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// 71. Nightmare Market 
// Story: Sonic The Hedgehog x My Little Pony: Tell Your Tale 
// by BronySonicFan 
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The Breezie Night Market was open in Bridlewood during night time... Obviously.

There, the Mane 6, Team Sonic, Team Dark and Alphabittle were watching a stallion put something in a cauldron, making a green mist burst out of it, surprising everyone but Team Dark.

"Cauldrons! Get your cauldrons!" The pony trader exclaimed, twirling around in excitement.

Just then, Izzy went to a stand and twirled a globe around with sparkling eyes, and Zipp saw a unicorn levitating three balls over a unicycle. The group kept walking around the Night Market, but then Alphabittle, Misty and Izzy saw a pegasus mare walking by with stacks of ice, making the two latter smile with sparkling eyes.

Hitch and Sparky were now looking at a mirror that made their heads huge. "Does my head look big in this?" Hitch asked with an amusing smile, while Sunny at his side laughed with tears of laughter coming out.

Sonic approached a stand of Hot dogs, which had tons of topics for the dog, specially spicy ones. "Oooh, now this totally shouts my name!" He stated as he rubbed his hands, then grabbed a hot dog and stated to put all the spicy and hot stuff over it with a grin.

"You are a maniac, you know that?" Tails told him with a grin.

"I'm a maniac, indeed, buddy. A maniac for spicy stuff!" Sonic replied with a smirk, making Tails roll his eyes.

Meanwhile, Pipp stood in front of the pony juggler with her phone on her selfie stick, since she was livestreaming. "Oh, I loooove the Night Market! Look at all this great content!"

On the other hand, Alphabittle and Misty were walking together. "So excited to finally get some quality time together, Misty," He said to her daughter with a smile, while she returned the gesture. "Now we can make up for all those foalhood memories we missed, huh?"

After saying that, he extended a cotton candy to her, and Misty accepted it with a smile, but then Alphabittle gave her a lollipop, then a unicorn plushie that he rubbed in Misty's mane, making her blush embarrassed.

"Daaaad!" She said embarrassedly, since her father is treating her like a filly again, and yet, Alphabittle gave Misty a warm smile with sparkling eyes, feeling joyful to spend more time with his daughter.

Meanwhile, the rest of the group went up to a glitter stand, where Zipp picked up a hat. "Whoa!" She exclaimed, putting on the hat.

"Whoa!" The rest of the Mane 6 all said, as they looked at the different colored glitters.

"Who needs so much glitter, anyways?" Amy asked confused with a deadpan.

"A pony that has stacks of glitter," Knuckles shrugged.

"A.k.a., Izzy," Sonic added with his arms crossed and a smirk.

However, as the rest of the ponies kept looking at their own stuff, Pipp eyed a familiar pink glitter, which she recognized immediately because she gasped in shock. Yet before she could say anything and warn about what it can do, Izzy appeared between her and Sunny and picked up the bowl with pink glitter.

"Ooh! Glitter!" Izzy gasped with sparkling eyes, making Pipp gasp again.

But she wasn't the only one, because when Knuckles noticed which bowl of glitter his girlfriend picked up he gasped with wide eyes, then rushed and threw the bowl off her hooves.

"¡Sáquese, Satanás!" Knuckles exclaimed with a frown, making the ponies flinch, before he looked at the glitter and pointed at it with anger. "¡Esa cosa es del Diablo!"

Noticing this, Sonic facepalmed, then walked up to him and carefully pulled him away. "Knuckles, yo no hablar el españolo. Can you explain yourself without recurring to anger?"

"First of all, is 'Yo no hablo español'," Knuckles corrected him with a bored expression, making Sonic roll his eyes annoyed. "And second, that glitter is a danger to society!"

"I've seen this stuff before!" Pipp said nervously, as she picked up the bowl again. "You've got to be super careful, or it'll totally turn you––"

Yet as she tried to explain herself, Zipp tried on a hat with feathers that tickled Hitch's nose. This made him move his head back since he felt like sniffing, making the five mares around him panic. In the end, Hitch sneezed, hardly enough to make the pink glitter cover the six of them.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa whoa! Let's rewind a bit back..." Amy said with a very confused look. "You're telling me that Sunny, Izzy, Hitch, Sonic and Tails turned into babies because of that glitter?!"

"That sounds like a pain in the ass," Shadow deadpanned with his arms crossed.

"Eh, Sonic and Tails were not a big deal. The former was with Pipp the whole time, and the latter slept like a rock. The other three? I still have nightmares of that day because of them..." Knuckles said anxiously.

"Then let's make sure that those six stay away from–– HOLY CRAP!" Sonic exclaimed with wide eyes, as he turned to see the Mane 6 in shock, and when the rest did the same, their jaws dropped, and Knuckles felt anxious again.

Just then, Alphabittle came beside the Mobians with a tray of ice cream. "Hey, ponies! Who's ready for some ice cream––?" He tried to ask, but then he screamed in shock at the same thing that the Mobians were looking at.

It turns out that the Mane 6 became foals again, while Sparky was on Foal Hitch's head, unaffected by the glitter since he was already a baby, but he looked in shock at his father figure and his friends turned into foals.

The babies, however, all giggled playfully in the mess of glitter left behind by Hitch's sneeze.

"...Kuso yarō," Sonic said with a twitchy eye, but I won't translate that this time around.

Knuckles then placed his hands over Sonic and Tails' shoulders, still with an anxious look. "Welcome to hell."

"Aww! They look so cute!" Amy said with her hands together and sparkling eyes.

"Don't let their looks fool you! They are little devils disguised as angels!" Knuckles said with a frown.

"Really? Because they just look like kids to me," Tails pointed out with a raised eyebrow.

"I don't know... For once, I actually think we should listen to the Knucklehead," Rouge said, rubbing her chin with a raised eyebrow. "Kids tend to be masters of delusion."

"Agreed," Shadow nodded. "Besides, he already dealt with only three of them. Now imagine how bad it'll be with them being six."

Then, Alphabittle heard giggling, so he looked down and saw a Filly Misty holding his hoof with a cute giggle. "M-Misty? Is that you?!" He asked surprised, while Filly Misty looked up at her father with a smile and sparkling eyes.

"Aw, Misty! You are cute as a filly," Tails said with a smile and sparkling eyes as well, picking up the now filly, who giggled at being picked up.

"Sorry to brake it to you, Tails, but we should focus on bring them back to normal," Sonic pointed out.

"Agreed," Alphabittle and the other Mobians but Tails said in agreement.

"Okay! Okay, okay! Nopony move!" Alphabittle ordered, lookin at the foals.

"You all stay right there, and don't you dare to––!" Knuckles tried to warn, but as the Foal 6 looked at them, they zipped off and scattered around the market while giggling. "Crap..."

"No!" Alphabittle screamed in panic with his hooves on his head. "Ponies?!" He called out, then Filly Misty got behind her father and trotted off. "Misty!" He called out again, then he ran after her, but Misty was already out of sight. "I-I can't–– I won't lose you again!"

With that being said, Alphabittle ran after his daughter, while the Mobians but Omega groaned annoyed.

"Great, is like if my second biggest nightmare became real..." Knuckles deadpanned, but still ran in a random direction to look after the foals.

"We should catch them all before this gets out of hand," Tails declared, also running into a random direction.

Shadow, Rouge and Amy followed his example, while Sonic stood behind and groaned again. "This is definitely not gonna work," He stated, then turned to Omega. "Meg? You have better luck with kids if your experience with the Pippsqueaks is anything to go by. Think you can come up with something to keep those 6 in place once we catch 'em all?"

Omega rubbed his chin for a moment, then an idea crossed his mind, so he nodded and raised his thumbs up.

"Great. You work on that, and let the capture for us!" Sonic stated, as he ran in a random direction as well, while Omega made a salute and then boosted by flight in another direction.





Somewhere else in the market, Knuckles was chasing after Filly Izzy.

The filly giggled excitedly, while Knuckles jumped towards her, but missed and fell face first to the floor, while Filly Izzy ran off.

"Crap!" Knuckles exclaimed. "This is gonna be harder than I thought..."





In another zone of the market, Tails was trying to catch Filly Zipp.

The filly jumped through a fabric stand, and Tails jumped to catch her, but missed since she took off with giggles, while he hit the fabric counter, which startled Windy and a Breezie passing near by.





At a fruit stand, Filly Sunny giggled and jumped into a purple apple crate.

She chomped said apple, but then her hooves started sparkling, and she took off into the air, leaving behind a trail of purple mist, which startled the unicorn mare watching.

Filly Sunny flew in the air, then twirled around and took off high, making a firework display go off that gently sent her back to the fruit stand and fell back into the purple apple crates. Filly Sunny poked out with exciting giggles and sparkling eyes, then she picked up another apple to repeat what just happened.

"Oh no, you don't!" Shadow said, as he rushed with her and snatched the apple from her hooves.

"Awww..." Filly Sunny said disappointed, as she blew a raspberry at her for ruining her fun.

"Don't look at me like that," Shadow deadpanned, then he grabbed the filly on his hands, but Sunny only huffed offended and looked away. "Ugh, I'm not made to be a babysitter..."

"Whoo! Ooh-ooh-ooh!" Filly Zipp cheered, as she suddenly used Shadow's head to gain some impulse to and hop on the top of the stands.

Tails chased her as he noticed this. "Zipp! Get down from there! You're gonna get hurt!" He begged concerned.

"Ooh!" Filly Zipp kept hopping on the top of the stands, then she did a flip and fell through one. "Aah! Ugh!" She exclaimed as she fell into a cotton candy stand, which startled the unicorn stallion. She popped up unharmed while giggling, before noticing the cotton candy on her head. "Ooooh!" She rubbed the cotton candy with sparkling eyes.

Soon enough, though, Tails came by and grabbed her with his hands. "This is so awkward, but you are a cute filly, Zipp," He said with a nervous smile. His compliment made Filly Zipp's cheeks pout, as she crossed her hooves. "Huh, you don't like to be called cute even as a filly, huh? I'll use that against you once you're back to normal."

On the other hand, Filly Pipp was climbing next to a cauldron. She looked at it with sparkling eyes, while the unicorn stallion was distracted by his phone.

"Oh, no, no, no, no!" Sonic exclaimed in panic, quickly rushing to Filly Pipp and grabbing her with his hands to keep her away from the cauldron.

However, the moment Filly Pipp lay eyes on Sonic, she started to look at him with a strange pink aura surrounding the ambience with hearts floating around, and as Sonic turned to her with a raised eyebrow, Filly Pipp's eyes sparkled, and she gasped with a huge smile over her newfound crush.

She then got free of Sonic's grip and hugged his chest tightly with a cute smile, while Sonic looked down at her with wide eyes and an awkward expression, since he has literally made Filly Pipp fall for him.

"Well, this is awkward... It's gonna be hard to tell you about this once you're back to normal, Little Pipp," Sonic said with a chuckle, then he picked her up and put her on his head, making her giggle a bit and get comfortable over him. "Aww, I can't be mad at you when you're so cute. Huh, it's ironic, don't you think? First you took care of me when I turned a baby, now the roles changed."

Pipp just giggled again and nuzzled over Sonic's head happily, while Sonic smiled and walked away.

"Wheeee!" Filly Izzy cheered, jumping into the glitter stand.

First, she dig into pink glitter, which made her mane have multicolors of orange, yellow, and light green. Then, she jumped into orange glitter, which made her horn turn into a carrot. Finally, she went into the purple glitter, which gave her a glitter beard, which made her giggle with sparkling eyes, before she trotted off.

"Isabella! Come back here right in this instant!" Knuckles shouted desperate, since he's tire of chasing her around the market like a maniac.

Then, as Shadow tried so hard not to shout at Sunny, because she was on his back and pulling his quills a bit, the Ultimate Life Form noticed Sparky trying to get Foal Hitch away from a purple glowing crystal.

Amy, who's been trying to catch Hitch, was panting heavily after chasing him around the market.

"Isn't that the weird crystal that turned a bunny into a giant 3 episodes ago?" Shadow asked, pointing at the crystal that Foal Hitch tried to touch, weirdly enough, with his tongue.

"The what now?!" Amy shouted, and when she noticed what Shadow meant, she panicked and started to sweat nervously. "Don't do it. Don't do it!"

Yet Foal Hitch was approaching his tongue to the crystal even more, making Amy's panic increase a 1000%.

"D-Don't, don't, don't, don't!" Amy cried out, but it was too late, because Foal Hitch's tongue touched the gem and shrunk.

This surprised Sparky, as he fell to the floor when he lost grip of Hitch's tail, while Amy groaned tiredly.

Then, Amy rushed into the stand and looked around in panic. "Oh, no! Where'd he go?!" She cried out concerned.

Suddenly Sparky gurgled, as he pointed to the floor in front of him, because he was seeing the tiny small Foal Hitch, which Amy noticed as well. Yet when Hitch touched the same glowing gem with his tongue again, he grow twice his regular foal size, even making Sparky sit on his back again.

"And there he is," Amy said nervously. "A big boy already, I see..."

Big Foal Hitch gave a low-pitch giggle, then he jumped around, causing the market to shake a lot, and then he trotted off with Sparky still on his back, while the ponies around ran for cover.

"I don't get paid enough for this crap..." Amy said anxiously, while Knuckles came to her side with Filly Izzy on his arms, as the filly happily chomped a cookie the echidna gave her. "Were things this difficult for you, Zipp and Pipp?"

"Nope. They were a lot easier, actually," Knuckles replied with a bored expression.

And then, Filly Misty was floating thanks to a green glowing hat she was wearing. "Whoo! Whee! Whoo!" She cheered, making some spins before falling without the hat.

Alphabittle noticed this and panicked a lot "Misty! Noooooo!" He cried out, then his fatherly instincts kicked in, so he jumped ahead and caught Filly Misty before she hit the floor, then hold her closely. "I'll always be here for you, Misty! Hoof to heart!"

"Ah," Filly Misty said with a smile and sparkling eyes.

"I really hate to brake this to you, Alpha B, but we have problems to take care of..." Sonic pointed out, still having Filly Pipp nuzzling happily over his head.

It turns out Amy's still chasing Foal Hitch around, while Filly Izzy discovered she can use magic and is now levitating Knuckles around wildly, Filly Sunny is chomping over Shadow's quills and Rouge is trying to take her off without hurting her or making Shadow cry out loudly, although he really wants to...

And finally, Tails is chasing down Filly Zipp again, because she managed to escape from him.

"Ugh, I'm too old for this..." Alphabittle said with a tired expression.

"You should be thankful only them turned into babies," Sonic pointed out with a deadpan. "If I turned into one as well, I'll be the most hyperactive and impossible to catch baby you're ever going to see."

Alphabittle gulped after hearing that, because just the day on it's own was already giving him a headache.





In Eggman's lab, Eggman was trying o plan down his next move against his enemies.

Now that he had Sage back, he thought that coming up with something to take them down would be easy... But he forgot that his AI turned daughter still has a kid's mind.

Sage herself was sneaking near Eggman, something he hadn't noticed yet. She had on her hands a really old camera that she found on the basement. Soon, she managed to appear right besides Eggman, then lifted the camera and made a funny face, just when Eggman finally noticed her.

"Huh?" Eggman said confused, but then the camera flashed and blurred his sight. "Ugh! Sage!"

Sage just giggled playfully and flew away, while Eggman got up his seat and started to chase her around.





Later on, everyone but Sonic and Alphabittle were still struggling to catch the fillies.

"Well, this is starting to get ridiculous," Sonic deadpanned with his arms crossed.

Meanwhile, Tails finally managed to get Filly Zipp, and he quickly flew up with a bored expression, looking down at the filly on his hands. "You, young lady, are harder to catch than as an adult," He said, then his eyes widened in panic. "No, wait, that sounds way too creepy..."

Suddenly, and just when Shadow managed to keep Filly Sunny in line, Knuckles got off Filly Izzy's magic, and Amy managed to get Foal Hitch back to his regular foal size, a train whistle was heard.

Everyone looked around confused, while they fillies and foal looked around interested, until they noticed a small red and black train coming by. Said train had three double seats for kids, and Omega was sitting on the 'driver's cabin' with a machinist hat, while he actually drove the train, which actually was a toy made for foals.

"All aboard on the Omega Express," Omega stated, making the train whistle again.

"Omega, what the f––" Shadow was about to ask with a very confused expression, but then Filly Sunny suddenly got so excited that she got off his hands and rushed to the train, then got over the seat right behind Omega.

"Well, that's something..." Amy said confused, but then Foal Hitch also got off her grip and ran excited to the train, right besides Filly Sunny.

And then, one by one, the other four fillies also got into the train with excitement, with Fillies Zipp and Pipp sitting behind Sunny and Hitch, while Fillies Izzy and Misty sat behind the royal sisters.

This just left everyone else speechless, but Sonic just smirked and crossed his arms. "Glad to see you work quickly, Meg!"

"I'll keep them busy, you work on bringing them back to normal," Omega instructed, then blew the train's whistle again and started to move around, while the six fillies all cheered happily.

"...Well, that was... something, I guess..." Rouge said with a confused expression.

"Agreed," Alphabittle nodded, then he shook his head and focused on what Omega said. "Think, Alphabittle, think. There's got to be some way to get those ponies back to normal."

"We'll have to ask the only one here who already had experience in the matter," Sonic pointed out.

With that being said, everyone turned to see Knuckles, who looked back at the rest confused. "What? Do I have something in my face, or...?"

"Knux, you're the only one along Zipp and Pipp that already knows how to turn back de-aged people - or ponies - back to normal," Tails pointed out. "What did you, Zipp and Pipp did to turn us back into adults?"

"Hmm..." Knuckles said, rubbing his chin a bit. "Well, that time you and Sonic de-aged with Sunny, Hitch and Izzy was because you put on the face-mask that was mixed with the pink glitter. To revert the effect, Pipp made another mask that reverted the pink glitter's effects."

"Okay... So we just need to find a way to revert what the glitter did..." Tails said, rubbing his chin. "However, I believe that putting the mask over babies was hard enough as it sounds, which means we need something else that they'll use or consume without protesting."

"And how the hell are we gonna find something that specific in this place?" Shadow deadpanned with his arms crossed.

Just then, as Alphabittle looked around, he noticed Onyx at a tea stand. "Come get your herbal teas. Calming teas. Relaxing teas..." Onyx said to the customers.

"That's it!" Alphabittle called out, then he rushed to Onyx's stand. "Excuse me! This is a tea-mergency!" Alphabittle exclaimed, then he pushed Onyx away.

His sudden change of attitude confused the rest, but they still followed him. Then, Alphabittle started putting in some adult ingredients in the teapot as fast as he could. When a kettle whistled, Alphabittle poured the hot water of the kettle in another one, then started stirring.

"Ooh!" Filly Zipp was about to fly after a Breezie she saw, before Tails grabbed her hind legs and put her back with the others in the train.

"Nice try, young filly!" Tails scolded her with a frown, while Filly Zipp blew a raspberry to him. "Ha ha ha, so mature..." Tails rolled his eyes.

"Omega, bring those kids over here!" Alphabittle instructed.

Omega simply nodded and drove the train towards the stand. Once there, he placed the fillies and the foal in front of a table, where Alphabittle passed six teacups with the tea he just made.

"Let's get you back to normal." Alphabittle said with a smile.

Foal Hitch picked up his cup and smelled it, but then he cringed at the smell. "Bleh!" He groaned and pushed the cup away.

The rest of them smelled it and cringed in disgust as well, so they turned away from their cups, which made Alphabittle and the Mobians but Omega groan. "Great, now they don't want to be adults anymore..." Sonic deadpanned.

"As a kid, you don't have to pay taxes. I don't blame them," Knuckles pointed out with a shrug.

"Uhhh…" Alphabittle thought for a moment, then he searched through the supplies and found six drinking straws. "This should do it."

With this, he showed the straws to the Young 6, which turned and saw said straws, which made them start to giggle in excitement. With this, Alphabittle started placing each straw in their cups, which they started sipping, which also made them glow, meaning the effects of the tea were working.

"Oh, thank Chaos!" Knuckles said, removing some sweat of his forehead. "I thought we'll never bring them back to normal..."

But just when Filly Misty was the last one Alphabittle was about to put her straw in her cup, he stopped and looked at his filly daughter with sadness.

"Goo-goo, ga-ga! Goo-goo, ga-ga!" Filly Misty said with a cute face and smile with sparkling eyes, while Alphabittle looked at her still sad with sparkling eyes.

This also reactivated something on his memory, something he thought he'll never ever get back...





Many years ago, before Misty disappeared, she was on the swing with her father.

Filly Misty giggled at each push Alphabittle gave her, before she flew back from the swing and Alphabittle caught her, as she kept giggling with a smile, while Alphabittle smiled back at her. Back then, he would've done anything for his daughter, and now days? He'll still do it.





Alphabittle gave a fond smile at his daughter after remembering that.

"My little filly. You're just like I remember you..." He said with tears of joy in his eyes, then he placed Misty's straw in her cup.

Then, Filly Misty started drinking her tea and glowing, still giving a cute smile.





Later on, the group but Alphabittle was flying back to Maretime Bay.

"So we turned into babies again?" Sunny asked with a sheepish smile. "I hope we were not that much of a problem to you, guys."

"You pulled my quills, Sunny..." Shadow deadpanned with a bit of anger, which made Sunny chuckled sheepishly.

"I'm just glad you guys are back to normal," Sonic said with shrug. "Also, is good you six were the only ones that turned into kids. Just imagine how much chaos would be around if everyone else turned as well."

"Better not think on what could it be, 'cause I seriously don't want to..." Knuckles said with a twitchy eye.

"I still don't understand one thing, though..." Tails pointed out while rubbing his chin. "How did Sunny's pink magic glitter reached the market? Was it there before, or someone else trade it?"

"I can't believe I'm gonna say this of all ponies, but maybe that's a mystery that should remain unsolved," Zipp pointed out with a bored expression while driving the Marestream.

"Agreed," Everyone else replied.


THE END