In the middle of the afternoon, in Maretime Bay, Hitch trotted in front of his friends as he gave them the news.
"Get ready for the ultimate... Maretime Bay tour!" Hitch announced, since he tough it was time for him and Sunny to show the rest of their home town to their friends, with some special places to go and see.
"Yay!" Izzy cheered out in excitement.
"I can't wait!" Zipp announced with a smile.
"I love tours!" Pipp added with a cheerful smile.
"Sounds fun!" Sonic replied with his arms crossed and a little smirk.
Izzy got all excited as she pointed around at random things near them. "Ooh, I'm gonna see this!" she pointed to the flower stands, "I'm gonna see that" pointed to a doughnut sign, "And I'm gonna see--ahh!" she was about to point to the glasses, but when she stepped over a familiar 'X', a familiar trap surrounded Izzy, trapping her in one of the leftover unicorn traps with her horn sticking out of the hole on top. The earth pony next to the glasses stand ran off in fright, as Izzy was trapped in the unicorn trap. "...Total darkness?" Izzy said in her usual cheerful tone.
"Izzy!" Pipp, Zipp and Sunny all cried out in concern as they headed toward the trap to get her out.
Sonic on the other hand looked at the scene in disbelief, then facepalmed and groaned since he though Hitch said all the traps were removed. "Here we go again, great" Sonic spoke with annoyance and sarcasm.
Hitch looked at the trap in confusion with a raised eyebrow. "I thought all the unicorn traps were disabled!" se called out, then brought out his sheriff book. "Note to self: Check traps for--" he wrote down, but then was interrupted by his friends trying to get Izzy out of the trap as they struggled.
"Hitch, a little help here?" Sunny asks her friend to help Izzy out of the box.
Hitch smiles to himself as he walks towards them humming to himself. He walked in front of the release button, waved his mane with his hoof and then pressed the button. But for some reason, the trap didn’t release, and both Hitch and the others were surprised that it didn’t work. Hitch pressed the button repeatedly to get the trap open, but nothing happened as he began to sweat.
"Ugh, the release button isn't working!" Hitch cried out as he kept trying as Sunny gasped in shock.
"What?" Sonic exclaimed, quickly moving Hitch aside. "But it worked the first time! Let me try..." he said, while cracked his hands, ready to press that button as if his life depended on it. "Sonic's the name, Speed's my game!" he yelled with a confident smile, and started tu push the button with his hand real quick. However, after at least 30 seconds of being trying, he started to loose his patience, and groaned slowly until he gave up and pushed the button hardly with his forehead. The others looked at him with grief since the hit was too loud, and Pipp covered her mouth on worry. "Okey, that didn't worked either" he said with frustration. "Also: auch..." he then fell to the ground in pain. "That hurt lot..."
"Then how are we gonna get her out?!” Sunny cried out, as Pipp helped Sonic to sit down, cause he was still hurt.
"I'm fine" Izzy said to them in a cheered tone from inside the box. "This'll be fun!" she assured and then gasped. "I've never been a box before!" she added with sparkle eyes and a cheerful smile.
"But I planned a tour with stops I knew each of you would love!" Hitch pointed out with sadness, since he was really excited to make the tour. "Izzy can't do a tour in a box!" he said.
"Ooh, you just gave me an idea!" Izzy suddenly said, then she focused her magic on the box, and the box started to slowly levitate off the ground. The others looked in awe at Izzy’s plan as the box levitated, because she can now move around even if she was still inside the box. Izzy then gasped as she felt the trap moving. "Is it levitating? Did I do it? Am I a levitating box?" she asked her friends.
"Yep, it's working" Sonic replied, now standing with an ice bag over his forehead.
"This is ridiculous. You can't even see!” Hitch called out, finding Izzy's plan silly since she can’t see the outside of the box.
"But I can use my imagination!" Izzy cheered out as she moved the box side to side.
Hitch narrowed his eyes, thinking that this won’t work out. "Tour's cancelled!" he yelled out with anger.
Pipp, Zipp and Sunny gasped at what Hitch said, as Sonic looked at him in disbelief and said "The what now?" as the sheriff walked away. The rest looked at each other, trying to think of a way to change his mind.
"Wait, Hitch, look!" Sunny called out, as Hitch turned around and saw that the girls tied Izzy’s box with a rope, so they could carry Izzy around without losing her.
Hitch was still unsure about this, and Sonic - still with the ice bag on his forehead - doubted as well, but then he smiled. "You know, this can actually work out" he said, giving this idea a chance.
Hitch exhales to the girls’ persistence on wanting to go on the tour, while also seeing that Sonic was willing to give the plan a chance. "Ok, fine. Right this way!" he cheered out with a smile. "Our tour begins with the Maretime Bay town square!" he led the way, as the group smiled at each other, happy that Hitch was willing to keep the tour going.
The Mane 5 and Sonic, with Izzy in tow, looked awed at Maretime Bay town square, loving the scene as they passed by some ponies and looking at the buildings.
As Hitch showed them the movie theater, Sonic noticed that the movie announced at the top was pony version of Transformers, with a ponyfied Optimus Prime as well. The group walked past it, but Izzy’s box hit the frame of pony Optimus on the sign, leaving a whole in it as it floated away, then hit a sign on the wall, dented a lamppost and crushed a bench where an earth pony was sitting. Izzy wails as she impacts, then hit a window sill of flowers where and earth pony mare was watering, and the flowers on the window fell to the ground while the mare stared in shock.
Hitch turned his head, and he showed the now abandoned Canterlogic Building to his friends, but then got a shocked look as he and his friends saw the destruction that Izzy’s box made while being pulled, as the ponies behind them screamed in fright. Hitch cringed at the sight and gulped his throat, thinking that this might have to fill in some paperwork.
Later, at the Maretime Bay Museum called Houvre, there were Jazz and Posey with another earth pony painting their version of the Pony Lisa based on their own mane and coats.
Hitch pointed at them, then turned to look at his friends, but then he questioned what they are doing. Apparently, Pipp was painting Izzy’s box with Izzy’s face on it with hearts in her eyes, a heart next to her head and a rainbow to the other side, as Pipp giggles at the painting.
Izzy gasps as she can tell what Pipp is doing. "Uh-huh!" Izzy said in saying great work, even though she can’t see it.
Hitch then grumbles to himself, stating that his friends are not even following the tour as he walks away.
"Woohoo! Woo!" an earth pony stallion shouted as he was swinging from swings to swings. Hitch brought his friends to a place where Maretime Bay had a forest that has bridges and swings on trees for ponies to have fun with.
Hitch laughed and pointed to the bridges, but then stoped as he looked at his friends again.
Hitch sees both Zipp and Sonic swinging on two ropes of Izzy’s box as they laughed. "Woohoo!" they cheered as they swung back and forth.
Sunny laughed as Pipp jumped up and down with a cheer, bu then Sunny gasped when she noticed Hitch looking at them, as he grumbled and walked away.
A little while later, Hitch showed them the coast with a bored expression. "Last stop: the beach" he said in a motto tone as he showed them the view of the ocean.
"Wow" Pipp, Zipp and Sunny all said as they looked towards the ocean.
Sonic whistled and looked at the beach with a little smile. "Man, I hate water, but I'm not denying that this is an amazing look" he admitted.
Hitch then turned to Izzy with a sad look. "I thought you'd love this, Izzy" he said to the trapped unicorn.
"I do love it, Hitch!" Izzy called out. "My favorite place in all of Maretime Bay!... We're looking at a parking meter, right? Oh, I love those things!" she called out, but it didn’t make Hitch feel better.
Hitch narrows his eyes, having enough of Izzy being trapped in that box. "That is it! We have to get Izzy out of there now! Ahh!" he cried out as he tackled Izzy’s box to the ground. Hitch tried to use a stick to snap the box open, but the stick broke, then he moved the box, then jumped up and down on the top of it, and then uses his teeth to try and bite it open. "Will nothing open this adorable cube prison!?" he cried out in frustration.
"Well that was sad to watch..." Sonic said with a bored expression, and Sunny hit him on his arm with a frown, so he decided to shut it for now.
"Don't you ever give up, Hitch. We just gotta think!" Izzy said with optimism, keeping Hitch positive of the circumstances. "Me and you, pony and box!" she added with a cheerful tone, as Hitch nodded with confidence.
Hitch and Izzy started to hum as they were both thinking on a way to get Izzy out of the box, while the others looked at the two ponies in curiosity. They were both moving back and forth, Hitch stopped for a moment, and Izzy bumped into him, then giggled a little, while Hitch looked at her with annoyance before resuming their thinking. as they continue moving back and forth. Hitch stopped as he turned the other way, but Izzy just kept on moving as Sunny saw that Izzy was getting too close to the edge.
Pipp, Zipp, Sunny and Sonic all gasped as they see that Izzy is about to go over the edge. "Izzy!" the mares all cried out as she was at the other side of the edge, and Sonic ran towards her and tried to stop the box.
"Izzy, stop!" he said while trying to slow the box down with his feet, but it was too late since Sonic stopped feeling the ground and looked down, just to find that were going to fall. "Oh damn..." he simply said, and they fell down below.
Hitch turned and saw this when he heard the girls. "IZZY! SONIC!" he cried out, as the rest of the Mane 5 ran to the edge as they saw Izzy and Sonic rolling down hill. Izzy was cheering excited, but Sonic was groaning in pain as he fell down.
"Ahh, this is amazing! Woo-oo-oo-oo!" Izzy cheered as she rolled up to a ramp on the hill as she flipped into the air.
"This is a nightmare!" Sonic yelled, still feeling in pain with every hit, as he flipped in the air as well.
The box landed on a sea stack, and Sonic impacted with the box. "Auch..." he groaned, as the sea stack broke apart from the impact, but surprisingly, the box remained intact as it fell into the water, with Sonic falling as well.
The others saw this worried and shocked, worried for Izzy and Sonic, but also shocked at how strong that trap is since it didn’t break on impact of the sea stack.
"You have got to be kidding me..." Hitch said in disbelief, hoping that Izzy was okay but also trying to think what did Phyllis used to make these traps that strong.
The trap then resurfaces, bringing relief to the group as Izzy laughs inside the box, finding it quite fun. Sonic, on the other hand, was sitting over the top of the box, with an orange fish on his face. He took the fish out and trow it back to the sea, as he groaned out loud. "I hate water..." he spoke with anger.
Hitch then fell to his flank as he now felt down about what happened today. "My perfect tour... ruined!" he cried out as he flopped his head to the ground in despair as the girls watched him.
Izzy levitated herself back to the group with Sonic still sitting on top. "Hey there, Hitchy-poo. What's wrong, buddy?" she asked in a concerned voice.
Hitch then answered her as he looked down to the ground. "This tour was supposed to show you that Maretime Bay is an amazing place to live!" he pointed out, wanting to show his friends that Maretime Bay is amazing.
"Well, mission complete, sheriff" Sonic spoke, as he wrung the water from his gloves and put them back.
"Huh?" Hitch called out in curiosity, trying to get what he meant by that.
"We just had a blast. And it's all thanks to you!" Izzy pointed out as the other girls smiled at Hitch.
"Yeah, I've always wanted to see the Houvre. It's like a totally famous museum!" Pipp spoke from the museum earlier, stating that she always wanted to see it, and she got her wish thanks to Hitch.
"And how cool was that ropes course?" Zipp pointed out of the rope course they saw earlier, finding the obstacle amazing. "I'm definitely going to check that out!" she added, wanting to go back there sometimes.
"Count me on that boat too, Zipp!" Sonic yelled with joy, now getting water out of his shoes as he let the water drop on the edge.
"So...You all like Maretime Bay?" Hitch asked with a smile.
"We love it!" Pipp called out with a cheer.
"I feel more at home now" Zipp replied with a smile.
“Best tour I've ever been on. Seriously.” Izzy said, even though she didn't look anything at all.
"It was an amazing ride" Sonic added with a smile. "Except for the part where I fell into water..."
Sunny came to Hitch smiling. "See, Hitch? When something doesn't go to plan, you just have to…" she stopped in mid section as she gave Hitch a smirk. "Wait for it... Think outside the box!" she punned out, as she laughed her head off at that joke.
Sonic smirked a little and rubbed his eyes with one hand. "Okay, that was a good one, I admitted" he confessed with a smile.
"That is so funny, 'cause I'm inside a box!" Izzy stated, seeing the pun that Sunny made there as Zipp and Pipp both smiled at the pun.
Hitch laughs at that joke as well, but then he gasped as he remembered something. "Outside the box!" he called out, as he searched Izzy’s box, trying to find something with a little grunt, he checked the bottom of the box and found that it has an emergency release switch. "Ah-hah!" he cheered out as he flipped the switch.
Then the Unicorn trap unfolds itself, releasing Izzy from the trap as her friends look at her with smiles. Izzy checked her surroundings as she trotted around her friends. "I'm a unicorn again!" she cheered as she bent down to the ‘X’ spot of the box. "We made some good memories though, didn't we, box? Now I can take the real tour!" she announced with a smile, as her friends smiled as well.
A little while later, the group was retaking the tour of Maretime Bay, this time to show Izzy what they have seen so far.
"Right this way, and you'll see... Ah!" Hitch tried to show them something, but was cut off when he steps on another unicorn trap, this time being him the one trapped, as the others looked at him with a look and Sunny face hoofed herself. "...Uugh!" Hitch groans as karma strikes him.
Sonic, whoever, didn't take it to well and groaned. "OH, FOR CHAOS SAKE!" he yelled, as his electric power unleashed around his body. He pressed the red button, but since it didn't work like with the last trap, he moved the box to one side, making Hitch groan in pain inside the box, and pressed the emergency switch button. Once Hitch was free, although he was laying down on the floor, Sonic took the trap and strongly trow it to the ocean. "I hate those stupid boxes!" he yelled, but once he turned around, he found shocked faces of his friends.
He then realized how he was looking, closed his eyes and the electricity fade away. "Hehe... I guess I crossed the line there, didn't I?" he said with a nervous smile, as he blushed a little.
THE END