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// 23. Another Pony's Trash 
// Story: Sonic The Hedgehog x My Little Pony: Tell Your Tale 
// by BronySonicFan 
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Sunny opened the window where a bird was sitting, but it flew away and Sunny sighed in relaxation.

"Another beautiful day in…Agh!" Sunny tried to say, but was startled when a piece of newspaper flew straight into her face. She turned away from the window and tried to get the newspaper off, while her friends - who were having breakfast - stifled their laughter. Once Sunny got the newspaper off, she sighed in relief, but then read the article on the paper. "'Maretime Bay Trash Heap of Equestria?' Huh? 'Filling Visiting Numbers Caused Chaos?'" Sunny read in disbelief. "Pfft, can you guys believe this?" Sunny asked with a snort. "As if Maretime Bay has a trash problem" she added, then wrinkled the paper and threw it trough the window.

"You literally just contradicted yourself by throwing that litter, Sunny" Sonic pointed out with a bored expression.

"Litter? Not while I'm still alive!" Knuckles said, as he boosted from the window, picked the litter and came back to throw it into a trash can. "This disrespectful kids..." he muttered to himself.

The others looked at each other, knowing that Sunny didn't even knew what was going on. "Um. Are you kidding? It’s like all over 'Clip-Trot'" Pipp pointed out and showed a Clip-Trot video where the bunnies were dancing on the beach, but then a wave hits them and the bunnies were washed up from the ocean with some trash on them.

"And it’s not just trash. I’ve been getting a lot of complaints on how busy Maretime Bay is now" Hitch said to Sunny, then pointed to the board of complaints behind Sunny. "They are mostly from Posey, but still" he added.

"Why do you have your Complaint Board on here, again?" Tails questioned, since it had no sense having that on the Brighthouse and not in the station.

"I have no more space back in the station..." Hitch replied with an embarrassed smile, scratching his head a little.

"Unicorns are gasping too much at the views!" Posey’s voice was heard while each note saids it all. "Pegasus wings created unwanted breezes! Unicorn smell!" after the smell part of a note, Posey poked her head through the window with an irritated look. “And another thing…. Agh!" she got cut when Sonic threw her a pancake on the face.

"No one cares, Posey!" Sonic yelled at her, and then closed the window with a slam. Once he turned back to his friends, he cleared his throat and looked at Sunny. "Keep going, let's just pretend she never showed up" he said with a little smile.

"Hey!" Posey yelled from the other side of the window, while Sonic just rolled his eyes.

"Oh pony boloney, these news ponies always make things worse than they are" she assured the others. "I’m sure it’s just a big fuss over nothing" she finished, then turned around and walked out to go to her smoothie job.

Hitch raised his hoof to stop Sunny, but since she already walked out, he lowered it. Sonic the came next to him

"Let her go, sheriff" Sonic said to him, putting a hand on his shoulder. "She's going to realize how wrong she is in a few seconds" he pointed out, since he knew Sunny would see for herself how bad the situation is in Maretime Bay.





On the town streets, Sunny was dragging her smoothie cart, and looked at the street in total shock, with her right eye twitching at the sight: Maretime Bay was completely covered in trash; ponies around were holding phone sticks and taking selfies; pegasi were flying around holding their phones at top speed; and earth ponies were dragging rickshaws with other ponies riding on them.

Sunny walked by and looked around: she saw a raccoonicorn digging in a pile of trash on a recycling bin, then she saw Rufus trying to clean up the litter on the street, but a pony tossed a crumpled up paper on the other crumpled up papers, which which caused the rest to fall on the the floor and made Rufus groan in frustration at this.

Sunny got a nervous smile looking at her surroundings. "See! Everything’s… whoa!" she got startled when a couple of fillies ran past her. "Fine!" she finished, shaking her hoof to let go a piece of trash that got stuck on it. Then she looked at her other hoof and saw it got some trash as well, and then ducked when a newspaper was about to hit her, then a pegasus flew by, creating a breeze, then another pegasus flew by and the breeze hit another newspaper on Sunny's head. She got the newspaper off of her face with a bored expression. "You’ve got to be kidding me" she said in a dead tone.

Suddenly, an earth pony mare came right in front of her, holding a selfie stick and caring a cart full of them. "Selfie sticks! Get your selfie stick!" she announced with a smile.

Sunny turned away, but then another mare came in front of her with a megaphone in her hoof. "Megaphones! Get your megaphones!" she called out through the megaphone, which caused Sunny cringe and back away from this.

Sunny came near the edge where the view of the ocean was, but then she saw a stallion going fast and dragging a rickshaw coming at her. Sunny moved out of the way while the stallion passed by her, but then ponies around her were holding selfie sticks, blocking her way and she ran off.

And then a Unicorn colt was holding a selfie stick, but didn't noticed an earth Pony mare with another in the rickshaw coming up really fast at him. Sunny gasped and jumped in to grab the colt before he got hit by the cart. Sunny landed on her hooves after the roll and sighed in relief, then checked at the colt, who giggled happily at Sunny, but then a newspaper hit him in the face, and Sunny chuckled sheepishly.

"Okay. We may have a problem" she said, clearly seeing that Maretime Bay was a mess right now.





Later, Sunny returned with their friends at the Crystal Brighthouse to tell them everything she saw.

"Ponies. You were right" Sunny said to her friends with a sad look. "Maretime Bay is a trash heap!" she called out.

"I’ve seen actual trash heaps that are much cleaner" Zipp whispered to Pipp.

"Oil Ocean it's the synonym of clean compared to Maretime Bay" Sonic whispered to Tails.

"Well, I’m not gonna sit around and watch our town turn into a complete disaster!" Sunny calls out, pacing back-in-forth with a determinate look, and faced her friends with the same look. "It’s time to take out the trash" she said with a dramatic smile.

"Oh. But I took out the trash this morning" Izzy complained, while Hitch was reading his sheriff book and Knuckles ate some grapes behind her.

"Not literally, Izzy" Tails clarified, coming next to her with a bored expression.

"Oh! Yeah, that makes a lot more sense" Izzy answered.

"Well then, let's clean up this place before it gets worst" Sonic stated with a smile, and then turned to look at Hitch and Knuckles with a smirk. "And yes, guys. You can pick up lots of litter" he added.

Hitch and Knuckles got up with smiles, tears of joy and hugging each other. "Music to my ears!" Hitch said dramatically.

"We were born for this moment!" Knuckles said dramatically as well.





Sometime later, the Mane 5 and Team Sonic were walking past the ponies in Maretime Bay, wearing sunglasses, Izzy wearing her goggles, and a pair of green hats that have each a symbol of a mop and a broom. Two of Hitch’s animal crew where there as well, with Kenneth holding a broom and McSnips next to Pipp. The ponies around them watched them with awe, as the Mane 5 and Team Sonic stopped walking, and Pipp hold out her phone to face Sunny and livestream the whole thing.

"Listen up, Team Clean!" Sunny called out with a determined look. "If we want to live together, we’re going to have to work together!" she stated. "Clean every corner! Sweep every sidewalk! Mop every…. Uh? Moppable area!" she called out. Then, Sunny turned to Zipp and Knuckles. "Zipp, Knuckles, track down those litters!" she said to them, while Zipp brought out her magnifying glass and Knuckles brought a litter pickaxe. "Izzy, Tails, you’re on redecoration!" she said to Izzy and Tails with a smile, while both of them saluted and smiled back. "Hitch, Sonic, sort out the rickshaw problem!" she told them, while Hitch smiled and held up to a sign for 'Stop', and Sonic held one for 'Go'.

"They'll never know who stopped them!" Sonic stated with a smile.

Pipp was holding the selfie stick with her phone on it, trying to take a selfie when Sunny came to her. "Pipp, selfie sticks" she simply said, while Pipp smiled at Sunny since she knew exactly what she needed to do. Now Sunny turned to Hitch's animal crew. "Critters… Just stay adorable" she said cutely to them with a smile, while the critters saluted in response.

Sunny stand side by side with her friends, now ready for action. "Okay, Maretime Bay. Time to sparkle and shine!" Sunny announced.





After a while, Zipp and Knuckles were picking up the litter and putting it on trash bag on their backs.

"This… is… disgusting!" Zipp cried out, grabbing a litter and placing it on her trash bag. "Who lives like this?!" she questioned herself, wondering who could live on a place that looks like a trash can. 

"People who have no sense of sanitation" Knuckles replied, picking some litter with his pickaxe and putted on his trash bag. "Now I get why Hitch is always so strict with the litter" he added.

"Yeah, me too" Zipp confessed, as she picked up another litter. "Phew! That’s better" she said with a smile, but then a shadow appeared over her and Knuckles. They both turned and lifted their sunglasses up, staring in shock at a mountain of trash that piled up in the trash bin with the raccoonicorns digging through it. Zipp's sunglasses fell off, and Knuckles let go the pickaxe, both still in shock. "You’ve got to be kidding me" she said, staring at the insane amount of trash.

"Sonic was right..." Knuckles said, staring with disbelief at the mountain of trash. "Oil Ocean it's cleaner than this town..." he added.





Meanwhile, Izzy and Tails were trying to put up some decorations for Maretime Bay, while Izzy tried to lift some lights on a building and Tails some poster to replace the old ones that were vandalized with some drawings.

"Okay... Almost there…" Izzy said to herself, keeping her balance over a stool. "Just a little bit— Aah!" she cried out as her stool lost balance and she tilted side to side, falling and screaming while a crash was heard, but luckily only the stool broke off since Izzy was now tangled in light wires. "A little help here?!" she called out.

"Coming!" Tails said, as he quickly arrived with the unicorn and started to untie her from the lights.





On the street in front of Mane Melody, Hitch and Sonic were trying to keep order of the rickshaw problem, but nopony listened to them. "Hey! Slow down, pal! Hey! Order! ORDER!" Hitch called out to the ponies, but then he got twirled around when a rickshaw hit him. He twirled until Sonic helped him to stop.

"There you go, sheriff" Sonic said with a little smile. "Man, this is disrespectful in so many levels..." he commented, looking around with a frown.





Pipp, however, was livestreaming how to clean up Maretime Bay and also showing how to properly hold the selfie stick. "See? It's super easy. Like this" she said to the viewers, but then two colts, a unicorn and a pegasus, were clashing selfie sticks as if they were swords and played around. Pipp saw this and gasped in shock. "Oh. Oh, no. Oh! Oh, careful! Oh! Look out!" she cried out and she chased after the two colts.





Sometime later, the Mane 5 and Team Sonic regrouped, feeling tired and sweating from the cleaning and maintaining order, specially since it wasn't working at all.

"It's no good, Sunny. We need more help" Hitch pointed out with a worried expression.

"This is getting out of our hands" Sonic admitted, as he wiped sweat with a towel.

"There's so much garbage. The town's about to explode!" Zipp cried out.

"So many litter, I'm gonna explode..." Knuckles said with desperation.

Then, the grown started to rumble, and the Mane 5 and Team Sonic saw a bunch of ponies coming at them in a stampeding fashion, with Posey leading the rest with a determined expression, while the ponies surrounded the Mane 5 and Team Sonic.

"Um... Posey?" Sonic asked a little confused. "What the heck is going on here?" he added.

"W-What's all this?" Sunny asked, wondering why there where so many ponies there.

"We saw Pipp's video" a pegasus stallion answered, holding his phone playing the video Pipp uploaded about Sunny telling them to work together to clean the town.

"Pretty inspiring stuff" a unicorn mare said with sparkling eyes, while the other ponies smiled.

"We're here to help clean up!" Posey started, as she stepped in front of Sunny. "If we want to live together, we're gonna have to work togeth--" she was cut off by Sunny.

"Yeah, yeah, we remember the speech" Sunny said to Posey, giving her a grateful smile. "Wow. Okay, um... Izzy!" Sunny called out to her unicorn friend. "Get these ponies some 'Team Clean' caps!" she told her, while Izzy saluted with a smile and placed some 'Team Clean' caps on Posey and some other ponies.

"Alright, everyone! It’s time to clean up Maretime Bay like there's no tomorrow!" Sonic called out to the ponies.

"There's no tomorrow?!" an earth pony mare asked with panic, then ran off screaming, while the Mane 5, Team Sonic and the other ponies watched the mare go with a strange look, while Sonic facepalmed.





Zipp and Knuckles motioned the unicorns to help lift the pile of trash. They levitated trash from the ground, while the pegasi carried bags as the unicorns putted the trash in them. Rufus skied down a mountain of trash and picked the litters and putted them in the bags on his side. Meanwhile, a pegasus mare sweep the floor for the dirt that the pile of trash left behind.





At other section, Izzy and Tails were putting up a can of decorative soda cans to make the street look good, but when she was about to tie it up on a streetlight, a can tilted and spilled some soda content that was left in it. Izzy looked down and saw a colt drinking the contents, since some still had soda on them.





Later, a traffic light was set up and turned on. The ponies stopped after seeing the traffic light, and both Hitch and Sonic smiled, now that the streets were in control. Then they saw Jazz and Rocky doing a victory dance, while Jazz laughed and the four ponies, two dragging the other two on the rickshaw, watched on and bobbed their heads.





Pipp showed the fillies around her how to use the selfie sticks as they took pictures from their phones. In front of them were another group of ponies, and a pegasnail, holding selfie sticks as well, and Pipp clapped her hooves with a smile at their great work.





Sunny looked around and smiled at the ponies working together while cleaning Maretime Bay. The rest of the Mane 5 smiled as well, while their Cutie Marks started to shine and Sunny levitated. Then, her alicorn magic activated and both her wings and her horn appeared, while Sunny gave a smile.

"Their Cutie Marks shine sometimes..." Tails pointed out, looking not only at Sunny, but also at the rest of the Mane 5.

"Yeah, I guess it's some kind of pony thing or something" Sonic said, looking at Sunny with a smile.

"Should we worry about that?" Knuckles questioned.

"Nah, what's the worst that can happen with glowing tattoos on their butts?" Sonic added with a relaxed smile, but for some reason, he didn't believe in his own words.





A little bit later, in front of the old Canterlogic building, Sunny walked in front of the stage while her friends - sins Team Sonic, who decided to be part of the crowd this time - where around her facing the crowd of ponies.

"Everypony, today is a wondrous day!" Sunny called out as she spread her wings.

"Tuesday?" Rufus asked with a smile, while Knuckles patted his back with a little smile, since he was standing next to Rufus, alongside with Sonic and Tails, of course.

"Yes! Thank you, Rufus" Sunny said to him with a smile. "But it's also the day we proved that ponykind can live together in unity! So long as we clean up once in a while" she called out, which resulted in the crowd cheering at her. "So I hereby announce the brand-new yearly Cleanup Carnival!" she called out, unraveling a sign that showed three ponies, each from one tribe who were carrying cleaning tools as the crowd cheered on. "A special day to clean Maretime Bay from head to hoof. All overseen by 'Team Clean'!" Sunny added, as she and her friends lifted their hooves in the air and the crowd cheered to the Mane 5.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah" Rufus said with a proud smile on his face. "I liked cleaning before it was cool" he said with pride, as Knuckles patted his back again.

"Make that two, pal!" Knuckles called out with a smile, as he fist bumped with Rufus.


THE END