Sonic The Hedgehog x My Little Pony: Tell Your Tale

by BronySonicFan

20. One Trick Pony

Pink clouds with sparkles appeared suddenly, then it cleared off and showed Rufus as a magician, floating in front of a crowd of ponies.

"Behold! The awesome power of The Great Hoofdini!" Rufus announced to the crowd, which is only Izzy, Knuckles and three fillies from each tribe looking at their phones, since they find Rufus tricks bored.

"Oh, hey, Rufus!" Izzy greeted, smiling and waving her hoof.

"Hi!" Knuckles greeted as well with a smile.

"Oh, that he floats in the air! Yes, as he levitates objects" Rufus said, as he floated around and lifted up a bunch of bushes and plants in a pot. "How does he do it? It’s Mare-aculous!" he announced with a smile.

"Wow!" Izzy cheered with a smile, awed at his tricks.

"Nice!" Knuckles added.

"He clearly uses his wires" the earth pony filly named Seashell said with a blank expression.

"Ponies have like, real magic now" the pegasus filly named Glory said blankly, while she and the other fillies walked off.

"Okay, that was just rude, specially for kids of that age" Knuckles commented with a frown.

Rufus dropped his allusions, revealing the wires tied on him and the plants. "Ugh. Who am I kidding" he said to himself as he lowered himself back to solid ground with a sad expression. "Since real magic came back to Equestria, nopony is interested in my tricks" he said with sadness

"WHAT?!" Izzy said, zooming right in front of Rufus, while Knuckles came closer as well."That can’t be true, Ruf… I mean, Hoofdini!" she said with a smile as she placed a hoof on his shoulder.

Then Rufus remembered some other times he tried to impress other ponies with his magic tricks.

First, he made the trick of the bunny in the hat in front of an earth pony stallion and a unicorn mare, but they gave unamused expressions, and the bunny ended up flying away since it had wings.

Then, he made the trick of the rose behind the ear to an earth pony mare, but the mare rolled her eyes and stomped the ground two times, making appear many bushes of roses, which left Rufus in shock while the rose on his hoof died.

Finally, he made an apple levitate with invisible wires, but he turned around and saw a unicorn mare levitating a whole house with not a big effort.

The mare noticed that and chuckled a little. "Oh! Just helping them move house" she said to Rufus. "So where do you want it?" she asked the earth pony couple that was moving the house.

Rufus, Izzy and Knuckles were walking together after Rufus told them about the flashbacks.

"See? All washed up" Rufus sadly said as he looked at the ground with sadness.

Izzy and Knuckles gave him a sympathetic look, feeling bad for him.

"Man, that sucks. I've seen lots of magicians retiring before, but never forced to retire agains their will" Knuckles said.

"Come on, Rufus. You’re an Earth Pony. Why don’t you just use your growy-growy plant magic? It is so cool!" Izzy suggested, with sparkling eyes. "Whenever I try to grow plants, it takes forever when I forget to water them and they all die" she added, remembering that she always forgets to water her plans.

"That would not happen if you write a reminding on your phone or your calendar, Izz" Knuckles said to her with a bored expression. "We have talked about this... 16 times!" he pointed out. "But yeah, why not use your magic, man?" he asked to Rufus, getting back to topic before they kept the conversation on the wrong direction.

"I don’t have any magic" Rufus revealed with a sad look. "All I got is my tricks. And now, they belong in the garbage dump" he said, then lowered his head in depression.

Izzy and Knuckles looked at Rufus with sympathetic looks, then they looked at each other before giving a comforting smile to Rufus. "Lucky for you, my specialty is giving all kinds of things a second chance" she told Rufus.

"I may not be an expert on the topic of helping someone find its place, but I would do what I can to help you with your problem, pal" Knuckles said with a smile, as he touched one of Rufus' shoulders.

The three then arrived to Izzy’s scooter, while said Unicorn opened up her compartment. "See? Garbage…" she started, taking out a bike steering piece and twirling it around. "... Into a fabulous… uh?" she continued, then stopped for a second to think on what turn the steering piece into. "Bow tie!" she announced, as she bent the bike steering piece into a bow tie. "Ta da!" she cheered, and placed the bended metal bow tie on Rufus, but he fell into the ground because of the weight of the bow tie.

"Little heavy" Rufus pointed out with a little strain.

"Well, you get the point, don't you?" Knuckles asked as he ducked to face Rufus.

Then Izzy suddenly got in between their faces and their cheeks smooshed together. "Come on! We're gonna turn you into something new and awesome, too!" she cheered with a smile.

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A bit later, Izzy and Knuckles took Rufus with Hitch at the Police Station at Maretime Bay.

"So, a wannabe sheriff, eh?" Hitch asked with a smirk. "Well, it's an amazing job but very demanding" he advises them, while opening his jail cage to show Rufus around. "You have to be hyper-aware of your surroundings" he added, looking around.

But then Rufus close the cage door, lock it with the key and swallowed the whole key chain with a gulp.

Hitch, Izzy and Knuckles looked at Rufus with shock after he ate the key. "Was that... Did you just swallow the key?" Hitch asked Rufus, who gave a sheepish smile in response. "Why would you do that?!" Hitch asked in shock.

"Sorry" Rufus apologized with a little smile. "I'm an escape artiste. Swallowing keys is what we do" he said, explaining one of the many tricks he does on his magic shows.

Hitch was not amused by this and glared at Rufus, seeing that him being a wannabe sheriff wouldn’t cut it, while Knuckles facepalmed in frustration.

Izzy looked between them and gave a sheepish smile. "Cards, anyone?" she asked them with a nervous chuckle.

Rufus took out his deck of cards and threw them around the cage.

Knuckles shook some of the cards and looked at Hitch. "Hitch, my man, I appreciate our friendship ever since we met 2 months ago, so I hope that what I'm going to do doesn't affects that" he said to the sheriff, as Hitch looked at him confused.

"What do you––" Hitch was going to ask, but then Knuckles literally ripped the cage door with his hands and put it aside as he walked out of the cage.

"I'll pay you later for the damage" Knuckles assured, as he walked off the station, letting the three ponies with their jaws dropped, as they looked at each other in shock.

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After that little mishap, they made their way to Zephyr Heights, where they told Queen Have about Rufus and wanted to do something for his talents. Izzy explained the whole thing, which made both Haven and Knuckles to yawn, since her explanation was taking too long.

"And Hoofdini will do the best job ever of guarding the crown jewels" Izzy finished to explain.

Rufus cleared his throat and came close to Queen Haven. "What crown jewels?" he asked, then worked his magic tricks to poof Haven's crown and necklace away, which cause her to yelp in shock. "Where did they go? How did he do it?" he said with a smile, still going with his act.

"Thief! Guards!" Haven yelled out as Thunder and Zoom came by, since she didn't took this magic trick well at all.

Rufus poof next to Izzy and Knuckles, while Izzy began to panic and Knuckles facepalmed again.

"Uh... Okay! Gotta go!" Izzy cried out with panic as she grabbed Rufus and zipped away.

"Just for the record, the jewels are back on your cabinet" Knuckles said before turning around. "He told me, if you're wondering how I know" he added, and then boosted out of the palace to catch up with Izzy and Rufus.

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And then a little bit later, once they made it to Bridlewood, they went to the Crystal Tea Room, where Rufus tried out being a tea maker with Alphabittle. Rufus shook the tea mixer, then turned to Izzy and Knuckles who winked at him, feeling this was going to be the one job he could perfectly do.

Onyx and her bongo unicorn stallion friend were in front of Alphabittle. "Gimme a tea, Alpha-B. Peppermint B, pretty P" she ordered in a cool jazz tone, as her friend played the bongos.

Alphabittle nodded his head and turned to Rufus so he could take the order.

"Comin' up!" Rufus called out as he brought out a cardboard tube and lifted up to reveal a teacup. "Ta-daaaa!" he cheered. But before Onyx could get her tea, Rufus lifted a hoof to stop her and summoned another teacup. "Oh!" he said, then he thought for a minute and summoned another tea cup and chuckled.

Onyx clapped her hooves, but just before she can get her teacup, Rufus summoned more tea cups all over his side of the table.

"I ain't payin' for all these teas, if you please" Onyx said a little mad while Alphabittle glared at Rufus.

"Uhhh…" Rufus groaned from summoning so much cups, while Izzy lowered herself down to avoid eye contact and Knuckles banged his head on the table with frustration.

He then took a bag out of his quills and looked at the inside, then took out 10 bits and extended the rest of the bag to Alphabittle. "For the teas, thank you" Knuckles told the unicorn, as Alphabittle levitated the bag with his magic and Knuckles slurped some tea from one of the cups to try and relax himself a bit.

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After Knuckles payed Alphabittle for the teas and drink them all, the three of them went back to Maretime Bay, while Rufus felt depressed since his tricks didn’t seem to fit anywhere.

"Oh, this is hopeless" Rufus groaned in sadness and frustration. "My tricks'll never fit in anywhere. I might as well forget 'Hoofdini' and just be plain old Rufus" he added with sadness.

"Come on, man. We can't give up now. There has to be... litter!" Knuckles tried to say, but he saw some litter on the street, then quickly grabbed and threw it on a trash can. "This disrespectful ponies throwing litter..." he muttered to himself, then faced Rufus again. "Where I was?... Oh yeah! As I was saying, there has to be something that fits you and your tricks, we just need to find it" he said to him, then looked around with one hand covering his forehead.

"Yeah! We just haven't found the right thing to uni-cycle you into yet" Izzy said in agreement with Knuckles.

While they walked around Maretime Bay, they walked past the three fillies from earlier.

"Ugh! Buffering?! We're missing Pipp's new livestream!" Seashell complained, since their phones were loading for an eternity now and they didn't wanted to miss Pipp’s livestream.

"You gotta hold your phone way higher than that!" Glory said, and then she flew away to get a better signal, with her friends loosing sight of her when she flew into the sky.

Rufus watches Glory fly off and sighed with frustration. "No wonder my magic don't impress anypony. Everypony can do it!" he pointed his hoof to Glory to prove his point, while Izzy and Knuckles gave him a sympathetic look.

Meanwhile, in the sky, Glory looked at her phone and saw that she was high enough to get a connection since her signal bar went up to all five. "Yes! Full bars! Not gonna miss a whinny of Pipp's new livestream!" she cheered to herself as Pipp’s livestream started.

"Hey, Pippsqueaks!" Pipp greeted her followers. "Still haven't figured out my amazing, show-stopping entrance. Sad face!" she said and literally gave a sad face before turning back to a happy one. "Hit me up with your suggestions in the comments!" she advised her followers.

"Ooh, I've got an idea!" Glory said, but before she could make her comment, a construction pegasus came flying by and moved Glory out of his way.

"Hey! Watch it!" the pegasus stallion yelled out, while his push caused Glory to spin around.

Glory gasped when she started to spin, and that spin cause her to drop her phone. She flew down to catch it, but once got it she twirled around and loosed control of her flight, then started to scream since she is falling now.

"Whoa! That pony! She's fallin'!" Rufus said with worry, while Izzy and Knuckles worried for that filly as well.

Seashell and her unicorn friend came to their side, seeing Glory falling from the sky. "Somepony! Do something!" Seashell cried out in worry, while Glory continued to scream while falling from the sky.

"I got her!" Knuckles said, as he started to charge up his SpinDash and boosted towards the pegasi, now gliding in the air and extending his arms so he could catch the filly, but then he started to descend a little, and unfortunately got off track. He ended up crashing against a wall, and fell into the ground a little dizzy.

"Knux!" Izzy cried out, as she checked on the equidna.

"I-I'm fine, Izz..." Knuckles assured, still a little dizzy.

Izzy looked back at Glory with worry. "Look out!" she cried out and tried to use her magic to catch Glory to slow down her falling, but Glory was falling so fast that her magic wasn't working at all, and it ended up dying. "No use! She’s falling too fast! And Knuckles can't glide to catch her!" Izzy cried out as Glory kept falling and screaming.

Rufus looked around for something that could help, and then saw three vines on a building and ran towards them and picked one up. "If only these vines were longer!" he cried. But then his Cutie Mark began to glow and so did his hooves, while the vine he touched spread to the other vines and his magic made the vines longer on top. Rufus gasped as he realized that not only he unlocked his earth pony magic, but also he could save Glory now. "Saddle-cadabra!" he called out as he used his magic on the vines.

Just when Glory was about to hit the ground hard, Rufus catch her riding on the vines. He used the vines to move around on the vines, then jumped and summoned a bush on the ground that helped him land safely on the ground. He placed Glory down as she smiled at her savior, while her phone landed on the bush safely as well.

"Whoo-hoo! I knew it!" Izzy cheered to Rufus at what he just did. "You had earth pony magic all along!" she said to him with sparkling eyes.

Knuckles arrived as he scratched his head a little in pain. "Auch..." he complained, since his head still hurt from the hit on the wall. "Great job man... Wish I could have helped more tho... my gliding it's usually better" he felt bad for not help out more.

"Aw, it's okay, Knuckles. You did your best" Izzy said to him as she hugged her, glad that he was okay after all. "And Rufus has earth pony magic now! Isn't that just great?!" she cheered with sparkling eyes.

"It sure is" Knuckles said, smiling a bit. "Congratulations man, we told you you got it on you" he added.

"Guess so! Just needed a good reason for it to start workin'!" Rufus said to them with a smile, glad to finally bring out his earth pony magic.

Meanwhile, Seashell and Glory hugged each other, with Seashell feeling glad that her friend was okay. "Hoofdini! You saved Glory! You're not just a magician! You're a hero!" Seashell cheerfully said to Rufus, thanking him for saving Glory.

Rufus started to tear up with joy, as Izzy and Knuckles smiled at him and Izzy wrapped a hoof around him. "What did we say, huh?" she asked him with a smile. "Nothin' belongs on the garbage dump. Uni-cycle!" she cheered out.

Knuckles then looked at Glory's phone, seeing that Pipp’s livestream was still going. He pick it up carefully since his hands were giant, and then an idea popped into his head. "Aha! And for your next trick…" Knuckles said to Rufus with a smile.

Izzy looked at Knuckles confused, then at the phone, and then she understood what idea he had, as she looked at Rufus with sparkling eyes.

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Later that day, Pipp was still livestreaming, now in front of the stage of Mane Melody. "Shout out to my friend Hoofdini for this new, big, show-stopping entrance! It's magiiiiic!" she said with a big smile singing the last part to her followers and pointing to Rufus, who is next to the stage with vines around him.

Rufus used his magic to control the vines and use the stage controls, flipping a switch as they played the instrumental of 'Believe it', as the lights shone and the ponies around and Sonic - yes, he was there cheering too - watched in awe as the vines keep the show going and pressed buttons and switch, playing the music.

Rufus, Izzy and Knuckles - who was now an ice bag on his head to reduce pain from his head - watched with smiles at the performance, while Rufus turned to his two friends. "What do you think, guys?" he asked them.

"I'll say you found the right place for your tricks, Hoofdini" Knuckles said with a smile.

"And it’s Mare-aculous!" Izzy cheered with a wink.

THE END

Comments

[JesusG0987]

Great job and wow, Knuckles with Izzy helping Rufus, that was interesting and funny how Kunckles be in that chapter by tearing the cage door open with just his hands, telling Haven that her jewels are in the cabinets, and paying the teas, and getting knocked to a wall while trying to save Glory, that was funny and now Rufus found his magic and his magician career is saved, amazing job there, keep up the great work

[BenictheHedgehog]

Wait I just realize something. If One trick pony is up, then does that mean Sunny & her “Bananas” is next? Oh boy, I get the feeling Tails or Sonic will be having to cheer her up in that one.

[Progamer]

Good chapter👍