//------------------------------// // Chapter 13: Dumpster Diving (Edited on 5/29/2023) // Story: MLP G5 Sunset: Tell Your Tale: Season 1 // by JesusG0987 //------------------------------// Chapter 13: Dumpster Diving "And a hush descends as Neptune steps up to take his dive." Skye Silver said to the viewers as a blue Pegasus put her goggles down with her swim cap on, jumped on the diving board three times before jumping high into the air, doing a couple of front flips before whooshing into the water, which she dived into a splash. It was revealed to be on TV as Zipp cheers. "Whoo-hoo!" She laughs as Sunset, Sunny and Hitch are watching it with her as Sunny looks on in amazement with sparkles in her eyes as Hitch finds it interesting while Sunset finds it amazing with a smile. "That's how you make a splash in this competition! Go, Zephyr Heights!" She cheered, stating that the ponies from the three tribes are in a contest where which pony of three tribes can make the better flash, and it all started in Maretime Bay. Izzy was in her 'Unicycling' stand as she is using a tool on an object with her goggles on. "Yay!" She cheered with a smile before the item she messed with breaks as parts came flying by, she then looked at the part she was looking for, a ring-shaped part. Inspecting it before she rolled her eyes and tossed it to the other ring parts in a box, finding it useless. "Ehhh…" Hitch said while thinking to himself while the girls looked on, Sunset still intrigued by the contest, Sunny still had sparkles in her eyes and Zipp bopped her head, thinking Zephyr Heights would win, before Hitch spoke. "Still think a Pegasus has an unfair advantage in the diving competition." He said before crossing his hooves with a smirk while the girls looked at him from that comment. Sunset scoffs at Hitch's comment. "What do you know about Pegasi, Hitch? You used to be a pony who thought Unicorns and Pegasi were bad news." She pointed out the time at the start of their adventure, Hitch was one of the ponies, aside from Pipp, who thought other pony tribes were bad news before they brought them together and brought back the magic. Hitch rolled his eyes at Sunset's comment. "Well, I may have been that kind of pony. But not anymore. I've moved past that after realizing that everypony is equal. And I'm just saying that the Pegasi are at an unfair advantage since they can fly and use their wings to balance." He pointed out the way Pegasi used for diving. "Well, you're not wrong." Sunset admitted since Hitch got a point there. "I mean, Yeah, being able to fly (or even glide) DOES kind of provide a pretty big advantage in diving, kind of like how Earth pony strength provides a big advantage in weightlifting. Of course, those that have the best abilities of all three tribes (like me and Sunny when she is properly motivated) wouldn't be able to compete in these sorts of sports BECAUSE we would have too many unfair advantages." She pointed out the rules of this sort of contest and knew fully well that the Alicorns can enter them much, since they have the power of all three tribes, it wouldn't be fair unless they follow the rules. "True that." Sunny agreed with Sunset, also knowing the rules fully well, and another reason why she doesn't show her Alicorn half much. Izzy then grabbed one of Sunny's roller skates as she hammered the wheels a bit before they fell off the shoe. Izzy inspects one of the wheels but sighs, finding it not the right one as she tosses it away. Izzy then went to one of the legs of the couch and unscrewed it with her wrench, losing up the leg and removing it as a gold metal ring came off. Izzy grabbed the ring with a smile as she looked at it. "Aha! Well, hello, perfect little ringy-thingy!" She said to the object as she laughed a bit. "Next diver up!" Sunny tells the others with a smile, all four of them are completely unaware that Izzy removed the leg piece of the couch. "Maretime Bay can still win this!" She said with an excited tone, hoping that Maretime Bay would win this contest. The couch tilted before it fell backwards, landing with a thud as the four ponies sitting on it fell backwards with it as well. "IZZY!" Sunny, Sunset, Hitch and Zipp all yelled out, knowing that Izzy took the back leg of the couch. Sunset got off the couch and stood up. "Okay, I'm gonna see what's gotten into our wild unicorn here." She said, a little annoyed that Izzy is doing her Unicycling skills again. Normally they don't mind her doing her special skills, but this is a new level if she is looking for a part that is perfect. "But first." She then turned to the couch and used her magic to bring the couch back up and place the leg back in, with a spare metal ring and tighten it up. "There we go." She said with a smile as Sunny, Hitch and Zipp looked at Sunset with a smile. "Thanks, Sunset. You really know how to fix things." Sunny commented with a smile. "Ah. Wouldn't be the first time." Sunset replied with a smirk, knowing the times when things get messy, she has to fix it before it gets worse. Sunset then walked to Izzy. Izzy tries to put the ring piece she got from the couch on the lantern that Sunny's father made when Sunny was a filly. But as she tried to put it on the top, it was a little too big and it fell to the middle of the lantern. "Awww!" Izzy groans in disappointment, Sunset comes in front of her and Izzy saw Sunset in front of her. Sunset raised an eyebrow at Izzy. "Are you still working on Sunny's lantern, Izzy?" She asked for a unicorn. "Because you took a ring piece from the couch?" She added. "Yes. And I need two pieces for the handle to stay in." Izzy corrected. "That is why I'm looking for a metal ring thingy to complete this lantern to make Sunny happy before Maretime Bay Day comes." She told her the reason she needed the metal ring part. "But now this Maretime Bay Day gift for Sunny will never be ready in time." She sadly said as she picked up a piece. "I've tried everything. Even the—'' She then holds a pink circle but didn't get to finish her sentence before they all heard Pipp's screaming. "AAHHH! What's wrong with the shower?! Izzy!" Pipp cried out from the bathroom. And yelled out Izzy's name, knowing what was wrong with it. Sunset then looked at Izzy with an amusing expression. "Let me guess. You use some of the parts from Pipp's stuff and mess with the shower parts. Am I right?" She rhetorically asks Izzy, having guessed right on what parts Izzy has used. Izzy yelps from Pipp's scream as she chuckles nervously at Sunset, finding her guess to be true. "Well, yeah." She answered. Sunset sighs. "Come on. Let's get out of the brighthouse for a while. I don't want Pipp to yell at you, so let's go until she cools down." She said, going to get Izzy out of the Brighthouse until Pipp calms down with her keeping Izzy company until then. "Good call." Izzy said as she packed some of her stuff in her saddle bag. "And I gotta find the right ring part for Sunny's lantern. Gotta keep looking!" She said as she and Sunset trotted out of the brighthouse to avoid Pipp's wrath. Pipp screams as she comes out of the bathroom, all wet with a towel around her. Looking quite mad as she growls, trying to see where Izzy is, but finding that she is not around, she decides to let Izzy go but still mad with a growl as she goes back into the bathroom. Knowing that she can't walk around Maretime Bay looking like that. Izzy and Sunset are now on Izzy's motor scooter as Izzy is driving away from the brighthouse. To find the right part for Sunny's lantern and to also escape from Pipp's wrath. While in the city of Maretime Bay, Izzy then took a hoop from a Pegasus Mare who was playing with it. Sunset is watching in the background, so Izzy doesn't do anything stupid and to make sure she doesn't get involved much with Izzy's antics. "Ah! Nah. Too big." She pointed out that the hoop is too big, while wearing a helmet. "Give me that." Sunset told Izzy as she snatched the hoop and gave it back to the kid. "Sorry, kid. She is just looking for something for a friend of ours." She apologizes to the kid who shook her head in understanding, going back to her game. Izzy then looked at the key change on a stallion saddle strap. "Too small." She said as the earth pony stallion looked at Izzy weirdly as the unicorn mare laughed nervously, finding it embarrassing to say that from behind a stallion while Sunset facehoof herself, finding Izzy to embarrass herself while looking for the right part. Izzy and Sunset were now in a doughnut shop as they looked at the pile of doughnuts as Izzy inspected one. "Too doughnut-y." She said and then chomps on the doughnut she is holding. "True. But tasty too." Sunset said as she took a bite out of a doughnut herself and paid a few bits for the doughnuts. A little bit later, a unicorn filly is playing with a triangle instrument as she is ringing it. Izzy looked at the triangle for a second before speaking. "Not ring-y enough." She pointed out that the triangle is not even a ring shape as the filly looked at her in confusion. "Yeah. Not even close, Izzy." Sunset pointed out of the obvious shape. Izzy then grunts as she effortlessly tries to take the Mane Melody billboard, but it can't be removed. Izzy then looked down below as Sunset and Posey looked at her, while Posey looked at Izzy with her mouth open, finding Izzy weird, Sunset just rolled her eyes. "Too stuck-to-a-building-y." Izzy said sheepishly to the two ponies. "Yeah. And I doubt Pipp would allow you to use her billboard for her salon, Izzy." Sunset pointed out again, knowing very well that Pipp would not like it if Izzy took off her Mane Melody billboard. A little bit later, Izzy and Sunset were on the scooter again as Izzy sighs in disappointment, can't seem to find the right piece for Sunny's lantern. "We'll find the right part, Izzy. Remember, a miracle doesn't just show up right in front of you." Sunset assured the down unicorn, telling her that she will find the part for Sunny's lantern. "Yeah. But I don't know if we can get it in time." Izzy added with a sad tone, before she gasps at seeing Posey again, with blue circle earrings on her ear. "But that is absolutely perfect! Oh, Posey!" She cheered with sparkle in her eyes as Posey turned and saw Izzy and Sunset on the scooter, with Izzy driving with sparkles in her eyes as Sunset held on tightly as Izzy sped up. "Let me see those amazing ear danglers!" She cheered to Posey while speeding up. Posey then starts screaming as she tries running away as the scooter Izzy is driving with Sunset on board to catch up to the earth pony, while Sunset is holding on tight from Izzy's crazy speed record. "Back off, Izzy! They're mine!" Posey said to the unicorn as she tried to outrun her and her scooter. "Sunset! Can't you tell Izzy to stop?!" She called out. "Telling Izzy to stop!? It's like trying to tell a unicorn to cut their horns off or a Pegasi to not fly!" Sunset retorted while holding on to her seat. "I can't control this Unicorn if I can't even keep my old friend Pinkie Pie under control!" She cried out, saying that if Pinkie can't be controlled, Izzy is no different. Posey then kept running and saw that Izzy's scooter was out of sight. She turned to look behind her but then turn back as she sees Izzy and Sunset next to her. Izzy smiled at Posey, but Sunset was a little confused on how they came in front of Posey as the earth pony screamed. Izzy then stands on her seat with a grunt effort. "Just one! Come on, Posey! It's for a great cause!" She called out with a wave hoof, but then yelped as she lost balance of her scooter steering as she got the steering straight. "Keep your steering straight, Izzy!" Sunset scolded the unicorn, yelping when Izzy lost control for a sec. "Sorry!" Izzy called out to Sunset. "And the earring thing! No way!" Posey called out as she kept running as Izzy's scooter came closer to her. Izzy then grunts a bit as she gets on top of her steering before turning to Sunset. "Take the steering, Sunset!" She called out to her. "Wait, WHAT!?" Sunset questioned before Izzy jumped out of the steering and into the air. "Oh, Celestia!" She cried out as the scooter moved back and forth a bit before Sunset grabbed the steering, but didn't get a grip as she tripped off the bike. "Oh!" She cried out on impact as she fell out of the scooter with a grunt as the scooter continued forward. "When I catch up to Izzy, I'm gonna give her a long lesson on these things." She growls a bit before smiling. "But can't blame her, she does remind me of Pinkie Pie back in the day with these crazy stunts." She said with a nostalgic smile that Izzy really brings back memories of Pinkie Pie back in the old day, she got off the ground to catch up to Izzy. As Posey kept running, she turned and saw Izzy about to fall right on top of her as she screamed as Izzy was falling with a wide smile. Izzy then landed on Posey as they both tumbled across the ground with grunting sounds as they crashed into a flower stand. Posey looked dazed as Izzy's scooter came next to them. Izzy pops her head off the pile of flowers as she holds the earring. "Yay!" She cheered but stopped as she got a better look at it "Nah. Too plasticky." She said the earring is made of plastic and won't work for the lantern. She holds the earring back to Posey, who is glaring at the unicorn for chasing her for nothing. The two ponies then heard panting as they saw Sunset catching up to them. "Are you ponies alright?" She asked, wondering if they are alright. "We're okay, Sunset!" Izzy said with a cheer. "Define 'okay'." Posey groans, from the crash while glaring up to Izzy. "I told you, when it comes to Izzy, nothing can stop her." Sunset told Posey the reason. "Trust me, I tried with my friend Pinkie back in the day. She won't stop until she catches you." She added before glaring at Izzy. "But when we get back home, I'm gonna give you a stern talking to about this stunt, Izzy!" She scolded about Izzy's reckless stunt. Izzy cringes a bit before she gives off a sheepish tone. "Sorry, Sunset. But to tell you, I still can't find the right ring part." She pointed out about the ring thing, but then the three ponies see two critters rolling a circle net. Izzy gasps at seeing it. "That could work! Wait up!" She called out to them as she tossed the earring up in the air before catching up to the critters. Posey growls at Izzy before her earring hits her on the head. "Huh?" She asks before she gives an unamused expression while Sunset facehoof herself at Izzy's antics. Posey looked at Sunset. "Is she always like this?" She asked. "24 hours a day I'm afraid." Sunset answered Posey that Izzy is always like this, before she ran off to catch up to Izzy. Izzy then came to the alleyway to find the critters who were dragging the net. When she sees them going to the next area, she zips and gasps in joy now that they are cornered, but frowns when she sees a deflated floatie and not the next she was looking. "Awww, no good." Izzy said with a down tone as Sunset caught up to her. "Did you find anything, Izzy?" Sunset asked the unicorn. "No. Just this deflated floatie." Izzy answered to Sunset as she groaned. "This is hopeless, Sunset. I'm never gonna—" She then gasps in amazement with sparkles in her eyes at a sight she is looking for. Sunset looked at what Izzy was looking at and raised an eyebrow. "Really?" She questions as she and Izzy are looking at a dumpster, with a raccoon-corn on a homemade diving board on the side. The raccoon-corn then jumps and squeals as it crashes into the dumpster as trash objects fly out. "Whoaaaa…" Izzy said in amazement as she headed to the handmade diving board. Sunset then realizes what Izzy is doing. "Izzy. Please tell me you're not going to do what I think you're doing?" She asks Izzy, hoping she's not about to just go in. "I'm sure I am, Sunset! This is the perfect place for me to find the right piece for Sunny!" Izzy cheered, knowing that dumpsters have the best things that people throw out. Sunset gave out a bored expression. "You do realize that it's a dumpster and what you're doing is unsanitary, right?" She questioned Izzy, finding it a little gross out for Izzy to dive into a dumpster just to find a part she needs. "Well, yeah. But this is for Sunny and this is the best place for me to get some parts for my Unicycling skills!" Izzy cheered as she climbed up the diving board and then jumped with a flip. "Whoo-hoo!" She cheered as she dived into the dumpster. Sunset cringe in disgust. "I'll stay out here, on the lookout." She told Izzy as she turned and kept watch. "This is embarrassing." She said to herself, finding it embarrassing that Izzy is doing, hoping nopony can see them. (All for the Love of Trash Song) [Izzy Moonbow] Makin' a splash A splash into trash Izzy then imagines her little world while intimidating some diving into the water moves, while the raccoon-corns are dancing with her while giving her a 10 for perfect diving. Reaction this trash Don't have to be so slapdash Izzy hopped back and forth between the trash as she picked up a dirty shoe with dead flowers in it while also diving to the left while playing a banjo. Uni-cycled in a flash Could be a table or mustache Anything really for trash Izzy sang while riding in a baby carriage while using a wheel as a hat and a banana as a mustache and then the Raccoon-corns are diving in a single pattern like those expert swimmers are. T-R-A-S-H Doesn't mean it's waste Izzy and the raccoon-corns then dance in the pile of trash in a circle formation as Izzy is in the center and then dive into the pile of trash. T-R-A-S-H With a dash of taste The raccoon-corns then swim in a perfect pattern while dancing. Whoo-hoo, whoo-hoo Make it brand new-ooh, ooh-ooh Whoo! Izzy sang as a tower of trash started stacking with Izzy on top as she sang while continuing to go up. Come on in, the trash is lovely Lookin' for a ring for Sunny Call it waste, call it misplaced But always with a dash of taste Izzy then dived into the trash as she swam across the junk of trash, looking for the ring piece for Sunny's lantern, and then found herself wearing a dress with earrings and a bracelet and necklaces in perfect condition. You might think it's rotten But I think you have forgotten It's anything really for trash (Oh, yeah!) Izzy continues to swim as she swims through the raccoon-corn's circle pattern as she comes up with a junk crown and a dirty leg holder as she cheers while back up to the surface of her junk fantasy. T-R-A-S-H Doesn't mean it's waste T-R-A-S-H With a dash of taste Izzy twirled around the raccoon-corn's circle as she swam around. The raccoon-corns twirl around before striking a pose. Izzy then sees a golden ring that she was looking for as it shines to her. Whoo-hoo, whoo-hoo Make it brand new-ooh, ooh-ooh Whoo! Izzy looked at the ring as she finally found the right one. She jumps out of her trash shoot and about to grab the ring. Once she is out of the dumpster, the ring is on her horn. Sunset turned to Izzy as she is now out of the dumpster. "About time, Izzy. And I see that you found the ring you needed." She said with a smile as Sunset pointed her hoof at Izzy's horn. Izzy sees where Sunset is pointed at as she looks at her horn to find that the ring is on it. "Aha! There you are, my circly little friend!" She said to the ring as she took it off her horn and polished it a bit as it shines. "Great. Let's go so you can fix Sunny's lantern gift for Maretime Bay Day. And uh. You need a shower Izzy." Sunset said while adding the cringe part of Izzy needed a shower after her dumpster diving. Izzy chuckled sheepishly, finding Sunset's word true. "I'll shower once the bathroom is fixed and when I finish Sunny's lantern gift." She promises Sunny that she will wash the stink off when she is finish and the shower all fix up. Sunset smiled at Izzy's promise. "I'll fix the shower up after the lantern is finished." She told her, after the lantern is done, she will fix the shower up for Izzy. A little while later back at the Brighthouse, Sunset watches as Izzy puts the ring on Sunny's lantern. "Ta-daaaaah! All uni-cycled up!" Izzy cheered as she raised her hooves in the air. "Great job, Izzy. Sunny would be so happy once she sees her old lantern all fixed up." Sunset said with a smile, knowing that Sunny would be very happy to see her childhood object that her father made for her all fixed up. "That's right, Sunset!" Izzy said, but then looked at the lantern as she placed a thoughtful expression while playing a hoof on her chin. "Huh... Something's still not quite right." She then gasps as she realizes something. "Oh! I know!" She said cheerfully as she grabs something. Sunset watched as Izzy brought her box of rocks. Izzy opens it as they see that the box is filled with rocks and crystals. Izzy smirks as she takes out a crystal, Sunset keeps looking as she is interested in what Izzy is adding to the lantern. Izzy smiles as she places the crystal to the center of the lantern, but what is shocking is that once Izzy placed the lantern's cover on top, the crystal started to glow and then sparkled as little lights spread throughout the Brighthouse. "Wow!" Sunset and Izzy both said, finding it unexpected that the crystal in the lantern glowed like that. But what's even more shocking is that the lantern starts to float off the table, which amazes Sunset and Izzy, they know that the lantern never floats, but somehow it is. "Oh!" Izzy said as she and Sunset looked at the lantern in amazement. "The floating is unexpected, but Sunny's gonna love it! Right, Sunset?" She cheered as she asked Sunset that Sunny would love it, even though it will. Sunset found her voice. "Sunny will love it, Izzy. But how is this lantern floating? Where did you find that crystal?" She asked Izzy, knowing well that lanterns aren't supposed to do that, but somehow thanks to the crystal Izzy put in that lantern, it was able to float and have a bit of magic in it. "Oh, I found that crystal in the woods during my spare time and back in Bridlewood since there are alot of crystals there." Izzy said cheerfully, reminding Sunset that her hometown has tons of crystals and what she does in her spare time. "But above all, not sure. But it will make Sunny happy!" She cheered. "Izzy! What's happened to my manedryer?!" Pipp's voice was then heard as Sunset and Izzy cringe, Izzy grabs the lantern and hides it in her drawer, not wanting to show her friends yet until Maretime Bay Day comes so she can give the gift to Sunny, since it's still not complete yet. Pipp came to them as her mane is a little frizz out while holding her broken manedryer. "It's missing, like, all the pieces!" She cried out, stating that the pieces on her manedryer are missing, hinting that Izzy stripped it for parts to fix Sunny's lantern. "Sorry, Pipp." Izzy apologizes to Pipp for taking her manedryer parts. "I can fix it! Hang on!" She said as she ran out the door, Sunset had a feeling and knew where she was going. "Izzy?! Where are you going?!" Pipp cried out. "Come back! No one can see me like this!" She cried out, not wanting anypony to see her with her messed up mane. Sunset sighs with a smile. "Don't worry, Pipp. Izzy will be back. She just gonna get some parts to repair your manedryer." She assures the young Pegasus the reason why Izzy ran out. Pipp then took a breath and calmed down. "Okay. If Izzy is gonna fix this, then I trust her." She said as she now asked Sunset a question. "Speaking of which. What were you and Izzy been out all day, Sunset?" She asks, wondering what the two ponies were up to. "Oh, you know. Just looking for some spare parts Izzy was looking for Sunny's lantern. I tag along so I can help her if needed because knowing Izzy she can make a mess of things." Sunset answered Pipp, who nodded her head in understanding now. "Come on. Let's go watch some water diving until Izzy gets back to fix your manedryer." She said as she led Pipp to the living room to watch the diving contest. Sunset looks back at the desk, very curious about how that lantern did that, but she will find out soon enough. Izzy then came back to the dumpster with the homemade diving board, ready to grab some parts for Pipp's manedryer. Izzy looked at the dumpster as it glowed and she smiled at it with a sparkle in her eyes as she was about to jump from the diving board. "Yee-haw! Whoo-hooooo!" She cheered as she jumped, front flipped and then dive into the dumpster with a cheery smile. A few days later after Maretime Bay Day, Sunset was looking at the lantern that Izzy managed to give to Sunny during the whole glitching magic disharmony thing with the crystals. Sunset then remembers the crystal that Izzy put in the lantern before the festival starts as she is starting to see the connection. "Whatever causes this crystal to spark the lantern, save Windy and Posey from the void. But the question is what is this kind of crystal, and is it connected to magic?" She asks herself, trying to find the reason for this. "Whatever this is, it is a mystery worth solving and me and my friends are going to find the answers to this." She said to herself as she continued to look at the lantern, really wondering how it is powered up and how is this lantern connected to it with the crystal inside. End of Chapter 13.