"Where is it, where is it, where is it?"
Lyra Heartstrings heard the voice of her friend and roommate, Bon Bon coming from downstairs accompanied by worrying racket. Lyra decided that it would be best to investigate the goings on seeing as the tone that Bon Bon was using was not one that she used very often.
When Lyra arrived at the bottom of the stairs, she turned the corner and found a boot flying towards her face. She quickly ducked, the hoofwear missing her narrowly. The boot was soon followed by a couch cushion which Lyra sidestepped, putting her in the direct path of a flying kitchen knife.
Not a moment too soon, Lyra caught it with her amber-coloured magic and placed it down where it couldn't be flung at sompony's face. The source of the multitude of flying objects was none other than the frantic Bon Bon, who was currently searching under one of the green sofas that resided in the girls' living room. She'd held up one end with a stack of horseshoes and slid the upper half of her body under the piece of furniture where she was rapidly pulling out random objects and tossing them about. Lyra took it as Bon Bon doing some proper house cleaning after finding the mound of objects that Lyra had unintentionally stuffed, dropped, or hid under the couch. In fact, Lyra was surprised that Bon Bon found it; under normal circumstances she would be much too obsessive or compulsive to move the couch from its perfect place in the room or to put her face anywhere near the dirty floor. But today, she was searching specifically for-
"My necklace is missing!" Bon Bon slid out from under the elevated couch and jumped to her hooves. "Lyra!" she yelled before noticing that Lyra was standing right in front of her face. "Sorry."
Lyra rubbed her ear with her hoof and giggled. "It's okay, Bon Bon," she said, smiling. "But I've never seen you where a necklace."
Bon Bon knocked the stack of horseshoes out from under the couch, causing it to crash down onto the wooden floor with a bang, though there was no obvious physical damage. "And that is exactly why it is so important," she replied. The sweet-maker stood up straight, stepping into the kitchen and looked into the fridge. Whilst searching for something to eat, she explained her conundrum to Lyra. "You see, the necklace was given to me from my mother when I moved into Ponyville from Manehattan. It was previously given to her by her own mother, who obtained it from her's, and so on and so on." Bon Bon lifted her head out of the refrigerator, a glass bottle of milk in her mouth.
"That's terrible!" Lyra responded. "Don't worry, I'll try my hardest to find it." Bon Bon brought a glass out from a cabinet to the left of the kitchen sink and placed it on the table, and poured her milk. Lyra decided to levitate a straw from a box in the pantry and dropped it into Bon Bon's drink. "You know, I think we'll make much more progress if I told everypony else. You know, six heads are better than one?"
Bon Bon nodded. "Thank you, Lyra. But don't forget that more than one head is not always beneficial. The Hydra, for example is a creature that often confuses itself, unable to coordinate its many heads to work toward a single goal." Bon Bon sipped her milk gleefully.
Lyra blinked for a few seconds with her mouth hung open before she started talking again. "Oookaaayy... I'll just... Go get everypony else and tell them what's up. Thanks for the, um, lesson."
"Don't mention it."
Lyra left, shutting the front door behind her. It slowly opened soon after, Lyra revealing only her head. "Before I forget, I should probably ask what it actually looks like," she said sheepishly.
After an explanation as to what the necklace looked like and a very long reitteration of Bon Bon's entire day, Lyra departed from their shared abode in search of the rest of her friends to inform them of Bon Bon's lost treasure. It was not long before Lyra ran into Derpy Hooves who was delivering her last few parcels to Carousel Boutique, her delivery satchel almost empty. "Hey Derpy Hooves!" Lyra greeted her feathered friend. Derpy looked down to see Lyra jumping up and down, waving a hoof in the air with a wide grin on her face.
"Hi, Lyra," she responded. Derpy glided towards Lyra and landed firmly on the ground. "Watch'ya up to?" she asked.
"Bon Bon lost a necklace. It's really important to her, so I'm helping her find it. You haven't seen it, have you?"
Derpy thought about it for a moment, but wildly shook her head. "Sorry, Lyra, I haven't seen anything. But don't worry!" She jumped up and flapped her wings, soaring through the air and landing back down. "I can be your eye in the sky!"
"Thanks, Derpy," Lyra said. "Bon Bon told me that the last time she saw it was just before she bumped into a blue unicorn at the market, so try to see if you can find it there. It's a thick gold one with a huge jewel in the middle that looks sort of like a candy."
Derpy raised a hoof to her forehead in salute and launched herself into the sky to begin her search over Ponyville. Lyra stared up for a minute until her friend disappeared in the distance before continuing on her very minor quest to inform the rest of her friends about the missing necklace.
Suddenly, Lyra heard the rapid clopping of hooves closing in behind her. She turned her head to see two young unicorn colts in full gallop. The shorter and chubbier of the two was a light blue-green with a messy yellow-brown mane and tail and a pair of scissors as his cutie mark. The other, taller and thinner, had a yellow coat with an equally unkempt light green mane and tail. His cutie mark was a snail.
The two blew past her with enough force to send her spinning at ridiculous speeds, after which loses her balance and falls over, hitting her jaw on the ground and her eyes rolling around in her head. When she regained her vision, she quickly cast a spell to grab the two unicorn's tails and dragged them back. "Hold on you two, what's going on," she asked.
Snips gasped and gave her a wide-eyed look. "What, haven’t you heard?"
She shook her head. She really had no idea what was going on. Snails pushed his partner to the side and exclaimed, "There is a new unicorn in town!"
Snips then chimed in, bouncing on his hooves and sounding as if he had too much sugar for breakfast. "Yeah! They say that she’s got more magical powers than any other unicorn ever!" Lyra released her magical grip on the two boys and let them go running into town square. A new unicorn? she thought. I might as well take a quick look. Besides, with those two running around, everypony else is sure to be there.
She raced after the two only moment later. When she arrived at town square, she saw that a very large crowd of ponies stood gathered around a small travelling wagon trailer that had been set up in front of the pavilion. She bounced up and down a few times in order to see above the sizable crowd to try and spot any of her friends that may have been there. She did not see anypony she knew, and began to leave and maybe go try Octavia's house.
"Why Lyra, it's lovely to see you here."
Octavia and Vinyl Scratch appeared behind Lyra.
"Oh, hey girls, I've been looking for you," she told them.
"We know," Vinyl responded, "We passed by Bon Bon on the way here and told us what was what." Vinyl leaned in close and brought her voice down to a whisper, putting a hoof to the side of her muzzle as if to make sure nopony was listening. "But between you and me, I think whoever she bumped into is super suspicious. I mean, a blue unicorn wearing some sort of coat and a hat? How can you be more suspicious that that?"
Octavia nodded. "I agree, it does seem suspicious that the necklace disappeared after the appearance of a unicorn whose features she could not make out."
"Lyra scratched her head. "I don't think so. It's probably just a coincidence. We shouldn't go accusing ponies we haven't even met."
Derpy hopped down from seemingly nowhere, grinning widely. Hey Lyra! Hey girls!" she greeted.
"Hi Derpy," the trio said at precisely the same time.
"I brought the Doctor, I told him about the necklace." As she spoke, the Doctor could be seen squeezing his way through the crowd, being bumped and knocked about by other ponies until he made his way to the group of friends.
Vinyl stepped forward, pushing Octavia aside. "Hey Doc! Derps here told you about the unicorn Bon Bon bumped into right? We were all just talking about how suspicious it is."
"Yes, I do think that there may be trouble afoot with whoever that is," he stated, scratching his chin.
"Um, I don't think it's that suspicious," Lyra pointed out while raising her left hoof in the air.
Before anypony could respond, a female voice suddenly rang out over the gathered ponies, sounding ridiculously dramatic and over the top; Lyra, Octavia, Vinyl and the Doctor looked up.
"Come one, come all! Come and witness the amazing magic of the Great and Powerful Trixie!"
While this happened, the trailer reconfigured itself, flipping out and unfolding, transforming to reveal its secondary purpose as a stage with several bits of overhead scenery such as rockets, planets and stars, a spiral, and a magic wand. A blast of glittering blue smoke went off; when it cleared, a blue unicorn mare stood smiling at the crowd. Her mane and tail were a lighter shade of blue, and she wore a purple wizard’s hat and cape covered with stars. It was hard to see at first but her cape flowed with the wind, revealing her cutie mark. It was a star-tipped wand spreading stardust. The mare had made her grand arrival, prompting awed murmurs from the crowd.
The eyes of Vinyl, Octavia, Derpy, Lyra, and the Doctor went wide, and at the same time, four of the five of them —excluding Lyra— said, "It's her!" realizing that this pony was most definitely probably the cloaked unicorn that Bon Bon had bumped into in the market.
Fireworks erupted from the stage as they yelled, covering up their exclamations.
"Oh dear," Lyra whispered.