She's sick. (It's amazing how often that happens.) Pipp can't control when she gets sick! (Or so she claims.) But yes, this time, the royal family sort of has a prior commitment. So Pipp really should show up this time, just to smile at the populace. Or rather, the smile can show up. It just needs somepony who can carry it in.

So when you look at it that way, this is all Zipp is being asked to do: wear a dark plastic shell over her own head for hours, in the middle of a power broker gathering, while her sister's face smiles out from the digital front panel.

Pipp really doesn't see any problems with this.

Yet.

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A terrible crisis has afflicted Pipp Petals: her social media metrics are going down. A declining starlet is a desperate starlet, and desperate starlets take risks. Like turning some chatbot app into a digital PR coach.

So what if there's only one pony in history whose hunger for fame surpasses Pipp's? Or that its advice seems more like self-serving commands? Pipp is a smart pony. She's still in charge. She can shut her phone off whenever she wants to.

She just doesn't want to. And Tri.exe knows it. So let the mischief begin.

Oh, and also Hearts And Hooves Day is coming up. Surely that won't be a relevant plot point.

Pipp finds something hilarious. She really, really wants to keep it.

Only a few days have passed since magic's restoration and when it comes to the little things, Pipp is still trying to adjust. Minor details like 'all of Zephyr Heights still knows I couldn't really fly' and 'I went outside and the dirt got me.' The royal family's reputation still needs a touch of repair, and that's why her mother is considering whether to send the siblings away for a while. Just until the gossip cools down.

Zipp wants to go investigate the new. Pipp would like to have her status quo back, thank you very much. So they can really fly now? Why does that mean things have to change?

...and maybe she can also make... lightning? Electricity? As in 'that stuff which keeps my phone, and therefore me, alive'?

The new might have possibilities. Which includes an increased chance of exile.

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Nopony should ever have to save a princess, because a decently-skilled royal should be more than capable of saving herself. That's just one of the problems Pipp has with the current new (and stupid) mobile game. Most of the rest is in the rumor which says she's the one who has to be saved, and if she can actually reach the level-locked part of the game which is supposedly hosting her image, somepony's going to pay for that one. But she's already out of tries for the day. Well, rather than get her mother involved through spending palace money, might as well watch a few ads.

Or the same ad. The one which never, ever wants to get off her screen. It's like the video is trying to get a billion views on less than a thousandth of the total possible viewers...

Give her a minute. She hadn't been out of the palace all that long. The whole 'irony' thing is new.

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When Pipp is awoken in the middle of the night by some racket downstairs, she finds her sister is also awake. Something is clearly troubling Zipp, but Pipp is shocked to find out what it is.

Can she help her big sister overcome these doubts about herself?

(Takes place between Chapters 2 and 3 of MYM)

Out in the Bridlewood Forest lies a castle older than legends themselves.

No pony should care what Pipp and Zipp like to do together in their spare time. Their sisters, after all. If they want to spend time alone together, could blame them?

Now with dramatic readings, courtesy of The Mystery Fluttershy Fan and StraightToThePointStuio.

Cover art title: Sunny Skating
By artist: AnderDragon76

Sunny is keen to finally have some friends willing to try out her favourite pastime when she has to do her deliveries. After managing to find some extra gear for all of them to try, she's more determined than ever to get her friends into something she enjoys. Will her friends be able to master the art of skating through town and keep up with Sunny?

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Roller-Ponies by Mystery Pony Fiction

After a few failed attempts to deal with the Light Bringer, the goddess decides that instead of killing Pip maybe throwing her into the far future to deal with later would be easier. She over shoots the date though by just a tincy wincy bit.

An Art trade I did with Jamin P. Rose

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