Ever since, the two love birds couldn't be apart from each other. They were so lost in each other to the point they even considered to sleep together... Idea that they immediately scrapped because of reasons... and those reasons are Zipp's glares and the fact that their relationship was still pretty new.

This last fact had Pipp flying all over Mane Melody from one side to the other one, once again in a panicked state, which called Jazz and Rocky's attention, even though they had bored expressions.

"She said something about preparing a big thing for an announcement..." Sonic replied instead of Pipp.

The blue hedgehog was sitting over one of the chairs of the salon, as he adjusted some strings on an electric guitar. He's been around the salon too much lately, but Jazz and Rocky didn't mind it. After all, they were part of the few ponies that already knew about Sonic and Pipp being together as a couple.

"Oh, so this is a 'I need to get everything done ASAPP' kind of panic attack?" Rocky asked, returning his gaze to the flying pegasus, now with an amused expression.

"But what can it be... WHAT CAN IT BE?!" Pipp screamed dramatically, while slowly descending and landing on Sonic's head.

Sonic looked up at her a bit annoyed, before rolling his eyes with a smile and put his guitar aside, as he picked up his girlfriend in bridal style. "Pipp, honey, I get that this is important to you, but we cannot help if we do not understand what you're planning, you get me?" he pointed out to her with a smirk.

Pipp's concerned expression shifted to a surprised one as she covered her mouth with her hooves and her eyes widened. "Oh. My. Glitter... You're right! I forgot to give the context again!" she realized, before groaning annoyed and then burry her face on Sonic's chest.

Sonic simply snorted, but he still nuzzled his head over hers. "There, there... It's not a big deal, Little Pipp" he told her with a smile, before kissing her forehead. "Everyone forgets things from time to time, you know?" he pointed out.

"That still doesn't help the fact that I still panic without explaining why I panic!" Pipp pointed out dramatically, once again groaning.

Still, she shook her head and stood up from his boyfriend's arms, as she took a few deep breaths and looked back at Sonic, Jazz and Rocky with a smile.

"Well. Now that Blue Star and I are finally together, I've been thinking on how to tell it to all of Equestria the news... But I got nothing so far!" Pipp explained with concern.

"... Ooooh!" Sonic, Jazz and Rocky all said together, now understanding the situation.

"You should have started from there the moment you came inside the salon, you know!" Rocky pointed out with a smirk.

"Wait, you wanna make a big deal out of our thing?" Sonic asked confused. "Not that I mind, you could publish it on a boring blog or something, and I wouldn't complain. Yet, why do you want to make something big?" he questioned.

However, this made Jazz, Rocky and Pipp all gasp in horror at that question, which made Sonic look at them with an even more confused expression.

"... Okay, be frank: What did I said wrong?" Sonic asked with a bored expression, also crossing his arms.

"Nothing, nothing!" Pipp said with a nervous chuckle. "Um, I think I should've explained myself even better... Look, sweaty. We, royal pegasi, have a tradition that's been passed down the line in our family ever since Zephyr Heights was founded many, many moons ago" she started to explain. "We gotta make our relationships a big deal, no matter how recent or ancient it is" she added.

"So... That means... That we're gonna have to reveal that we're together... On a stage?" Sonic asked confused.

"It's just one of the many ways we can reveal it!" Rocky said with a smile. "Many royals have revealed their status with a dance, an improved video-slash-movie-slash-play, or even during a very important meeting or announcement just to make more hype!" he explained.

"And this things can be presented anytime, as long as the royal in question makes their relationship status public" Jazz finished.

"Okay... Okay... So, you're saying that we need to plan something big and attractive to reveal we're together" Sonic summarized, while rubbing his chin and raising an eyebrow.

"Well, I would say you have weird traditions, but Izzy's yarn balls tradition already won that spot..." Sonic replied a bit confused, before smirking at his girlfriend. "So, what are gonna do, honey?" he asked her.

At this, Pipp squealed and launched herself to hug Sonic tightly, while the hedgehog chuckled and hugged her back.

"I'm telling you, Blue Star! This is gonna be the biggest revelation in history!" Pipp stated confidently.

"Even better than your 23rd birthday?" Sonic asked her with a flirting tone, while wrapping his arms on Pipp's back.

"Oh, you bet~" Pipp replied with a seductive look, before locking lips with the blue hedgehog.

"Aww!" both Jazz and Ricky said with smiles at the scene, and they were excited to help in what they could to make this announcement what Pipp expected it to be.

In Opaline's Castle, there was a wall of fire right in front of Opaline herself.

"Sparks of fire! Explosions of annihilation!" Opaline declared, traversing the fire and then starting to laugh like a maniac.

However, she couldn't go so far on that last aspect, because she started to cough uncontrollably, also rubbing her neck with a hoof, while Misty, who was also there in the Throne Room, cringed at her action, while Eggman facepalmed and rubbed his face in annoyance.

"We're finally steps away from our plan of total pony takedown!" Opaline stated with a huge grin.

"But, we just need one more thing..." Eggman stated too, as he approached Misty with a frown, which already made Misty nervous, since Eggman never frowned at her before. "Can you explain me, Misty... what is this?" he asked calmly.

After doing so, he rolled out a paper, that was actually a big picture of Misty with the Mane 5, Sparky and Team Sonic in the Crystal Brighthouse's living room. Also, Sunny, Zipp and Pipp's Cutie Marks were shining bright.

Seeing this picture made Misty panic, since she actually got it from Tails a while ago. He gave a copy to her not so long after taking it, and she didn't had the heart to burn said picture or rip it apart so neither Opaline nor Eggman would found about it. Instead, she hid it under her bed... But Eggman still found the picture, and that was no good.

"W-Where'd you get..." Misty tried to ask, before gulping and look around nervously. "I, uh... I can explain!" she assured.

"It's good Ivo found your photo, because it brought my attention to something big: Their Cutie Marks" Opaline stated, while pointing at Sunny, Zipp and Pipp's glowing Cutie Marks on the picture. "That is the evolved magic that's powering their silly Prisbeam. That's our ticket into taking over!" she stated confidently.

"If we can steal their Cutie Marks, then we're not just powerful..." Eggman started, as he slapped the picture in Misty's face, before facing away and look at the ceiling with a sinister smile. "We're all powerful!" he stated confidently.

Then, both Eggman and Opaline started to laugh maniacally, while Misty retired the picture from her face and looked at it with concern, because her conflicted thoughts were, once again, getting even worse now.

However, she had to stop staring at the picture because Opaline started to cough uncontrollably, which made Eggman stop laughing and look at her with boredom, while Misty cringed again, also putting the picture away.

"You seriously should take a pill with water, or get a chamomile tea, at least..." Eggman said with a frown. "If you're gonna be a Queen, at least have a healthy throat, you know?" he pointed out.

"Right..." Opaline said with an eye roll, before looking back at Misty. "Anyway, I think I'm getting ahead of myself. First, I need to find a way to boost my power. Then, I'll cast a transformation spell to capture those Cutie Marks! Then..." she tried to say, but then started to cough again. "I'll follow Ivo's advice for once and book a throat detox" she confessed.

"Hallelujah! She's finally listening to me!" Eggman cheered with a grin, while Opaline rolled her eyes.

"And after that, well, as they say, Misty, 'the rest is history'!" Opaline stated with a smirk, turning around and preparing to leave the room.

"But do we have to steal their Cutie Marks? They're actually kind of nice ponies..." Misty said with a sheepish smile.

At this, Eggman's eyes opened wide, and one even twitched a bit, while his mustache got a bit messed up after hearing Misty saying that...

As for Opaline, she frowned with wide eyes, while her horn lightened up with fire. "Nice ponies?!" she yelled in rage, before looking at Misty again with anger. "Don't tell me you really were having fun with those ponies?" she said, while glaring daggers at the unicorn mare.

"No! Not at all! I'm just still as bad as I've always been!" Misty assured, while trying to put on a sinister face...

"When we were together, they complimented me on my mane and I did not compliment them back! Ha!" Misty added proudly.

Eggman turned around and facepalmed, clearly seeing that Misty was starting to feel compassion and appreciation towards his enemies... And if things kept going the way they were right now, he'll lost what he has the closest as a daughter, even if he's never going to accept that statement out loud.

"Well, good" Opaline spoke. "Because now that we have the dragon fire, there's no going back" she stated.

Today must be Misty's bad luck day, because she didn't had dragon fire, nor Sparky, with her.

She tried to catch him a few days ago, but when she arrived to the Brighthouse in order to 'spent time' with the others while hiding her real intentions, the place was empty.

There was nopony home, so she went to the town to ask about them, and she heard from Dahlia that they were all in Zephyr Heights for something important.

Long story short: The previous episode pretty much sent Misty's mission through the window, and now her she is, with no dragon fire for Opaline.

"Oh, ah..." Misty spoke nervously. "Well, that's the other thing I wanted to tell you, um... I kind of, um, maybe didn't get it, again..." she confessed with a saddened expression.

At this, Eggman groaned out loud and facepalmed again. "Misty, sometimes I swear that you're getting yourself into suicide missions instead of simple tasks..." he said with concern and a frown.

Opaline, however, frowned, yeah... But she did not yelled at Misty. In fact, she seemed disappointed, but not that much, and both Eggman and Misty noticed that.

"Wow, Opaline. You're taking this surprisingly well..." Misty pointed out with a smile.

"Kid, you just signed your death sentence..." Eggman said with a bored expression.

"TAKING IT WELL?!" Opaline screamed in rage. "I WAS BUILDING UP MY BREATH TO TELL AT YOU! You..." she tried to keep going, but then started to cough again, grabbing her neck with a hoof. "See what you've done to me, Misty? Ugh! This is a failure worthy of my worst punishment yet!" she stated with anger.

"And not only do I not have the dragon fire, but I wasted all my magic showing off my cool plan?! Ugh!" Opaline groaned with anger.

"You could always, you know... Wait for your fucking powers to to replenish or something?" Eggman pointed out with a bored expression, also crossing his arms.

"Yeah, I could do that..." Opaline admitted, before turning to see Misty with rage once more. "Need a little 'refresher' on why this is so important, huh?" she said with a frown.

Then, the Alicorn turned to face her boiler, with both Eggman and Misty joining her at her sides. Then, Opaline used her magic to make the boiler work and show a flashback of her childhood...

"When I was growing up in Skyros, they were the 'golden ponies'. The favorites" Opaline narrated, while her boiler showed an image of Princesses Celestia and Luna when they were fillies, clapping their hooves together with smiles. "Everypony loved them, but I saw right through their act..." Opaline added with anger.

As the two sisters nuzzled their cheeks together, they felt surprised when they sensed another presence, so they separated and looked behind them, just to find Opaline when she was a filly, waving her hoof at them with a nervous smile.

"They thought they were so great 'cause they had the whole 'sun and moon' thing going... Please!" Opaline kept narrating with anger

As she said this, the image showed Celestia and Luna looking away from Opaline with air of superiority, which left the younger Opaline shocked and heart broken.

"I had something much better. I was an Alicorn of fire, of power, of strength!" Opaline narrated with pride, while her younger self frowned as Celestia and Luna walked away, before opening her wings and light her horn to create a fire circle in the air. "And because of that, I had to prove I was not to be underestimated. They'd learn I was not only the wrong pony to push around, but I would be so much more!" she stated with confidence.

Finally, the boiler showed Celestia and Luna laughing as they walked away, while Opaline was left behind with a sad expression. However, said expression shifted to one of anger, and her horn lightened up with fire once more to make a massive wall of fire appear.

Once said wall dissipated, the present Opaline appeared with a frown. "I would live up to my elemental duty!" she stated with anger and open wings.

"Huh..." Eggman said suddenly, calling both Opaline's and Misty's attention. "So you're doing this because you must prove yourself to those who doubted you... We have more in common than I ever imagined..." he confessed.

After that, he cringed for a second, before rip a string of hair from his mustache, which made him groan a bit in pain, while Misty and Opaline cringed at what he did.

Then, Eggman frowned again, before letting go of the string of hair, as it slowly descended, until it fell in the boiler, switching the image once more, but this time, to show Eggman's flashback.

"Ever since I was a kid, I had an immense attraction to inventions and robotics..." Eggman narrated, while several images of Eggman were shown as he grew from a 5 year old to a 10 year old. "My mind was a lot more developed than anyone around me. My grades? Impeccable. My score? Perfect! My mind? I graduated from High School at 8!" he stated with pride.

However, even if the younger Eggman seemed happy, he suddenly frowned, as new figures appeared in the memory: A bunch of people behind the doctor, and a blonde girl with a blue, long dress.

"Yet, despite my blesses, my family had eyes for someone else... My cousin, Maria Robotnik..." Eggman spitted with rage.

The memory showed Maria as she talked happily with the rest of the members of the family, while the younger Eggman couldn't care less, as he worked in what seemed to be his first prototype of a Moto Bug ever.

"When Maria died, the entire family mourned her loss... Everyone but me, that is" Eggman kept telling. "They all felt so lost for her death when I was. Right. THERE!" he shouted with anger. "Worse of all, even before she died, nobody ever payed attention to my inventions... They all said I was a fool... An outcast... A mistake..." he added while grinding his teeth.

The memory showed Eggman growing up even more, until he reached at least his mid-30's, when he finally became a scientist and finally had the chance to create his machines in a much bigger scale.

"But I was going to show them... I was going to show them all that I'm not a man they should've ever mess with!" Eggman stated with rage. "Once I had grown enough, I could finally prove myself... Show them all what Ivo Robotnik is made of!" he finished narrating, now frowning on his present. "And when we finally get those Crystals from those stupid ponies... Nobody, and nopony, will underestimate us ever again!" he declared with a sinister grin.

"It seems like our paths were destined to encounter, Ivo... So we could both show everyone who we truly are!" Opaline stated with glee, while Eggman nodded in agreement.

"And you two will!" Misty declared with a smile. "I'm sorry I failed you, Opaline... I promise I won't ever do that again!" she assured.

Both Opaline and Eggman looked at each other, before nodding and look back at Misty with sinister grins.

"Oh, we know..." Opaline started. "Because you won't have a chance to" she stated, while both she and Eggman stood in front of Misty, who got scared at them.

"I really do not want to say this, Misty... But I think Opaline should use her last bit of magic to make sure you really think about your failure... And also as a reminder of your position" Eggman stated with a frown.

"Consider yourself..." Eggman kept going, raising his right hand and putting his middle finger and thumb together.

"GROUNDED!" both villains said with frowns, while Opaline's magic did it's work.

Then, Misty's hooves got surrounded by a purple aura, and the unicorn mare suddenly got dragged from the Throne Room and through a hallway, as Misty screamed in fear.

Then, at the end of said hallway, was located her room, where she finally stopped being dragged, and Misty sighed in relief, even though she was panting because of the adrenaline of the moment.

Meanwhile, Opaline sighed relieved that Misty wouldn't be a problem, at least not now.

"Ugh. How lovely. I've been dying to get out of the lair!" Opaline said with a huge smirk, as she started to walk towards the exit.

"About time!" Eggman cheered. "I can finally be the one that stays in the Castle for once!" he added with a chuckle, walking towards his lab.

In Maretime Bay, The Mane 5 and Team Sonic were having the big opening for Canterlove Studios.

The reason why they're doing this big opening now is because they needed to adjust some final details, and Sonic helped this time around.

Now that things are said and donde, the big opening is here, with Hitch at the podium holding the big scissors again, making another speech... This is gonna be good.

"Thanks, everypony!" Hitch greeted with a smile, while Knuckles stood at his side with his arms crossed since, well, he's the deputy and all of that. "Big day in Maretime Bay. A day we'll remember forever. A day where we all come together, a day where we all say––" he tried to add.

"The same thing we said the last time we had a grand opening..." Zipp pointed out with a mocking smirk.

"Thank Chaos there's not critters around this time" Sonic commented, and both Pipp and Tails giggled at that statement.

"Sheriff, wrap this up before some magical or critter incident happens out of nowhere, for Chaos' sake..." Knuckles told Hitch with a frown.

At this, Hitch turned back to the crowd and started to talk at fast paste. "And for first time in this building's history, this will be a place for everypony! Welcome to Canterlove Studios!" he said quickly with a smile, before sighing. "Okay, I'm done... Woo!" he said, before turning around to see the red ribbon in the building's entrance.

Then, Hitch cut the ribbon with the big scissors, declaring Canterlove Studios officially open.

The ponies that assisted cheered, but unlike with the Community Garden, they turned around this time and then ran away.

"Wait, where are they going?" Hitch questioned confused, while Knuckles facepalmed and shook his head with frustration. "I just said this is for everypony!" he pointed out.

"Maybe there was something confusing about your messaging?" Zipp suggested too with a mocking smirk.

"Maybe you should have made a different speech instead of reusing the Community Garden one?" Knuckles said with a bored expression.

"Maybe they came by just to be polite?" Sonic commented with a neutral expression.

"Oh, oh! Maybe they realized they left their ovens on at home!" Izzy said happily as she hopped up and down.

"You're right, too far-fetched. It was probably their microwave ovens!" Izzy said, still with a smile.

"Izzy, you're too pure for this world... Let's keep it that way" Knuckles told his girlfriend with a smirk.

"Or maybe, they just need and example on how to use the studio first" Sunny pointed out with a smile. "Oh! We should get a show up and running to show the possibilities!" she suggested with excitement.

At this, Pipp also squealed excited, clapping her hooves together. "That's a great idea, Sunny! I see my two stars now!" she added, as she looked over at two of her friends.

Since Izzy approached her, Zipp thought that her sister meant she and Izzy, which made her panic. However, she felt relieved when Pipp looked at Sunny and Hitch instead.

"You and Hitch will be the co-hosts of a smoothie-making cooking show!" Pipp stated excited.

At this, Tails' eyes widened, and he slowly looked at Sunny and Hitch, before placing his fingers together to make the shape of a frame and stare at the two earth ponies. His mind started to work up a thousand of ideas on how to make this work, and his excitement for this show was raising, to the point he seemed to be more excited with this idea than Pipp.

"What? Uh, no thanks, Pipp" Sunny replied nervously. "I-I didn't mean me" she added.

"Thank you" Sunny said, smiling normally again. "I was hoping we could brainstorm it up––" she tried to add.

"I'VE GOT SOMETHING!" Tails exclaimed suddenly with excitement, as he stood over the podium and startled the rest sins Sonic. "How about we call this show... 'Sunny Side Up'! Featuring Hitch!" he stated, while saying the last part by flying upside down and pointing his left finger at the earth pony stallion. "Just two lifelong besties that-clearly-like-each-other sharing their recipes for yummy food!" he shouted excited.

"And friendship!" Hitch said with a frown, while Sunny blushed because of what Tails said about clearly liking each other.

"Yeah, yeah, sure, whatever you said, Hitch" Tails said with a mocking smirk, while patting the stallion's head. "What do you say, Pipp?" he asked her with a smile.

At this, Pipp squealed excited again. "I am loving this concept, Tails!" she stated with a smile.

"Oh, oh, oh! I think we could bring over a bunch of random challenges for them to complete!" Tails started to yell suddenly. "Oh, and maybe even bring over ingredients no sane being will ever put on a smoothie!" he said, flying around happily, before landing at Sonic's side. "Oh, I have so many ideas... I need to write them all!" he stated, shacking Sonic violently.

And then, he boosted inside the building at top speed, leaving his friends behind, as they all stared at the entrance of Canterlove Studios with wide eyes.

"I think someone's excited!" Zipp said with a chuckle. "He seemed more happy with this idea than you, sis!" she pointed out to her with a smile.

"I know! He literally just zoomed into the building with no warning nor hesitation! I like how dedicated he seems to be!" Pipp said with a smile.

"He did went too fast inside, though..." Sunny pointed out with a nervous smile.

"Well, he learned from the best!" Sonic said with a proud smile, while also fixing his quills after the shake Tails gave to him.

"Well, as much as I would like to see how this develops, I'm afraid Little Pipp and I must go" Sonic said. "We need to prepare for that big thing, remember?" he pointed out to her.

"Wait, what?!" Pipp said with wide eyes. "But I... But I thought that..." she tried to say, as she looked back and forth between Canterlove Studios' entrance and her boyfriend.

"Wait, you're preparing the Big Relationship Announcement?" Zipp asked, while Pipp gulped and nodded with a sheepish smile. "Then why are you two here?! Go on and prepare that thing! We'll handle the show, and seeing how excited Tails seemed to be, I think everything will be fine!" she assured with a smile.

"But we'll be too busy to even watch a stream on how the show is going!" Pipp complained.

"Hey, I'll sent you constant updates on how things are going so you don't miss any details, promise!" Zipp told her with a smile.

"Hoof to heart" Zipp assured, touching her hoof with Pipp as both sisters then placed it over their chests.

"Okay... Then I'll leave that to you" Pipp said, now smiling normally. "Come on, Blue Star! We got job to do!" she stated, as she flew around Sonic before landing on his arms in bridal style.

"Go meirei-dōri, okusama~" Sonic replied with a smirk, saying 'At you command, ma'am~' in Japanese, before boosting towards Mane Melody with her girlfriend on his arms.

As they did that, Knuckles looked over to Zipp with a confused expression. "Hang on... What is a Big Relationship Announcement?" he asked her.

An hour later, inside Canterlove Studios, the rest were preparing everything for the show.

As Zipp pushed some cameras towards the stage, Izzy and Knuckles helped Sunny and Hitch respectively to be ready for the show, while Tails walked around them with a clipboard.

"Extremely!" Hitch replied with an anxious look, while Knuckles finished perfuming him and walked away.

"Not really" Sunny replied with a smile, as Izzy also finished and walked away along her boyfriend.

"There's no reason to be!" Tails said with a smile. "As the S.B.S.A. co-founder with Izzy––" he started to say.

"StarBlazer Shipping Association" Knuckles came by and translated the acronym before walking away again.

"It is my job to make sure you two are prepared for the show!" Tails continued with a smile, as he started to walk to the stage, while Sunny and Hitch got up from their seats and followed behind. "I'll teach you everything you need to know: How to smile, how to stand, how to sit and 'smize' when you can't stand or smile..." he explained while reading everything he wrote down on his clipboard.

"Two questions: One, what does StarBlazer means? Two, what is 'smize'?" Hitch asked confused.

"I refuse to answer the first one, even though I would love to see you two flustered with the answer..." Tails replied with a mischievous grin, while Hitch and Sunny looked at each other confused. "As for your second question, 'smize' is smiling with your eyes!" he explained, while his eyes opened wide and sparkled. "Come on, try it!" he told him with a smile.

Hitch did tried to do something similar, but all he did was to make some really weird noises and then show his teeth, which made Tails flinch and cringe.

"Oh... Or maybe, just try to work on standing still so you don't look that nervous..." Tails said with a nervous smile and chuckle.

Sunny giggled after hearing that. "Me? Nervous? I'm a smoothie-maker master! This is easy-peasy lemon-squeezy!" she stated confidently with a smile, as she stood behind the counter were she and Hitch would be doing the show.

However, Hitch placed his hoof over a bowl with lemons and accidentally push it, which made one of the lemons fly in the air and then land on Tails' head, as the fox looked on with a bored expression.

"Sorry, Tails!" Hitch apologized. "Maybe that's a sign Sunny should just host the show by herself?" he suggested, while his ears lowered and he tapped the counter nervously. "I mean, remember how bad it was when I ran the smoothie cart?" he pointed out with concern.

"Hitch, I'm gonna be frank with you..." Tails started, while laying on the counter. "Saying that it went bad is the best compliment you have ever give to that disastrous day..." he said with a bored expression, removing the lemon from his head.

"I know! And that was without anypony watching on TV!" Hitch pointed out with worry.

"Oh, pshh. You'll be great, Hitch!" Sunny assured to him with a smile. "Just pretend you're giving a Sheriff speech and follow my lead" she instructed him.

However, that only made Hitch look on with a panicked expression and a twitchy eye, as he looked at the rest of his friends getting everything ready.

Zipp had the camera, Knuckles had the lights, Tails controlled everything else from a laptop, and Izzy was eating donuts since she was going to watch and nothing else.

Hitch chuckled awkwardly and rested a hoof over the counter, but then, he slipped and crashed with the bowl of lemons, as both him and the lemons fell to the ground with clattering sounds, while Sunny looked at him with concern, before looking on with a nervous and confused expression.

However, they still seemed to feel shocked by their recent discovery about the Emeralds being from Equestria's universe, and not from theirs.

Just like Rouge said, the idea was not that crazy considering all the stuff they've seen through the years, but that didn't changed the fact that it was quite a shocking revelation.

This time around, Shadow was leading the group, with Rouge following by flight, while Amy sat on Omega's shoulder and read a few passages more from the book they took from that hidden library.

"Huh, this is actually an interesting one..." Amy said as she read the book. "According to this passage, the tribe of the Owl's had a seer that got a vision about an alien civilization running away from a very powerful enemy, and that said enemy will be defeated by a powerful being surrounded with the golden power of 7 powerful jewels..." she informed.

"A powerful being with 7 jewels? That's... oddly specific..." Shadow pointed out.

"And kind of poetic!" Rouge added. "I still have no idea on how true this book's info is, but we can say for sure that whoever wrote it has a massive imagination!" she stated with a grin.

"But it still does not explain why the Chaos Emeralds are mentioned..." Amy pointed out. "I mean, anthropomorphic Owls and Hedgehogs? That's not weird, but 7 gems that this weirdos called 'Chaos Emeralds'? It cannot be a coincidence at this point..." she said with concern.

"Let's suppose for a second that the Chaos Emeralds are from this Equestria place..." Shadow spoke. "If they truly belong here, how did they ended up on our world?" he questioned.

Amy seemed to understand what he meant with that question, so she quickly flipped several pages of the book on her hands... But then she frowned and groaned. "Darn it!" she said.

"Ugh, we should have looked at this back in the cave... There's several pages ripped apart!" Amy said with concern.

"Huh?!/The what now?!" Rouge and Shadow said with surprise, and in the latter's case, with anger.

So, Shadow approached Amy and helped her get down from Omega, before carefully take the book from her and flip several pages as well, just to find out that she was right: Several pages were ripped from the book.

The last entry about the Chaos Emeralds mentioned that the ancient civilization used the Emeralds to create four giant beasts as a defense mechanism, but that was it. The next not ripped page was talking about Princesses Celestia and Luna, and her coronation as rulers of Equestria, which meant that the ripped pages removed big part of the story.

At this, Shadow frowned, before returning the book to Amy. "Whatever, or whoever, ripped those pages clearly knew that someone was going to arrive into the library, and tried to hide something away..." he theorized.

"And most importantly, why?" Rouge asked too. "Unless there was something big and dangerous in those pages that nobody should ever read, I can't think of any reason..." she pointed out.

"Mmm... perhaps our answer can come in the previous pages..." Shadow suggested. "Or it can confuse us more than we already are..." he pointed out to himself.

"I'll keep checking the pages to see if there's anything" Amy replied with a determinate look.

Shadow and Rouge nodded and resumed their walk/flight, while Omega ducked down and Amy sat on his shoulder again, as the robot stood up and followed his teammates, while the pink hedgehog started to read other pages on the book.

In Mane Melody, Pipp and Sonic were over the stage, with the former laying on her belly in the ground as she looked for something on her phone, while the latter sat at the edge and played background music with his guitar.

"Okay... So, according to historical records of my family, the most popular way princes and princesses have shared their relationships is by royal decrees..." Pipp said with a cringed expression. "Ugh! Why did my family had to be so boring in the past?!" she complained.

"Well, on the bright side, that only means we can make the difference!" Sonic said with a smile.

"That's true..." Pipp said with a smile, before getting a concerned look again. "But the same question I was making this morning remains... What do we do to make the big announcement?" she questioned. "It has to be special, memorable, and in a really visible place so everypony in Equestria can see it!" she stated.

"Well, then why not do a livestream? Not only is it common for you to make them, but you also get everypony's attention when you do so" Sonic suggested with a smirk.

"Well, there's a problem in that idea, Blue Star..." Pipp said with a sheepish smile. "While in theory it is good, in execution is terrible because, just like you said, I do streams all the time! It wouldn't feel special at all!" she pointed out. "We need this to be crowdy, and to respect the family's tradition! UGH, BUT HOW?!" she groaned, before resting entirely on the floor.

"Aww, come here, you chubby cutie~" Sonic said to his girlfriend with a smile, as he putted his guitar aside and opened his arms.

At this, Pipp wrapped her hooves around Sonic and buried her face on his chest, smiling softly as she felt his arms wrapping around her and caressing her back.

Pipp sighed happily, before looking up and give Sonic a small peek on his lips. "You really are a huggable dork under that 'cool guy' attitude, you know?" she told him with a loving gaze and a mocking smirk.

"Oh! Getting cheesy so soon, Ms. Petals?" Sonic asked with a smirk. "Perhaps I should give that cute little face of your a bunch of kisses as a punishment if you keep this attitude up~" he warned seductively.

Pipp blushed like mad after hearing that, but she still smirked again at him. "Mmm, I see... But what if I don't mind it, huh? What if I want you to punish me, hedgehog?" she asked him with an intoxicating tone that made Sonic blush as well.

Still, he chuckled and kissed her nose lovely. "Let's not get ahead of ourselves here, Little Pipp. First things first: If not a stream nor decree, what does Pipp Petals wants to tell the world that she has a really handsome hedgehog as her boyfriend?" he asked her with a smirk.

At this statement, Pipp rolled her eyes, but she still smiled back at him. "Well... Let's think... What can call enough attention? What can be so memorable that nopony would stop talk about it, even if weeks pass by?" she questioned while rubbing her chin.

Sonic did the same for a second, but as soon as he glanced over the stage they were over, as well as the microphone, and then, he glanced back at his girlfriend, who was still thinking.

"Well... If your ancestors used decrees, why not use something as big and crowdy, but more exciting?" Sonic implied with a smile.

Pipp looked at him after he said that and raided an eyebrow. "What do you mean?" she asked confused.

"Alright... Picture this..." Sonic started, as he gently let go of Pipp's grip, before boosting to the salon's entrance and then frame with his fingers at Pipp and the stage. "You, a very big stage in Zephyr Heights, a bunch of your songs, a massive crowd of ponies, as well as cameras for those who cannot be there live, and me as a secret and special guest!" he explained with a smile, before boosting in front of her once again. "Call it a 'Big Concert for the sake of making one', when in reality, it'll be just a facade to what we really wanna share!" he finished.

"... So... You suggest we should make our declaration by a concert, but to keep the surprise, promote it as a normal concert, and then have you as a final and unexpected number to reveal we are a couple by kissing at the end of a song and so everypony can see it?!" Pipp asked with wide eyes.

"... Well, when you put it like that, it does sounds like a really––" Sonic tried to say with an ashamed expression, also scratching his head and lowering his ears.

"AMAZING IDEA!" Pipp screamed in joy, as she hugged Sonic tightly and started to kiss his cheek out of control.

Of course, Sonic flinched when she screamed all of a sudden, but as soon as she started to kiss him, he chuckled.

"Oh my glitter! Blue Star, what you just suggested is perfect! Exactly what we need!" Pipp said happily. "I can picture it! Princess Pipp Petals' Concert of Unity, a show were I can sing my most iconic songs, and for the big finale, say the real reason why I made the concert, and then you and I can sing together and kiss at the very end! Eee! This is perfect!" she stated with a huge smile, once again kissing Sonic's lips.

Sonic smiled and kissed back, before looking at her with a smirk. "Well, now that we settled what to do, I think we must move forward to our next concern" he declared.

"The song we're gonna sing?" Sonic replied with a raised eyebrow and a mocking smirk.

In Opaline's Castle, Misty was struggling to free herself from the purple aura around her hooves.

She's been like this for a few hours now, and she was starting to worry that she wouldn't be moving from here.

"'Worst punishment yet'..." Misty said with a frown. "This is nothing. I'll get out of this!" she stated confidently.

After saying this, she struggled a bit more, but she still couldn't move. However, as she looked up on a shelf, she saw her phone and gasped.

Realizing she could grab it to at least entertain herself while still being grounded, she grabbed a straw from the ground with her mouth and approached it to the phone on the shelf, but the straw fell from her mouth in the process and instead landed on her face.

Misty shook it to move it away, and then moved closer to try and take her phone down with her horn, but all it did was push the phone a bit farther, which made Misty groan and look at the floor in disappointment. "Oh! If only I had my Cutie Mark, I could use Unicorn Powers... Right?" she questioned with concern.

So she went back to grunt and move, but as she did so, her horn actually started to glow, and it sent a very small spark of magic that landed on her right front hoof, freeing it from Opaline's magic and surprising Misty.

After that, she tried to extend her hoof towards her phone, but she still couldn't reach it.

Since she used her last spark of magic to ground Misty, she couldn't fly nor levitate or transport herself with magic towards her destiny, which made her walk. This is why she's so exhausted, because she saw herself obligated to walk.

"Oh, I must be getting close!" Opaline said as she looked at her surroundings. Then, she tried to fly, but she couldn't without still feeling exhausted. "Ugh! All that sitting around and scheming in the castle has got me out of shape!" she said with concern, before letting out a laugh. "I really should have Misty or Ivo set up a home gym. Hmm" she finished.

Then, she walked a bit forwards until she climbed over a rock and saw her reflection over a lake.

"No dragon fire yet?" Opaline said with a frown, before smiling mischievously. "No problem! For now, I'll just find the one item that will harness its powers even better" she stated confidently. "Sure, this plan has a high chance of wiping out all of the pony magic in Equestria forever but, as the fillies say today, NMP. Not my problem!" she sang with a laugh.

She tried to free'd herself with her free hoof from her current state, but she was already tired. Trying to catch her phone to fight boredom wasn't working, and freeing herself wasn't any successful, either...

Or it wouldn't had, if it wasn't because of her magic, that worked again and actually free'd the rest of her hooves.

At this, Misty cheered happily and she grabbed her phone with a smile. "Opaline thinks she's so powerful and magical..." she mocked up while making bored expressions. "But she's no match for my hooves!" she stated confidently while doing some neat tricks with her phone in the air.

However, as she heard squeaking noises, she jumped startled and screamed, hiding behind her bed and throwing the phone in the process.

But then, she saw that pega-mouse Opaline made back when she wanted to steal Sunny's magic passing and stopping in front of her room. The mouse looked at her, shrugged with more squeaks, and then ran away once more, leaving Misty confused.

Yet, the unicorn shrugged and smiled as she remembered something. "And speaking of magic, let's see what those ponies are up to..." Misty stated, climbing down from her bed and grabbing her phone.

Then, she sat on the ground and turned on her phone, before putting on a stream performed by Tails.

Her screen showed a banner with fruits and an image of Sunny smiling while wearing a chef hat, as some cheerful music played in the background.

Well, everything but Hitch, because as Sunny seemed super chill and ready to host the show, Hitch had an anxious look and could barely focus.

"Alright, everybody! We're live in three, two, one..." Tails instructed, sitting over a chair at Zipp's side, since she was holding the camera, also wearing a headphone on his left ear, while Izzy came by with a clapperboard and clapped it with her magic, before moving away. "And... we're on!" Tails announced, as he pointed at Sunny and Hitch to get the show started.

And so, pop music played in the background, while the camera pointed at the two earth ponies, with Sunny smiling cheerfully while Hitch gulped nervously.

"Welcome to Sunny Side Up!" Sunny greeted with a smile. "I'm Sunny, and this is Hitch, coming to you live from Canterlove Studios. And we're gonna tell you what's up with making delicious food from home!" she stated with confidence. "Isn't that right, Hitch?" she asked him cheerfully.

However, as the camera moved to the earth pony stallion, he babbled in panic and looked around nervously.

"Uh yeah... you said it..." Sunny said with an awkward smile as she looked at Hitch at her side confused.

"I stand to my position, please never make him our last line of defense during an actual attack..." Knuckles muttered with a frown.

"Today, we're going to be making Pearnana Delights!" Sunny said to the audience with a smile, as she brought a pearnana, before looking at Hitch at her side, who was still on a panicked state. "Remember what we talked about, Hitch. Just follow me!" she muttered to him, as she brought out two plates: One with ice, and one with kiwis.

Hitch still seemed unsure, but he was already in this, so it was better if he went all the way to the end.

"First, we're gonna grab as many chopped Pearnanas you believe are going to delight your morning!" Sunny started to explain with a smile, as she brought a plate with chopped Pearnanas and twirled around, before opening her blender and put some Pearnanas inside.

Then, Hitch came by and looked closer to Sunny's blender to see how many Pearnanas she putted in there. "Wait, is that one hoof-full or two? The recipe says––" he tried to say.

However, Sunny cut him off as she kept instructed what to do. "Then, add enough ice to your heart's desire!" she muttered with a smile, as she placed some ice inside the blender.

Hitch, on the other hoof, was struggling with this as he held two cups with ice in one hand and one cup on the other as he approached that one to the blender. "Wait, how much is that?" he asked Sunny with panic.

But Sunny kept doing her thing, not even noticing how much Hitch seemed to be struggling. "Then swirl in a secret ingredient with your eyes closed, so it's a surprise, especially to you!" she stated, as she closed her eyes and grabbed a random bowl, one that had cookies, as she tossed some inside without even knowing it.

And of course, this made Hitch panic even more, since he understood nothing on what Sunny was talking about. "What?!" he said confused, now staring at his blender, not knowing what to do anymore.

"Now, chop up your favorite fruit!" Sunny said with a smile, as she chopped some kiwis with one eye open, and then closed it again to put the fruit in the blender, since she still wanted the secret ingredient to remain secret for her.

"Sunny, slow down!" Hitch begged with panic, as he grabbed strawberries and kiwis with his hooves.

Then, Sunny opened her blender and putted an apple inside, still with her eyes closed. As Hitch tried to replicate this, he juggled with several apples and screamed in panic, before putting three of them on the blender and then sigh in relief.

Next, Sunny putted some chopped mushrooms inside the blender, still with her eyes closed, and that made Hitch panic as he belted some salt and pepper on his blender. "Sunny, stop closing your eyes while you're operating a blender!" he told her with panic.

As he did so, he threw more random stuff inside the blender, until he tripped with an apple that was on the floor and accidentally headed towards her while holding a bawl with kiwis.

"Wah! Sunny, watch out!" Hitch tried to warn her in panic, as Sunny opened her already blended smoothie.

But once she heard Hitch's cry, she opened her eyes, just to panic at the sight of her crush heading towards her.

So, Hitch's head crashed with Sunny's blender, which made some of the smoothie contents to drop out and land in Sunny's face and chest, which made the earth pony mare to cover her face with her hooves.

"Hitch!" Sunny cried out. "That pearnana juice went right into my eye!" she muttered in pain, covering her eye with one hoof.

"Aw, Sunny... I'm so sorry..." Hitch said with shame, as he grabbed her face carefully while trying to wipe away the content that got into her eye.

This made Sunny blush slightly, but even if Hitch did noticed, he didn't cared. He did this to his foalhood friend, and crush, and he was going to fix it.

Well, he tried, because as he was about to approach her even more, he tripped with something in the ground, which made both Sunny and Hitch trip and fall to the ground, as Hitch lay on top of Sunny.

Tails cringed at this and gulped nervously. "Okay, you two! Get it together!" he instructed to them with panic.

However, as he checked on how the stream was going, he got surprised to see the incredibly good reception it took after Hitch tripped.

And not only that, but as Hitch tried to get up, since he fell on top of Sunny's back, he fell again and landed over her, which made Sunny grunt in pain, since Hitch was too heavy for her. This made the reception of the stream get even higher, as hearts and laughing faces.

This made Tails blink a few times, before shrugging. "Never mind, I said nothing. Keep it up, you two! This is doing numbers!" he said with a huge smile and a chuckle.

"Hey!" Zipp called out to Knuckles at her side. "Mind to record what happens next and then send it to my sister?" she muttered to him, while extending him her phone.

"And make fun out of those two?! With pleasure!" Knuckles replied with a smirk, as he grabbed the phone and pointed it at Sunny and Hitch with a mocking smirk, while hitting the 'record' button.

Meanwhile, Sunny and Hitch groaned in pain, but as soon as Sunny remembered that this was being recorded live, she immediately stood up with wide eyes, while lifting Hitch in the process, as he stood on his hind legs before loosing his balance and then fall backwards again.

"Uh, that's okay!" Sunny declared with a nervous smile, while raising a hoof in the air. "Um, falling is a part of the recipe!" she added with a giggle, once again standing in front of the counter.

But as Hitch was walking behind her with a disappointed expression, he tripped with some kiwis in the ground and fell again.

Hitch groaned in pain, and then looked confused at the kiwis in front of him, as well as the ones that fell on his face, while he heard Sunny giggling at what happened to him.

However, as soon as Hitch looked at the kiwis again, he looked back at Sunny and grinned mischievously, while gathering all the kiwis he could with his hooves.

When Sunny realized what he was going to do, her eyes widened and she stopped giggling. "You wouldn't dare" she told him with a frown.

Hitch began to launch kiwis to Sunny, as she screamed and ran away, but eventually started to laugh, while she also joined him in the food fight by throwing some fruits at him.

Then, Hitch found a spray frosting, so he shook it and looked over his shoulder at Sunny with a smirk.

In Maretime Bay, everypony was watching this and laughing at the scene between the two earth ponies.

However, just when Sunny was about to hit Hitch with more food, she slipped with spread contents of smoothie in the ground and slide in panic towards a wall, where she crashed with it, before falling on her back.

At this, Tails and Izzy bursted out laughing, while Knuckles laughed loudly in the background.

After watching Sunny crashing with the wall, she bursted out laughing. But then, she realized something that made her gasp.

"If they're there, then that means they aren't paying attention to Sparky, and I can grab the dragon fire after all! And then neither Opaline nor Eggman won't doubt my loyalty!" Misty stated with a smile.

Then, she grabbed a pen from a corner of her room and draw the fake butterfly Cutie Mark on her flank.

"Just in case I'm spotted!" Misty said with a smile, and then, she giggled. "Ooh, this is gonna be great!" she stated.

After that, she tried to walk out of her room, but suddenly, a blue barrier formed in the entrance and Misty got sent back, as she slid in the ground and stopped as her back hit her bed.

She looked at the barrier that just appeared confused, but then, Eggman came into vision, and she panicked, since she was not trapped on her hooves anymore, and Eggman knew about it.

"In case you forgot, young lady: You are grounded, which means that you cannot leave!" Eggman reminded her with a frown.

The barrier appeared because Eggman himself installed it by Opaline's request. So, in case Misty did got out of the grip on her hooves, she would still not leave her room.

"I'm not happy with this either, Misty, but you got plenty of opportunities and failed" Eggman pointed out. "If punish you is the only way you'll learn to take you tasks seriously, then so be it!" he stated, before walking away. "Don't worry, though. I won't tell her you got free from her magical gap" he assured her.

With this, Misty sighed and lay on her bed. "I should've expected that it couldn't possibly be that easy..." she complained with a saddened expression.

Eventually, she reached a mountain with many crystals coming from the ground, and between the two most tallest crystals, there seemed to be some kind of horn with holes.

By seeing this, Opaline gasped with a smile. "Dragonstone! Just as I remembered" she said with an evil grin. "And the magic's return has begun to activate it, just as I hoped" she added with excitement.

The Dragonstone seemed to be glowing bright and floating, all because of the magic's return, just like Opaline said.

"Once I add dragon fire to it, it will be unstoppable, and so will I!" Opaline stated, laughing maniacally at this.

Sonic and Pipp decided to go to the Brighthouse to plan everything for their concert.

They had to move because many clients were arriving to Mane Melody, and since they still needed their thing to be private and a surprise for the concert, they had to leave immediately.

Thankfully, Jazz and Rocky promised to cover Pipp as she and Sonic prepared, so she could focus entirely on the concert.

The couple was on the bedroom, with Pipp sitting on her desk while Sonic sat at the edge of her bed with his legs crossed.

"Alright. Now that we decided to go for a concert, all we need is to find a song that we can sing together!" Pipp said with a smile.

"Well, if the song is everything we're missing, then how about we sing the very same song we had for our confession?" Sonic suggested. "What was it called again... 'Rewrite the Stars', right?" he asked with a smile.

"Well, the song is good, yes, but... I was hoping we could use something more original? Maybe a song nopony in Equestria has ever heard!" Pipp replied.

"Huh... So a song that nopony has ever heard, and that we haven't sang together before, either..." Sonic muttered, as he rubbed his chin. "Well, I have two options in mind right now: We can either make a completely new song by scratch in such a short notice, or..." he started, before bringing out his phone with a smirk. "We could use a song from my world! Nobody has ever heard them, right? And don't worry, I'm not suggesting any song used in my games. None of them would fit the atmosphere we wanna give, anyways" he assured with a smirk and a wink.

"Blue Star, just when I think I can't love you even more, you prove me wrong!" Pipp said with a huge smile, as she flew to her bed and kissed Sonic's cheek.

"Oh, I could say the same about you, Ms. Petals~" Sonic replied with flirty tone, and Pipp blushed a bit and looked away.

Then, Sonic turned on his phone and looked through his playlist, ready to show Pipp some songs from his world that they could use for their duet at the concert.

There was food spread all around, not only on Sunny and Hitch's bodies, but also on the kitchen and on the studio in general.

Izzy was sweeping the food from the floor as she hummed happily, when she saw Sparky eating food from the floor. "Oh! Found some food floor? Yum!" she said happily, while Sparky wagged his tail and nodded at her question.

Then, both Izzy and Sparky were about to eat food from the floor, until Knuckles' voice spoke. "Sparky, Izzy! Don't eat food off the floor!" he scolded them both.

Noticing this, Knuckles rolled his eyes and approached them both, before grabbing Sparky and put him over his head, while he also patted Izzy's back softly. "There, there, hon. It's not the end of the world..." he told her with a little smile.

"I'm still sad, though" Izzy said, as she looked up at Knuckles with sad puppy eyes.

Knuckles managed to resist the urge of giving her what she wanted, even if he really wanted to. "Say: What if I take you out to a nice place with food prepared by your favorite echidna, huh? To make up for this" he told her with a smirk.

At this, Izzy's attitude immediately shifted to her cheerful one again, and she hugged Knuckles tightly, also kissing his cheek. "Deal!" she said happily.

Meanwhile Tails, was checking how the stream was going, and now that the food fight was over, there was no more reactions, which made him gasp dramatically. "We're losing them. Time to mix this up!" he stated confidently.

After that, he boosted away from the studio, just to return a few seconds later with two bags with food.

"Okay, you two. It's time to spice this up!" Tails stated with a smirk. "Do a recipe with this bags of mystery ingredients!" he whispered the last two words, but then his eyes widened as he had another idea. "Oh, oh! And the winner becomes cooking royalty!" he said, as he launched a golden scepter and a purple crown to Sunny and Hitch.

Sunny grabbed the scepter and looked at it confused, while the crown crashed on Hitch's face, and he saw the crown and Tails with a frown.

Then, the young fox got in the middle of them and smiled even more with another idea. "And maybe, maybe Sunny instructs Hitch blindly as he cooks! Ooh, I like it!" he said with a huge grin.

Then, he slapped a blue sleeping mask on Hitch's face, which confused the stallion, as he started to walk around completely blinded.

"What?" Sunny said with panic. "I really don't think this is a good idea" she said with concern, specially for her crush.

Hitch, however, waved a hoof in front of him, but of course, he could not see anything because of the sleeping mask, which weirdly made him smile. "Well, I'm really starting to get a hang of this whole hosting thing, and I think it's a great idea" he stated happily, before turning and try to walk back with Sunny. "But if you wanna sit this one out, Sunny, I'm happy to host solo" he assured with a smile, passing right in front of the earth pony mare.

And, of course, Sunny still saw this as a terrible idea, but she also found a mistake on Hitch's suggestion. "But the show is called 'Sunny Side Up'!" she pointed out.

"And pretty soon, it'll be called, 'THIS SHIT IS FUCKING OVER'!" Tails shouted in panic with a twitchy eye, while shaking Sunny violently. "Guys, we need to recapture the magic, and do it fast!" he pointed out with concern.

Then, they heard Hitch falling from the stage and landing into the floor, since he was still fully blinded. "Ow" Hitch complained.

Since she couldn't leave her room because she was grounded, she decided to pick her phone again and keep watching the stream.

"Welcome back to 'Sunny Side Up', where my co-chef Hitch will be baking Cinnamon-Raisin Fruity Cutie Cookies!" Sunny presented with a panicked expression, while Hitch behind her still felt lost because of the sleeping mask on his face.

As she did so, Tails raised his thumbs up from the computer with a nervous smile, while Hitch tapped his hooves on the counter and tried to grab anything at this point.

At this, everyone else looked to each other, before looking back at Sunny with worry for her.

"Sunny?" Hitch called out in shock, as he removed the sleeping mask from his face. "What are you doing?" he asked her.

"I'll tell what we're not doing, a cooking show!" Sunny said with concern. "Look at this place. Look at us! How did we become such a mess?" she complained with sadness. "Ever since we just started trying to follow likes, I totally lost track on what's most important. You wanna know what I love about being a chef? What I though this show would be about?" she asked with a smile.

"It's a way to let loose and break free of expectations!" Sunny told with a cheerful tone.

Misty heard this from her room with a saddened expression, since Sunny was pretty much describing how Misty was feeling right now.

"Cooking is great to get you out of a rut!" Sunny kept telling from the studio. "Like if you've lost your way or if you're stuck. Especially if the reason that you're stuck is because somepony's keeping you there against your will and pushing you to do something you don't think is right!" she added with a frown.

At this specific statement, Misty panicked and looked around on her room, before looking back at the phone with concern.

"Sunny, that not only was utterly specific, but you also seem to be foreshadowing something..." Knuckles said with a bored expression. "I can feel it!" he muttered, while looking around with a suspicious look.

"Yeah, okay. Maybe that was a little over-dramatic" Sunny confessed with a smile, while Hitch at her side nodded, also smiling. "But, if you're going though something like that, well, cooking is a great way for you to reclaim your power" she assured with a smile.

"Guaranteed!" Knuckles said, as he popped from behind the counter with a smile. "Cooking is an art that must be respected like any other kind of form of art. It calms your made, brakes your chains, sets you free! It makes you feel like yourself!" he stated confidently.

"Exactly!" Sunny said with a smile, and as Knuckles ducked to get off the camera's vision, Sunny grabbed some leaves that were on the counter. "Quit doing things you don't want to do just to make everypony else happy, and simply be yourself!" she declared, as she putted some smoothie contents inside of a purple cup and putting the leaves she grabbed, then closed the smoothie entirely.

Misty kept watching this, now feeling sad because of everything Sunny has said so far.

"So, to everypony watching, it's time to start believing in yourself" Sunny said with a cheerful tone.

Misty smiled warmly after hearing this, now understanding what to do, and who to choose.

"And every dish, dessert, or Pearnana Delight you make, no matter if you followed the recipe or improvised your own, has the power to be delicious and unique. Just like you!" Sunny assured with a smile and a wink to the watchers.

Yet, she made the terrible mistake of sipping from the smoothie, and Hitch noticed that. "Sunny, wait! No!" he tried to warn her.

But Sunny herself realized her mistake, as her eyes widened and she spitted the smoothie contents from her mouth, as it all fell on Hitch's face, while she coughed in disgust and Hitch cringed at what happened.

"Draaamaaa!" Tails muttered with wide eyes, while Izzy at his side only shook a hoof with concern.

"Except when it's a cup full of sour ingredients your co-host threw at you earlier..." Sunny said with a sheepish smile, as she pointed at Hitch, who smiled awkwardly and waved his hoof.

Still, Hitch brought out a towel and extended it to her, while Sunny smiled warmly at him and grabbed the towel.

Everything Sunny said got straight into her mind, and she was starting to wake up, to open her eyes about her situation.

"She... she' right..." Misty realized, as she putted her phone aside. "The reason I've been failing my missions for Opaline lately is because I... I don't want to succeed..." she finally confessed. "I... I don't want to take away the ponies' power. I focus so much on trying to please her, to try and follow her every order that I never once asked myself what I wanted. I never once... though to believe in myself..." she added with concern.

Even if she does gets compliments from Eggman more often than from Opaline, he's been acting distant lately. Ever since she broke the amulet, Eggman seems to be more harsh over her. Even if he told her a week ago that he'll never hurt her, even if she chooses her new friends over him and Opaline, so far, he's only been disappointing her.

And now, Misty actually preferred her friends over two villains that are too focused on getting power and become stronger to even consider her feelings.

"I've got to find a way out of this!" Misty stated confidently, a she looked around her room.

Opaline was starting to climb the mountain that lead to the Dragonstone at the top.

However, as she did so, she found a rock in the middle of the way that made her outrageous, so she groaned and launched a fire laser from her horn at the rock, which split it in two.

Then, as Opaline kept walking, she almost tripped with a rock, which she pushed with a frown. "Ugh, this hike is atrocious!" she complained, before almost sliding off the mountain, but she recovered her balance quickly and kept moving. "Why does every magical thing have to be precariously perched on a hill with stuff in the way?" she complained again.

After that, she launched another blast of fire against some more rocks, but that made her feel weak as she panted.

Still, Opaline recovered her senses, just to notice that her hooves were all dirty now. "Here's an idea! Bury your magic things within hoof's reach!" she groaned out loud with anger.

"Opaline has been lying to me from the moment we met!" Misty finally realized. Thank God! I was tired of writing stuff about that bitch being rude with Misty. "I knew something was off when I discovered earth ponies didn't have laser eyes!" she pointed out.

Then, she took a chest from the shelf on her room and opened it, then turned it around to leave it empty, and then looked at her stuff: A fake horn from Izzy's Unicorn Sleepover, a pair of sunglasses, a small golden hat, a cactus, and a purple feather.

Misty then took out the picture Tails gave her and looked at it with concern. "All they've ever treated me with is kindness... The kindness I deserve" she stated.

"No... he used to... but not anymore..." Misty said with sadness and disappointment.

Then, she grabbed a bag and packed all her things, including the pencil since she still had no Cutie Mark yet.

However, as she turned to see Taffytail near her bed, she grabbed the doll and lowered her ears with doubt. "But is this really the right move, Madame Taffytail? This is the only life I've ever known..." she pointed out to concern, but when she looked back at the doll, it seemed to have made a node gesture. "But maybe that's even more reason to go outside and experience more of it" she stated with a confident smile.

Once again, however, Eggman seemed to have heard everything, being just a few meters away from her room.

It was hard to tell how he was feeling, but... Happy was definitely not one of those emotions.

In the past few months, he has grown to care for Misty in a way he never did for anyone else, but now... Now Misty wanted to leave with his enemies...

Does this counted as treason? Does this counted as her turning her back on him and Opaline? Was she... a traitor now, joining Perfect Chaos, the Deadly Six, Neo Metal Sonic and the ongoing list of traitors he had?

He didn't knew, and he didn't wanted to know. He simply walked away from her room and back to the Throne Room, but as he did so, he had to wipe something falling from his cheek with a hand.

"And that's a cut to commercial!" Tails announced, as Izzy came by with the clapperboard and clapped it again with her magic, while Zipp laughed a bit.

"And maybe when we're back, can we actually have you guys make some food?" Zipp told the earth ponies with a smile.

"Please! You guys haven't made anything so far!" Knuckles pointed with a concerned expression.

At this, Hitch simply smiled and nodded, but Sunny didn't seemed so happy nor cheerful anymore.

Even if they already cleaned the food off their bodies, the studio was still a mess, but that wasn't concerning Sunny right now.

"Hitch, I think we really need to talk" Sunny told him with a sad expression, as she walked off the kitchen stage. "All I wanted was to be a great chef and an inspiration. But everything just got out of control" she pointed out with concern, while Hitch followed behind. "When I made that big speech about needing to be myself, it made me realize that you need to be yourself too. You were so nervous and, instead of encouraging you to do things your own way, I let us both get caught in all this chaos..." she explained, while Hitch looked at her with a raised eyebrow. "I'm sorry... can you forgive me?" she asked him.

"Listen, I already said sorry, Hitch. You don't have to rub it in" Sunny said with a frown.

"No, no. 'Forgive you'? Sunny, this has been an awesome day!" Hitch declared with a smile, which left Sunny a bit confused. "Sure, I didn't actually learn how to cook from the master, and I'm pretty sure nopony at home did, either" he added, slightly pushing Sunny as she giggled. "But I had a great time! It actually reminded me of how we used to play as kids in Grandma Figgy's kitchen. Our food fights were epic, remember?" he reminded her with a smile.

At this, Sunny smirked at him before laughing. "How could I forget?" she said, as both her and Hitch laughed about it.

"And besides, you are a great chef and an inspiration!" Hitch assured her, as he walked towards Tails' computer and turned it so they could both see a video that Hitch played.

It showed Hitch launching lemons at Sunny during their food fight, as Sunny escaped from him while laughing.

"You certainly inspired me to get over my stage fright!" Hitch assured to her. "The food fight helped with that, too" he added, as he shook a spot of smoothie content from his hoof. "Maybe if we met in the middle, we'd create a show we both wanted to make" he suggested with a smile.

"One that celebrates both of our strengths!" Sunny stated with a smile, as Hitch nodded in agreement.

Back in the Brighthouse, Pipp was fixing her mane in front of her mirror, while Sonic adjusted his gloves.

After that, he quickly cleaned up Pipp's bed and fixed it up back to its normal state. Then, he looked over at Pipp fixing her mane and smirked, as he sneaked behind her and then hugged her from her back.

"You know? You always manage to look cute to me, no matter what we do or how we do it~" Sonic told her with a smirk, nuzzling her cheek lovely.

Pipp smiled and kissed his cheek, also putting putting down the comb she was using to fix her mane. "And you have quite a dominant side I never though I'd see, handsome~" she replied with a mischievous tone.

"Yeah, maybe I got a bit carried away..." Sonic confessed with an eye roll and a smile. "Anyways. After that 'brake', I think we should focus back on our remaining problem..." he said, as he broke the hug and stood in front of his girlfriend with a concerned expression.

"I know..." Pipp said, now frowning with worry. "But we have looked at your playlist for hours! Some songs might sound good for a duet and a closure, I admit it, but..." she tried to add

"But they don't have the message we wanna share... Yeah, I know..." Sonic finished for her, taking out his phone again. "Well, I just got three more options: 'Gone Gone Gone', 'True Colors' and 'Heart Attack'..." he suggested. "But the fist of those options is more a 'I can't forget you despite you died/broke with me', and the second one only works when you wanna cheer somebody..." he pointed out with concern, and then groaning.

"Well... It has many meanings, you know? For some, it's a song about being scared to open your heart with someone after being heart-broken several times in the past..." Sonic explained, and he could relate to that, actually... But he wasn't ready to talk about it yet. "For others, however, it's a song about falling in love for the best time, and getting all the scares that implies: Would they love me back? Am I good enough for them? What if I'm not ready for a relationship? Should I even flirt with them? You know... Things you normally think when you're afraid about being in love..." he pointed out.

But when he saw Pipp again, she had sparkling eyes and was covering her mouth with her hooves.

"Sonic... I think this song might be what we were looking for!" Pipp said, as she squeezed Sonic's cheeks with her hooves.

"Uh... You mean 'Heart Attack'?" Sonic asked confused. "I mean, it's a really good song, but... Wouldn't it work better if we sang that before we even became a thing?" he pointed out.

"Sonic, you said that this song also means that someone fell in love for the first time and it's scared!" Pipp pointed out. "I was afraid that you wouldn't like me back, remember? And yes, also the fact that you said you wanted to go home, but mostly what scared me was... Not being good enough for you... And I'm really glad you proved me wrong" she told hi, with a smile and a loving gaze.

Sonic kind of blushed, but he still smiled back at her and caressed her cheek. "Well... I'll be lying if I said I wasn't afraid, too... And I'm also glad that you proved me wrong, too" he assured her.

Then, they both locked their lips once again, before separating and stare at each other with loving gazes.

"So... What do you say, Blue Star? Should we sing it?" Pipp asked him with a smile.

"Well, since we ran out of options..." Sonic said jokingly, before looking back at Pipp with a smirk. "Nah, just kidding. Let's do it!" he declared with confidence.

Opaline reached the top of the mountain, and therefore, she reached the Dragonstone.

She smirked mischievously as she had the stone right in front of her, and she extended her hoof, but...

"But Opaline, are you sure?" Opaline asked herself. "Do you really want to seize the most powerful crystal in all of Equestria for your won selfishness?" she said with sad puppy eyes.

Yeah, this was all an act, because she started to burst out laughing after saying this.

"Oh, that was a good one..." Opaline said with a smile. "Why am I so funny when nopony's around?" she asked with a smug look.

However, as she extended her hoof to grab the stone, it stopped floating, and it fell several meters towards the ground, until it got stock in between some rocks, which made Opaline scream in rage.

"Magic, seize it!" Opaline said, as she tried to light up her horn, but it didn't worked. She groaned frustrated, but then she gasped when she realized that the sun was setting in the horizon, so she frowned and looked back at the Dragonstone. "I'll be back" she stated.

"And another thing! Other unicorns aren't trying to trick me, though there was that one time where Izzy blindfolded me and forced me to hit a weird thing called a 'pine-a-tah'..." Misty said, then she looked at the ground and looked at her hooves, before sitting down with a conflicted look. "Oh, I'm so confused!" she groaned.

"Okay, think. Like Eggman says, let's focus on the facts..." Misty stated as she calmed down. "Opaline lied to me and I still don't have a Cutie Mark. Maybe I never will..." she realized. "On the other hand, Eggman has treated me with as much respect as he can share ever since we met. Sure, he's been a bit less friendly lately, but still friendly... Yet, maybe it's all an act, just to keep me here and not leave with my new friends..." she muttered with concern.

She actually never thought about it until now, but it made sense: Eggman was as bad as Opaline, if not worse than her, so him acting so friendly with her might be just a strategy, another simple scheme to keep her around them to spy on her friends.

Of course, this was half-true since Eggman did cared for her, but as of how he's been lately, she's getting convinced that he doesn't cares for her...

"Okay, then it's settled! I'm finally leaving Opaline and Eggman for good" Misty stated with a confident smile, that faded away as she looked at the entrance of her room. "Now I just gotta figure out how..." she realized.

Amy kept reading the entire story of the book up to the ripped pages. She read it all over and over again at least 6 times, but when nighttime arrived and they all had to look for a place to spent the night, she sighed frustrated, because there was no answer on how the Emeralds went from Equestria to Mobius.

Since they didn't found a cave, they had to sleep outdoor this time. The advantage was that there was no snow storm, but that didn't made the conditions to sleep any warmer.

Also, since they had a tree nearby, Rouge decided to sleep upside down, with her wings working as a huge blanket that wrapped her around.

Omega, once again, turned into resting mode and shut down, while for Amy felt asleep on Shadow's shoulder, who was reading the book instead of her.

He was both intrigued and concerned about the possibility of the Emeralds coming from this world. They were magical and miraculous gems, true, but every other object back home was, too. The Master Emerald, for example...

Did that mean that the Master Emerald was also from another world? That many of the stuff they always thought and believed was wrong?

Supposing it was, how they travelled to another world, then? And why nobody knew about this up until now? This had no sense at all to him...

"... But the Ancients couldn't allow another tragedy to happen, not after what happened with their planet..." Shadow read quietly so he wouldn't wake up Amy at his side. "So, with no hesitation, they started to plan up what to do along Owls and Hedgehogs" he read with a frown.

He then, rubbed his eyes and shook his head, since he wanted to stay awake as much as he could to keep reading.

"They prepared battle canyons, Soldiers, Azuras, Ninjas, and every other warrior they built to protect the islands..." Shadow kept reading. "However, their most significant invention has to be their last line of defense in case everything else fails: Four giant, mechanized robots called Titans, all powered-up by the Chaos Emeralds. Hopefully, they'l defeat him––" he read.

However, that's where the book ended, because whatever was next seemed to be part of the ripped apart pages, and Shadow's frown grew.

But then, he had a weird idea, so he tapped with a finger the place where the ripped pages used to be and closed his eyes.

"Chaos Control" Shadow muttered, as some slight orange sparkles came out of his hands, as he tried to activate the ability with his own power.

But after two minutes, he had to stop, because it was draining too much energy from him... And yet, his eyes widened when he saw that the trick worked, because a small fraction of the ripped pages was back.

Of course, he couldn't be so stupid to make the trick again and waste more energy, but knowing that Chaos Control could bring those pages back, Shadow grinned.

"Perhaps the Chaos Emerald might be the key to restore this pages..." Shadow muttered confidently.

"Three, two, one..." Zipp counted down, and once she reached one, Izzy used the clapperboard and clapped it. "And we're back!" she announced with a smile.

"And we're finally gonna tell you what's up with today's Pearnana Delights recipe" Sunny stated happily, as Hitch brought out the ingredients, while Sunny herself grabbed a plate with Pearnanas. "Now before, I mentioned grabbing as many chomped Pearnanas as you believe will delight your morning, but to be more specific, that's about a cup and a half" she said with a sheepish smile.

"And before, I started slinging fruit when I got frustrated" Hitch confessed sheepishly, while putting chopped Pearnanas and strawberries on his blender. "When really, I should've been more patient and clear with my follow-up questions" he stated, as he and Sunny shared a side-hug.

However, this change of direction didn't seemed to bring more views, because barely anyone reacted to the stream, and this made Tails flinch and bite his lower lip nervously.

"Guys, this is wholesome as fuck, but our viewership is plummeting!" Tails said with panic and wide eyes. "I love when you two get along just fine, but the viewers do not agree! What should we do?!" he asked.

"First, stop swearing..." Knuckles begged as he got at his side. "Not only it doesn't suits you at all, but we can barely take you serious when you do so..." he pointed out with a bored expression.

"Yeah, it's like giving a whole arsenal of guns to a bunch of puppies" Izzy compared with a concerned expression, and Tails deadpanned at her.

"Also, I don't think we should do anything at all, Tails" Zipp added with a smirk, before looking back at Sunny and Hitch with a smile. "This is the real 'Sunny Side Up'!" she pointed out, as the two earth ponies putted some salt on their blenders. "Sure, the numbers aren't as high as when they were hurling whipped cream at each other..." she said with a smirk.

At this, Izzy came by with spray frosting, as she eat some cream from it. "But it's sweeter! Simpler!" she pointed out, talking about the show, not the cream... just wanted to clear that.

"The way it should've been from the very beginning..." Tails realized with an ashamed expression, as he facepalmed and his ears lowered in sadness.

Meanwhile, Sunny and Hitch finished their smoothies, as they sipped them with smiles.

"Thanks so much for tuning in, everypony!" Sunny said with a smile. "But before we go, we want to say something" she added.

"This would be our first and last 'Sunny Side Up' broadcast" Hitch announced. "Thank you all for tuning in today. The ups, the downs..." he pointed out with a smile.

"The Pearnanas that we'll be cleaning up for weeks!" Sunny added as well with a smile.

Just then, a pearnana fell from the ceiling and landed behind them, which made the two earth ponies look at each other, before laugh about it.

"But we hope it inspired everypony to come on down to Canterlove Studios and join in on the fun!" Hitch added, as he and Sunny made a toast with their smoothies.

Then, Knuckles, Izzy and Zipp stood right in front of the two earth ponies with smiles, while Tails stood behind the rest with conflicted thoughts.

"You two did something very mature today! I like it!" Knuckles said with a smirk and a wink.

"Yeah... It was... It was actually the right call to do..." Tails spoke from behind, before flying above the rest and then land at Sunny and Hitch's side with an ashamed expression, before sighing and look at the earth ponies. "Guys, I'm really sorry if I pushed you two too much earlier..." he apologized to them.

"No, it's not!" Tails snapped, before realizing he said that too loud. "Um, sorry... What I mean is: I was too focused on the idea of getting this entire show together because you two were the stars! I honestly forgot that the entire point of this show was to inspire others to come, but I got so invested on who were doing it, and... And I'm sorry... I shouldn't have pushed you two that much when you clearly didn't enjoyed it..." he pointed out with concern.

"Hey, we all make mistakes!" Hitch pointed out to him with a smile. "Yeah, maybe you went too far with the idea of me baking cookies totally blinded, but the important thing is that you realized your mistake!" he added to him.

"I know... It's just... There's this weird sparkle around you two, whenever you're together!" Tails pointed out. "When you two are in the same room, or place, things either go wrong or right, or even both! You two grow as people, learn lessons, and laugh about it... together..." he explained. "It's some weird pattern that convinced me this show was going to blow! But instead, it turned out a lot more chaotic... I let myself this entire S.B.S.A. thing get in my head, and... I'm really sorry..." he apologized once again with shame.

"Tails, I still don't know what StarBlazer is, and honestly? I think it's better like that..." Sunny told him with a little smile, before dragging him into a hug. "But we're not mad at you! Sure, you might have got a little carried away..." she said with an eye roll.

However, as she did so, Knuckles had Tails' clipboard and sipped from his own smoothie, when his eyes suddenly widened. "You were planning to launch merch if this kept going?!" he asked Tails confused.

"What? Let me see that!" Zipp said, as she snatched the clipboard from Knuckles and read what it said, with her eyes also widening. "... I think he got more carried away than just a little..." she commented with an anxious look.

Tails chuckled awkwardly at this, and then brought his tails to cover his face from the embarrassment.

"... My point is! That if you are apologizing, is because you know you did something wrong" Sunny kept talking with a smile. "And honestly? The fact that you had the will to accept you did something wrong talks miles about yourself! And I think that's better than fine!" she stated with a smile, as she hugged him again.

Tails smiled and hugged her back, and soon enough, Hitch joined as well, although he got dragged by Tails' tails into it.

But then, as Izzy checked her phone, she gasped at something, so she levitated it and approached it to her friends. "Whoa, whoa, hold everything! Everypony in Maretime Bat just signed up!" she said.

She approached the phone into Sunny, Hitch and Tails' faces, as they all stared confused at it.

"Huh..." Knuckles said, as he looked at the same info on his own phone. "Would you just look at that! Seems like the studio is now fully blocked for the next six months!" he pointed out.

"Huh, probably for the best" Zipp said with a smirk, as Sunny, Hitch and Tails looked at her. "You two wouldn't be able to top that episode, anyway" she pointed out, and Sunny and Hitch smiled at that.

"Specially considering their manager kind of didn't gave them the script that I totally didn't wrote before the show, hehehe..." Tails said with a sheepish smile, while tapping his index fingers together.

At this, Hitch's eyes widened, and he frowned as he looked at Tails. "THERE WAS AN SCRIPT?!" he shouted in rage, and Tails covered his ears while ducking down.

Sunny had some 'big sister' instinct when he did that, so she looked at Hitch with a frown and moved Tails apart. "Yeah, Zipp's right... It's for the best that this is over..." she said with a bored expression.

"From this moment on, I make my own choices!" Misty stated determinate. "From this moment on, I make my own friends! From this moment on, I––" she tried to add.

However, as she heard Opaline coughing, she panicked and stood very still on her place.

"Make sure Opaline doesn't find out I just said all that!" Misty declared with panic.

And so, Misty hid Taffytail under her pillow, and putted her bag with her things behind her chest on the shelf, before standing up and then get back on the place where she was originally when she had her hooves tied with Opaline's magic.

Speaking of Opaline, both her and Eggman were walking towards Misty's room, as Opaline cleared her throat and tried to make her evil laugh, but then coughed again, which made Eggman cringe.

"Come on!" Opaline complained with a frown. "My cackle used to be my greatest quality!" she said with concern.

"Is that even a thing? I doubt it..." Eggman said with a bored expression, and Eggman glared daggers at him.

"Ivo, that's a lie!" Opaline said with an eye roll, as they both stopped in front of Misty's room. "Every quality is my greatest quality!" she stated with a confident smirk.

"Uh-huh. You should get off that egotistical cloud of yours..." Eggman deadpanned at her.

"Says the guy who built a whole-ass station with his face..." Opaline countered.

Eggman just shook his head and brought out a remote, then pressed a button that made the barrier on Misty's room disappear, as both villains entered to her room.

"Misty" Opaline kind of greeted, as she walked by her. "Something's different..." she stated, and Misty panicked, as she looked up at Eggman, since he knew that she got free from Opaline's grip. Yet, all Eggman did was show a hand and count from three to one, then pointed at Opaline as she stopped in front of a window and looked at her reflection. "I've somehow become more enchanting in the last 12 hours!" she said with pride.

"And she still thinks I'm the egotistical one here" Eggman muttered with annoyance.

"I hope you've thought hard about your failure while I was gone" Opaline warned Misty with a slight frown.

"Okay, okay. Easy" Opaline told Misty with a cringed expression. "You don't have to spit on me while you grovel" she told her, as Misty looked at the floor with sadness.

"Misty, dear. I hope you know that I'm so hard on you because I believe in you" Opaline assured her with what I suppose is a sweet smile, as she also caressed Misty's mane. "I see so much of the young pony I once was: Strong. Determined. Destined for greatness. But that doesn't come easy!" she pointed out.

However, as she said all of this and looked at the ceiling, Misty looked back at Eggman with a very confused expression, while Eggman deadpanned at Opaline's hypocrisy. As he looked at Misty he just shrugged, not sure on what to say about what Opaline was doing.

"You understand, right?" Opaline asked the unicorn, while grabbing her cheek with a hoof.

Misty looked at the ground with doubt, but then looked back at Opaline. "I do" she replied.

After that, she used her magic to 'free' Misty, as the purple auras around her hooves appeared again, but then disappeared immediately.

"Woo! Oh, thank you, Opaline!" Misty said with an awkward smile, as she stretched her hooves and pretended that she was just free'd from the spell. "I am now free!" she added, while Opaline left the room. "Oh, it is great to be free!" she finished, also getting out of her room, with Eggman following behind.

However, he stopped Misty, and even if the unicorn felt startled, when Eggman cleaned off her fake Cutie Mark, she sighed in relief and smiled at him thankfully.

Then, they all entered to the Throne Room, with Opaline showing an image of the Dragonstone from her boiler.

"And I've been busy as well. Very busy" Opaline stated, pointing at the image of the Dragonstone in front of them. "I've located it" she pointed out.

"It's immaculate! But also, terribly stuck" Opaline said, at first with a grin, but then with a bored expression. "Get plenty of rest tonight, Misty, because in the morning, we galop" she stated.

At this, Misty just nodded, before leaving the Throne Room entirely, leaving both Eggman and Opaline alone.

"So... Did you checked on her constantly?" Opaline asked Eggman, as she made the image of the Dragonstone disappear.

Eggman said nothing, he simply nodded at her. "I think you might wanna keep her inside, Opaline..." he did said after a while.

"What?!" Opaline shouted. "Why would I do that?!" she questioned confused and mad.

"Because if she goes out there and interacts just one more time with those fools... Perhaps we'll lost her..." Eggman replied with a frown.

Now that Sonic and Pipp had defined which song to sing, everything else was just easier: Putting on the stage with their friends help in Zephyr Heights, promoting the concert like maniacs, and rehearse their duet song until none of them could tolerate it anymore.

When the big day arrived, Pipp was extremely nervous, while Sonic seemed pretty chill about it.

Pipp wasn't nervous because of the concert: It wasn't her first, and it definitely wouldn't be her last. But the fact that the final number is not only a song nopony in Equestria ever heard before, but also a duet to present Sonic as her official boyfriend.

The fact that the crowd of ponies was so large and insane, to the point it almost seemed like just a bunch of blurry faces that popped up out of nowhere, didn't helped to calm her nerves.

Still, she reminded herself to keep her composure, and so, she started the show.

She sang many of her most iconic songs, like 'Glowin Up', 'All You Need is Your Beat', 'Let's Make Our Mark Together', 'Every New Day', and a long etcetera.

But once the crowd cheered loudly with her last song, Pipp landed on the stage, since she was flying, and her heart started to beat insanely fast because of how nervous she was feeling right now.

"Um... Thank you, everypony!" Pipp said with a nervous smile. "I, um... I'm so glad to see so many ponies tonight. Now, as much as I would love for this to go forever, time is wrapping up and... The next number will be the last one" she announced.

As expected, the crowd shared a collective "Aww..." of disappointment, and Pipp giggled as she looked down at them.

"Oh, I know. I don't want this to end either, but everything good must come to an end" Pipp pointed out. "But... Also... I... Um..." she tried to add, but her nerves were getting her.

However, as she looked at one side of the stage, where Sonic was standing while wearing a black jacket and a guitar, he smiled at her and nodded, in confirmation that she must get this going.

Pipp smiled back at him and nodded back, before looking at the crowd with a smile, taking a deep breath to calm her nerves a bit. "You know? I stated that this concert was made so all of us, ponykind, could spend time together... But there's another reason behind this concert, one very special that must be shared tonight..." she stated.

At this, multiple whispers among the crowd could be heard, all trying to guess what this could be about.

However, when the lights suddenly turned off, everypony gasped, and the whispers became louder, until the screens in the stage started to show a countdown from 10 to 1.

Sonic:
So I'm putting my defenses up
'Cause I don't wanna fall in love
If I ever did that, I think I'd have a heart attack

The crowd felt confused when a male voice started to sing, but as soon as they saw Pipp flying down with a reflector over her, they started to cheer loudly.

Pipp:
Never put my love out on the line
Never said yes to the right guy
Never had trouble getting what I want
But when it comes to you, I'm never good enough

Sonic:
When I don't care, I can play 'em like a Ken doll
Won't wash my hair, then make 'em bounce like a basketball

Once Sonic started to sing along Pipp, as he slowly descend from the ceiling on a platform while playing the guitar, the crowd felt amazed by his sudden arrival, but they still cheered loudly at him.

Sonic and Pipp:
But you make me wanna act like a girl

Pipp:
Paint my nails and wear high heels
Yes, you make me so nervous...

Sonic and Pipp:
That I just can't hold your hand

Sonic:
You make me glow
But I cover up, won't let it show
So I'm putting my defenses up
'Cause I don't wanna fall in love
If I ever did that, I think I'd have a heart attack
I think I'd have a heart attack
I think I'd have a heart attack

Never break a sweat for the other guys
When you come around, I get paralyzed
And every time I try to be myself
It comes out wrong like a cry for help

Pipp:
It's just not fair, pain's more trouble than love is worth
I gasp for air, it feels so good, but you know it hurts

Sonic and Pipp:
But you make me wanna act like a girl

Sonic:
Paint my nails and wear perfume for you
Make me so nervous...

Sonic and Pipp:
That I just can't hold your hand

Pipp:
You make me glow
But I cover up, won't let it show
So I'm putting my defenses up
'Cause I don't wanna fall in love
If I ever did that, I think I'd have a heart attack
I think I'd have a heart attack
I think I'd have a heart attack

The feelings got lost in my lungs
They're burning, I'd rather be numb (rather be numb)
And there's no one else to blame (no one else to blame)

Sonic:
So scared, I take off, and I run
I'm flying too close to the sun

Sonic and Pipp:
And I burst into fla-fla-flames

At this part of the song, they both looked at each other in the eyes happily and lovingly, while singing at the top of their lungs for all Equestria to hear them.

Sonic:
You make me glow

Sonic and Pipp:
But I cover up, won't let it show

Pipp:
So I'm putting my defenses up
'Cause I don't wanna fall in love
If I ever did that...

Sonic and Pipp:
I think I'd have a heart attack
I think I'd have a heart attack (heart attack)
I think I'd have a heart attack-tack
I think I'd have a heart attack (oh, I think I'd have a heart attack)
I think I'd have a heart attack

Once they finished singing, the both panted heavily, as Sonic putted his guitar on his back, while catching Pipp in bridal style. At this, the entire audience cheered happily, and the coupled looked at each other with smiles.

And, of course, they knew what had to be done here, so they nodded and locked their lips, right there in front of all the crows of ponies.

Said action made everypony watching gasp in shock and amusement at what they just did, since nopony was expecting them to do that.

Once they separated, Pipp landed in the ground, but Sonic still hold one of her hooves with a hand, as he smiled with a loving gaze at her. "Everypony, you all know him, but I wanna introduce you all to Sonic the Hedgehog, one of the bravest and most kind souls I've ever met and, well, he's now my boyfriend!" she announced with a huge smile.

At first, there was only silence among the crowd, but then, and one by one, they all started to cheer louder than ever at the recent reveal.

"Finally!", "You two are so cute together!", "I used to pray for times like this!", and "Took you long enough!" where just a few of the replies they got from the crowd, and of course, this just filled the couple with joy, because it meant that they approved their union.

Of course, it's pretty obvious that they'll still have challenges to overcome now that they're together, but now that all Equestria know, they don't care. Because, as long as they're together, what should they fear about the world?

Sonic The Hedgehog x My Little Pony: Make Your Mark - Season 2

by BronySonicFan

5. Sunny Side Up