School has ended and Sunny invites Hitch to come over to play for the evening. Sunny tells Hitch about her dream of unicorns and pegasi being welcomed with open hooves in Maretime Bay. Together, Hitch helps Sunny pretend to fly whilst she dreams of that fantasy becoming a reality.

Inspired by the fanart and animation Support
By artist LiaAqila

First G5 fanfic. Hope you enjoy this cute one-off

This story is a sequel to Legends Never Die

Sprout never seems to belong, though that was all he ever wanted. He decides to finally be honest with himself.

Other parallel stories:
Legends Never Die: Over the Moon
Legends Never Die: Kindness Not Wasted
Legends Never Die: Eye of the Storm
Legends Never Die: More Than Petals

WARNING: Contains no relation to My Little Pony: Make Your Mark or My Little Pony: Tell Your Tale. This is strictly related to events that happened after My Little Pony: A New Generation.

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.

Days after returning from his (unintentional) grand adventure to reunite the pony races, Hitch Trailblazer is called to the home of Sprout and Phyllis Cloverleaf following an event in Maretime Bay.

Days after trying to harm the very ponies Hitch worked to help, Sprout finds himself stuck in his garden following a series of events mostly out of his control.

Now face-to-face, both stallions realize that they both need help only the other can provide.

Written for the M/M Shipping Contest! But let's be honest, I was just looking for an excuse to do Hitch/Sprout eventually.
Art by FraumFlug! Go follow them for more cute art.

It's a long, long, long way down from being Emperor of Maretime Bay, especially after your childhood friend turned out to be right after all. It wouldn't have been so bad if Sunny had rubbed his nose in it, but she hadn't even done as much as that.

Now, Sprout has to make some tough choices. And while he might try to take the easy way out, somepony unexpected will show him another way forward.

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 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.

Hitch knew he used to be friends with Sprout, and then things changed. And now he wants answers, and maybe along with that the possibility of Sprout becoming a better pony.

Or were they ever really friends at all...? Is there even a chance for Sprout to turn his life around, grow up a little? Hitch doesn't know, but he'd like to find out.

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)

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.)