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// Chapter 45: Ponykind Parade-emonium 
// Story: MLP G5 Sunset: Tell Your Tale: Season 1 
// by JesusG0987 
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Chapter 45: Ponykind Parade-emonium

In Mane Melody, the girls are posing with some costumes on as they did a pose on the stage with smiles, looking fabulous in their costumes.

Izzy then spoke up with a smile. “Not to uh, ‘uni’ my own ‘corn’, but…” She said as she gave a smirk as she jumped off stage as she looked at herself while circling around. “These costumes are totally hoof-tasticlure!” She cheered with a wide smile and sparkles in her eyes.

“Whoa!” Sunny called out as Izzy turned to her as Sunny tried to balance herself while her hind hooves got caught in her cape strap on her back. “Uh, they’ll be great in the Ponykind Parade, Izz.” She said to Izzy as she tried to get her hind hooves free, which made her trotted forward a bit before regaining her balance, stating that they are celebrating the Ponykind Parade, which is a pony version of Mardi-Gras, and the Mane 6 are the stars since they are the ones that brought ponykind together, which explains the costumes. “Uh, they are um, a little big! Oof!” She added, saying that Izzy made their costumes, and are a little big for them as Sunny tries to shake her hind hooves free from the big cape on her, but lost her balance as she fell to the floor.

Sunset then tries to adjust her hat on her head to keep it balanced. “I have to agree with Sunny, Izzy. These costumes you made are great, but a little big to move a bit.” She commented.
 
“Yep.” Pipp said with a smile as she flew next to Izzy as she held out her phone in a selfie stick. “So everypony can see us and know how equally #PonyPerfect we all are!” She cheered with a smile with sparkles in her eyes as she and Izzy smiled at the phone.

Zipp is still on the stage as she is scratching herself from the costume. “And equally itchy…” She commented as she kept scratching, but was cut off when Pipp gave her sister a look, which made Zipp a little nervous from that as she sweat a bit and gave a nervous smile. “...ing to dance in that parade!” She corrected herself as she gave a nervous chuckle as Pipp then moved to the front of them.

Sunset sighs as she speaks. “Guess we have to work with what we got, ponies. We are the ones who brought Ponykind together, so best not ruin it for the parade.” She said, seeing that they can’t miss the parade since they’re the celebrities.

Twilight then appeared from the necklace as she spoke with a smile. “Well, I think you ponies look great. And I remember when me and my friends did something similar to be celebrities to the other ponies, but it kinda backfired on us.” She said a little embarrassed, remembering when their friendship journals made them famous and celebrities alright, it caused the ponies to go with their point of view instead of learning the lessons. “But with the parade, it’s really different and you have to show it to everypony.” She added with a smile.

Pipp smiled at Sunset and Twilight’s words as she turned to the others, while Zipp kept scratching. “Twilight and Sunset are right, girls. If Hitch can rehearse around all his peacekeeping and all his sheriff-ing, we all can” She said with a smile, knowing that if Hitch can do around ponies, then so can the others. “Right Hitch…” She said to Hitch, but she looked around and saw that Hitch wasn't with them as she gasped in shock. “Where is Hitch?!” She asked in shock that Hitch is not with them.

“Calm down, Pipp.” Sunset said with a wave of her hoof as the others looked at her. “Hitch is helping ponies setting up for the parade in town with his critters helping. He is the sheriff after all, helping ponies out is what they do.” She explained, knowing that Hitch told Sunset to tell the others that he needs to help the ponies set up the parade properly. “He would’ve told the rest of you but he came to me since he had no time to explain. Don’t worry, he said that he will be here when it’s done. And knowing him, he always keeps his promise.” She added with a smile, knowing Hitch well enough that when he keeps his promises, he always keeps them.

Pipp then took a breath as she calmed down. “That is true, knowing Hitch, he never breaks promises.” She said in a calming smile in relief.







Somewhere in Maretime Bay, is in the middle of the street, Hitch, with Sparky next to him, is helping ponies setting up the parade with the help of his trusted critters.

“McSnipsalot, snip that hedge a lot!” Hitch orders McSnips with a smile while pointing at the hedge in front of him.

Sparky then starts babbling assertively, trying to repeat what Hitch said while trying be a sheriff like him, as McSnips then snips the hedge quickly so that he made it look like Hitch’s head.

Hitch then gave a determined smile as he spoke again. “Racoonicorns, that street should be so clean, I could eat my dinner on it!” He called out,, while the racoonicorns are using brooms or tails to sweep the street’s floors.

Sparky gave another assertively babbling at them, while acting like he is the sheriff as well.

And then, some signs on both sides of the building across each other start to lose up as one end starts falling off, which made both Hitch and Sparky gasp in shock from that.

“Keeeeenneeeeeth!” Both Hitch and Sparky called out to Kenneth to catch that end of the signs as he came whooshing down with a determined look as he caught the line just in time as he then tied back on with a twirl, before he did a front flip and landed on the ground before giving a salute to Sparky and Kenneth.

“Close one. Attaboy, Kenny” Hitch said in relief while Sparky looked at Kenneth in awe as Hitch gave a salute to Kenneth, which Sparky did the same as Kenneth flew off. “It's gonna be a good day. Sparky!” He said with a smile as Sparky smiled at him.

What they didn’t know, on the roof of a building, Misty is looking down at them, spying on them as her amulet opens up as Opaline appears.

“Did you follow all my instructions, Misty?” Opaline asked while giving Misty a look.

“Sure did!” Misty answered with a smile and sparkles in her eyes. “One batch of blazeberry buns fresh from the oven!” She said while pointing to the three baked blazeberry buns in an alley across the street from where they are.

“Ah, the blazeberry.” Opaline said with a smile at this as Misty listens with a smile, knowing the properties of them. “One sniff brings out a critter's inner beast, which means chaos for them. And plenty of dragonfire for me!” She said evilly, knowing what the blazeberries can do to critters, wanting Sparky to eat them so that it can bring out an inner beast so that he will go wild and be easy to contain to get his dragon fire.

Misty then gave an evil smile as she looked down where the buns were. “And a cutie mark for me!” She said in an accented tone evilly, longed that she wanted a cutie mark for so long.

Sparky  was walking around as he then saw the blazeberry buns, which made him smile with sparkles in his eyes. “Ahhh!” He cheered as he ran towards the buns, which made Misty and Opaline smile at this, Opaline smiled evilly while Misty smiled in excitement that this will work. Sparky picked one up as he took a sniff at it, but then he cringe as the smell made him sneeze out his dragon fire as it hit the buns, which cause and explosion as it made Sparky fly around, leaving a trail of dust from his dragon fire as he flew across the street as the ponies and critters around the area watches him go.

Hitch is walking as he looks back with a smile on his face. “At least the snacks are on—” He started, but gasped in surprise when he saw Sparky coming at him fast. “Oof!” He groans on impact when Sparky hit him in the chest, luckily, Hitch caught Sparky in his hooves as he picked him up, with Sparky holding a donut, which was originally the blazeberry bun he was holding but his dragon fire turned it into a donut. “Whoa, Sparky. Hope you're not coming down with something. We've got a parade to march in.” He said to Sparky as the baby dragon rubbed his nose from the sudden sneeze he realized.

Back on the roof, Opaline growls angrily at this that another plan has failed while Misty looked at her scarfully while sweating nervously at Opaline’s rage.

Hitch then remembered something with widened eyes. “Ah! And we are so late!” He called out, remembering the parade rehearsal he has to do with the girls as he placed Sparky on his back, while the baby dragon chewed on his donut happily with a smile. “Critters, let's roll out!” He called out, but then he and Sparky turned and saw the critters glaring at Hitch and Sparky, with their eyes looking like they were on fire, as the ponies looked around nervously.

Kenneth was normal, but once he took a sniff of the dust in the air Sparky made, his eyes then went on fire as his left eye twitched a bit, apparently whatever Sparky just did with his dragon fire not only turned the blazerberry buns into donuts, but also causing it essences into dust form as it was all over the area, causing the critters to bring out their inner beasts and go wild.

Hitch smiled nervously as he sweat nervously while Sparky felt  nervous about this.“Uhhh... critters?” He asked them nervously, not liking where this is going.

One of the racoonicorns sniffs the air before it starts to growl, McSnipsalot then came in front of him, clamping his claws angrily, being under the same effects.

Sparky then starts to whimper, really scared at the critters for being like this.

Hitch then looked at Sparky, knowing that they were in trouble as he smiled nervously as he backed away a bit. “Well, Sparky, we should probably…” He didn’t get to finish as the critters then hissed at them angrily. And then a second later, Hitch now started trotting away. “...ruuuuuun!” He screamed as he and Sparky screamed in panic while the angry critters were chasing after them.

Back on the roof, Misty and Opaline see the whole thing as Misty gives a nervous look, hoping that Hitch will be alright, considering this wasn’t supposed to happen.

Opaline laughs at this outcome, which made Misty look at her. “It may not be the dragonfire I asked for, but at least it's entertaining.” She said with an amusing smile, finding this outcome entertaining and fun to watch.







Back in Mane Melody, Pipp is pacing back-in-forth nervously, since Hitch isn’t here yet.

“This dance is totally ruined without Hitch!” Pipp cried out, giving a panic expression.

Izzy smiled nervously while sweating as she levitated something in her magic with a little sweat. “Well, good news.” She said to Pipp as she brought Senor Butterscotch next to her with her magic with a sigh, with Senor Butterscotch wearing Hitch’s costume. “Say hello to Señor Butter-Hitch!” She declared, but then Senor Butterscotch's head fell off as Izzy gave it a surprise look. “Oops!” She said as she gave an embarrassed laugh. “I can fix that.” She said with an embarrassed smile while sweating a bit.

Sunset facehoof herself from this. “Izzy, we are not using Senor Butterscotch to replace Hitch. That’s just wrong.” She pointed out, while feeling weird that Izzy suggested that idea.
Zipp gave Izzy a strange look under her mask from that idea as well while Sunny looked worried about this. “It's not like Hitch to be late.” She pointed out, having known Hitch, that he was never late for something this important.

“No... It isn't…” Zipp said while placing a hoof on her chin as she is giving a thought, knowing that is true.

“Something must be happening if Hitch is late. Because when he keeps his promises, he always keeps them.” Sunset added, knowing something is wrong for Hitch to be late.

Zipp then went to the still slight panic Pipp as she gave a comforting smile and placed a hoof on her shoulder. “Don't worry. I won't let anything ruin your parade, sis.” She said as she gave a wink before trotting off.

Pipp then gasped in surprise from what Zipp just said as she turned to her sister, who was at the door. “But I thought you didn't care about this stuff.” She said in surprise, knowing her sister doesn’t like being in a crowd of ponies since it made her uncomfortable.

“If you care, I care!” Zipp said with a determined smile, saying that she may not like it but this is for her sister, and she’s not going to let it get ruined.

“Mind if I join in, Zipp?” Sunset asked with a knowing smile. “You could use some help.” She added

“Sure thing, Sunset.” Zipp answered with a smile as she and Sunset exited Mane Melody as the door closed, leaving Pipp to give a heartfelt smile with sparkles in her eyes from what her sister said.







A little bit later, ZIpp and Sunset flew to where the parade should be, only to see some dust and the decorations a mess as some was on the floor. 

“Huh. Where is everypony?” Zipp asked curiously.

“I don’t know. But this place is trash.” Sunset said, seeing the parade decorations a mess. “Whatever happened here really caused a mess.” She added as she and Zipp looked around.

“They surely made a mess. And what is all this orange stuff?” Zipp asked again, not sure what this orange stuff is.

“You're asking the wrong pony. I don’t know either.” Sunset said, and then she saw something in front of them, which is a blazeberry as she picked it up with her magic. “What is this? I have never seen this berry before.” She said, not sure what kind of berry it is.

“Let me see that.” Zipp said as Sunset gave the blazeberry to Zipp on her hoof as she took a closer look at it and then brought out her Z-Goggles to get some information out of it as it scanned the blazeberry as some details are shown in the goggles. “Blazeberry?” She asked herself in surprise as she is familiar with this kind of berry before she took off her Z-Goggles in a worried expression. “Oh, no!” She cried out, knowing what the blazeberries can do.

“Wait, what’s a blazeberry? What does it do?” Sunset questioned, wanting to know what Zipp is talking about.

“Blazeberries are a kind of berries that it can make critters bring out their inner beasts, kinda like wild animals that are a little tough to tame! And this orange dust is full of its essences!” Zipp summarizes quickly while looking worried about this outcome.

Sunset widens her eyes from that. “Wait? You mean to tell me that if what this berry does is true, then we got critters who have gone wild thanks to these berries and this orange dust that contains its essences!?” She asked in a worried tone, now knowing what Zipp means.

“Yep! That’s about right!” Zipp called out as she and Sunset looked around, before McSnipsalot came rushing by them, which made both Zipp and Sunset trotted off and followed him.

Sunset and Zipp followed McSnipsalot all the way to the abandoned Canterlogic building as McSnipsalot went through a broken window as Sunset and Zipp looked through one of its holes as they gasped in shock at what they were seeing.

What they saw is Hitch and Sparky surrounded by wild angry critters. “I just wanted to make Ponykind Parade special for our friends, but nothing has gone to plan!” He said in fear to his critter, who kept hissing at him and Sparky as Hitch backed away nervously while his hooves shook in fear.

“Hitch and Sparky are in trouble!” Sunset said as she and Zipp looked at each other in serious expressions. “Zipp, you need to get the others so we can help Hitch and Sparky out of this situation! I’ll help Hitch and Sparky until you girls arrive!” She added, going to help Hitch and Sparky so that it will give Zipp enough time to get the girls to help out.

Zipp nodded her head in determination as she flew off to get the rest of their friends.

Sunset then came through the window as she stand in front of Hitch in a defense stance as she lit up her horn for protection,

“Sunset!” Hitch said in surprise and relief that Sunset is here as Sparky babbles in relief as well.

“Hitch, Sparky, stay behind me!” Sunset called out with a determined expression as Hitch nodded in confirmation, staying behind Sunset.

And then Kenneth came chirping to Sparky as he tried to grab his donut, while Sparky babbled in protest as he kept hold of his donut as Kenneth lost a grip and flew back.

Hitch then realizes something as he grabbed Sparky’s donut and showed it to the feral critters.“Oh, you want this? Sure! Go fetch!” He said as he tosses the donut to other side, which made the critters growl at it as a racoonicorn caught it and then all the critters are eating it. Once they are finished, they turn and growl at Sunset, Hitch and Sparky, who are looking nervous at them from that. “And now we know they're hungry. Great!” He said nervously as he gulped nervously.

“Yeah, but I think we are on to the next course!” Sunset called out as some critters tried to jump on her, but she used her magic to blast them back, keeping them at bay. “And no way I can handle this many without hurting them!” She added as she sends another blast, not wanting to hurt the critters badly since they are not in control of themselves.

“What caused them to behave like this anyway?!” Hitch asked in fright since he doesn’t know why they are like this.

“Blazeberry! Zipp told me about it. Its essence is in the orange dust around us, and it’s causing the critters to go feral!” Sunset explained quickly as she and Hitch backed up a bit as the feral critters closed in on them with growls as Sunset prepared another magic from her horn.

But then, they heard clanging sounds as they tuned and saw the Canterlogic’s doors opened and saw the rest of their friends as well, each holding mane dryers.

“Looks like you critters need to blow off some steam!” Zipp announced with a determined smile.

“Chaaaaarge!” Pipp announced as she and Zipp took to the air while Sunny and Izzy hopped down from the railings.

“Girls!” Sunset said with a smile as Hitch smiled as well while Sparky cheered at their friends being here.

“Yay!” Hitch cheered as well.

“Sunset! Catch!” Sunny called out while holding out a spare mane dryer as she tossed it to Sunset, who caught it with her magic. “Use the mane dryer to blow away the dust! Once it’s gone, the critters will return to normal!” She explained the reason they brought mane dryers.

“Right!” Sunset said with a determined smile as she turned on the mane dryer and started blowing away the critters and the dust. “Ahaha! You critters should have a blow out!” She joked as she kept blowing the mane dryer around.

Zipp screamed and grunting as she blew off the flying critters and the dust in the air.

Sunny screamed and grunted as well as she blows off the dust and ducks when a racoonicorn tries to tackle her head but missed as she gave a smirk, but then fell to the floor as she lost her balance due to her costume.

“Get gone, critters!” Pipp yelled out as she landed on the ground and blew off some dust and blew off some critters as she chased after them. “And this! In the face!” She said while giving an angry serious expression.

Izzy is grunting in effort as she blows away some dust and critters, and then smiles as she has an idea as she sets her mane dryer on full blast as she points to the critters. “Yah!” She declared as she blew away a lot of dust and the critters flew back from the big wind as Hitch arc back a bit as Sparky held on to Hitch so he wouldn't blow away.

Kenneth and McSnipsalot shook their heads as they opened their eyes, which showed to have returned to normal as the dust clears up as Kenneth chirps happily while McSnips smiles.

“It's working!” Hitch cheered as he and Sparky smiled at this.

“Keep blowing, ponies!” Sunset called out as she kept blowing her mane dryer.

On the ceiling, Misty is on the roof as she looked through one of the holes as she watched the Mane 6 blowing away the dust and turning the critters to normal.

And then some of the dust came right up to Misty’s face as she began to cough as some of the dust made it out of the hole as Misty stood up to fan off the dust. And then a racoonicorn appeared next to her, which have fires on its eyes and starts growling with the dust all over the room, which caused Misty to grew nervous at this while Opaline watches as the feral racoonicorn looked at Misty with growls.

“Opaline! What do I do?!” Misty asked in fright with a little sweat as she don’t know how to handle a feral critter.

Opaline raised an eyebrow at Misty’s question. “Why are you asking me? This is your mess.” She said with rolled eyes as she disappeared as the amulet closed.

Misty grew really nervous as she kept sweating. “Uh…” She said in a scared tone as she tap on the amulet to bring Opaline back as she looked and saw the feral racoonicorn coming closer to her. “Opaline?” She said nervously as she backs away in fright, but Opaline didn’t responds or appear as the racoonicorn then starts screeching at Misty, who then starts screaming as she trotted away from the racoonicorn, who is following her as she made her way to the door.







Back in the building, Zipp twirled her mane dryer as she blew at the top as the Mane 6 looked at the critters on the ground, now back to normal as the blazeberry dust is now gone.

“Phew!” Sunny said in relief, glad that’s over and that Hitch and Sparky are okay.

“You said it, Sunny. I’m glad that’s over as well.” Sunset said in agreement with Sunny. “And that was some dust, don’t know where that came from or the blazeberry that causes this mess, but at least it's now over and the critters are not feral anymore.” She added as she petted a bunnycorn, who purrs at the touch.

“Yeah. Glad that’s over.” Sunny said with a smile. “At least we can get back to the parade like nothing happ—” She started as they all walked out of the Canterlogic building to get back to the parade.







But once they got to where the parade should be, Sunny and the others, along with the critters, cringe at the sight as they saw the parade and decorations a mess and abandon from the feral critters attack as the tumbleweed came by.

Izzy looked surprised at this as she was the first to speak. “Um, I was expecting decorations, but trash is good, too!” She said in an optimistic tone to keep positive as she held up a fish can that was giving a terrible smell as she took a sniff at it. “Mmm!” She said with a forced smile before she started to gag from that as she dropped the can.

“The parade got trashed when the critters went feral. And made a big mess for such small critters to do.” Sunset explained, while commenting in surprise that the critters can make this big mess in just a short amount of time.

Pipp starts sobbing at the ruined parade with teary eyes. “It's all ruined!” She sobbed as she placed her hooves on her face, really sad that the parade was ruined.

Sunset, Sparky, Hitch and Zipp looked at each other with each of them knowing smiles as Zipp spoke. “It wouldn't be so sure.” She said with a smirk.

“Just say the word, Hitch!” Sunset called out encouragingly with a smile.

“Critters, roll out!” Hitch announced with a smile, which caused the critter to salute to him as they began to fix up the parade.

The pegasnails lifted the signs back up, the racoonicorns are picking up the trash as one of them sweep the dust into the trash bin as the other two picked it up and closed the bin, and McSnipslot then aline the streamers on the roofs as he tied them up.

And then in just a short amount of time, the ponies then started to come out and smiled as they saw the decorations are back up as the critters gave salutes at their work.

And then a little bit later, the critters are helping Hitch put on his costume as he and his friends pose together at the crowd of ponies in front of them. And then carnival music starts playing as the ponies start cheering to the Mane 6 as Hitch steps in first as he twirls around and starts showing off his dance moves.

The rest of the Mane 6 follow along as they dance together in the center of the crowd as the ponies watch them go as they enjoy the Ponykind Parade together.

Sunset however, as she dances, has a thought in her mind that’s been bugging her. ‘Where did those blazeberries come from? They aren’t even around Maretime Bay from what Zipp told me if they made the critters go feral. Who would bring blazeberries just to make critters go wild? It’s like somepony is trying to mess with us somehow, but why?’ She thought to herself, wanting to know who could have done this and why. ‘This is getting more serious. I hope we figure out why before somepony does something else.’ She added, going to find out who could’ve done this, it’s going to take some time, but whatever or whoever it is messing with them, they are gonna to find out and be prepared for anything.

End of Chapter 45.