Chapter 34: Sneaksy Strikes Again
“And now, for the street art.” Posey announced to both Sunny, Sunset and Izzy with a smile, as the four ponies are in the museum while Posey is showing one of the street arts, which is an Earth Pony mare holding a flower.
Izzy gasped with sparkles in her eyes as Sunny and Sunset just smiled as Izzy went closer to the art. “It’s so beautiful!” Izzy said.
And then Posey showed them another street that is a multi-colored stallion. “Neighway!” Izzy cheered as Sunset and Sunny watched on.
And then they are now seeing a rainbow with a can of beans tape to it as Izzy then starts crying with joy at the art, while Sunny, Sunset and Posey are giving her a strange look from that.
And then the next art is a pair of multi-colored hooves that is a 3-D painting sculpture.
Izzy then zipped right in front of it. “Hoof-five! Don’t mind if I do…” She was about to touch the art until Posey then got in front of her.
“Hoof off Izzy! No touching the art!” Posey strictly said, which startled Izzy from her outburst. “Those are the rules.” She firmly pointed out.
“Jeeze, Posey. Lighten up. You don’t have to be so strict about it.” Sunset said while rolling her eyes at Posey’s outburst.
“Well, I have to take art seriously, Sunset. You can’t blame me for trying.” Posey pointed out, taking the art thing seriously.
Izzy then sighs in disappointment of not touching the art as Sunny and Sunset give her a smile as they lift up their hooves to Izzy. Izzy gasped at them as she smiled and the three ponies gave each one a high-hoove as Sunny and Sunset laughed a bit.
Posey then shows them many other street arts that are on the walls. “Many of the street artists keep their identity secret.” Posey explained. “They believe that art can be anywhere in anything, and should be experienced by everypony!” She announced with a smile.
“Amazing.” Sunset said, being an artist herself at times and having done this kind of thing before. “I used to do this before. That is when I have to stop after so many arts around town.” She said with a sheepish smile, remembering when she first started street art, she got busted, which she was lucky to get away without getting caught.
“Wow. Art can be anywhere. That’s a cool idea.” Sunny said with a smile, but then she and Sunset looked at Izzy, who was giving a blank look while staring at the art. “Uh. Everything okay there, Izzy?” Sunny asked.
“Yeah, you seemed lost a bit.” Sunset asked as well, waving a hoof in front of Izzy, but Izzy remained focused, ignoring Sunset’s hoof as she spoke.
“Art can be anywhere.” Izzy repeated what Sunny and Posey said as her eyes were wide and her pupils shrunk a bit, having an idea pop in her head as she zoomed away from the three ponies. “Woohoo!” Izzy cheered as she ran around the room, while also running across the ceiling for some reason, which drove the three ponies in confusion. “I can be anywhere!” Izzy cheered as she popped up from the right side and then the left with a cheerful expression. “For anypony!” She added as she got the three ponies with her hooves with sparkles in her eyes. “Did you hear that? The world will never be the same!” She said as she let go of the ponies and went on.
Posey then spoke to explain more. “Well, not exactly ‘anywhere’. If you want to make art in public places, you have to get permission first and…” Posey stopped as she looked at something with wide eyes and gasped.
“What?” Sunset asked, wanting to know what Posey is looking at. Not answering as she pointed in a direction, Sunny and Sunset followed Posey’s pointing and widened their eyes in shock as they saw the window open, with a window door on one side dropped to the door. “Oh. Looks like Izzy went out the window. Literally.” Sunset commented, knowing what just happened.
“Art! I can be anywhere!” Izzy’s voice called out through the window.
Outside, Izzy called out with her hooves in the air with sparkles in her eyes.
“Did everypony hear that!” Izzy excitedly called out to the ponies around her as she grabbed a stallion next to her and shook him, which startled the stallion. “Everything is art!” She cheered out.
While looking out the museum window, Posey gave an unamused look, Sunset facehooved herself while Sunny gave a sheepish smile.
“Uh. Artist. Am I right.” Sunny said sheepishly.
Sunset then spoke. “To be honest with how good Izzy is with her artistic skills and Unicycling, we should’ve seen that coming to a unicorn who hasn't made friends or out of the woods before.” She said, should’ve seen this coming, knowing Izzy would be this excited as Sunset looked at Posey. “And to be fair, Posey, you should’ve led with that first before the ‘art is everywhere’ thing. You think you know Izzy by now.” She said to Posey.
Posey gave Sunset a look from that, but then thought for a moment as she sighs. “Okay. You got me there. I keep forgetting how Izzy is from time to time.” She admittedly said, should’ve known better to go into full details for Izzy before that unicorn went into excited mode.
At night time, the girls are in their beds sleeping, except for Izzy, who is still smiling with sparkles in her eyes on her bed.
Izzy then giggled as she looked around, hoping that everypony is asleep. Once she knew everypony is asleep, she got out of bed and quietly made it to the door as she quietly opened it. And then she gently closed it and brought out a black hoodie with some rainbow lines and stars on it as Izzy gave a smirk.
“Gonna have to be extra sneaksy if I wanna get this right.” Izzy said with a smirk before gasping at what she just said, having an idea as she gave a smirk. “Oh. Sneaksy. That’s good.” She said, having come up with the right name for her to keep her identity a secret.
Sometime later, Izzy is on the roof of a house somewhere in Maretime Bay at night as she gives a smile.
(Street Heart Song)
(Izzy)
Look out, it's Sneaksy
Style is on fleek-sy
Take something dull
And go all night to freak-sy
Izzy then starts using her art supplies to create something as she made three art life-like designs of three ponies mares of all three tribes as she hoof-five one of her unicorn one. “Oh yeah!” Izzy cheered.
Gonna take something average
And make it shine
Gotta add that beauty
To the Maretime
And then somewhere else, Izzy is now creating some snowflakes, with some red paint drops on it as she uses her magic to levitate them on some stands.
Make their dreams a reality
Gonna turn this place into a gallery
Just let it all out for all to see
'Cause we know art's for everypony
Izzy then twirled around next to a lamp post as she used her magic to bend it into a heart shape as Izzy cheered. “I love it!” She cheered with a little laugh at her work.
And then somewhere else, Izzy is levitation a couple of paint brushes and spray paints with sparkles in her eyes as she cheered in excitement as she paints on a wall while she uses the spray bottles on next.
It goes round and round, yeah
We know that art makes the world
Go round and round (makes the world go round)
'Cause art is for everypony
Izzy then twirled around as she levitates a bunch of flowers in the air, levitating her brushes and spray paint as she ran with a smile and laugh as she twirled around with a cheery smile with sparkles in her eyes at her work as she used the spray bottle to leave her alter-ego, ‘Sneaksy’, on a heart in the center with wings, a purple circle in the back with yellow lines at top to bottom as she looked on with sparkles in her eyes as next to her logo, was a giant street art with a crown on top, rainbow, yellow painting in the center, and a heart with wings on the side as Izzy waved her hoof at the sight of her work.
The next morning, the others are up as Sunny is looking around for something.
“Has anypony seen my keys?” Sunny asked her friends if any of them had seen her keys.
“I think I saw them on the counter.” Sunset answered, helping Sunny out.
Hitch is then chasing Sparky while holding a batch of pancakes in his hooves. “Sparky, you gotta eat some breakfast.” He said to the baby dragon, who kept playing while running around.
“Phone! Phone!” Pipp cried out upstairs in a panic state as she started to sweat. “Where is my phone?!” She cried out to the others.
“Uh, Pipp.” Zipp called out to her sister with a raised eyebrow. “Check your hoof.” She said while pointing at her hoof.
Pipp looked at her hoof and saw that she had her phone the whole time as she calmed down. “Oh. Phew.” She sighs in relief.
Sparky kept giggling as Hitch tried to feed Sparky on the couch, but then the baby dragon dropped the TV remote he was holding as it clicked on a button that turned the TV on the news channel.
“Breaking news!” Skye Silver announced with a smile. “Ponies are flocking to Maretime Bay to get a glimpse of the art created by a new street artist going by the name ‘Sneaksy’.” He announced as he showed ponies all over Maretime Bay admiring the artwork ‘Sneaksy’ did as he brought out its logo with a wink.
Sunny smiled with sparkles in her eyes from that. “How exciting! Maretime Bay has its very own street artist!” She said in excitement as Zipp, Sunset and Pipp came next to her as Pipp gasped in amazement with sparkles in her eyes.
“And I gotta say, Sneaksy really did a great job on those artworks.” Sunset commented, finding those arts great.
“Gotta love a secret identity.” Zipp said with a smile, finding the secret identity thing exciting since it’s something for anypony to guess who this secret artist is.
Hitch however has second thoughts as he holds up a pen while pacing back-in-forth in front of the TV. “Sure, but even street artists have to follow the rules. Look at all those code violations.” He pointed out the arts on the screen as he wrote down in his book. “Code forty-seven-eighty-one... Looks like that's a four-twenty-three.” He said while saying the rules of the laws.
Sunny just gave Hitch an amusing smile, Zipp covered her mouth with her hoof to stifle her laughter at this, Sunset rolled her eyes at Hitch being such a rule bookworm while Pipp just gave Hitch a bore expression.
Twilight popped out of the necklace as she raised an eyebrow at Hitch. “Doesn’t he ever enjoy something great before going to the rules, Sunset? I may have a thing of rules myself, but not that into it.” She said, saying that she may be into rules but for Hitch, he’s over doing it.
“You have no idea, Twilight.” Sunset answered, seeing that Hitch should really enjoy things before going to the law for once.
Izzy then came to them, yawning tiredly from her secret all night street art. “Morning, ponies. Oh, whatcha watchin'?” She asked them after seeing the TV.
“It's being reported that her Majesty, the queen, is relocating the most recent Sneaksy mural to Zephyr Heights.” Skye Silver said to the news as it showed Queen Haven in front one the heart rainbow crown art on Hitch’s station wall as she took a selfie with it as she stepped aside for Thunder, holding a power saw, came into view.
Hitch was slurping on a smoothie before he did a spit-take from hearing what the news just said. “She what?!” He cried out in shock while placing his hooves on his head, knowing what that painting is attached too.
“Oh boy.” Sunset said, seeing that Hitch won’t like this, knowing where that art is attached to as well.
A little bit later, Thunder and Zoom are using their power saws to get the wall with the art off as they both saw both sides.
“STOP!” Hitch called out to the two Pegasi Guards with a look. “First Sneaksy painted on my wall without asking, and now you're stealing it?!” He yelled out as he stomped his hoof in rage.
Zoom and Thunder said nothing as the station’s wall then fell backwards, seeing as it was cut all the way as it crashed on the floor, where Hitch’s cage is as the three racoonicorns in it started laughing and ran out the giant hole as they now have freedom.
Hitch then points at the escaped critters as he groans while having a shock look as Zoom flies in front of him.
“It's not stealing. We have a royal decree.” Zoom corrected Hitch as she brought out the degree as it unrolled. Hitch just gave her a look as Sparky then belched out one of his dragon fires, which hit the degree as it turned into a cake. Zoom just shrugged, not bothered by that one bit as she flew back to Thunder as Hitch then pointed at the giant hole in the wall.
“And did your royal decree say who was going to fix my wall? Huh? No?” Hitch rhetorically asked the two Pegasi as Zoom and Thunder walked with the street art wall strap on a wagon as they walked off. “Hey, come back here!” He called out to them as the two Pegasi were out of sight.
Izzy then came next to Hitch as she spoke. “You can't blame the queen for appreciating great art.” She pointed out.
Hitch just gave Izzy a look as he spoke. “Yeah, well, it is possible to make art and love art and not break the law!” He argued as Izzy then became nervous at what Hitch was saying as she began to sweat. Hitch didn’t notice it as he put on his sunglasses. “Come on, Sparky. We've got criminals to deal with.” He said to Sparky, who was eating the cake he’d poofed up, as he going to round up the runaway racoonicorns, leaving Izzy nervous at what Hitch said.
Sometime later back at the Brighthouse, Izzy is talking to a homemade pony doll she made to talk to, named Senor Butterscotch, in secret when nopony knows what she does.
“I wasn't trying to break the law.” Izzy said to the doll. “I just wanted to make art everywhere for everypony. Like a real street artist.” She said to the doll as she used her magic to move it around while talking in an affected voice, to pretend this doll is speaking. “Lesson learned, Izzy. Next time, Sneaksy just needs to get permission first.” Izzy intindaly said, pretending Senor Buttorscot is speaking as she gasped normally with a smile. “Totally! Then until somepony needs our art, Sneaksy is gonna lay low. Thanks, Señor B!” She said to doll for that.
Unknown to her, Sunset was watching the whole thing, finding it weird that Izzy is talking to a doll, but gave a smile at this.
“I knew you were behind it, Izzy. Nopony does art better than you do.” Sunset said quietly, knowing that Izzy had something to do with it, knowing her art skills as she walked off the Brighthouse to help the others with Hitch’s hole in the wall.
Sometime later, the Mane 6 are fixing up Hitch’s wall. They stacked the brinks, so now they are painting it in to finish it up.
“Honestly, I'm kinda sad that Sneaksy's gone into hiding.” Pipp spoke, feeling bad that ‘Sneaksy is laying low after hearing Hitch.
“I say hasta la vista, lawbreaker! Troublemaker!” Hitch called out, feeling glad that ‘Sneaksy’s is out of radar and hasn't made street art in a while.
“Awww…” Izzy said quietly to herself, feeling sad that Hitch would say that.
Sunset saw this and gave Hitch a good smack to the head. “Ow! Hey!” Hitch called out while rubbing his head.
“Hitch! Harsh!” Sunny scolded Hitch for what he said, agreeing with Sunset after she smacked him.
“Yeah, man. You really need to get off the law book once and awhile and appreciate at what Sneaksy has done for Maretime bay.” Sunset said with a firm tone. “Sure it was against the law, but at least Sneaksy is sharing her art for everypony.” She added, which made Izzy smile a bit.
“Yeah. Sneaksy was just trying to fill Maretime Bay with beautiful art.” Sunny said, which made Hich sigh and rolled her eyes at this.
“Don’t give us that look. Your basically the only pony in Maretime Bay that doesn’t appreciate Sneaksy’s art because you are a pony who followed the law way too much to even appreciate somepony’s work.” Sunset pointed out, saying that everpony in Maretime Bay and all the way to Zephyr Heights, loved ‘Sneaksy’s’ artwork.
“Oh really?” Hitch asked with a rolled eye before looking at the girls, who are giving him narrowed eyes expression, reminding him what they saw on the news earlier while pointing at his wall that Zoom and Thunder saw opened after Queen Haven took the art on the old wall. Hitch realizes what they mean as he sighs in defeat. “Right. Good point.” He said, finding their points fair and true, seeing that he was outvoted as Izzy smiled at her friends appreciating her artwork.
Pipp then spoke with a smile. “Well, I would love for Sneaksy to create an original mural for Mane Melody.” She said as she then gasped with sparkles in her eyes. “Talk about the most epic selfie wall ever!” She sang the last part as she got to Hitch’s side, who sighs seeing that he can’ win this one. “Do you hear me, Sneaksy? Pleeeease make me a wall!” She called out to see if ‘Sneaksy’ is listening to her for her to give her an art wall.
Izzy then gasped a smile and sparkled in her eyes, having an idea for Pipp’s request as Sunset saw this and gave a small smile on her face, having thought of something in her head.
Later on at night, the girls are sleeping as Pipp’s phone then begins to buzz.
Pipp heard her phone as she tried to grab it while groaning tirelessly as she got her bed mask on. Pipp grabbed her phone but was too far at the edge of her bed. “Whoa! Whoa!” She cried out as she fell to the floor. She got up as she looked at her phone. “Huh?” She asked herself in confusion before she gasped in shock at what she was seeing. “What?!” She looked at her phone, which is showing the security camera in Mane Melody she connected to as she saw somepony, aka Izzy, aka Sneaksy’s inside it as the camera followed her movement as she was holding a spray paint bottle. “Aah! Thief! That must be why we are always out of manespray!” She called out as she got up and gasped, which caused Zipp to wake up from Pipp’s tone as she had a tired look at her sister. “Oh, you won't get away with this! Not on my watch!” She said as she ran out the bedroom to catch said ‘thief’.
What she didn’t know is that on Izzy’s bed is Senor B, which she put in to trick her friends that she is sleeping while she is out, not wanting her identity of ‘Sneaksy’ to be discovered.
And on Sunset’s bed, there was nothing but pillows in the covers as Sunset is somewhere as well.
At Mane Melody, Pipp opened the doors once she got there as she gave a victorious smile.
“Aha! Gotcha!” Pipp called out with a smirk while pointing, only seeing the spray paint bottle twirling around on the floor while ‘Sneaksy’ went behind the stage to hide. Pipp growled at this, but then gasped in amazement at what she saw next to her. “Oh, my glitter! It's better than I could've ever imagined!” She cheered with sparkles in her eyes, seeing a sparkling mural artwork of the Mane Melody’s logo on the wall. “My very own Sneaksy mural!” She said happily as she brought out her phone to take selfies with it as she started giggling at this outcome while Izzy was looking from behind the stage.
And then some glitter spilled on one of Pipp’s wings as it got her attention. “Huh?” Pipp asked herself as she wiped the glitter off her wing and looked at it on her hoof. “That is a lot of glitter.” She commented before she gasped, having thought of something. “There's only one pony I know who loves glitter that much.” She said with a smirk before she gave a deep gasp in shock. “Wait! Could Izzy be Sneaksy?!” She asked in shock as she placed her hoof on her chin while thinking.
Izzy begins to whimper as she thinks that her cover might be blown by Pipp as she ducked for cover as she went out of sight.
“Hmmm…” Pipp thought hard for a moment before she spoke. “Nah!” She said with a smile before she started laughing. “Neigh way!” She added as she kept laughing while taking even more selfies.
Outside of Mane Melody, Izzy makes it out as she watches Pipp, feeling relief that her secret is still safe. “Hmmm!” She cheered, before a pair of hooves grabbed her. “Hmmm?!” She cried out as she was dragged into an alley.
In an alley, Izzy was met with a pony with a hoodie on to conceal their identity.
“Who are you?! Why did you catch me?! I only wanted to share my art!” Izzy cried, scared of what this pony might do to her.
“Calm down, Izzy.” A familiar voice called out as Izzy looked on in shock, seeing that this pony knew her name. Before she could ask, the pony removed the hoodie, revealing Sunset underneath it. “It’s just me.” Sunset assured Izzy with a comforting smile.
“Sunset?! Wait, how did you know I was Sneaksy?” Izzy asked, wanting to know how Sunset knew what she was doing.
“Come on, Izzy. You think you are the only pony who does Street Art? I used to do this back in the other world I was living in years ago.” Sunset answered with a smile.
“You have?” Izzy asked in surprise that Sunset did some Street Art herself.
“Yep. I went by the tag ‘Flanksy’.” Sunset said while sighing at the fond memories. “Those were the days.” She said before refocusing on Izzy. “Anyway, I knew from the beginning that you have something to do with all these great arts all around Maretime Bay. Nopony of your talents have what it takes to use that much art supplies and glitter to make something that creative like your artwork, Izzy.” She said with a proud smile.
“Aw. Thanks, Sunset.” Izzy said with a smile of happiness that Sunset thinks of her. And then she realizes something. “Wait. Is that why you spoke out to Hitch of how great my arts are when we were fixing his wall. You knew from the beginning?” She asked with a guessing smile.
“That’s right, I didn’t want you to feel like that after what Hitch said. Seriously, that stallion really needs to lighten up.” Sunset added, which Izzy nodded in agreement. “Don’t worry, the others don’t know about you being ‘Sneaksy’, just me.” She assured Izzy as she continued. “But also, you need to keep this Street Art thing to a minimum when you do this. Since you don't have permission yet. Trust me, I’ve been there. I was lucky I didn’t get caught when I had to stop for a while after one of my friends back home found out.” She advises Izzy, saying that she needs to be careful when she does this or else she will get caught, and Hitch will not be happy since Izzy broke some laws.
Izzy looked down and thought of what Sunset said, seeing that it’s true that she doesn’t have permission yet and the fact that she did break a few laws Hitch said as she looked at Sunset. “Okay, Sunset. I’ll be careful and try not to do this so often, only when I get permission and when I feel like it.” She promised Sunset, not going to this too often and also going to have permission for this if she wants to do this again.
“Good. Now let's go home and get some sleep. It is late.” Sunset said to Izzy with a smile as the two ponies walked back to the Brighthouse.
“By the way, which friend who caught you doing Street Arts, Sunset?” Izzy asked, wanting to know who caught Sunset doing Street Art.
“Only the human world's Rarity.” Sunset answered. “She agreed to keep my identity secret and did a good job at keeping that promise.” She added how Rarity kept her Street Art thing a secret from the others.
“Oh. Okay.” Izzy said as the two ponies walked back to the Brighthouse for their much needed rest.
End of Chapter 34.