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// 17. Queens for a Day 
// Story: Sonic The Hedgehog x My Little Pony: Tell Your Tale 
// by BronySonicFan 
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In Zephyr Heights, out of the Royal Castle, Pipp popped her head off from behind a bush. She yelped before she ducked down and hid beside her friends and sister, since they were all hiding behind the bush.

"Oh. My. Glitter!" Pipp said excitedly as she turned to her friends. "This is going to be the best surprise ever!" she sang the last word excited.

Suddenly, they heard rolling sounds, which meant that someone was coming. "Here she comes" Zipp whispered to her friends with a smile, then turned to Team Sonic that was next to a batch of fireworks. "Guys! Light them up!" she said to them, while they raised their thumbs in approval.

"3, 2, 1!" The Mane 5 counted down in excitement, then got out of the bush and shouted "Happy Mares Day!" in unison and with a strike of pose. Just to be clear, 'Mares Day' it's the equivalent of 'Mothers Day' in Equestria.

But then they gasped when they didn't saw Queen Haven, but Fifi pulling a fruit cart and a Pegasus Stallion next to her, looking confused at the group.

The fireworks were set off behind them, since Team Sonic didn't knew they got the wrong pony. Fifi and her partner gave an awed expression when they saw the fireworks. "Look. You’re missing the fireworks!" Fifi said to the group with a smile.

Team Sonic popped their heads from behind the bush, and as Knuckles gave a bored expression and Tails facepalmed, Sonic frowned and sighed in defeat. "You've gotta be kidding me..." he said in disbelief.

Pipp groaned in frustration. "We thought you were the queen" she said with concern.

Fifi snorted a bit before reply. "Imagine that. Me. The queen" she said to her partner with a smirk.

Fifi's partner playfully bowed to her. "Well, hello your majesty!" se said in a playful tone and smiled, as he and Fifi walked past the Mane 5 with a chuckle at their own joke.

"And now we’ve completely wasted the fireworks. Ugh. I knew this would happen" Zipp said with a frown.

"Zipp, you don't need fireworks to show the queen how much you care about her" Sunny assured her.

"Which is great, 'cause now you don't have any!" Izzy said with a smile, but then realized that it came out wrong and gave a nervous laugh. "Yaaaay…" she said weakly with a sheepish smile.

"Izz, we talked about this, think before you speak" Tails said, as he, Sonic and Knuckles came closer to the Mane 5.

"Sorry..." Izzy apologized, as she scratched her neck a bit. Tails smiled and patted her back, assuring that everything was fine at the end.

"But what about the Queen, tho?" Sonic said. "She didn't stopped talking about how much she was looking forward to this day when she, Alphabittle and I reunited" he pointed out.

"Maybe she's just... running late" Hitch suggested.

Zipp frowned, since she knew her mother way too well. "No. I know exactly where she is" she said with an angry tone.

"Oh no..." Knuckles whispered. "She's mad. Should be get worried?" he asked Sonic, as he and Tails looked at the hedgehog.

"Yup" Sonic said with a bored expression. "Yeah, we should" he added.





Queen Haven and Zoom where in the throne room, while Haven was surrounded by a bunch of paperwork that she needed to do, since she’s been very busy today.

"What's next on the royal to-do list, Zoom?" Haven asked her Royal Guard.

"Well, we are running a bit late, your Majesty..." Zoom said to her Queen, while checked the to-do list pad she was holding. "But for item eighty-one, you were supposed to—" she tries to explain.

But then Haven gasped in shock. "Meet my daughters in the royal square!" she said in panic, forgetting completely about that.

The royal gates bursted open with a thud, showing the Mane 6 and Team Sonic coming in, with Pipp and Zipp being very upset that their mother didn’t show up, while the rest of their friends smiled sheepishly.

Haven saw her daughters' frowns and sweated a bit. "Oh, dear..." she said to herself, while her daughters and their friends walked towards her. "Well, isn't this a pleasant surprise" she said nervously to her daughters.

"You were supposed to meet us in the square. I even made an appointment with Zoom this time!" Zipp shouted out, Zoom covered herself with the to-do list pad she is holding.

"Being a no-show is, like, totally harsh, Mother!" Pipp pointed out, while Haven heard them with sadness. "And on Mares Day?! Rude!" she shouted out.

Haven closed her eyes a bit with stress. "I know! I'm so sorry I've let you down! And on this special day!" she apologized to her daughters with a guilty tone, while Pipp and Zipp feel bad for their mother. "Believe me, there's nothing I'd like more than to take a break from being queen" she came up to her daughters and gave them a forgiving hug. "But there's just too much to do..." she pointed out.

Sonic then ran next to them. "On her defense, and I say this as a knight appointed by a talking sword, Royalty requires a lot of responsibility and time" he pointed out. "As a Queen, it's normal she would get some things forgot, no matter how important they are..." he also added with a compassion look towards Haven.

Zipp tough about that for a second, and then smiled with an idea. "Then why don't we give you a break?" she said to their mother, as she and Pipp break off the hug. "We'll do all of your queenly duties for the rest of the day" she offered to her mom. The rest saw where Zipp was going, so they smiled and shook their heads in agreement.

Haven gave Zipp an amusing smile. "Really? You want to be queen?" she asked, since Zipp has been trying to avoid the fact that she would be the Queen of Zephyr Heights someday.

"Come on, Mom. How hard can it be?" Zipp asked with a smirk.

Haven putted a hoof to her chin, thinking over Zipp's proposal, and then smiled with sparkling eyes and zipped straight next to Zoom. "Okay then! Zoom will make sure you have everything you need!" she said quickly, then zoomed straight to the door. "Good luck!" she waved to her daughters and their friends as she closed the door.

Zoom blinked a bit before saluting to her Queen with a smile. "Of course, your Majesty!" she called out before scrolling through her to-do list pad. "Ordering the royal to-do list now!" she said, then sanded the royal to-do list to Zipp.

Zipp picked her phone and saw the many messages popping up on it, all of them were part of the list. The messages kept going on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on... You got the point right? There's lots of stuff to do. The rest of the Mane 5 and Team Sonic looked at Zipp’s phone, seeing more messages popping up.

Pipp smiled nervously as the messages kept going. "That's not…" she started before clear her throat "...so bad" she finished.

But then the beeping speeded up since even more messages of list popped up, which surprised the group.

"'Come on, Mom. How hard can it be?'" Sonic said, trying to imitate Zipp's voice. "Way to go, Princess" he added with a bored expression.

"Would you look at that? It just keeps going and going and going and going and going and going…" she said to the group while circling around Zipp, who was having a nervous breakdown over this much work, starting to regret this idea.

"This'll be... f-fun. Right?" Pipp nervously asked her friends with a forced smile.

"Yeah... You and I have very different concepts of 'fun', Pipp" Knuckles said sarcastically, as the phone finally stopped beeping.

"This is going to be a looooong day..." Tails said, as he and the rest looked at the list with worry.





A while later, Zoom leaded the group to a door, still helping them follow the list in order. "Item eighty-two – the newborn foal's portrait" Zoom told them as she opened the door, revealing eight young foals pegasi on a couch bench.

"Awwww!" the Mane 5 and Team Sonic all cooed with sparkling eyes at the adorable foals.

The pegasi foals started to giggle as they hopped up and down. The group gasped in fear, knowing very well that hyped up foals can be very tricky to calm down or even get them to hold still, so they decided to split up and catch them.

"H-Hey! Get back here!" Zipp called out to one of the foals, trying to get it to stand still for the portrait.

Sunny jumped, trying to catch one of the foals that was flying, while Pipp the same problem with another of the foals. And then, not paying attention, the two foals got between Sunny and Pipp, flying out of their path while Sunny and Pipp crashed into each other, with Sunny lying on top of Pipp. The two had bored expressions, while the foals just giggled at them.

Tails was growling on frustration, as he flied and tried to catch one of the foals.

Knuckles screamed as one of the foals grabbed one of his ears and tugging it. "G-Get off me!" he complained, since he didn't wanted to hurt a little foal with his big hands.

Sonic was chasing around one of the Foals, but he didn't wanted to catch him with his speed since he though it could hurt one of them.

And Hitch was being dragged by two foals from his rear legs, while he pawed at the floor. "I'll be... right... behind... you!" he grunted.

A little bit later, the group finally got the foals under control and sat them back on the couch to take their picture while the foals giggled and the Mane 6 stood behind them, with Hitch holding one of the foals with a nervous smile.

The camera took the picture, but it showed the Mane 5 and Team Sonic having trouble with the foals again.

The next picture showed Hitch, wearing makeup from the foal that he was holding, with a sad expression as the foal laughs at him.

And then the last picture showed Pipp having a selfie with her Pippsqueaks followers.





A little bit later, after taking pictures with the foals, Zoom then led the group to a playground where ponies were taking pictures of the Mane 5 and Team Sonic, who were behind a ribbon to inaugurate the playground.

"Item ninety-seven – the grand opening of the royal playground" Zoom instructed.

Zipp laughed, actually feeling relief about this part of the list. "This'll be easy" she said to her friends with a smile. Zipp grabbed the giant scissors and tried to snip the ribbon, but it wasn’t cutting. Zipp kept trying but somehow it still didn't cut.

Pipp came to her sister’s side and now the two of them snipped the scissors together, but it still didn’t cut the ribbon.

Izzy came to them and grabbed the scissors, and started to rip the ribbon again, but it still didn't worked. Sunny came to Izzy's side and the two ponies worked together to try to cut the ribbon, but the scissors still didn't cut it.

"Uh, this is hard to watch" Flare, a white pegasus with a fire styled mane, said to herself and a pegasus beside her.

Sunny and Izzy continued to try and cut the ribbon, while the started to sweat. "Must... cut... ribbon!" Izzy said in frustration and determination.

"Just go on without us!" Sunny cried out with tears.

Team Sonic watched this in disbelief, finding a little dumb that it was that hard to cut a ribbon. Tails sighed in frustration and came in front of the ribbon, while Sunny and Izzy kept trying to cut it. "Well, this is ridiculous" he said, as he took out Swiss Army Knife from one of his tails and cut the ribbon in one shot.

The crowd just cheered, now that the ribbon was finally cut, as Sunny and Izzy sighed in relief.

"Uh, Tails... Why do you have a Swiss Knife with you?" Sonic questioned.

"You always have to be prepared" Tails replied with a little smile.





A picture showed Zipp getting a public speech with reporters microphones in front of her. Zipp looked nervous about the whole thing, while Pipp was taking pictures of the whole thing behind her.

Another picture showed Zipp and Pipp helping with the construction plans to the construction ponies, but mostly Zipp since Pipp was taking selfies of the whole thing.

And the next picture showed Hitch leading the ponies in a fashion order while keeping them in line for something.

A while later, Zipp and Pipp were in Zephyr Heights Hospital to pay a visit to an injured pegasus stallion, who was all bandaged up from head to hooves as the cameras are taking pictures to the three ponies.

Pipp placed a comforting hoof to the stallion, gently not to hurt him. But then Pipp dropped her phone when she tried to take a selfie, and it landed on one of the stallion’s legs. The pegasus stallion patient screamed in pain, while the pictures were taken as Pipp felt guilty about it while Zipp tried to calm the patient down.

Later, Zipp was digging a whole to plant a new plant on the ground. The cameras took pictures of her as Zipp smiles, but then Pipp cleared her throat. Once Zipp turned around, she saw Pipp has got dirt on her head from her shoveling while she hold the plant.

The picture taken showed Pipp throwing dirt on Zipp playfully, as Zipp laughed at Pipp’s payback.

Later, In the throne room, Pipp and Zipp were doing the paperworks their mother had to at a fast paste as they sweated in effort to get the papers done.

The papers they’ve finished were placed by Knuckles on a wagon that Sunny and Hitch brought.

But then, Izzy showed up with another load of papers through the door, about to hit Sunny and Hitch and take the papers out.

"Whoa!" Hitch cried out as he and Sunny stopped.

"Look out!" Sunny cried out.

Izzy realized that she was going to crash into them. "Yikes!" she cried out, and then crashed into her friends, which resulted in all the papers scattered with the three ponies dazed on impact.

Pipp and Zipp saw this with wide and tired eyes, and Pipp groaned in frustration.

Tails and Knuckles poked their heads out of one of the piles, while Sonic looked around and picked some papers. One had a seal and was signed by Pipp, another one was signed by Zipp and the last one didn't had neither the seal nor a sign. He looked then at the pile of papers and nodded with a determinate face.

In less than 6 seconds, all the papers were organized once again: the already signed ones were on Sunny and Hitch's wagons, while the blank ones where again at Zipp and Pipp's sides. Sonic then stopped and looked at his work with a proud smile.

"Before you ask: the signed papers are on the wagons, the ones you have with you are blank" Sonic said before Zipp or Pipp could complain for doing the thing so fast. "Just because I consider myself the fastest thing alive, doesn't mean I don't like things organized" he pointed out with a smirk.





Haven was alone in the dinner room, feeling lonely and wondering how her daughters and their friends were doing. "I do hope everything's okay" she said to herself.

And then the door opened and Haven turned to see that the Mane 5 and Team Sonic arrived, looking really tired from the duties.

"We did it!" Zipp called out with an exhausting smile. "We're late for dinner, but we made it!" she added.

"And how did it go?" Haven asked them with a smile.

"A newborn foal gave me a shiner!" Hitch said in panic, as he pointed to the shiner on his left eye.

"My legs hurt from chasing foals!" Knuckles complained.

"Being queen is much harder than it looks!" Sunny groaned.

"I've never been this stressed in my entire life..." Tails confessed with an exhausted expression.

"Look at all this dirt in my mane!" Pipp cried out, pointing to the dirt on her mane.

"I have to get rid of my knight title!" Sonic cried out in panic.

"I'll never use scissors again!" Izzy yelled with frustration.

Haven placed a hoove over her mouth, seeing them so tired and overworked.

"The truth is there were eight of us. We didn't even come close to finishing the royal to-do list" Zipp admitted, and then came next to her mother. "I can't believe you do that every day" she added, now understanding better the responsibility of a Queen.

Pipp came up next to Haven on the other side. "Yeah, I think we were the ones being harsh earlier. Sonic was right about the big responsibility of being a Queen. You are super-amazing" she added hugging her mother.

Haven smiled and placed a hoof on Pipp's shoulder. "That means a lot, Pipp. Thank you" she thanked her daughters, then clapped her hooves together.

After the clap, the doors suddenly opened and Zoom and Thunder came with a cart of food and place it on the dinner table.

The Mane 5 and Teams Sonic gasped in amazement at the feast before them.

Zipp turned to her mom with a smile and sparkling eyes. "You think of everything" she said in amazement, while Haven nodded her head with a smile.

"Now, everypony, dig in!" Haven announced it to the group with a smile.

Now the Mane 5, Team Sonic and Queen Haven are digging in on their food as they chat with each other while enjoying their well deserved feast.

Zoom placed the failed picture with the foals on the wall with a smile, and then took out her pad and checked off the last thing on the to-do list, ending the royal duties for the day.


THE END