In Mane Melody, a crowd of ponies surround the salon's stage.
The Mane 6 were on stage, besides a product covered by a small tarp, and the Mobians were just a part of the crowd today, although Omega had to move to the left in order to not block everypony's sight.
"Welcome, everypony, to the launch of my all-new, all-natural scent!" Pipp announced, as she removed the tarp to reveal five new scent products, which the crowd looked in awe. "It's delicate!" She smirked, spraying out a green essence from the product.
But then, the ground started to rumble all of a sudden, and everyone looked around confused, while Pipp was feeling nervous, but still decided to keep going.
"Uhhh... it's elegant!" Pipp said nervously, spraying the scent again, but this time, the ground rumbled stronger, and the balloons decorating around flew away, as well as the background wall, while the ponies looked around nervously.
"The hell is going on?!" Sonic said confused, as he looked at Tails.
"Don't look at me! I'm as confused as you are!" Tails complained, trying not to loose his balance.
"It's... magnifique!" Pipp said nervously, spraying more scent.
However, the rumbling stopped at last, then everyone turned and saw a bunch of critters at the salon's front door, leaving them confused.
"Huh?" Pipp exclaimed confused.
"Crap, I left the door open..." Knuckles deadpanned, and the Mobians around deadpanned at him as well, while Amy facepalmed and shook her head in disbelief.
The critters sniffed the scent that Pipp sprayed, and then they started chittering excitedly before rushing to the stage. The crowd moved out of the way, while the critters rushed to the Mane 6, with raccoonicorn pouncing on Pipp and her products as they fell to the floor.
The bottles fell, and some of them were sprayed by the critters, who sniffed the scent happily, and a raccoonicorn rolled around the floor of a cracked bottle.
The crowd sniffed the scent in the air, but then they cringed in disgust, and Posey gave Pipp a look. "Really?! This perfume launch stinks!" She called out, before the whole crowd quickly exited the salon to get away from the smell and the critters.
Pipp crunched down while covering her head from the critters, before they were suddenly levitated off the ground by Izzy and Misty, both using their magic and levitating the critters out the door that they quickly closed.
"Hitch, can you please keep your damn critters under control?" Amy asked him with a bored expression. "I know I wasn't there when it happened, but I know that this isn't the first time they do something like this!"
"I've tried to resonate with them!" Hitch confessed with concern. "But they won't listen that easily..."
Then, Sunny picked up one of the remaining bottles. "That's weird... Well, this perfume was a hit, all right!" She then sniffed the bottle but cringed a bit before smiling sheepishly. "With every critter. Wonder why..."
"Come on, now... It can't be that bad!" Sonic said, as he grabbed the bottle from Sunny's hoof and then sniffed it.
One frame later, he was on the 'Family Guy' death pose, with Knuckles pushing a stick on him with a bored expression.
"He dead..." Knuckles said with no emotion.
"And here I thought that Pipp was the only dramatic one..." Tails muttered, while Amy facepalmed again, this time with both hands.
Soon, Shadow grabbed the bottle and sniffed too, but he had to resist the urge to poke as his eyes suddenly widened, and he even placed a fist on his mouth. "Damn... This thing literally smells like garbage..."
"What?!" Pipp asked confused, shocked and offended.
She soon snatched the bottle from Shadow's hand and sniffed it a swell, but that that made her want to poke too, and that was precisely the problem that made her panic.
"But how did this happened?! I didn't put anything that smells so bad while making it!" Pipp pointed out with concern.
Sonic coughed and started to stand up again, as he sighed in relief once he got the smell out of his system. "I don't know what happened, Little Pipp... But that thing... STINKS!" He groaned, even pulling out his tongue for a moment.
Yeah, that made Knuckles hit him on the head, and Sonic groaned, while Knuckles frowned at him and shook his head disappointed.
"Well, something had to happen to the mix when making it..." Rouge pointed out with a slight frown. "What happened, though?"
Suddenly, Izzy laughed nervously, and the rest turned to her. "Oh, well! I guess it's always just gonna be a mystery!" She said nervously while sweating a bit.
Knuckles deadpanned and took a deep breath, then placed his palms together and walked up to Izzy.
"Izzy, Izzy, Izzy... My beautiful, wonderful, divine, Isabella Moonbow..." Knuckles said with a smile as he petted his girlfriend's mane with a hand and a smile... That suddenly turned into a bored expression. "What did you do this time?"
Izzy chuckled sheepishly and began to sweat even more.
Earlier, Izzy was on Pipp's supply closet.
The problem is that she was listening to some music in her headphones and danced around, but at some point, she twirled around and kick a trash can, which flew off and conveniently landed on the substance that Pipp made as a perfume.
The color from the substance changed from pink to green in a matter of seconds, and as Izzy approached and looked down at what she did, she cringed disgusted, before smiling nervously.
"Well…" Izzy said with a nervous chuckle, covering her mouth with a hoof.
Izzy laughed nervously after telling what happened.
Her friends looked at her in shock, while Zipp and Knuckles glared at them with anger, and Sonic deadpanned.
"You did what?!" Misty asked in shock.
"Isabella!" Knuckles scolded with a frown. "You cannot keep doing this, young lady!"
"Two seasons, a trip to Alaska, a journey to a human world, and 23 chapters... Yet you didn't learned anything, did you?!" Sonic asked Izzy with anger as well, also with a twitchy eye.
"Nooooo!" Pipp cried out dramatically, and she was about to faint until Sonic caught her on his arms.
"See what you've done now?!" Sonic said with anger.
"Great. Now there's two of them..." Shadow deadpanned and rolled his eyes annoyed with his arms crossed.
"I'm so sorry, Pipp!" Izzy said with guilt, also looking around nervously. "B-B-But don't worry! We can fix this!" She stated with a wide smile, getting close to Pipp's face.
Pipp, however, felt incredibly nervous when Izzy suggested to help, because she knows it can either end surprisingly well, or expectably wrong.
Sonic rolled his eyes and sighed, before turning to Knuckles with a bored expression.
"I know, I know..." Knuckles rolled his eyes once he noticed Sonic's look. "We'll go, too... Is not like we have something better to do, anyways..."
"Even if we had, we're still going!" Sonic said with a deadpan, as he began to walk to the exit, still with Pipp on his arms.
Later, the two couples arrived to Bridlewood.
Of course, Izzy brought the others here to look after a flower that could replace the smell she messed with, and while Knuckles and Pipp kind of trust her because she showed that the Bridlewood Spog was effective, Sonic was regretting having tagging along.
It was his idea, anyways, so if he expected to escape this one, he literally cursed himself without knowing it.
"Bridlewood is full of amazing, sweet-smelling blooms!" Izzy said, as she held up a red flower in front of her friends and boyfriend, as they sniffed it, before the flower burst out some air, which made them cringe back, before continue to follow Izzy. "We'll find you one just right for your next perfume, Pipp!"
Pipp highly doubt that. "Yeah, as if we're just going to stumble across a flower never before discovered by––" She was cut off when she tripped, falling on a bush with a thud.
Sonic and Knuckles popped their heads from the bush, the former looking down in panic. "Pipp?!"
Pipp got her head out of the bush and coughed up some leaves with a deadpan, before she saw something that made her smile with sparkling eyes. "Oh, my glitter!" She cheered, and soon, Sonic, Knuckles and Izzy popped their heads as well.
They were seeing a massive hill filled with blue colored flowers, as the area sparkled and shimmered around.
"Huh... And here I thought that this place couldn't surprise me more..." Sonic muttered, although with an amused smile, as he walked around the place without ripping off any flower.
"I'm with Sonic on this one..." Knuckles confessed, not ripping any flower off either. "What are these, Iz?"
"I don't know!" Izzy confessed with a smile. "I've never seen flowers like these before. So awesome!"
Pipp went close to a flower and sniffed it. "Oh! Smells of strawberry ripple smoothie! And a million hooftaps!" She called out with a wide smile and heart-shaped eyes.
Sonic sniffed one as well and raised an eyebrow. "Are you sure, Pipp? It smells to me like Chili Dogs... and your perfume..."
Knuckles did the same, and he also raised an eyebrow. "Well, I smell grapes and that plum scent that comes from Izzy..."
Izzy got her head in a huge pile of flowers and sniffed them as well. "I'm getting glitter and Unicorny Flakes!" She said with a smile and heart-shaped eyes, before she had a thought. "Wait a sec! These flowers must smell like your favorite things!"
"That'll explain why we all smell something different!" Sonic said with a smirk. "I wonder how they know specifically what's your favorite smell, though..."
Knuckles came and placed a hand on Sonic's shoulder. "Some answers are best not to seek, Hedgehog..."
Pipp, on the other hand, gasped excited with Sparkling eyes. "Izzy, this is perfect!" She said excited, then suddenly zoomed towards the rest with a shovel. "Grab as many as you can, guys! We're gonna––" She tried to say, but then her eyes widened and she shook her head. "No! No, no, no, no. I won't do this again..."
"...Uh... What?" Sonic asked confused with a raised eyebrow.
"Last time I tried to do something that disrespect Bridlewood, we almost loose our voices to the Troggles!" Pipp pointed out with concern. "And, I know I've gotta have respect for the forest! So, as much as I would like to take many of these flowers, I've learned from my mistakes. Maybe just one will suffice."
After saying this, Pipp tossed the shovel away and then carefully picked up one of the flowers. She was not convinced it'll be enough, but so long as she was respectful with the forest, she didn't minded.
She walked away, and while Izzy followed her along with a proud and touched smile for her words, Sonic and Knuckles stared at her with disbelief. Heck, Knuckles even had his jaw dropped, but Sonic was smiling with pride for his girlfriend, since she has demonstrated she learned her lesson.
"Before you ask: No. I didn't told her anything. That was all her!" Sonic said, as he walked away to follow Pipp and Izzy out of the forest.
"...Okay... I was not expecting that..." Knuckles said, before getting out of the field as well.
Back in Mane Melody, it was time to try again.
Pipp was ready to retry her announcement, now holding up a silver bottle that was made with the flower.
"I announce my new new scent with hints of... whatever you like best!" Pipp announced with a smile, as she sprayed the perfume on Hitch's face.
Hitch sniffed the scent and then smiled. "Smells of law! And order!"
Jazz was sprayed next as she smiled. "Mmm! Smells like a freshly polished hooficure! Sign me up!" She said with sparkling eyes.
"Sign me up first!" The Pippsqueaks - Seashell, Glory and Peach Fizz - said excitedly to Pipp, as they waved their arms with sparkling eyes.
Pipp smiled and tried to spray the perfume again, but it only gave out small scents, which made her get anxious. "Oh, no! It's all gone! Uggghhh! You don't get much from just one flower!"
Of course, being the terrible fans they are, the crowd frowned and glared at her with anger. Heck, Posey even brought a tomato as the entire crowd approached her, while Pipp got nervous, and Sonic immediately jumped in front of her in a protective manner, just in case.
"But... I... I can get more!" Pipp assured nervously. "Everypony, you just wait here! Wait here!"
After saying the last thing, Pipp rushed out of Mane Melody, while Sonic followed behind, but not without stopping on the entrance and turn back to the crowd with a glare.
"Kimitachi ni chūmoku shi teru nda yo, kono yarō!" Sonic said, telling the crowd 'I've got my eye on you, bastards!', but in Japanese.
Back where they found the flowers, Pipp looked at them anxiously.
Sonic soon zoomed as well and looked at her with concern. "Pipp... You're not thinking on taking more flowers, do you?" He asked her with a slight glare.
"Come on, Blue Star! Just one extra can't hurt," Pipp replied with a sheepish smile and a twitchy eye, before turning her gaze back to the field. "Or two. Three will be fine..."
As Pipp picked the third flower, Sonic frowned for real this time. "Alright, Pipp. That is enough!"
After that, he started to walk away, but then, Pipp started to pick up more and more flowers, as she filled three baskets and giggled a bit maniacally, before looking at the last flower. "Okay, and just one more!"
Sonic rolled his eyes on annoyance, but as he did so, he turned around, just for his eyes to widen in panic when he noticed that there wasn't a field of flowers anymore.
"PIPP!!!" Sonic shouted in panic and placed his hands on his head, which made Pipp flinch, so she turned and saw Sonic with an anxious expression, while also looking at the field. "What... What did... WHAT DID YOU DO?! The field is gone! You picked all the flowers!"
Pipp didn't really had processed the weight of her actions, not until now that is, because once Sonic pointed out what she was doing, her eyes widened in panic, and she screamed.
"Oh no! Oh no, oh no, oh no! What have I done?!" Pipp asked in panic, as she began to hyperventilate, even stepping back away from the baskets with flowers.
Sonic immediately went with her and quietly asked her to take deep breaths so she could calm down, while Pipp started to do that in order to not loose herself.
However, they both widened their eyes when they suddenly heard something, so they looked back to where the last of the flowers was located... Just to realize that they both stepped over it and killed it.
"Oh boy/Uh-oh..." Sonic and Pipp cried out in shock.
Suddenly, the field's life began to die out around them, which made them panic even more.
Pipp looked around in panic, then look one of the flowers from her baskets. "I-I'm sure it'll grow back!" She said, as she replanted the flower, but the moment she did, the flower immediately died, making the couple gasp in shock.
"This is going from bad to worse!" Sonic cried out in panic.
"Neither Izzy or Knuckles can ever know!" Pipp said with panic as well.
"Ooh, hi, friends!" Izzy's voice called out, which surprised the couple, so they slowly turned and saw Izzy and Knuckles behind them with watering cans, which made them grow nervous and get even more panic then before. "Just have to water that glade of amazing flowers we found, but––" Izzy tried to say, but then she came to notice the lifeless ground. "Hold on a second..."
As both Izzy and Knuckles looked around, Knuckles dropped his watering can and his jaw dropped as well once he also noticed the area, while Sonic and Pipp smiled sheepishly and tried to hid the baskets with flowers behind them.
"This can't be it! Not this dry, wilted, shriveled-up, old place that could never sustain life!" Izzy said with panic, as she approached to Sonic and Pipp along Knuckles.
As they did so, some trees suddenly came crashing down, and the two couples noticed this.
Pipp felt worse now that she knows what she's done, and she began to cry. "Oh, Izzy! This is the spot! And it's all my fault! I picked all the flowers!"
Both Izzy and Knuckles looked at the baskets with flowers and gasped in shock and horror.
"What the heck?!" Knuckles screamed in panic.
"I tried to stop her, and even if I did, we still killed the last flower by mistake!" Sonic said with concern, grabbing two of his quills and extending them to cover his face in shame.
"Okay, you screw it but realized in time that, yet you two still screw it up even more... Am i getting this right?!" Knuckles asked, and both Sonic and Pipp nodded in panic. "Good. So explain me, then: Why is the forest rumbling?!"
"Because the delicate Bridlewood ecosystem has been unbalanced!" Izzy answered horrified and panicked, as she shook her boyfriend.
"And why didn't you told us that?!" Sonic asked with panic and a bit of anger. "Izzy, you gotta tell us all the details when something can AND is going to go wrong, not just say what you believe is the only important stuff!"
And then, the ground began to shake even more, to the point cracks started to form, making the two couples back away as more trees came falling down.
"Okay, the lesson we learned today is: Mess with nature, and nature will mess with you! Got it!" Sonic said with panic. "Can we please have some main character luck and save our butts now?!"
"Now's not the time to break the fourth wall, Hedgehog!" Knuckles complained, as he placed a hand in front of Izzy to protect her.
Pipp started to whimper in fear, before looking back at her baskets. "We need to get these flowers back in the ground!"
"No time! There's too many of them!" Izzy pointed out anxiously.
"The forest will be already down by the time we're done!" Sonic pointed out with concern, also placing an arm in front of Pipp to protect her.
"Sonic's right! We'd need a small army to help us!" Knuckles added with a frown.
However, that made Pipp's eyes widen, and then she smirked with an idea. "A small army, huh?" She asked them, as she brought out her stinky perfume.
"Pipp, that thing was literally a big oof, and it even dragged a bunch of––" Sonic tried to say in anger, but then his eyes widened when he realized what he was going to say. "Oh... I get it... Well, spray that out, honey!"
"Aye, aye, captain!" Pipp replied with a giggle, and then she sprayed the stinky perfume in the air.
Not so long after, the critters came rushing to the source of the stinky scent.
As they did so, some of them were dragging Sunny and Hitch along. Out of all the earth ponies in Maretime Bay, they dragged them specifically... I'm just leaving that in the air.
"Uh... wait, what? Umm…" Sunny said surprised and confused, also holding a smoothie and trying to make the critters to put her and Hitch down.
"I was literally about to put my hooves up when these little guys came and dragged me away!" Hitch complained, while the two couples came to them as the critters put them down.
"Sunny! Hitch! No time to explain!" Sonic said with an anxious expression, as he zoomed into the two ponies' faces. "Bridlewood is about to collapse and cause the end of the world for some reason if you two don't fix it!"
"Sonic's right! We need you to do your... Earth pony stuff!" Pipp quickly explained, pointing to the flowers they and the critters replanted, all dead on contact with the ground. "And quickly!"
Sunny and Hitch looked at each other, now understanding the situation. They nodded and made their hooves glow in green, before stomping them down hard, while their Earth Pony magic spread across the field. Yet this wasn't enough, so they stomped again, and their magic glowed stronger, making the flowers come back to life and sprout.
At the same time, some vines sealed the cracks and lifted the trees up back into their foundations, which made the group look around with smiles of joy and relief, since the field is back to normal and Bridlewood is now stable.
"Woo! The day's saved again!" Sonic cheered with a smirk and his arms raised in the air.
But it was not over yet, since the center of the field suddenly began to glow, so they all stood back as vine roots grew, and purple petals sprouted from the ground, spreading across the field, making the group look in awe.
"Sweet grapes of havens!" Knuckles said amazed.
"And once again, Equestria proves me to be an amazing place!" Sonic cheered loudly with a smile.
Izzy sighed in relief. "Natural order is restored!" She said with sparkling eyes, before noticing Pipp seeing the tree with sparkling eyes as well, but not noticing that some petals were filling the basket, which made Izzy smile. "Awww! I guess this is the forest saying 'thank you'!"
Pipp now noticed the basket filled with petals, so she looked at the tree with tears of joy. "Thank you, forest! I promise to only ever take what I need... And to look after and protect you..."
Izzy giggled and placed a hoof on her shoulder. "Now you're gettin' it, Pipperoni!" She said, as the two ponies hoofbumped.
"And I'm proud too, Little Pipp!" Sonic said with a smile and wink down to his girlfriend.
Back in Mane Melody, Pipp looked at the crowd again while holding up a new perfume bottle.
"My brand new, totally organic, all-natural perfume!" Pipp announced. "I call it 'Harmony'! Because I want all my products to work with nature, not against it. And I pledge to plant a tree for every bottle sold!" She said, as she gestured to pots of sprouted trees next to her, with her friends and boyfriend next to them.
"Har-mo-ny!" The Pippsqueaks sang, then the three fillies brought out some money, and so did the crowd as they cheered Pipp on.
"Phew! Now that's more like it!" Sonic said with a smirk.
"Whoa. One tree for every bottle sold?" Sunny asked Pipp in surprise as she turned to her. "You're gonna need a small army to do all that planting."
"Luckily, I got just the thing!" Pipp said with a smirk, as she held up her first stinky perfume and sprayed it.
However, that made the ground rumble, and everyone already knew what that meant: A bunch of critters entered the salon and towered over Pipp, who looked at the critters with wide eyes.
"Ah crap..." Sonic deadpanned.
"INCOMING!" Pipp yelled out in panic and covered, already knowing what was coming next.
THE END