29. Dragon Dad
At the Sheriff Station, the Mane 5 and Team Sonic were playing with Sparky as he was swinging in a bucket with hoof cuffs on a lamp to stabilize it while Izzy pushed Sparky to swing and the rest smiled at the cute baby dragon, while Sparky cheered in joy and Zipp began to swing Sparky next, though a little too hard at the swinging when she hit the bucket.
Hitch and Knuckles watched from Hitch's desk, keeping a close eye on Sparky, being overprotective to that dragon after he disappeared a few days ago. Their worry grew when they saw a tiny crack at the chain of the cuffs, and they gasped in panic. "Ponies, stop! The hoof cuffs are about to…" Hitch tried to warn, but got cut off when Zipp hit's Sparky's bucket so hard, the hoof cuff snapped and shot Sparky into the air, with the rest looking in shock and Zipp surprised at her strength, while Hitch shrieked in panic and trotted off to catch his dragon.
Sparky cheered at the excitement as his bucket fell down, while Hitch cried out as he flopped to the floor and caught Sparky, but then he skied through the floor and hit a table cabinet with a fruit bowl on top, and then a pineapple landed on Hitch’s head. "Great" Hitch groaned, glad that Sparky is okay but really annoyed that he got fruit on his face again. Sparky licked some pineapple content off Hitch's head as he cheered at the taste, with Hitch sighing at this outcome.
Hitch got up from the floor, while Knuckles retired the pineapple from his head, while Hitch holds Sparky in his hooves. "Right. That’s it. You ponies obviously need a refresher on the 'Three S'es of Successful Pony Parenting'" Hitch said to the group as he put down Sparky.
"The Three S’es?" Sunny asked, as she and the others were confused.
"You didn't just made that up, did you?" Sonic questioned with a raised eyebrow and his arms crossed.
Hitch looked at them on disbelief, realizing that he just made up the new rules and he tries to think on them carefully as he smiled nervously. "Pssh, no! Uh..." he then started to laugh nervously. "You know. Um… Uh… My foolproof system for perfect dragon parenting!" he quickly said, thinking on the rules while Sparky is waddling around with the bucket on his head as Knuckles chases him. "Uh… Number one: Keep them safe! Yeah" Hitch said, while Knuckles launched himself in front of Sparky and placed a billow on the side of his desk in front of Sparky before he hit it, which caused the dragon to sat on the ground from the sudden soft impact. "Number two: No snacks!" Hitch cried out, as he wrapped the entire snacks in a cloth from the table and started shredding them on the shredder.
Izzy gasped at the shredded snacks and smiled. "Spaghetti snacks!" she said with a cheery smile, while Knuckles facepalmed at Hitch overthinking things... again.
Hitch turned to his friends again for the last S rule. "And three: Never let them out of your sight! Wait where’d he go?" he asked, looking around and not seeing Sparky anywhere. "Sparky? Sparky?!" he called out to him with worry and panic.
The rest were looking at him strangely, as Zipp chuckled at Hitch and pointed to his head. "Up top, sheriff" she said to Hitch.
Hitch looked up where Zipp was pointing and saw Sparky on top of his head. "Yah!" Sparky cheered, waving his paws.
"I know!" Hitch quickly said with an embarrassing smile. "That was, uh… a test" he said, chuckling sheepishly. "And you passed" he added with a sheepish smile.
Knuckles rolled his eyes at Hitch’s attitude. "Man, you are overthinking and being overprotective, again" he said with a bored tone.
"I don’t overthink things, Knux. I’m just trying to keep Sparky safe" Hitch said stubbornly, but Knuckles' face said otherwise. "Oh, come on! When was the last time I overthink things?" he asked to him and the others.
"Those times you used to think unicorns and pegasi were bad news" Sonic said with an amusing expression.
Hitch blinked at the mention of that. "Okay, good point. But aside from that?" he asked with a confident smile.
"That time when you made every earth pony, Sunny included, from using their magic that it backfired" Tails reminded with a bored expression. "You even tried to erase it from existing" he pointed out.
"And the actual last time, you put us in a chase all around Maretime Bay that ended up scaring everypony" Knuckles listed with a frown. "Heck, you even threatened them on a terrible Robin cosplay!" he pointed out.
"Who's Robin?" Izzy asked in whispers to Sunny at her side.
"I have no idea" Sunny replied in whispers.
Hitch then blinked in surprise at all those points, and then chuckled sheepishly. "Okay. I see your point, guys" he admittedly said with a chuckle. "But this time is different! I’m just trying to look after Sparky, and these three rules are going to keep him safe for sure" he assured.
"Well, I hope so, because last time he got lost, I got a scar in my back" Sonic said with a frown and his hands on his hip. "And even tho another scar would look absolutely badass on me..." he said with a little smile, that faded away once he saw Pipp staring daggers at him. "... I'd rather not get another one if that means I have to get her rage again" he added with an anxious look.
"Uh, who's 'her'?" Tails questioned.
"You live better without knowing it" Sonic replied.
Outside the station, Misty was walking by, but then she stopped and saw the window open, curious on what is going on in there.
Back in the station, Sparky giggled a bit, but then stopped as he felt a burp coming up, and with that burp came his magic dragon fire, that went out the window.
"Whoa!" Misty cried out as she ducked from Sparky’s dragon fire. "Wait a second" she said to herself as she placed a hoof on her chin. "That looked like... dragon fire?!" she called out with wide eyes in realization, since she saw that fire when Opaline asked her to capture him.
And then Misty’s medallion, that Opaline gave to her to stay in contact, opened up glowing and floating, pointing to the open window of the station while Misty peek through it and watches Sparky on Hitch’s head, as Hitch panicked since Sparky kept shooting his dragon fire.
Misty saw this and brought out her notebook to wrote down what she was seeing. "If I can get some juicy intel on Sparky’s dragon fire, maybe Opaline will finally stop talking about it" she said with an annoying look as she has remembered every time Opaline mentioned that dragon fire.
Opaline was shaking Misty, who was growing dizzy while Eggman just cringed behind. "Get me that dragon fire!" Opaline demanded Misty, while said unicorn gave a scared look to Opaline’s outburst.
Them, Opaline was showing Misty and Eggman a diagram, with a candle on her hoof, as she turned with a mischievous smile. "With dragon fire, I’ll be the most powerful Fire Alicorn of all time!" she announced with an evil laugh, while Misty looked on with a nervous smile, nodding her head to Opaline and looking around, while Eggman rubbed his eyes with one hand in annoyance.
And finally, Opaline was taking a nap on her throne straight up with a hoof on her cheek. "Dragon…" she said as she snored. "fire…" she snored again, then turned to the other side with her other hoof touching her cheek while Misty gives a worried look at Opaline since she is so obsessed with dragon fire.
"Misty, I swear I'll end up killing someone if you don't bring her her damn fire..." Eggman said with an annoyed look.
Misty ended her flashbacks with a strange and focused her attention back to the station to keep notes of what she saw.
In the station, Hitch gave a determined look as he walks in front of the rest, with Misty peeking through the window without the others knowing.
"The station is danger-proof from head to hoof! Hey that rhymed" Hitch said with a small smile.
"Oh!" Sunny said with realization as Izzy nodded. "Like putting those safety locks on cover doors" she said while pointing to said cover door with a safety lock on it.
"Uh. Try a six-point laser triggered alarm system!" Hitch stated, as he brought out a red button in his hoof and pressed it, which made two laser stands appear and make appear six lasers in front of the cover door.
"Dude, if you made this because of what I said when we first met, about having worst security than Eggman, then please grow up" Sonic said with a bored expression, while Tails at his side just looked confused.
Izzy ran to the stands and touched the laser with her hoof, which caused the alarm to go off as the station glowed red as well. Izzy felt amazed as she stopped touching the laser, but then, of course, Izzy placed her hoof back to the laser, touching it again and again as the alarm goes off with each touch. Knuckles came close to Izzy with a bored expression as he shook a pair of keys in front of Izzy, which got her attention as she stopped touching the laser and Knuckles walked backwards while Izzy hops after the keys.
Hitch sighs at Izzy's personality since he should've seen that coming. Behind him, Sparky was playfully chopping a carrot with a knife at a fast pace. Hitch turned, saw this and gasped in panic, running towards Sparky as he snatched the knife out of his paws. "And there's sharp objects" he nervously said, putting the knife in his tool box and locked it in a safe. "Always keep them locked safely away" he said, putting the safe in a bigger safe with a hoof scanner and locking it in the cage. "And under constant watch!" he cried out as he got his animal crew, with cop hats on their heads, out of a wall door as they saluted Hitch and hopped down to the floor, walking back and forth while guarding the safe.
Zipp gave a strange look at Hitch's overdoing things while Pipp smiled strangely at him. "Hmm. Nice and simple" she said to the stallion's safety lessons.
And then, Hitch appeared between the two sisters, startling Zipp and Pipp at his sudden appearance. "Lastly, make sure you cushion all the hard corners and edges" he said, placing bubble wraps on every hard corner and edges in the station, even his framed on the wall as well, the map and some hard edges objects, he even wrapped Sparky in bubble wrap for safety. "See! No risk of harm whatsoever" he said to the others, starting to sweat under pressure.
Sparky jumped up and down while trapped in his bubble wrap, and then tripped to the floor, which caused his dragon fire to come out again. Sparky’s dragon fire hit a stabler behind Zipp, who dodge the dragon fire while the stabler turned into a gag wind up teeth and bit Zipp's tail as she cringed in pain.
"OW!" Zipp cried out in pain.
"Well, I hope you learn how to control that dragon fire soon as well" Knuckles said with a frown, carefully pulling the teeth off form Zipp's tail and throwing it away. "It's getting wilder" he pointed out.
Outside the station, Misty kept watching as she wrote down what she saw on her notebook with an awed expression. "Whoa! No wonder Opaline wants that dragon fire. It’s so powerful!" she said in amazement, but then she ducked. "Yikes!" she screamed, tossing her pen into the air and dodging another one of Sparky’s dragon fire, which hit her pen and turned it into a green mini guitar, which Misty caught and stared in shock at it.
Later, the Mane 5 and Teams Sonic were walking through Maretime Bay with Hitch holding Sparky on a child leash so that he won't go far.
"Now, Mane Street is the best practice for what I call 'snack resistance' training" he said to the rest, while an earth pony stallion passed by, pulling a cart with cotton candy. "Sparky needs to be able to---!" he tried to say, but then cried out in surprise when Sparky rushed off after the cotton candy, dragging Hitch along while the rest watched on with surprised looks.
"Sometimes I don't understand how's that a baby dragon like him can have such strength..." Knuckles said with an anxious look.
Hitch screamed as Sparky dragged him while trying to get the cotton candy, moving past ponies on the sidewalk and running past some bushes while Hitch hit them as he was being dragged.
Misty was hiding in a trash can to get more intel on Sparky’s dragon fire without being noticed, but then Sparky starts running towards her at high speed with Hitch being dragged as he screamed with a bush on his head. Misty looked on in shock as Sparky hit Misty’s trash can, tossing it into the air. Misty crashed back to the floor with a thud, while the trash can landed on her head.
Hitch continued to scream with the bush on his head, but luckily it didn’t last long since he came to a stop. Hitch shook the bush off his head, which messed up his mane from the rush and bush, as he got his sight back. But then Sparky started rushing off again pass the dead bush, while Hitch screaming again, then got hit by a pole, that Sparky circled around, as they came to a stop with Hitch sweating in exhaust, while Sparky carried a giant cotton candy he got from the stand.
Hitch chuckled nervously as he continued where he left off with the rest while a cake cart walked past them. "As I was saying. He needs to be able to…!" he got cut off again as he cried out, since Sparky saw the cakes and ran to it, dragging Hitch along again as the others watched on.
"This is going to take a while..." Sonic said with a bored expression.
Sometime later, Sparky carried a cake as he giggled while Hitch flop on the floor, looking very tired with his mane all messy, while Sparky placed the cake on a pile of treats and snacks he grabbed after seeing them, while the others watched in amazement and shock at what just happened.
Hitch got up, looking tired as he looked at his friends. "It's a learning curve" he said tiredly, trying to cover up his embarrassment at what just happened.
Izzy popped up from the pile of snacks, eating a cupcake with a smile. "This learning curve tastes like blueberries!" she said cheerfully, eating the whole blueberry cupcake.
"At this point, I can't believe you're still in one piece taking care of Sparky" Tails confessed with a neutral expression.
"Thank Chaos I was there, Tails, or else he would be dead by now" Knuckles whispered to him.
Then Sunny, Zipp, Pipp and Team Sonic gave out panicked expressions at what they saw next. "Um, Hitch? What did you say the third 'S' was?" Sunny asked nervously.
"Never let them out of your sight" Hitch said with a smile. But when he saw Sunny pointing to the leash quietly with a nervous look, Hitch turned and panicked when he saw Sparky’s child leash was empty. "Ah! Where’s he gone! Where’s Sparky?! We have to find him!" he cried out in panic.
"Oh Gosh, here we go again..." Sonic muttered as he facepalmed in frustration.
Hitch then turned to his friends. "Izzy, check the beach!" he pointed to Izzy, who saluted him in response as Hitch then got between Sunny and Zipp. "Zipp, Tails, be our eyes in the sky!" he said to Zipp and Tails, as they flew into the air and Hitch turned to Sunny. "Sunny, you… uh… skate around until you find him!" he said, running out of ideas, as Sunny nodded her head with a determined smile. "And Sonic…” Hitch said while looking at Sonic.
"I know, I know. Run around town, Gotta Go Fast, blah, blah, blah..." Sonic replied with a bored face.
"Yeah!" Hitch said with a smile, as he and Knuckles trotted off to look for Sparky again.
But before Sonic could boost out running, he turned to see Pipp looking at him with a frown. "And...?" she questioned, still frowning and now raising and eyebrow.
Sonic rolled his eyes and sighed frustrated. "And I'll be as careful as my reckless attitude and spirit allows me to" he said with a little smile.
Pipp just nodded, satisfied with the result, and then flew away, while Sonic sighed and relief and scratched his head.
"I'll guess we'll act like that kiss never happened, huh?" Sonic muttered to himself with a little smile. "Oh well, better remember it then" he stated, boosting out to search for Sparky.
At the beach, Izzy is using her detector to find Sparky, while Misty spied on her hiding behind a rock.
Izzy’s detector goes off blinking in red as it finds Sparky's footprints. Izzy smiled excitedly as she trotted off at high speed, which made the sand to blew off the ground and onto Misty, who coughs at the sand in her mouth and on her.
In the sky, Zipp was wearing her Z-Goggles while Tails uses his high tech goggles as well, both of them scanning an area in Maretime Bay for Sparky in Thermal mode.
Then, their sight stopped at Mane Melody, spotting Sparky cheerfully running inside the salon. That made Zipp and Tails gasp, as they looked at each other, knowing that they found Sparky, and Zipp quickly contacted Pipp, who is the closest to Mane Melody.
Inside Mane Melody, Sparky was playing around with some of Pipp’s makeover supplies, placing some shampoo bottles and having blue, pink and yellow bubbles on his head.
Then, Pipp came rushing in with a pant, startling Jazz in the process, while Pipp looked around for Sparky, and turned to Jazz and shook her a bit. None of them noticed Sparky walking behind them and out of the salon with a yellow mane wig on his head as Jazz rush out of Pipp’s sight, little scared at Pipp’s reaction while Pipp looked around for Sparky, and then stepped on a bottle as it squired some yellow content.
Misty was reading a magazine in Mane Melody while sitting in a chair, spying on the group's movement, but she saw the yellow content hit her on her mane, which caused her mane to get poofy in the process as Misty looked at it in shock.
Somewhere else in Maretime Bay, Sunny was skating around while placing Missing Posters of Sparky for anypony to find him.
But Sunny didn’t know that Sparky was behind her, giggling and folding up the posters into paper airplanes, as he launched them away, before doing it again to the other ones with giggles.
Behind Sparky was Misty, who looked really exhausted from what has been happening to her today, having three paper airplanes from Sparky on her poofy mane. Misty gasped as she saw another one coming and tried to shoo it away, but then tripped over the railing and fall of the cliff side of it, hanging onto a branch to keep her from falling into the ocean.
Sonic ran around town to look after the baby dragon.
"Come on, Sparkeroni! Where are you?!" Sonic questioned, as he kept running, until he spotted something on the corner of his eye.
He then ran closer to one of the cake carts from before, and found Sparky eating up one whole cake.
"Well, look at that" Sonic said with a soft smile, as he lifted Sparky with his hands. "You really enjoy giving your father, uncles and aunts a big scare, don't you?" he told to Sparky, who just giggled in response. "Oh well, let's take you back with your dad before he does more of his crazy stuff" he stated.
Once again, Sparky just giggled and cheered, while Sonic boosted towards the station with the baby dragon on his arms.
Back at the station, the Mane 5, Tails and Knuckles returned after having no signs of Sparky anywhere, while Hitch started to have a breakdown.
"I can’t even look after one little baby dragon!" Hitch cried out over Sparky missing as he flopped to the floor while the rest gave him sympathetic looks and Hitch started to tear up.
And then, something zoomed past Hitch, then a dragon fire shoot over Hitch, which startled him as he got up and saw that dragon fire hit his tail. He looked at the direction where the shoot came from, and found Sonic with a smirk, as he had Sparky playing over his head.
"Sparky!” Hitch called out in relief as he ran towards Sonic and grabbed his baby dragon. "Oh, thank hoofness!" he took a breath as nuzzled Sparky before placing him back down. "I was so worried! I thought you might have fallen into the sea or baked into a pie or eaten by bees or…!" he cried out dramatically.
Izzy then came in front of Hitch with a comforting smile while holding Floppy in front of him. "Look at little Floppy, Hitch. Look at little Floppy" she said to Hitch as he looked at Floppy. Once Hitch looked at the bunny, who smiled cutely at him, he started to calm down as he took a deep breath. "There we are" Izzy said with a calm smile.
"Wait! Where do you found him, Sonic?" Hitch asked to the hedgehog.
"On the cake cart... again" Sonic replied with a smirk.
"Oh, okay..." Hitch said, then sighed in relief. "I’m sorry everypony. I just… Aah! All I want is to be a great dragon dad!" he said as his voice started to crack as he held Sparky.
"Oh, Hitch, Hitch, Hitch... You say that, but you don't realize you already are one" Sonic told him, placing his arm around his neck.
"Sonic's right, Hitch" Sunny told him, as she and the others smiled at him and Sunny walked towards him. "You are a great dragon dad" she said as she placed a hoof on his shoulder before looking at Sparky. "Just look at how much you cared about Sparky" she pointed out, as the rest huddled close to him. "But honestly, I think you can relax a little bit" she added.
"Yeah man, try to chill a little bit" Knuckles said with a smile.
Outside of the station, Misty crawled to the open window again as she groaned exhausted at what she has gone through today, with her mane still poofy and having paper airplanes on.
"Sunny and Knuckles are right" Zipp said with a smile. "Sparky might be a baby, but he’s made of pretty tough stuff" she said while, giving Sparky a belly rub, which caused the baby dragon to laugh, but then he began to puff up, and Hitch knew what that means.
Once Misty tried to get a close peak at the window, she got hit by Sparky’s dragon fire, which caused her mane to turn into a flower. That did it as Misty fainted from that, having endured enough punishment for one day.
In the station, the Mane 5 and Team Sonic stared in shocked at Sparky's surprise dragon fire as Sparky puff some out of his mouth.
"But seriously tho, we need to find a way to control that fire breath of his..." Sonic pointed out with widened eyes.
"Thanks everypony" Hitch said with a smile, as he placed Sparky down. "And you’re right. I need to be less controlling" he said in a guilt as he scratched his neck. "Hey Sparky, I’m sorry I was so…" he tried to apologize, but then stopped once he and the rest realized that Sparky was missing again. "Sparky?" Hitch called out again as they all looked around for any sign of him.
"Why does this dragon keeps disappearing?!" Knuckles cried out with frustration.
It didn’t take long for the group to look out the window and see Sparky rolling a giant ball of bubble wrap, which he wrapped together from Hitch’s office, across.
"SPARKY, NO!" the Mane 5 and Team Sonic cried out in unison as Sparky continued to roll the bubble wrap ball across Maretime Bay for more fun.
THE END...?
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Great chapter, and heh, Hitch really keeps overthinking things with Sparky and even Team Sonic pointed that out, and looks like Misty tried to spy on them to learn more but hits a lot of bumps in the road, and when Sparky gone missing; not only did the gang look for him, but Misty had it worse, and after he is found, Hitch finally realize that he overthink things, again, and Misty had enough for one day, and looks like Sparky off for more fun, amazing job, keep up the great work
P.s.
You may want to take off Hiatius now
Oh boy. Sparky is a real hand/hooves full for everyone trying to look for him. Good thing Sonic was fast enough to both spot & catch Sparky. Though I am surprise he would call Sunny an aunt for Sparky.