponies are starting to get upset and annoyed by Nosy's articles. Sakura is also not happy for that story Nosy wrote about ner and Lyra on the news. She thinks that this is starting to get out of control and thinks it's time that someone puts a stop to Nosy scope fever.
A week later:
Baked Apple and Eden are at the apple orchard collecting apple for applebuck season with their parents. After finishing applebucking they decides to take care of things around the house.
Before Baked Apple and Apple Eden can go inside, they hear Sakura calling them, "Hey Baked Apple! Apple Eden!"
"Morning Sakura," Eden says cheerfully.
"Howdy Sakura," Baked Apple replies.
Sakura makes an annoyed face and asks,"So have you been reading the newspaper lately?"
"Trust me I have," Eden answers sadly.
"I think all her news report is a bunch of hooey," Baked Apple answers feeling a bit mad about the articles.
Then Sakura angrily, "I know what you mean. She not only wrote about me and Ruby being related, but she also wrote about me being Lyra's science experiment."
Baked Apple and Apple Eden looks at Sakura with confused looks on their faces and wonder what she means by that. They also know that since Lyra is so fond of humans she would want to learn about them.
"Why?" Baked Apple asks questionably.
"She was asking question about my humankind. I had no idea she was so fond of humans. Ever since she heard about me being a human she been asking me and my mom about the world I used to live in before I move to Equestria," Sakura answer while shrugging her shoulders.
After Sakura explaining to the apple cousins about Lyra love for humans, they simply laughs a bit because they know how much Lyra loves to learn about human and wants to meet on someday.
"That's Lyra alright," Baked Apple says while laughing.
Sakura laughs along with them for a little and can understand why they are laughing, but Sakura knows that now is not the time to be laughing. They need to deal with Nosy's stories before they get too much for them to handle.
Sakura looks at her friends seriously and says, "Well, I think we should go talk to this Nosy News about these stories before this gets out of hand."
"I think we're a little late for that," Baked Apple bluntly adds with a stern look on her face.
Sakura and Baked Apple decides to go to Nosy's office to have a talk to her about the reports she decides to put in the paper.
It isn't long to find Nosy's office at the news office and decides to have a talk to her and her assistant about the articles they are putting,
Sakura knocks on the door and Pen Pal opens the door.
Pen Pal says, "Hello Sakura."
"Hi Pen Pal. Is Nosy in?" Sakura replies politely.
"She is," Pen Pal answers.
Pen Pal turns his head back and says, "Nosy! Sakura wants to talk to you."
"Hello Sakura, how are you doing?" Nosy says happily.
Sakura looks a bit concern and a little curious to see Nosy acting all chummy when others are not happy for the articles that she written these past few days.
Sakura firmly says, "Nosy. We need to talk."
"So, what are you doing here? You're here to tell me how my stories are amazing,"
"No I'm here to tell you that your stories are lies and personal,"
Nosy starts to look at Sakura suspiciously and asks, "What do you mean by that?"
Sakura decides to tell Nosy what is really going on.
Sakura looks at Nosy with a serious look on her face and says, "For starters, you're putting ponies personal secrets and information on the paper."
"And you didn't check your facts on your stories before you even reported them," Baked Apple adds with anger.
Nosy is starting to get annoyed by how Baked Apple and Sakura are talking to her like that. Pen Pal is starting to feel guilty
"So," Nosy says acting like she doesn't care.
Baked Apple gets up and make his way to the door with anger, but before he goes, he turns towards where Nosy is sitting and says, "The point is, you need to check your facts before you decides what kind of story you write."
Then Sakura says. "And there are some things that shouldn't be reported."
"And that is all we got to say," Baked Apple adds with anger.
"Good bye," Sakura replies with anger as she is leaving the office with Baked Apple.
After the talk:
Nosy and Pen Pal are walking down the street to take a walk. Nosy is not very please that Baked Apple and Sakura not liking what she writes in her stories and is not going to put this down. Pen Pal feels a bit uncertain and concern about the stories they been writing and starting to feel guilty.
They stopped in front of a house, which is supposed to be the residence to a earth pony named Water Lily a local floral designer and has a lovely garden.
Nosy angrily says, "I don't get what is every pony is so mad about. I report my stories and they should be enjoying them. Everything I report should be the truth."
Pen Pal is starting to take in what Baked Apple and Sakura said earlier. He is starting to believe that what they're doing is wrong.
Pen Pal says sadly, "Um… Nosy, are you sure about all this? I mean we didn't really double check the information and some of them are very personal."
Nosy turns to Pen Pal with angry face and says, "I don't care about fact, I care about have a great scoop."
As they are getting ready to leave, they hear someone coming their way.
Nosy questionably says, "What is this?"
With that Noys and Pen Pal hide behind the house. They look to see Apple Eden carrying flowers in her mouth.
Nosy makes a smirk on her face and say, "Well, Look what we have here."
Nosy has an idea and proudly says, "This is the scope of the century."
"Come on," Nosy says to Pen Pal.
Pen Pal is starting to have a bad feeling about this, but has to do what Nosy says and follows Eden. What they're going to realize that they're going to cause big trouble, especially for Eden.
The next day:
Sakura grabs the newspaper that is sitting in front of her door. When she takes a look to read it, she is very shocked to see what it says. The article shows a picture of Eden carry flowers in her mouth. The article says that Eden is a thief for stealing them from Water Lily's garden.
Sakura surprisingly screams, "I don't believe it!"
After that frightful sight, Sakura leaves her house to go tell her friend about the latest Nosy's news. When she tells them about what Nosy write, they are very shocked and thinks she is taking too far with her scops. They decide to find Eden before the situation gets too serious to handle.
Eden is actually going to the market place to get some groceries for her mother, but as she is going a lot of ponies are staring at her. Some with serious looks on their faces.
"W-w-why is every pony staring at me," Eden asks to herself so scared.
"Eden!" Eden hears her cousin's voice. She turns to see him with the other coming with worried looks on their faces.
"Morning everyone, what is going on? Why is everypony staring at you," Eden asks sounding scared and worried.
Sakura hands over the article to Ruby to give to Eden. Ruby use her magic to give the article to Eden.
Ruby sadly says, "Eden, they're staring at you because of this."
Eden takes the newspaper and starts to read. She is devastated and shocked to read that she is stealing carnation from Water Lily's house. Eden starts to cry, and starts to feel very hurt and scared.
"But… I… I would never do something like this," Eden says with a shock.
As things are starting to turn bad a familiar voice catches their attention and says, "I don't see why you are talking to a thief."
The others turn to see Nosy and Pen Pal. This make Sakura and her friends really angry to see her because Eden can get accused and into big trouble. There are some other ponies one of them is unicorn Marigold and another is a pegasus named Morning Glory.
They both are staring at Eden with angry look in their eyes and believe that Eden steel flowers from their friend WAter Lily.
"Eden is not a thief!" Raspberry says in anger.
"We saw her do it with our own eyes. Apple Eden was stealing Carnations from Water Lily's garden," Nosy says in anger showing them the paper while Pen Pal feels sad about the article they written.
"It's true. it said so in the paper," Marigold replies, while her friend Morning Glory nods her head agreeing with her.
Sakura and her friends are not very happy about this. Ponies are starting to believe the paper and believe that Eden is a thief, but they know she's not.
"Who is going to believe that garbage?" Ace says seriously at Marigold and Morning Glory's face.
"Nosy always put what she sees and didn't even bother checking the whole story or care how any pony would react to it," Sakura protests in anger.
"My cousin would never steal from anypony," Baked Apple replies furiously.
"But.. I didn't steal from Water Lily. I was helping her with her garden," Eden says feeling so sad and scared, it looks like she is about ready to cry.
"You liar!" Nosy screams at Eden with anger.
After Nosy's outburst, Apple Eden starts to cry and very hard. Sakura and the other are so upset for what Nosy did that they can't take this anymore. Ace hugs Eden hoping to help cheer her up, but Eden continues to cry. Everypony starts to think about what is going on and remember that Eden isn't the type to stee.
"How in Equestria did you got the idea that Eden is stealing from Water Lily?" Ace asks Nosy in anger and hugging the crying Eden.
"Look I know what I saw," Nosy angrily says.
While Pen Pal is starting to feel more guilty about the picture he taken, so he decides to leave in order to get the note and the editor about the situation.
Sakura then grab one of the newspaper to show Marigold and Morning Glory the article and says, "Well, then maybe you need to look a bit closer."
Marigold and Morning Glory looks at the picture of Eden with the carnations, but are not seeing the real picture here.
"That doesn't prove anything," Marigold says with protest.
Sakura then use her magnifying glass to show the Marigold and Morning Glory a little closer look at the article.
Sakura angrily says, "Except those carnations look pretty dull and ugly."
Morning Glory takes a look at the picture to see what Sakura is talking about. To her surprise, she realized that they're not the flowers she think they are.
Morning Glory surprisingly says, "You're… you're right! Oh no! They're just dandelion weeds!"
Morning Glory turns to Eden feeling so ashamed and says, "Eden, I'm so sorry. I just thought…"
"You thought that it was a good story without double checking to see what the real story was," Baked Apple interrupts with an angry look on his face.
"You and every pony else believe in these reports without checking the facts. Not to mention think it's interesting to see everypony's personal secrets and privacies," Sakura adds.
Everypony starts to feel guilty about this. They realized that it not good that many ponies feel embarrassed when their personal secrets were exposed, but they ended up believing in article that aren't even true at all.
Then Baked Apple marches up to Nosy with anger on his face and says, "And you should check the fact straight, isn't that right Nosy."
Nosy is shocked to see Baked Apple staring at her in the face.
All Nosy did is push Baked Apple out of his face and angrily says, "Who cares? As long as they enjoy these stories who cares if it hurts anypony else."
Everypony gasps with a shock seeing that Nosy doesn't even care that Eden almost get into huge trouble because of the article. Everypony's starts to get very angry and furious at her for saying something like that. Even her assistant and boss who are hearing the racket are shocked by Nosy's statement.
"How could you say that!?" Ruby screams in anger.
"That stink!" Sakura screams in anger.
"She isn't even a shame that put lies and personal information in her stories," Baked Apple adds with anger.
"Yes it is." A familiar voice comes out.
Everypony turns to see Pen Pal and her boss with all the note and stories from Nosy's stories.
Then Pen Pal angrily says, "In fact I'm part of the reason on how she got those picture. I know it because I helped make those stories."
Nosy is starting to get a little scared hearing Pen Pal with all the article she has written in her stories. She can also see that she is in big trouble now.
Then Pen Pal sadly says, "After that story got Eden in trouble and Baked Apple and Sakura discovering the truth, that made me realized that I ended up making ponies embarrassed and believe in stories that are not true at all,"
"It's good to put stories so we can be aware of what is going on all over Equestria, but putting lies and personal secrets can lead to big trouble," Baked Apple says advising the citizens of Ponyville.
Then Pen Pal comes over to Baked Apple with his small pin and says, "I'm sorry about all this. I got this for hurtful and dishonest means that is a mistake I won't be making again. I want you to have this."
Then Pen Pal hands over his pin to Baked Apple with a smile on his face and says, "As a reminder for let me know what honesty truly means."
"I don't know," Baked Apple replies sounding unsure about taking is pin.
"Don't worry, I'm going to write an article that all these stories are not true and make sure the truth get out about all this, honest," Pen Pal replies sounding positive and honest about this word.
Baked Apple is proud of Pen Pal making the right choice and glad that he is turning over a new leaf.
Baked Apple turns around to see Eden is still kind of sad about what happened.
Baked Apple comes over to her, pat her on the shoulder and sadly asks, "Are you going to be okay Eden?"
Eden looks at her cousin still feeling sad and shedding tears abit. Eden answers, "I'll be okay. I just feel sad that many ponies got hurt because of Nosy's stories."
"By the way, where is Nosy?" Raspberry asks looking around for Nosy.
When everyone look around they can see that Nosy News is gone and they have no idea they she run off to.
"Hey where she go?" Baked Apple asks angrily.
After the incident about the article:
Baked Apple is in his room writing in his journal about the news article problems.
Baked Apple writes, "Seems that it can be hard to be honest with your own personal opinion, but I think believing in a lie or letting out true and personal things could hurt ya' even more. Maybe some ponies don't see that, but I'm sure glad I'm ain't one of them."
After he wrote the entry in the journal, Baked Apple looks at the pin Pen Pal give to him on the day with the Nosy's last article before leaving town.
Just then Ace's voices comes from the window screaming, "Baked Apple!"
Baked Apple hears Ace's voice and decides to see what is going on. When he looks out his window, he can see his friends and cousin outside Sakura is holding a soccer ball meaning that they are going to play with it.
Ace asks from below, "You want to go to the park with us and play hoof ball? In Sakura's case is soccer."
"Sure!" Baked Apple screams happily.
Baked Apple simply put the book and the pin on his desk and goes outside to play with his friends. After he leave. The pin that Pen Pal gave to him starts to shimmer a orange light and then disappears.