The Crystal Brighthouse doors were opened all of a sudden by Hitch and Knuckles, who clearly had panicked expressions.
"Sparky is sick!" both Hitch and Knuckles shouted in panic, while Sparky came out of Hitch's hair and erupted with a painful expression.
Suddenly, he burped his dragon fire against Sunny, Zipp and Tails, who ducked down to dodge the fire.
"Was that a... hiccup?" Sunny asked with a raised eyebrow.
"I think it was a burp?" Zipp said confused.
"Maybe even both?" Tails commented.
Sparky burped again, still in pain, while Pipp zoomed close to him with sparkling eyes and a smile. "Is a hiccup burp!" she exclaimed, before squealing in excitement. "So adorable!" she added with joy.
Sparky burped again, with Hitch holding him with worry, while Izzy zoomed close as well with sparkling eyes and a smile, just like Pipp. "Aww! Oh, I'm sure he'll be fine, Hitch!" she assured to him. "Like Elderflower says: If it's gassy, let it passy" she said, while making her own interpretation of Elderflower.
Sparky extended his hand, almost asking for help, but then, he burped against a tea pot over the table in the living room, and turned it into a watermelon.
"Okay... That's less adorable, and a lot more annoying" Sonic pointed out with a bored expression.
"He's been hiccup burping all morning!" Hitch explained, placing Sparky on the floor and ducking at his side.
"We don't know what to do, and I'm already freaking out here!" Knuckles added with panic.
"Yeah, we can see that, Knux" Tails replied with a bored expression, before he noticed from the corner of his eye his own fluffy tails moving a bit, and he suddenly felt the impulse to grab them. "We... are not..." he tried to add.
However, he soon tried to grab his tails, but they moved away. He tried again, but his tails kept moving. And so, he started to chase his own tails on his place like a dog, which made everyone but Sonic look at him confused.
"Eh, don't mind us" Sonic said with a bored expression, before feeling the sudden impulse of scratching the back of his ear with one hand at fast paste. Once he was done, he looked back the others. "Ever since we smelled those blazeberries last episode, our animals instincts are still kind of showing up" he explained.
Once Tails finally managed to grab his Tails, he blinked and realized what he just did, before blushing embarrassed and chuckling nervously, as he let go his tails and stood up normally. "Um... sorry for that..." he apologized.
However, the attention returned to Sparky again once he burped another of his dragon fires.
"Please, guys, help these dragon daddy and uncle out!" Hitch begged, while Knuckles only imitated his actions and nodded in agreement.
Sunny, Zipp, Pipp, Sonic and Tails looked down at them with concern, but then they got startled when Izzy popped out near by. "Oh, oh, oh! I know an ancient unicorn remedy that'll really help!" she assured with sparkling eyes and a smile.
"I'm sure I have a recipe somewhere..." Sunny said, rubbing her chin and thinking on where she read the recipe she's talking about.
"I could try to make a special soup someone always makes for us back home when we get sick" Tails said, scratching his neck.
Sonic, on the other hand, took out from his quills a white phone with a black symbol that seemed to be a ball and two lines crossing together. He marked a number, and then placed the phone on his ear before walking away. "Yo, Bowser! I know you probably didn't expected me to call at all, but I need help with some parenting stuff..." he said on the call.
"Oh, and there is this special Showbiz trick..." Pipp added as well with a smile.
However, Zipp smirked confidently. "Don't worry, ponies: I know exactly what to do!" she stated with a determinate look.
"Please don't say flying, please don't say flying, please don't say flying..." Knuckles begged in whispers.
"Curse my stupid mouth..." Knuckles said with a bored expression.
Outside of the Brighthouse, Zipp placed Sparky on a kangaroo bag for babies, also putting some safety googles on him and on herself.
"A few high octane stunts will shock the hiccup burp right out of ya!" Zipp assured to sparky, before looking at the sky with a determinate look, while Hitch was shacking in fear behind them.
"Friendly reminder that you can legally demand her if Sparky ends up worse, or even hurt" Knuckles muttered to Hitch.
Then, Zipp zoomed to the sky and started to fly at top speed, while doing some tricks over the clouds, and then boosting through a forest, while Hitch popped up his head from a tree with a worried expression.
Meanwhile, Sparky's mouth was moving in a funny way as Zipp kept flying faster and faster. "I bet you're feeling better already, huh?" she told him with a confident smirk.
However, Sparky burped a massive dragon fire that turned a tree into a need of spaghetti with tomato sauce.
"Whoa!" Zipp exclaimed surprised, and she tried to slow down, but instead, she loose control of her own flight. "Spaghetti straight ahead!" she shouted in panic.
And then, she crashed against the spaghetti net, that sent her backwards as she and Sparky shouted in fear. Hitch, who was now holding some binoculars, noticed that and tried to move, but Zipp and Sparky crashed against him, as they all fell into the floor.
Now, Hitch and Zipp were all covered by tree branches, with some even sticking on their manes, while Sparky came out of the branches as well, hugging his belly and at the edge of crying.
Knuckles came by and grabbed Sparky, while approaching Hitch with a frown. "Want me to prepare a legal demand?" he asked him.
"No... No, I won't demand anyone..." Hitch replied, and Knuckles shook his head in disapproval.
None of them noticed, however, that a pair of yellow eyes with red iris were looking at them from a bush, as the eyes closed a bit in a glare.
Later on, Hitch and Knuckles took Sparky with Sunny on her Smoothie Stand.
She brought four books and started to read one of them at fast paste, but found nothing, so she threw it away and then began to read the next one.
Suddenly, Sunny stopped and smiled once she found the recipe she was talking about. "Six bananas!" she instructed, while Knuckles putted six bananas over the blender. "Lots of mustard!" she informed, while Hitch squeezed a mustard jar on the blender as well, but with a worried expression. "Chocolate sprinkles!" Sunny said again, throwing chocolate sprinkles in the air, while some fell over the blender. "Toothpaste!" she finished, with Knuckles letting go the content over the blender as well.
Once all of this was in, Sunny closed the blender and blended the ingredients, making a very weird looking smoothie. Then, Hitch gave the smoothie to Sparky, who tried to reach the smoothie, but then he burped, before trying to reach the smoothie again while Hitch gave it to him.
Sparky sipped the smoothie and tasted it, before looking back at Sunny, Hitch and Knuckles. Then, he felt his belly roaring again in pain, while Knuckles curled into a ball and Hitch and Sunny hugged each other in fear.
However, Sparky's belly stopped roaring after a few seconds, and both Sunny and Hitch smiled brightly.
"It worked!/You did it!" both Sunny and Hitch said happily. "Up high! Down low! Hitch it to a post! Flip it Sunny-side––" they tried to make their iconic handshake.
However, Sparky started to feel bad again and burped his dragon fire to a cart passing by the smoothie stand, and so, he turned the cart into a giant mushroom, leaving both the mare that was riding it and the stallion pulling it confused.
Knuckles popped up his head, and looked at the mushroom with a bored expression, now standing up completely. "At least it doesn't has eyes" he pointed out.
"Why would a mushroom have eyes?" Sunny questioned confused.
'You don't wanna know" Knuckles replied, still with a bored expression.
Later on, Hitch and Knuckles returned to the Brighthouse, now to see how Izzy could help.
They placed Sparky over a chair in the living room, while Izzy placed some candles and crystals around. Both Hitch and Knuckles looked at each other confused, not really convinced that this could work.
Meanwhile, Izzy was making a weird dance ritual as she sang with a smile. "Hold your breath and count to three! Shake your tail and bend your knees! Throw some feather in the air! Spin around and give them a scare!" she finished, with a 'mean look', as she roared cutely and approached Sparky.
However, Sparky only tilted his head confused at Izzy, while Knuckles blushed and tried to stay calm because of Izzy's attitude.
Izzy, however, felt confused on Sparky's reaction at her attempt to scare him. "Hmm... That wasn't scary enough..." she pointed out, rubbing her chin and shaking her head, before smirking evilly and looking away. "Well... I guess we'll have to try something... BAD!" she shouted, now wearing a clown hair and nose while smiling and illuminating her face with a lantern.
Sparky actually felt afraid of that as he trembled, but then, he burped again and turned Izzy's clown hair into a bunch of grapes, and Sparky tried to reach for some.
Izzy moved away and grabbed some grapes with her hoof, while Knuckles zoomed by with his mouth and tongue watering, as he also grabbed some grapes and he licked his lips. "Bon appétit!" he exclaimed, throwing the grapes in the air and then eating all of them in one chomp, as he chewed the grapes with happiness, while Izzy giggled at his attitude.
Nobody noticed, however, that some critter with long white hair was watching them through the window, with their yellow eyes glaring dagger at them.
Soon enough, a snap was heard, and then, the critter disappeared in a flash.
Moving on, Hitch and Knuckles took Sparky with Pipp, sitting him on her bed.
Meanwhile, Pipp placed her microphone on the stand and then putted the microphone in front of Sparky. "Let's try some vocal exercises" she said with a relaxed smile.
Hitch was feeling very nervous about this, while Knuckles crossed his arms and raised an eyebrow.
"Just do what I do, okay?" Pipp told Sparky with a smile, winking at him and bringing out her lucky microphone. "Deep breath..." she instructed, and Sparky did so. "And... me, me, me, me, me, meeee!" she sang with a smile.
"Me, me, me, me, me, meeee!" Sparky sang back with a smile.
"Yes!" Pipp cheered to him in excitement. "Now... ma, ma, ma, ma, ma, maaaa!" she sang again on her microphone.
"Ma, ma, ma, ma, ma, maaaa!" Sparky sang as well with a smile.
"Good!" Pipp cheered at him, before they both made a few more vocal exercises, and once they were done, Pipp squealed and nuzzled her cheek with Sparky's. "Aw, so cute! Oh my glitter, we should totally colab" she stated with a smile.
However, as Pipp pulled the microphone aside, Sparky felt the urge to burp another dragon fire, which made Pipp duck down for cover, but in the process, she threw the microphone in the air, and Sparky's dragon fire turned it into a palette, that fell into Pipp's mane.
"Ew!" Pipp exclaimed with a panicked expression, before moving over to see herself in the mirror, but then she smiled and pulled out her phone to take some selfies of herself. "Actually, I can work with this" she confessed confidently.
Sparky came by and looked at the palette on Pipp's mane with sparkling eyes, but then Hitch pulled him away and Sparky complained, while Knuckles groaned in frustration and rolled his eyes, also facepalming.
Next, Tails was on the kitchen, as he was mixing some ingredients like milk, coconuts, peanuts and chili.
"Tails, what the heck are you doing?" Knuckles asked him confused.
"Remember that special soup Vanilla cooks whenever Cream, or anyone in general, gets sick?" Tails asked. "I once helped her out to cook it and learned the recipe, as well as which ingredients to use" he explained with a smile.
"Are you sure this can work?" Hitch asked in worry. "We already tried a smoothie before... it didn't worked out too well..." he confessed with concern.
"It always did wonders with everyone back home!" Tails replied with a smile, now putting the soup over a feeding bottle and extending it to Sparky, who grabbed the feeding bottle and started to drink the soup.
One sip was enough to make his eyes sparkle, as he started to sip the soup faster.
"Huh... he actually likes it!" Hitch said with a smile.
"Vanilla's recipes are amazing. In fact, thanks to her is that I can cook so well!" Knuckles replied with a smirk.
"I tell you, sheriff: Sparky should be good as new in no time after this!" Tails assured with a confident smirk.
However, once Sparky was done with the soup and sighed in relaxation, he soon felt his belly roaring, and so, he let out a massive fire ball that turned the kitchen's microwave into a pile of mint cans.
"Ah, dang it..." Knuckles said with a frown. "If Vanilla's soup can't help either, is very bad..." he pointed out with concern.
"Then what do we do now?!" Hitch asked in panic.
However, they felt startled when they heard the sound of cans falling into the ground, and they turned to see Tails chomping something with his cheeks puffing out.
"Tails, for the love of Chaos!" Knuckles exclaimed in panic. "How's that there's 3 empty cans of mints already?!" he asked with worry and concern.
"... Make it five" Tails replied, as other two cans fell to the floor after he swallowed all the mints of them.
"Tails! Isn't that a comically amount of mints?! You're exaggerating!" Hitch said with concern.
"And now make it six!" Tails replied with a frown, as another empty can fell to the floor.
"Tails! You're worrying us!" Knuckles pointed out with concern.
Now, everyone went outside of the Brighthouse with Sonic, the one both Hitch and Knuckles feared the most.
Sonic, however, had the most reasonable idea so far: he grabbed Sparky and lay the baby dragon's head over his shoulder, while he also started to gently hit his back, as sparky burped some more dragon fires.
Behind Sonic, there was a pile of junk that started to turn into food once the things were hit by Sparky's fire.
Everyone's jaws dropped after they saw Sonic doing this, specially Hitch and Knuckles' jaws, since they couldn't believe Sonic had the most effective solution so far. Sonic, of all people. Tails, however, just tilted his head very confused at Sonic's smart move, while Pipp blushed and giggled, as she covered her mouth with a hoof.
"I just hope Bowser is right and this actually helps..." Sonic muttered. "Can you believe the same guy that kidnaps Peach pretty much every week is also an excellent father? It's still feels surreal to me" he confessed.
After a while, Sparky seemed that he finally stopped burping, and so, Sonic raised him in the air with a smile.
"Feeling better, little guy?" Sonic asked him with a smirk, but then, Sparky cringed a bit before burping another dragon fire above Sonic's head, that made him duck down, and once Sparky's fire turned the pile of now junk food into a lot of chilidogs, Sonic sighed in defeat and gave Sparky back to Hitch. "Sorry, man. Seems like that didn't worked, either..." he said with concern.
While Sonic went and grabbed a bunch of chilidogs in a plate, Hitch placed down Sparky with worry.
"Ugh... nothing is working!" Zipp pointed out with concern.
Then, Sparky burped another dragon fire, that transformed a tree near the Brighthouse into a giant carrot.
"And they're getting worse!" Hitch exclaimed with panic.
None of them noticed a figure watching over them, however, as the creature groaned in frustration, before disappearing once again.
Misty was walking over Maretime Bay with a smile.
However, as she stopped over Sunny's smoothie stand, she cringed when she saw the giant mushroom that used to be a cart, but of course, Sparky transformed it with his dragon fire. Worse of all, the ponies that were using it before simply left it there, and now it had to raccoonicorns trying to take it away.
"Is that a... giant mushroom?" Misty asked confused.
Then, the ground suddenly rumbled, and Misty turned her head to see an orange juice explosion comin from the ground near the Crystal Brighthouse.
"Orange Juice?!" Misty asked concerned and confused.
Soon enough, Misty's amulet opened, and Opaline came out of it with a confused expression. "What's going on, Misty?" she asked her. "I've just felt a powerful surge of dragon magic in Maretime Bay––" she tried to explain, but then she also noticed the giant mushroom and cringed while raising an eyebrow.
"Uh..." Misty tried to say something, but then Opaline got into her face with a frown, and Misty started to sweat nervously.
"What are you waiting for?!" Opaline shouted to Misty. "Fetch me that dragon!" she instructed in anger, before disappearing again, leaving Misty a bit worried and sad.
Sparky was now burping completely out of control.
His dragon fire was turning absolutely everything into food, even the bushes were the Mane 5 sins Izzy and Team Sonic were hiding to stay covered from Sparky's fire.
Suddenly, Sparky's burps just got worse, and he started to burp even more towards the group.
However, Sonic and Knuckles joined their arms with the watches and turned on their electrical powers, which caused some kind of shield to be activated by their watches since their electrical powers combined.
Meanwhile, Tails was on the floor, checking his Miles Electric as he tried to find a solution to Sparky's hiccup burp, but so far, he got nothing.
Suddenly, one of Sparky's fire crashed agains a bush and turned it into a giant red jelly. It tilted, and it was about to crush a snail that passed by. Once the snail noticed the jelly about to fall over him, he screamed in panic, but he was soon saved by Sunny, who launched over him and protected him from the jelly, while she ended up all covered.
She popped her head out of the jelly and smiled when she saw that the snail was safe and sound, also licking her lips as she swallowed a bit of jelly on her mouth and smiled afterwards.
Sparky, on the other hand, was tearing up and rubbing his belly in pain, while both Hitch and Knuckles approached him.
"What's wrong with your tummy, buddy?" Hitch asked him with concern. "I wish you could tell me how to help you..." he confessed with worry.
"Blame the writers for making him talk sometimes, and some others just make him do gibberish sounds" Knuckles said with a frown. "Damn you, Jessica and Naomi!" he shouted to the sky with anger.
Suddenly, Sparky tried to go somewhere as he grunted, while Hitch held Sparky in place, but then he and Knuckles noticed the three layer cake in front of them as Sparky tried to go to it, which made the two friends smile.
"Finally! Something we understand!" Knuckles cheered with a smirk.
"You are telling us, aren't you?" Hitch asked Sparky with a smile. "Oh, Sparky, good boy!" he said to Sparky as he turned and faced Sunny. "Sunny, the food is the cure!" he told her with a smile.
Sunny gasped in realization after hearing that. "Of course!" she called out with a smile, before turning to the rest of their friends, who were hiding for cover while Pipp appeared out of a giant strawberry cake, Zipp was on top of a giant flower, Izzy appeared from a pile of cookies which she was eating, Sonic was digging deep in a pile of chilidogs and Tails came out of a big pumpkin. "Everybody, grab a little of everything! We're gonna make a really gross smoothie!" she said with a determined look and smile.
And so, everyone grabbed a piece of every food or treat around, while a raccoonicorn was carrying a pile of pretzels, which Izzy levitated one off the pile and trotted off with a smile, which made the raccoonicorn to yelp and drop the pile of pretzels on top of themselves, buried in the pile.
Then, the group placed the food in the blender Sunny brought out as she closed the lid and started blending all the food. Once the smoothie is ready and donde, everyone cheered that the smoothie was completed.
Unknowingly to them, Misty appeared behind some bushes and got her eyes on Sparky with a frown, while Hitch gave Sparky the gross smoothie.
Sparky, however, cheered with a smile and grabbed the smoothie, then started to gulp it down at fast paste.
Misty gave a sinister chuckle, waiting for the right moment as Sparky finished the smoothie, before his stomach began to rumble again.
"It didn't worked?!” Sunny asked in panic.
"He's gonna blow!" Zipp called out in panic.
"Everyone! Take cover!" Sonic called out, while he immediately grabbed Pipp and launched to a bush to cover.
Knuckles did the same with Izzy, and Tails and Zipp followed up as they also covered in the bush.
"Hitch!" Sunny called out, as she grabbed Hitch and dragged him behind the bushes with them to take cover.
"Sparkyyyyy"” Hitch cried out as he tried to reach Sparky, struggling to break free from Sunny's grip as they hid behind the bush.
After that, Tails came out again and activated another shield with his watch, just in case.
Misty smirked evilly at this outcome, and then, she jumped out with a grunt, about to grabbing Sparky. However, the baby dragon gave ended up farting out his dragon fire, which surprised Misty, who unfortunately got hit by it, while a stink smell came off her and her eyes swirled from the stink, feeling dazed from that.
"Aah!" Misty cried out, before falling to the floor with a thud.
Sparky fell on his back and sighed in relief, feeling much better now that he farted out, while Misty got up, feeling dazed as she started to groan and she aimlessly walked around, also smelling bad, and then made a dopey face before falling to a bush face first with a thud.
Then, the Mane 5 and Team Sonic got out of their hiding place, seeing that it was all clear, and they started cheering, including Sparky since he was feeling all better as he jumped happily.
"I'm so glad you're feeling better, bud" Hitch said in relief with a smile. "You had me scared for a moment there" he said as he nuzzled Sparky.
"And to think that you're only a baby, yet all powerful!" Knuckles said with a smile.
And then, all the big food Sparky's dragon fire made returned to normal, while the Mane 5 and Team Sonic regrouped and laughed at this outcome, glad that Sparky was feeling better.
Meanwhile, Misty was still hiding from the Mane 5 and Team, still dazed and stinky from Sparky's fart. Then, her amulet opened and Opaline appeared as she looked around. "So? Where is he? Where is my dra––?" she tried to ask, but then she was cut off when Misty's stinky smell came to her, while Opaline covered her muzzle and cringed as she looked down and saw Misty on the ground. "Misty! What happened here?! What did you eat?!" she questioned her.
"I... DO NOT... want to talk about it..." Misty replied with shame on herself.
Several hours later, Misty saw herself obligated to return to the Castle, still smelling really bad.
She was received by Eggman, who at first cringed at her smell, before pulling out a press from his pocket and put it over his nose, than making Misty enter the place, as she looked down with shame.
After that, Eggman guided Misty to his personal bathroom, that actually looked very nice compared to the rest of the Castle: the sink, bathtub, shower and walls were all white, while the the floor seemed to be a very shiny grey and the towels were black with red, all having Eggman's symbol on it.
Then, Eggman grabbed Misty and removed her amulet, before putting over her a lot of tomato sauce. After that, he used a brush and started to wash the stinky smell of her, while Misty sighed in relaxation as Eggman took care of her.
"I keep telling Opaline that she should just ditch that stupid plan of the dragon fire already" Eggman said, while he was now washing Misty's back. "That thing is powerful, yes, but is way too powerful, and it could perfectly back fire her. But noooooo! She insists that only dragon fire can make her powerful enough like if there wasn't any other magical things out there that could help" he pointed out with anger.
"She's stubborn" Misty pointed out with a sad expression, even thought she still felt relaxed from the bath Eggman was giving her, despite it being with tomato soup.
"Tell me about it..." Eggman said with annoyance. "The worst part? She sends what I cannot say if it's her daughter anymore to nonsense missions that always gets her in some kind of dangerous and nonsense trouble we could avoid if she had the guts to do all of those things for herself" he pointed out with anger. "But don't even tell he that, Misty. You could end up hurt... or worse, and I don't want to imagine what could she do to me" he told her.
"Is not that I could–- Whoa!" Misty exclaimed, as Eggman suddenly opened the shower, while all the tomato juice started to wash away from her body. "Is not like I could tell her, anyways. She's too intimidating for me, and... I honestly doubt I could form a full sentence without being interrupted or called incompetent..." she pointed out with sadness.
"Well, know this: as long as I'm around, Opaline won't put a single hoof over you" Eggman assured, using a new brush to wash her mane again, as the tomato soup ran over her body and left thanks to Eggman's cares and thanks to the water.
Then, Eggman closed the shower and pulled Misty out, before drying her up with a towel, as Misty puffed a bit, which made her look on with a bored expression, while Eggman chuckled a bit.
Once Misty fixed her mane and fur back to normal, both her and Eggman got out of the bathroom. However, Eggman still stopped her for a moment before she left.
"Since Opaline has a very critic eye over you, I wanted to give you this" Eggman said, as he took out of his pocket a small but robotic ladybug, that immediately turned on and flew over, until it landed near her ear, which made her smile with sparkling eyes. "This ladybug would watch over you when you are in trouble. It's also my way to look after you and stay in contact" he explained with a little smile. "Just try to hide it from Opaline, alright? We don't want her to take it away from you" he instructed.
Misty only smiled warmly at him, and without warning, she hugged Eggman tightly, startling the evil scientist as he blushed in embarrassment.
"Thanks... dad..." Misty said with tears of joy, still hugging Eggman.
Eggman himself blushed even more, since he perfectly heard what Misty whispered. Still, he smiled a bit and patted Misty's back with a hand, embracing the hug a bit longer, just for her.
Several days later, Sunny and Pipp came out of the Brighthouse running, while Zipp was flying in the air and Tails was standing on the ground with a board.
"If you’re done livestreaming, we’ve got a game of flyball to play!" Zipp called out to Pipp with a mocking smirk.
However, as both Sunny and Pipp moved away, the door of the Brighthouse was closed by an eagle arm, and then it started to move away.
The creature walked away, not noticing that they accidentally moved one of the vases from its original position, nor that one of their white hairs got stuck over.
The creature entered the Brighthouse's bedroom and approached the elevator. However, instead of entering it like any other person, they traversed the crystal, and then, they started to float towards the ceiling, also traversing it.
Finally, the creature reached the top of the Brighthouse and entered the Crystal Room, as they stared at the Unity Crystals with a frown.
Soon enough, they grabbed the Crystals with their other arm, that seemed to be a lion one, as they removed the Unicorn Crystal, and then the Earth Pony Crystal, before throwing them to the floor, and stared at the Pegasus Crystal on their lion hand, still frowning in rage.
The critter was finally showed, and it seemed to be a critter made out of many animal parts. His name was Discord, and he was better known as the Lord of Chaos.
Discord stared daggers at the Unity Crystal and snorted in disbelief. "You silly, little ponies... Soon, you'll thank me for getting rid of all magic in Equestria, and bring up real unity among ponykind..." he stated with a smirk, before snapping his fingers and disappearing
TO BE CONTINUED IN SONIC THE HEDGEHOG X MY LITTLE PONY: IDW COMICS