Sprout Cloverleaf, former emperor of Maretime Bay, has been sentenced to about two months woth of community service by Hitch Trailblazer for his war crimes against ponykind. That would be bad enough for Sprout, but in addition to the community service, he also has Izzy Moonbow be his supervisor.

Sprout felt like the next two months would be a living nightmare, especially with Izzy being there, but will he ever warm up to the unicorn over the next two months, and maybe even gain some feelings towards her?

Inspired by these pieces of fanart (one of them is the cover of this story):
https://derpibooru.org/images/2754265?q=izzysprout
https://derpibooru.org/images/2769930?q=izzysprout

(Note: I changed the cover for the story because I just found an image that better suited the story. The link for the original fanart is still gonna be there as the source of inspiration.)

New chapters published whenever they are ready.

This story is a sequel to Wet Behind The Ears

It is a special day in Maretime Bay, but the Crystal Brighthouse is empty. Bluegill Brine has slept in, and now her friends are away. Brine is free to wander the town and enjoy the weather. The strange, beautiful weather.

A birthday gift for my friend Casketbase77. Cover art is by Ahobo.

Hitch has a conversation with Sprout regarding everything that happened. Sprout has a few things to get out of his chest and plenty of apologies to do. But sometimes friendships need to restart from zero to build them stronger.
(mentions of Hitch/Izzy or as I liked to call Moonblazer pairing)

Spoilers for the general plot and ending of the G5 movie.

The return of magic also caused the Crystal Empire to appear again, but two Crystal Ponies, banished from their homeland, wish to change that.
And now it's up to Sprout to stop them, save all of Equestria's magic, and accept that his family played a larger part in history than he would have enjoyed.

Written for the G5 Bingo Writing Contest. Prompts were "Sprout + is keeping a secret from + Sweets + Crystal Ponies + School for Gifted Unicorns".
Contains a silly plot, (intentionally) butchered history, and stereotypical Swedish/IKEA-ish proper names, mostly meaning that I added a bunch of unnecessary umlauts to vowels. =P I apologize to Prince Shining Armor, Princess Luna, and all Swedish people reading this. Also contains an actual IKEA name - Älvängen/Alvangen is/was a set of lamps, including a desk lamp.
Might do something else for the cover image later - right now it's nearly 1am and the deadline is upon me, so this needs to go out NOW.

It's just not fair. He was the only one who truly understood the threat of the other species, the stallion who mobilized Maretime Bay in the battle for ultimate victory, and what did it get him? A criminal record and community service. And now the unicorns and pegasi are just moving around HIS city like they own the place and that's totally unfair. His mother should own the place (through having sold more anti-them stuff) and once she'd stepped aside? It would be Sprout time!

But nopony recognizes how vital he is. They expect him to pick up litter and worse, to do it before Hitch. They don't understand that ponies are meant to be afraid. All the time. Then somepony can be in charge. Like him. (Again.) And if they're not going to be terrified of wings and horns...

...what's an 'Ursa'?

Doesn't matter. He'll just go find out the Sprout way. By WINNING.

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Cover art from a mark capture by SproutHooves.

Shortly after the events of the movie, Sunny invites her friends to try a recipe she found. The conversation soon turns to wings.

Did you know pegasi lose theirs?

Now with a reading!

Sprout feels bad about how he was the one responsible for destroying Sunny’s house. After he sees what the new one looks like, he’s ready to demolish it all over again.

*warning, this fic contains very childish dick jokes*

A collection of twelve 100+ word Gen 5 shipfics written and published entirely on my cell phone. You can write anywhere!

An extension of this blog post.

After moving into Maretime Bay full time, Izzy notices that Sprout hasn't been around. She soon learns that he left his job and has barely set hoof outside his house since the crystals were brought together.

Convinced that Sprout needs somepony to cheer him up, Izzy takes it upon herself to do the cheering up. But Izzy is the absolute last pony Sprout wants to see, he can't stand her in the slightest.

Unfortunately for Sprout, Izzy isn't the type of pony who takes "No" for an answer. She'll find a way to cheer him up no matter what it takes. And maybe, just maybe, she'll find a way to get inside that icy heart of his.

(Featured on 7/05/2022.)

Peace has been restored and all is well in Maretime Bay once again. But that doesn't mean things have gone completely back to how they were, some things still need to be addressed.

Among them is Sprout's actions as emperor, and Hitch wants to make sure Sprout learns his lesson. To that end, he has his former deputy arrested and put in jail, much to Sprout's shock.

But Sprout will be even more surprised when Sunny of all ponies comes to visit him. Yet Sunny's reason for the visit is not what Sprout will be expecting. There's something very important Sunny wants to teach the stallion who used to be a childhood friend of hers.

(Featured from 1/17/22 to 1/18/22. Has an audio reading on YouTube which can be viewed here.)