60. Moon Festival
"So? How's the nightmares been doing, Sunny?" Dr. Andy asked her.
"Honestly? They've barely popped up ever since I've been coming here three times every week..." Sunny replied.
She's been coming to see her therapist for the past month. Like she said, and just like her friends expected as well, her nightmares were finally stopping. She still had them, but it was once or twice in a week. Yet, and like Shadow told her, she felt relieved waking up and seeing it was all in her mind, so she always went back to sleep peacefully.
Right now, she was on her second visit this week, laying over a couch and answering Andy's questions.
"I see..." Andy replied, taking some notes down on his notebook. "And how has your routine turned out to be now that the nightmares are almost over?"
"Well, I can pay attention to my clients and attend my orders as usual again" Sunny replied. "I've been able to cook breakfast, haven't gotten late to any other meeting I had with my friends... And I even managed to reunite with Queen Haven and Alphabittle as I used to."
"Okay..." Andy replied, writing down even more stuff. "Now, tell me about Eggman, Sunny. How do you feel now that you think about him?"
Sunny felt a bit anxious with this question, but still took a deep breath before replying. "I... A part of me still fears him because of what he did to me on his lab... But I know for a fact that I can fight it back. That I can fight him back. I've actually managed to do that in some of my nightmares. Sometimes I won, sometimes I didn't, but I didn't let the times I lost get the best of me."
"And how do you feel about him right now?" Andy asked one more time.
"I swear if I found him just buying his chores, I'll beat the crap out of him. Not only for what he did to me, but also for almost destroying my home, for destroying my house, and for playing psychologically with my friends!" Sunny replied with a frown, and her Alicorn form activated in the process.
However, it didn't took long for Sunny to noticed what she said, so she quickly shook her head from those thoughts, and her Alicorn form even disappeared.
"Sorry! Didn't wanted to say it like that..." Sunny apologized with a sheepish smile. "What I mean is... I'm angry at him, and I know for a fact he must know that... But I'm willing to fight back if necessary. Eggman is menacing, no doubt, but he made the biggest mistake ever: He messed with my home, and with the ponies I have to protect!"
"Very well" Andy said, finishing up his notes and then looking over at Sunny with a smile. "I've gotta hand it to you, Sunny: Your recovery has not only been going incredibly well, but I also believe you're almost done with it!"
Sunny gasped with a smile after hearing this. "Really?!" she asked excited.
"Indeed!" Andy replied with joy. "I believe or next session this Friday will be the last one. After that, I'll discharge you and you won't have to come see me anymore. Hopefully, there will be no more traumatic moments for you!"
Sunny chuckled after hearing this. "I really hope so. Thanks again, Dr. Andy!" she said with a smile, also waving her hoof.
"I'm just doing my job!" Andy replied with a smile.
As soon as Sunny stepped out of her therapist's office, she met outside with Shadow, who was laying over a wall on the waiting room, but his ear twitched when he heard Sunny approaching, so he opened his eyes and looked over at her with a smirk.
"So? How did it went?" Shadow asked.
Of course, Sunny hugged him as a greeting before replying something, which made Shadow feel a bit uncomfortable, since he wasn't still used to be hugged, but he let her be.
"Oh, it went just great!" Sunny replied with a smile and sparkling eyes. "My therapist said that my next session will be the last! Which means that my recovery is almost complete!" she added in excitement, squeezing Shadow's cheeks with her hooves.
"Uh... Great..." Shadow replied, once again feeling a bit uncomfortable.
Sunny seemed to notice this, and her eyes widened a bit in panic. "Oops! Sorry, Shadow!" she apologized sheepishly, letting go of his cheeks. "I forget you're still not used to get affective in public..."
"Eh, it's fine..." Shadow replied with a little smile, before getting serious again. "I just wanted to check on you before my Team and I left."
"Huh?" Sunny exclaimed surprised with wide eyes. "You guys are leaving? Why?!"
"It'll be just for a couple of months" Shadow replied. "We need to find Dr. Eggman and capture him. To do that, we must find the location of his current lab, no matter where it is!" he pointed out with a frown. "Besides, I wanna have a word with him for what he did to you..."
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, hang on a second!" Sunny said. "I get that finding him is important in order to stop his wacky idea of taking over Equestria, but don't you think you're thinking this way too ahead? At least stay with us for the Moon Festival!"
"Omega tried to convince me on the same thing, but I'll stand my position..." Shadow said with a serious expression. "We can't risk ourselves to let Eggman do something as dangerous as stealing magic and creating another Death Egg Titan, or something even worse. I promised to help you fulfill your dream of a unified world, and to do that, we must stop both Opaline and Eggman."
Sunny still wanted to talk him out of the idea, but she had to admit he had a really good point.
"I assure you that, if we don't find him, we'll immediately return to Maretime Bay" Shadow stated. "Eggman can't hide forever, anyways."
Sunny let out a sigh after hearing this, but still smiled up at Shadow. "I wish you good luck, then. And if you really wanna beat Eggman, kick him hard enough for me!" she said with a wink.
"Oh, trust me. I'm gonna enjoy it when I do so!" Shadow stated with a confident smirk.
And so, he prepared to boost away, but even if a part of him didn't wanted to do it, he still stopped himself and turned to hug Sunny, which surprised the mare, but she still smiled and hugged him back, before Shadow broke the hug and then boost away.
The next day, at night, the Mane 6 and Team Sonic went to Zephyr Heights.
There, the ponies are celebrating the Moon Festival Sunny mentioned earlier, with lanterns decorations hanging and some stands with supplies or food around.
Everything was quiet and peaceful so far... At least until a giant decorative moon fell above them and started rolling across the festival, making ponies scream in panic.
To this, both Zoom and Thunder started flying after it anxiously.
"Run for your lives!" Zoom shouted to the crowd, as the ponies moved out of the way, while Thunder and her chased after the decorative moon to try and stop it.
Queen Haven, the Mane 6 and Team Sonic looked shocked and surprised at what they just saw.
"We literally just got here... How the heck did things are going wrong already?!" Sonic asked with wide and panicked eyes.
"Plot convenience?" Knuckles replied with a bored expression.
"And so…" Queen Haven started with a sheepish smile, trying to change the subject and keep the tour for the Mane 6 and Team Sonic going. "Every ten years, when the moon reaches its closest point in Equestria," she said, now gesturing to the moon, which is blocked by some the clouds, while a pegasus flew by at unusual high speed, screaming in fright and trying to gain control back on her magic. "We throw a great big party to celebrate."
Then, the big decorative moon came rolling by again, with Zoom and Thunder screaming and still chasing after it, while the whole scene got the group's attention again.
"Okay, Sonic has a point: How's this happening when we're just a minute and a half into the episode?" Tails questioned.
"Actually two minutes..." Amy deadpanned.
Queen Haven felt a bit embarrassed, before recomposing herself and look at Zipp and Pipp with a smile, also placing a hoof on her chest. "Oh, my daughters have always loved the Moon Festival!"
Pipp and Zipp looked at each other, both raising an eyebrow, and also remembering when they were fillies and the time for the festival came around.
Many years ago, when Zipp and Pipp were fillies, Pipp was dangled and Zipp was holding her, while being tied to a moon floating lantern. Pipp was crying and waving her hooves in fear with tears flowing out, while Zipp giggled excited, because it felt like if they were flying, although Pipp wasn't feeling the excitement like her sister.
The two filly sisters were flying high in the sky outside the Zephyr Heights palace, while the moon glowed brightly, but Pipp kept crying in fear.
After remembering this, Pipp looked at her sister with a dull expression at the memory that she would like to forget.
"Correction, Zipp always loves the Moon Festival" Pipp corrected sarcastically and waving her hoof, while Zipp looked at her sister. "Me, haha, not so much."
Zipp smirked after hearing this, while Sonic was taking deep breaths and massing his own head.
"What's gotten into you now?" Amy questioned with a raised eyebrow.
"I'm just trying to calm down the jokester in me so I don't burst out laughing..." Sonic replied, still taking deep breaths, while Amy deadpanned, Tails facepalmed and Knuckles rolled his eyes.
"And now, as it's the first Moon Festival since magic returned, we're putting on an extra special aerobatics finale featuring Zephyr Heights' finest flyers!" Haven said with a wave of her hooves, while the Mane 5 had sparkling eyes in excitement.
But then, an Aerobat Pony flew right past them while screaming, which started the group as they saw the pony screaming, and for some reason, their wings gave off an electrical charge. The pony kept flying around uncontrollably, before crashing into one of the big decorative moon's holes.
"Uh-huh... 'Finest'..." Knuckles said sarcastically. "Are we sure Zipp's flying school you talked about really payed off results?"
"I honestly don't know anymore..." Sonic said with a raised eyebrow.
Queen Haven smiled sheepishly after this and looked nervously at the Mane 6 and Team Sonic. "Some of them are still getting to grips with the routine" she admitted. "Takes a long time to master your magic" she added and walked off, while the others followed around.
"Magic's been back for a year and a half, and there's still ponies with problematic magic?" Tails questioned. "This smells fishy... Too fishy..."
"Agreed. Maybe something's wrong with magic again..." Zipp pointed out.
However, as Zipp started to look around, Tails' watch made a beep sound, so the young fox quickly checked it, trying to keep it as a secret from Zipp, and then an holographic screen showed him the signs of the Yellow, Blue, Red and Purple Chaos Emeralds in movement.
Of course, this concerned him, but before he could investigate on the subject further, both Zipp and Him saw Berries landing in front of a stand, but his wings gave off an electric charge and blew the stand away with a huge gust of wind, while the mare attending held on and seemed shocked at what just happened.
"Whoa!" Zipp said in surprise.
Tails decided to let the thing of the Emeralds aside for now and looked at the two ponies with a raised eyebrow. "Okay..." he muttered confused.
Then, they turned and saw three unicorns levitating three moon decorative moon, when suddenly two of them started floating in their magic as well with surprised smiles, while their third friend looked at them shocked.
And finally, as Dahlia walked by, she didn't noticed that her hooves were glowing in green. And, as she stomped her hooves on the ground, Luminous Dazzle was caught in a giant flower stem, since she was walking behind Dahlia, and the giant plant started to grow.
"Unicorns levitating themselves... Izzy did it once, nothing new here" Tails pointed out with a bored expression, before turning at Dahlia with a raised eyebrow. "But Floral Magic out of control? That's not normal."
"Yeah... Something seems strange…" Zipp said with suspicion.
"If you're planning on investigating, remember what we talked about..." Tails said with a mocking tone and smile.'
Zipp groaned and rolled her eyes after hearing that. "I know, I know. Ask gently, not jump over ponies and assume things just because my instincts told me to..." she deadpanned, before smirking mockingly. "Although they were right about Misty!"
Tails topped walking and his eyes widened, before he groaned loudly and facepalmed. "Me and my stupid mouth..." he complained silently.
Zipp passed by and chuckled, also hitting her tail on Tails' face, while the young fox blushed a lot and gulped, before quickly catching up with Zipp.
Queen Haven lead the Mane 6 and Team Sonic to a room.
There, Rufus was working as the bodyguard of the place, and he moved the red waiting line out of the way.
"Welcome to the Royal Box!" Haven announced, as the doors opened.
At the other side of the doors, there was a room with a balcony that had an amazing view of the night sky, with tables sets and a food buffet for the Mane 6 and Team Sonic, as well as moon decorations all around.
"Wow!" Izzy cheered amazed, as she and everyone else had sparkling eyes.
"So cool!" Hitch commented with a wide smile, as they entered the room.
"Ah, the wonders of befriending royalty!" Knuckles cheered excited.
Sunny gasped as she saw the set up with sparkling eyes. "Wow! Oh, my hoofness! Incredible!" she said happily, while Sparky started chomping on the food already with sparkling eyes.
"Uh, quick question" Izzy spoke, and rest turned to her, just to see that she had the red waiting line on her with a fashionable expression. "Does this clash with my mane? Ooh!" she said, holding the red waiting line, but then she looked at Rufus, who deadpanned at her before snatching the line back from her.
"I was gonna tell you it's not clothing, dear..." Knuckles muttered at her, before walking her towards the table with a flirting smirk. "But regarding your question: You definitely slayed that thing!"
Izzy blushed entirely after hearing that with that tone, and she chuckled sheepishly while looking away.
Meanwhile, Zipp walked up to Sunny, who was distracted along Tails by the table. "Sunny, I think something's glitching out with magic again!" Zipp said concerned.
"Oh, yeah, it's great having magic again..." Sunny said with a smile, not hearing what Zipp just said and getting distracted by the setup, before seeing something that made her gasp and give an excited look with sparkling eyes. "Ooh, they have confetti cannons!"
After saying this, Zipp looked ahead, just when then the confettis came out of the cannons, while the crowd started cheering with sparkling eyes as well, although Zipp wasn't as excited.
"Whoa!" Sunny said amazed.
"Uh…" Zipp tried to say, but was cut off when the lights of the Royal Box turned off and Skye spoke through his microphone.
Tails noticed Zipp's concern, and so, he deadpanned at Sunny, before whispering to Sonic. "Hey, Sonic. Didn't Sunny went through a whole-ass special ignoring Zipp's warnings, which caused magic to almost kill us all in the first place?"
"Uh, yeah?" Sonic replied with a raised eyebrow. "But why are you asking about something so oddly specific, though?"
"Because it's happening again..." Tails deadpanned.
"What?!" Sonic said loudly. "Magic glitching or Sunny ignoring Zipp's warnings?!"
"Both" Tails kept deadpanning.
"Awarena kuso yarō-me!" Sonic exclaimed, but since what he said isn't rated E for Everyone, I'll let you guys investigate on your own this time.
"Distinguished ponies!" Sky said with a smile. "Please stomp your hooves for... the Zephyr Heights Aerobats!" he announced with a laugh, while three pegasi came flying from behind the stage and started to do some stunts.
One of them did a twirl as the three of them flew around the crowd, then they spread out, and the crowd made awestruck noises.
The Mane 6 and Team Sonic watched the performance, even Zipp, who was smiling at the aerobats. "So amazed and so jealous at the same time."
Then, the Aerobats swirled together in sync and flew up to pose in the air, but as the clouds showed the moon, their wings gave an electrical charge again, which made their eyes open wide at the feeling, before starting to fly around at really uncontrollable speed while screaming.
Sonic's eyes widened after seeing that ponies were having electrical charges around their bodies. "HOLY CHILIDOGS!" he exclaimed out loudly.
Haven saw this as well with a small smile. "Oh. I don't remember these moves in rehearsals" she pointed out, while Sunny gave an amazed expression with sparkling eyes.
However, neither Zipp, Sonic nor Tails were amazed by this. "Those aren't moves..." Zipp said with concern, while the Aerobats kept flying around like crazy while screaming. "It's like... like magic is being supercharged or something!"
"Those pegasi had electricity on their wings..." Sonic said anxiously with a twitchy eye, before grabbing Tails and shake him violently. "Why do they have electricity in their wings?!"
"Why should I knoOoOoOw?!" Tails replied with a dizzy expression.
Then, the trio heard Izzy's munching sounds, so they turned and noticed that Knuckles, Rufus and her were being levitated in Izzy's magic and eating some snacks, while none of them seemed to care at the fact that they were floating.
"Well, that's just Izzy being IZZYYYYYY!!!" Sonic suddenly screamed, because when he tried to point out that Izzy was just being herself, his shoes suddenly started to glow with blue electricity and dragged him out of the room.
"What the heck?!" Tails exclaimed, but then, his own powers turned on, and his tails started to spin in his own, which made him deadpan. "Aw crap..."
After this, Tails was sent out of the room as well at top speed, while Knuckles felt his power turning on as well, but because he was surrounded on Izzy's magic, the only thing that happened was him braking a tea cup he was holding. Still, he slurped the content in the air because it was being levitated, and simply shrugged off the fact that his powers activated alone.
At this, Zipp gave a panicked expression, before it turned serious. "I've got to get to the bottom of this before somepony gets really hurt!" she declared.
Later, Zipp trotted around the festival to start her investigation.
Besides the fact that Sonic was now walking by using his arms, while his feet just moved on their own in the air, and the fact that Tails tied his tails up, nothing seemed that out of place so far.
So, Zipp stopped moving and turned to Berries, who was walking by. "You!" she called out, and Berries stopped to look at her surprised. "What did you eat today? Breakfast, lunch, and dinner!"
Berries felt uncomfortable for a moment before replying. "Um... pancakes, pancakes…" he listed out, before gasping with a smile. "And pancakes!"
After that, he giggled and then walked off, Zipp looked at Berries with wide eyes, while both Sonic and Tails came by and looked at him with shock as well.
"Pancakes all day..." Zipp said surprised, placing a hoof on her chin. “Didn't even know you could do that. Huh."
"Knuckles has grapes for all his meals, even for the ones that don't require grapes" Sonic pointed out with a deadpan.
"And I'm pretty sure Izzy uses glitter in some of her food..." Tails pointed out. "No, I unfortunately didn't made that up..."
"Okay..." Zipp cringed, looking around as well, before shaking her head and get back on track. "Anyway, pancakes wouldn't have caused magic to supercharge."
"And I doubt every single pony in Equestria ate pancakes for breakfast today" Sonic pointed out. "I mean, we didn't eat pancakes for breakfast, for example."
However, Zipp chuckled at him because of he was standing on his hands. "I'm sorry, Sonic, but In can barely take you serious when your head is upside down!" she mocked up and snorted.
Sonic deadpanned and rolled his eyes, before quickly standing up normally again and then check that his shoes were not getting out of control, and they thankfully didn't.
"Phew!" Sonic sighed in relief and smiled. "Seems like the effect is over!"
"I'm still keeping my Tails tied" Tail said with a frown. "You can never be too sure."
And then, Zipp saw Onyx walking by and had an idea. "You! Levitate this hat!" he quickly said, as she snatched a hat Posey was wearing, who gave an irritated look to Zipp, before tossing the hat to Onyx.
Onyx simply grabbed Posey's hat in her magic, but then it flicked out with an electrical charge as well, which surprised Onyx, while Posey's hat was tossed into the distance.
Onyx stood in silence for a second before speaking. "I'm, like, way better with crystals" she simply said and walked off.
"She didn't noticed her horn glowing with electricity, did she?" Sonic deadpanned.
"I don't think so." Tails deadpanned as well, and then, his watch beeped again, so he turned to see that the sign of the Chaos Emeralds was approaching to Zephyr Heights, which made his eyes open wide and he gasped.
Zipp also gasped with wide eyes, but she did so because of what Onyx said about crystals. "Of course! The Unity Crystals!" she called out, now spreading her wings, that gave an electrical charge.
"Uh, Zipp?" Sonic called out. "Maybe you wanna think twice before––" he tried to warn, but it was too late, because Zipp took off at a very high speed that not even she could do, even making the ground shake a bit. "... taking flight..." Sonic deadpanned, before catching Posey's hat with a hand, then quickly clean it and fix it.
After that, he placed the hat back on Posey's head, while Posey looked at Sonic with a bored expression.
"Sorry, Posey. Won't happen again. Gotta go now!" Sonic quickly apologized with a smile.
Then, he walked far enough from her and grabbed Tails from his hand, before boosting ahead at top speed.
Meanwhile, in the air, Zipp was flying so fast that she couldn't even slow down, as the wind was pushing back hard on her while her wings gave an electrical charge. She eventually reached the tallest tower of the castle, holding into the pole and twirling around on it before stopping.
At the same time, Sonic started to run normally over the tower's wall, while Tails screamed in panic, but when the moon was visible again, his shoes glowed in blue electricity and sent him so fast that he literally ended up accelerating to the sky.
"Holy Chaos!" Sonic exclaimed, but when he spotted Zipp on the pole of the tower, he smirked, and then looked at Tails. "Wanna make a Double Boost, little bro?!"
Tails looked at him confused, but then he looked at Zipp on the pole and his eyes widened, before he looked back at Sonic with the same smirk and nodded in agreement.
After this, they both clapped their hands together and then twirled around each other as balls, before they fused as one single and giant electrical ball of blue and yellow, and then, they both boosted towards the pole in a combined Homing Attack, landing over the ceiling.
However, Sonic's shoes kept glowing in blue electricity, and soon, Tails' tails did so in yellow electricity, although they were still tied up together.
"Why are our powers getting out of control for no reason?" Sonic questioned confused, as he choose to hold into the pole just in case his feet acted on their own again.
"No clue, but we gotta figure it out and fast!" Tails declared.
"Right! Something must be going wrong with the Crystals!" Zipp agreed, before putting on her Z-Googles and aim at the Crystal Brighthouse's direction.
"Hopefully they aren't glitching, or else this'll be Maretime Bay Day all over again..." Sonic said with a concerned frown.
Meanwhile, Zipp looked into her Z-Googles and zoomed into the top of the Brighthouse, seeing the Unity Crystals still in stable condition, before McSnips-a-lot showed up with a menacing look in her way.
"Ah!" Zipp got startled by him.
"What? What's the matter? Are the Crystals glitching again?!" Tails asked with panic.
"No, they are fine..." Zipp answered, before putting her Z-Googles away and groan. "I don't get it! If it's not the Unity Crystals that's causing this, then what is?!"
"I don't know, but my feet wanna take me on another unexpected and undesired trip!" Sonic said with concern, because the moon behind was showing again, and his feet moved on their own.
And then, the trio watched down a group of ponies walking by a bridge, with the moon's reflection on the lake below them. Suddenly, the pegasus mare that was walking in front of them had her wings giving an electrical charge, before flying away at high speed, leaving the two ponies behind worried, so they trotted after her.
However, even if that surprised Zipp, Sonic and Tails, they instead stared at the moon's reflection, because the mare was just fine until she walked by it.
"It couldn't be…" Zipp said concerned, placing a hoof over her chin.
"Oh, but I think it is..." Tails pointed out, also concerned.
Back at the performance, the Aerobats were still flying like crazy and screaming in fear.
However, the crowd was cheering, because they still believed that everything's part of the show, and even the Mane 6, Knuckles and Amy believed so, but Sunny was starting to get concerned for the Aerobats.
But before getting more concerned, Sonic, Tails and Zipp arrived at her side.
"Sunny! Team huddle! Now!" Zipp said seriously.
"This is serious and we need to talk about it!" Tails stated with concern.
"Magic's glitching again, and you learned the lesson of not ignoring warnings twice, so let's apply it!" Sonic warned with a frown.
Later on, the Mane 6 and Team Sonic went back to the festival.
Sonic, Tails and Zipp were quickly explaining everything they've seen and experienced so far.
"We figured it out" Zipp spoke first. "It's the giant moon that's supercharging magic. Look!" she pointed to the moon.
They turned and saw a pegasus stallion flying normally, but once he flew by one of the pillars, his wings suddenly gave off the electric charge and was pushed forward a bit to another pillar, which caused him to stop and look back in shock, before moving past another pillar again and get pushed forward, then again to the next whenever the moonlight shined on him.
"Whoa!" Sunny said surprised, while the others looked shocked. "You may be onto something there, guys" she admitted, before turning to Sonic, Tails and Knuckles with a raised eyebrow. "Wait a second... Why are you three affected by this?"
"Our powers are half-Chaos Energy and half-magic, which means that they get affected by the moon as well" Sonic explained, as he sat over while having his feet in the air, because they still moved on their own. "Is like if my feet had a mind of their own now!"
"Wait... is that why you guys putted this on my hands?" Knuckles asked, as he pointed at the metallic giant yellow handcuffs that covered his entire hands.
"Your strength is overboard, Knux!" Tails pointed out. "We don't want you braking stuff around, and that thing will resist the energy overboard until we can find a solution."
"Right! We've gotta do something!" Zipp called out seriously.
"What can we do?" Hitch asked concerned. "It's not like we can just shrink the moon."
"Maybe not, but we can definitely destroy it!" Sonic said casually, but the bored looks of Tails, Knuckles and Amy, as well as the panicked ones of everyone else, clearly told him they didn't approved that idea. "I was kidding! It was a joke!"
"Jokes are supposed to be funny, Hedgehog..." Knuckles deadpanned.
"And even if we could, we're definitely not destroying the moon!" Amy scolded with a frown, and Sonic chuckled sheepishly once she glared daggers at him, because he felt like if she was staring at his soul.
"Hmm..." Zipp muttered and tried to think on something, before looking around and see one of the ponies holding a moon lantern that blocked the others, and that finally gave Zipp an idea. "No... but we can block it!" she called out with a smile, before turning to her friends. "Everyone, grab as many lanterns as you can and follow me!"
After saying this, her friends gave her determinate looks and nodded.
Meanwhile, the Aerobats kept screaming and flying out of control on the performance stage
Queen Haven was still in the Royal Box and saw the whole thing concerned, as one of the Aerobats passed flying right in front of her while screaming in fright.
Then, Zipp came rushing to the stage while panting, before tapping on the microphone to see it was on for a second. "Uh, and now for the finale of the finale..." she announced, as she turned to her friends, who were holding a huge tarp, so she smiled. "Everypony, release your lanterns!"
With this, Sunny removed the tarp, while many moon lanterns started flying away, and the crowd started cheering, as well as the rest of the Mane 6 and Teams cheered at what they did.
Zipp also smiled once the lanterns were released. "Wow!" she said amazed with sparkling eyes, but then she gasped when she saw the lanterns were separating and moving around from the moon. "Oh, no! The lanterns are going all different directions! They'll never block the moonlight this way!" she called out in panic, and the others panicked as well.
"Tails? Can't you fly up and gather the lanterns together?" Misty asked him with concern.
"Nope!" Tails replied with concern, showing that his tied up tails were releasing yellow electricity, meaning he couldn't fly up.
"Ah crap..." Knuckles muttered with concern after Tails pointed this out.
With this, Sunny decided to get serious and brought out her Alicorn form, flying straight into the air in front of the moon while facing the lanterns. "I got this, ponies!" she declared with a determined smile.
"Aw great! They gave her plot armor but I have to keep myself from running?! Come on!" Sonic complained.
Then, Sunny flew around the lanterns with no trouble or overcharge by the moon, and she placed the lanterns together, then she used her horn to form a magical bubble around them to keep them together.
The rest of the Mane 6 and Team Sonic sins Sonic himself cheered to Sunny's success, while Queen Haven and the crowd looked awed at what Sunny was doing, and Sonic just deadpanned.
"Wait, how is Sunny not affected by the moon?" Zipp asked confused.
"Her horn and wings are etherial. Not solid magic has no reason to be affected by the moon!" Tails explained with a smile.
"That's just plot convenience..." Sonic said, still deadpanning.
"Are you grumpy because the moon affects you but not her?" Amy asked with a mocking smirk.
Sonic took a deep breath, and the grabbed Amy from her shoulders and shook her violently. "SHE TOOK AWAY MY PLOT ARMOR, WOMAN!" he complained out loud in anger.
Meanwhile, Sunny used her magic to move the bubbled lanterns in front of the moon with a determinate look, and once they lanterns were in place, the moonlight glowed through the lanterns, giving a multi-color shine with sparkles around them, making the crowd, the rest of the Mane 6 and Team Sonic look amazed by this and with sparkling eyes.
On the other hand, the Aerobat mare screamed, but then her wings stopped giving the electrical charge, and nos she is flying normally again, as well as her two partners, while they looked around surprised and confused on what just happened.
Sonic, Tails and Knuckles' powers also stopped getting out of control, and Sonic once again could walk normally because of his feet not glowing anymore, while Tails could fly normally again now that his tails weren't out of control, so he untied them, and Knuckles could finally stop feeling his own hands glowing, so Tails removed the handcuffs, and Knuckles smashed his fists happily.
Zipp saw all of this with a smile, so she turned to the Aerobats again and spoke through the microphone again while waving her hoof. "Over to you, Aerobats!"
The Aerobats gave determined looks, then they flew up in circle formation and spread their wings in a pose, while the crowd started cheering to them.
Queen Haven watched this as well with sparkling eyes. "Now that's what I call a finale!"
The Mane 6 and Team Sonic were cheering on the stage, and Sunny landed between her friends, while the crowd cheered to them, as they waved and cheered back to the crowd.
Zoom and Thunder watched behind them, standing next to the big decorative moon, and Zoom gave tears of joy.
"It's just so inspiring and––" Zoom tried to say, but she was cut off when she leaned on the moon, and then it started rolling away again, which shocked Thunder and her, the latter groaning. "Ugh. Not again..." she facehoofed.
With Posey on a stand, she was checking out one of the festival's souvenirs, while the pony stallion saw the big moon rolling towards them, so he screamed and trotted off, leaving Posey at the stand before she turned and looked with wide eyes that the moon was rolling towards her.
However, since Posey was used to this crap, she simply sighed in defeat and accepted her fate.
On the other hand, as the Mane 6 and Team Sonic cringed when the moon rolled over Posey, Tails' watch beeped again, so he quickly boosted away and hid behind the stage, before checking over his watch again.
The data showed that the Chaos Emeralds were flying... right above him in this instant.
"Huh?!" Tails exclaimed with wide and surprised eyes, so he looked up and, in fact, saw the Yellow, Blue, Red and Purple Chaos Emeralds flying over and heading into a certain direction.
Tails narrowed his eyes and couldn't help but feel concerned about this, so he decided that he'll keep watching over the Chaos Emeralds signs until he could develop a proper conclusion about their attitude.
After a whole week of researching, Tails finally had a conclusion.
He was looking at his computer on his side of the room in the Crystal Brighthouse, and he had the 7 Chaos Emeralds tracked. All of them were now at the Starfall Islands, the place Longclaw mentioned on her message for Sonic and Sunny when the Emerald and Unity Crystal combined.
Tails knew for a fact that there was a reason behind why the Chaos Emeralds were gathering there lately, and he needed to share it with his friends.
So, he looked at his watch and pressed a button. "Sonic, Knuckles. Please bring Amy and the Mane 6 to the Brighthouse!" he instructed, before looking back at the computer with a frown. "There's something you guys have to see..."
Meanwhile, in the computer, the images of the Chaos Emeralds were glowing and beeping, like indicating that something was happening in the Starfall Islands, something sinister...
Meanwhile, at Kronos Island, the first one of the Starfall Islands, Dr. Eggman landed one of his many assets on the island, while the rest spreed to the other islands as well.
Inside the asset on Kronos Island, Eggman was sitting on his Eggmobile, looking at multiple archives of the Starfall Islands he managed to gather. Despite being busy with his past plan, he had lots of free time, and after checking Opaline's library for at least 4 or 5 times, he managed to fin some books of his interest. They all talked about the Starfall Islands, and Eggman was very interested on their ancient technology. So, he gathered all the info he could and downloaded it on his computer.
"Status report!" Eggman instructed to Sage.
"Assets have been deployed to all islands. Supply caches have been distributed" Sage replied.
"Excellent!" Eggman cheered with an evil grin. "Now I can begin surveying the islands. Soon, the long-lost technology of the Ancients will belong to me!" he stated with confidence.
And then, on his screen suddenly appeared a recording, taken by Sage, of Sonic, Tails, Sunny and Zipp defeating the giant Crabmeat at the island's coast.
"Doctor, apparently Sonic and his friends defeated Unit D3-CO4" Sage informed to him.
"What?!" Eggman cried out with worry. "And you're telling me now?!" he asked with anger.
"Analysis of data transfer shows significant delay between unit destruction and contact" Sage said through the computer.
At this, Eggman growled with annoyance, before sighing heavily. "Gosh... I really miss Misty sometimes... She's a lot better than any of my previous AI's to Metal Izzy and Metal Hitch. I take the time to program life-like personalities into minions, and all it does is frustrate me" he confessed with anger. "Once–– just once!–– I'd like one of my creations to fill me with pride instead of regret!" he complained. "The relics hidden on the Starfall Islands are staggeringly advanced. Maybe once I take them for my own, I can finally craft the ultimate creation..." he suggested to himself.
He pressed some buttons on his computer, and not only the images dissipated, but also his Eggmobile roared as it started to float and prepare to explore Kronos Island.
"First things first! The rodents is undoubtedly on his way here. I'll have to accelerate my plans" Eggman stated, then he started to download Sage AI on a HDD.
"Warning. A.I. integration untested. System stress test untested. Accelerated timetable is not advised" Sage warned.
"Ah, but I developed you to protect me, and my coding is impeccable!" Eggman assured with confidence. "There's no time to waste with Sonic on the way. Hurry up and download yourself for deployment!" he ordered with annoyance.
"Download complete" Sage announced.
"Very good!" Eggman said with an evil grin, grabbing the disk where Sage downloaded itself.
As Eggman exited the asset, his Eggmobile was received by rain, but he didn't cared at all. In fact, his machines were all water proof, so he wasn't worried a single bit. After moving around Kronos Island for a while, Eggman spotted one of the ancient technology ruins. He got down of his Eggmobile with the disc that had Sage, and grinned sinisterly.
"My latest, greatest artificial intelligence will make short work of the Ancient's cyber security! And then all of their fantastic achievements will be mine to control!" Eggman stated with confidence.
TO BE CONTINUED IN SONIC FRONTIERS X MY LITTLE PONY
WILL THE WHOLE WORLD KNOW YOUR NAME
WHEN WE DANCE WITH DESTINY
I'VE BEEN THERE, AND I'VE SEEN IT
I'M NEVER GONNA STOP BELIEVING
YOU'LL FIND YOUR FLAME
Sorry, sorry, I got too excited, but can you blame me?! WE'RE MOVING TO SONIC FRONTIERS X MY LITTLE PONY NEXT WEEK!!!
However, before that, I've gotta explain a few things regarding both Frontiers and Equestria Girls G5:
1- Both stories were written way back int December of 2022. Back then, I had a very vague concept of what Season 2 and Season 3 will end up being. With Season 2 out, only one change was made to Frontiers, but the final update of the game might make change other stuff as well. As for EG G5, the few things I changed were to establish which direction the plot was taking.
2- Since these two stories were made before Seasons 2 & 3, this means that Team Dark, Amy and Misty have no relevance in Frontiers nor EG G5. Well, Misty does appear in the latter, but only as a pony that shares something about Eggman's plans by the end of the story. Out of that? She's little to no relevant. Please don't hate me for excluding them in these stories, but like I said, they were written way back in December 2022. They do get mentions on why they aren't there, don't worry.
3- Since Frontiers, Season 3 and Equestria Girl G5 all release in a row, that means that TYT is going to be on its longest hiatus so far: We won't have any new Episodes until December 22nd. Yup, a 3 month hiatus because of the three stories releasing a week apart from each other (in the sense that when one of the stories finishes, you guys will only have to wait a week for the next one).
4- Finally, and I might be getting too ahead of myself here, but the title for the ninth entry in the saga is revealed in EG G5's Epilogue, so you guys might want to look out for it.
I wanna apologize for rushing Sunny's recovery at the beginning of this episode, but I had to made her recover before Frontiers, specially since it justifies her attitude towards Eggman both in that story and in Season 3.
Also, yes: I updated the cover, the short and long descriptions of this story again. I wanted to add Team Dark as well, but they aren't featured in the cover of these kind of stories usually, so I ended up scrapping the idea... Besides, the cover already looks full like it is now. We don't need to full it more.
Now I'll leave to finish some details for Frontiers. See ya next week when it releases! 
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Congratulations, Andy! You have made it through this whole chapter without making one SnapCube reference!
(Seriously, as funny as they are they basically ruined that scene with there FKing announcement)
I also love how Sonic gets salty that Sunny gets to save the day instead of him. That was funny.
Anyway, guess this series will be on the shelf for a while. Which means more than one day of double chapters when the time comes.
But onto Alaska!
(Get it? Cause the game is called Frontiers, and Alaska is known as the last frontier??????? Yeah, I’m not funny)
Awesome chapter, and wow the moon overcharge the ponies magic and team sonic powers but looks like they blocked it and sunny got lucky and looks like tails found a trace to the chaos emeralds and Eggman still miss Misty and looks like he and Sage found something, wow that was amazing, awesome job on this chapter, looking forward to frontier and season 3
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Some things I accidentally left out in my initial review.
Really funny seeing Sonic and Tails also being affected by the oversized moon.
Also enjoyed seeing Sunny overcoming her fear and now wanting to be the crap out of Eggman. I really hope that does happen at some point.
And noticed the title card change. Nice.
Fun fact: The original joke was supposed to say "Maybe, but we can totally piss on it".
I ended up changing it because a joke of piss was just not ideal in any scenario on today's chapter.
Here. WE. GO!!!
With Frontiers getting its final update soon, and you releasing the story on the 16th, I can’t wait see what you come up with. Here’s to one of the best Sonic x MLP crossovers I’ve ever read!
Well, this was a very funny episode!
Love how Sonic feel sidelined when Sunny saves the day when he's usually the one that does it.
Can't wait for Frontiers to drop this Saturday!
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Modern. Although Boom is more recognized for braking the fourth wall, Modern does it as well, just not as much as Boom Sonic.
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For real? Man, I've spent so much time on this site, I'm having a hard time distinguishing between canon and fanfic!
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Is fine, really. It could've happened to anyone
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Ah, I see! Thanks for the heads up!
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I think that is great.
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Close enough. You're not so far from the truth.
Next chapter?
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December 22nd, when Equestria Girls G5 is done.
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Oh, okey
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