Within the walls of the Canterlogic fashion show, Hitch and his deputy, Sprout, were tasked with watching over the fashion show to make sure nothing went wrong. Especially if the one thing that could go wrong was the possibility of a certain political activist interrupting the show midway through a demonstration of anti-alicorn technology. While Hitch tolerated Sunny's enthusiasm and willingness to befriend dangerous creatures ever since they were foals, he feared that her efforts may one day spell the end for Maretime Bay and his career as a sheriff. She already got into enough trouble in the public library for using this strange form of communication known as "social media".
"Up first, we have Sugar Moonlight," Phyllis announced as she introduced her latest item and the model wearing it, "Looking absolutely stunning in our high-tech anti-mind-reading hat."
Hitch moved his head to the beat playing over the display. It reminded him of that time he was undercover at that music festival he nearly arrested Sunny at. And it drowned out Sprout slurping at his drink.
"Now let's welcome Sparkle Chaser and his Pega-parascope goggles," Phyllis announced, "The easy way to keep your eye on the sky."
Unfortunately for Sparkle Chaser, his pair of Pega-parascope goggles made it difficult for him to keep his eye on the floor too, considering he immediately did a pratfall off the stage.
"It's all part of the show," Phyllis said nervously before continuing to announce her products, "Next up, our Earth pony balloon escape pack."
As if she wasn't already setting herself up for a lawsuit down the line, the poor pony wearing the escape pack flew out the open window. An open window that Hitch's activist friend could easily jump through.
"Yikes, that's gonna be a lot of paper work," Hitch stated before looking around for a ladder, "Anypony got a ladder?"
Sprout shrugged as he continued slurping his drink, much to Hitch's annoyance.
"We take great care here at Canterlogic to ensure the safety of you," Phyllis said to her audience despite evidence to the contrary, "Our customers."
"Aw," the audience said collectively, touched by Phyllis' words.
"Now please, stand back," Phyllis warned her audience, "This product testing demonstration is fully-automated."
The stage-lights turned on to reveal a crash-test dummy, only for the dummy to be pushed over by a soaking wet Earth pony with a bit of seaweed in his mane.
"There's a bucking unicorn in the town!" the pony exclaimed.
Sprout spat out his drink as everypony gasped. Knowing there was one anti-mind-reading hat in the vecinity, everypony except for Hitch, Sprout, and Phyllis turned their heads towards Sugar Moonlight.
"Oh, no," Sugar said quietly.
The fear-stricken audience stampeded towards her as she immediately ran for her life.
"Remember, these products will be out tomorrow," Phyllis said nervously as the stampede of ponies ran past her, "Hundred bits a pop."
Hitch sighed as he put a hoof to his forehead. He knew Sunny had something to do with this. He just knew.
Meanwhile, in the lighthouse Sunny called home, Izzy looked around the humble abode. The one thing that did catch her eye was the action figures of the Guardians of Harmony and the poster of Princess Twilight Sparkle's flank.
"Wow," Izzy said in awe, "You collect Guardians of Harmony memorabillia too?"
"It's a hobby of mine," Sunny sheepishly replied.
Izzy gasped, "And you have a rare Platinum Rarity. Guess that's why she's called Rarity. Because her figures are rare."
"That's actually an heirloom," Sunny said as she pointed at the Platinum Rarity, "My dad gave it to me and his dad gave it to him and his mom gave it to him. Goes back a couple of generations, actually."
"Coooooooool," Izzy said as she continued to stare in awe at the figure before her, "So, where is your dad?"
Sunny looked away forelornely, "I don't wanna talk about it."
"Oh..." Izzy said quietely as she looked at Sunny, "My bad."
"Anyway," Sunny said as she immediately perked up and trotted towards a tin of beans, "Can you make this float? It would be so cool if you can make it float."
Izzy looked at the can of beans before giving Sunny an embarrassed look, "No. But I can do this."
Izzy threw the tin of beans in the air and immediately played hackey-sack with it using her horn. It took six bounces before it landed on the floor, but not before the beans fell out and landed on the floor.
"Ta-daaaaaaaaa!" Izzy exclaimed, as if bouncing something on her horn was the most magical thing in the world.
"You don't have any magic?" Sunny asked, perplexed by her unicorn companion's sudden lack of magic.
"We did have it," Izzy replied, "Then it just poof, disappeared. Kinda like the season 8 finale of the Guardians of Harmony cartoon."
Sunny gasped at her friend acknowledging the existence of her favourite cartoon, "You watch the Guardians of Harmony cartoon as well?!"
"Every Saturday," Izzy replied, "Then I stopped halfway through season 6 because it kinda blowed after they redeemed Starlight Glimmer."
"Then how did you know about what happened in the season 8 finale?" Sunny asked.
"I looked it up," Izzy cheerfully replied, "Who knew it was the cute little pegasus dwarf?"
Sunny chuckled sheepishly, "Actually, Cozy Glow was a filly."
Izzy gave Sunny an odd look, "Really? But where are her parents? Why is she so smart for a filly? And would the Guardians of Harmony be cruel enough to throw a filly into Tartarus without trial? Unless she was given a trial but it was a show trial done out of formality. Ever wonder that?"
Sunny was taken aback by Izzy's questions, "Uh...the writers took liberties with the source material?"
Izzy gave Sunny a fierce glare before blinking, smiling and shrugging, "Fair enough. Might explain why Sunset Shimmer did a total 180 in personality. You know what I think happened when Twilight reformed Sunset. Rather than be blasted with the elements, she put her human hand to Sunset's demon-human face and forced Sunset to SUFFER ME NOW!"
Sunny wasn't even going to question how her friend somehow managed to make her voice sound demonic despite her lack of magic.
"So, do you want to go on a quest to find the magic?" Sunny asked.
"Sure!" Izzy replied excitedly.