• Published 9th Jun 2023
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Trials of Sarah: A New Mark - Zipp Storm



Sarah's Adventures with the Mane Five, Mighty Ones and their new pokemon partners continue after returning magic to Equestria

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Chapter 2: Izzy Does it

Author's Note:

Given the events taking place from Chapter 2 and so forth are similar to the other writers stories the differences with mine are obviously Twilight and the Mane Six, Celestia, Luna, Spike, the Adult Student Six and the survivors of Ancient Equestria returning along with Pokemon and Dragons from Raya and the Last Dragon being residents in my AU of Equestria now too.

Just to avoid any confusion and what naught.

It was another beautiful day in Equestria with all ponies unified together once more. With the Castle of Friendship and Canterlot now restored, thing were looking bright than ever for the future.

Now Discord and the Mane Six and Princesses of Old were living at the Castle of Friendship with Sarah and her family with him promising to use his Chaos Magic for good.....most of the time.

Right now, said group were exiting the Castle of Friendship and heading towards the Brighthouse where they saw Izzy wearing what she called 'Crafting Glasses' which were large glasses on her face, next to a huge tower made up of different kinds of junk and singing to herself, "Just a little more of this and less of that. And this piece makes no sense, unless its upside down~" Placing a spatula into the tower, Izzy exclaimed. "Now we're cooking!"

"Maractus!" Maractus cheered happily before Izzy laughed before she leaped onto the tower and began moving things with her horn as Zipp, Ryu and Hawlucha flew over and recording the scene as Maretime Bay's Magic Detective.

Hitch, Bounsweet, Sparky and Keith arrived as Zipp landed near them.

Keith tweeted at Hitch, "Good question Keith," Hitch translated before turning to Zipp and the others, "Zipp, Sarah, everyone, do you know what Izzy's doing up there?"

"Not. A. Clue." all of them replied.

Curious, Sparky and Snowdrop cooed flew Sparky leaped off of Hitch's back and walked over to the tower and climbed it as Snowdrop fluttered over to the tower.

"Hitch, Sarah...what is your dragon and alicorn baby doing?" Zipp asked.

"This is going to to be the best birthday present for a friend I've ever made because I finally have a friend and its her birthday." Izzy smiled as Zipp and Sarah flew up to her and saw her cutie mark glowing brightly. Gasping the pair took out their phones (with Sarah levitating it in her magic) and recorded the scene.

"Oh Hi Zipp and Sarah!" Izzy waved but the sudden movement caused the tower to become unstable which was increased when Sparky removed a yarn ball and Snowdrop removed a small box from the pile. This caused the tower to come apart, causing Izzy to start falling towards the ground.

"Izzy!" Maractus cried in horror.

Zipp, Sarah and Hitch gasped, "Noooo!" Hitch exclaimed before his Earth Pony Magic activated as vines spouted from his hooves and actually moved him towards Izzy and she caught her!

"Woah..nice catch!" Bounsweet praised.

"Woah....that's new." Discord smiled.

"Hmm....more glowing Cutie Marks and random Earth Pony Magic.." Zipp trailed very interested.

"Also somepony's gonna have to clean this up." Gallus added.


(The scene opens up with Sunny and Sarah roller skating out of the Brighthouse and Castle of Friendship together with Edge Blade, Tempest Sparkle, Glimmer Glow and Snowdrop Winterfell flying beside them on her back and Spike and Discord on the side before Sunny changed into an Alicorn and their cutie marks appeared behind them)

Hey!

You gotta let it glow

Hey!

You gotta let it shine

(Switching to the Mighty Ones, Zipp and Pipp, the sisters were flying above the clouds together with Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy before Zipp flew in front of Zephyr Heights as her cutie mark appeared behind her while Celestia, Luna, Cadence and Pipp appeared in the Mane Melody stage with Jazz Hooves and Rocky signing as Pipp's cutie mark appeared behind her.)

Oh, let's make our mark together

Just riding on forever

Just keeps on getting better, better, better

(Izzy, Rarity and Pinkie Pie is seen next uni-cycling before she happily leaps up and shows Izzy's cutie mark in the background. Applejack, Hitch and Sparky come out of the Police Station together with Hitch's animal friends as he poses and Sparky flies off his back as Hitch's cutie mark is shown)

Everypony, everywhere

You can feel it in the air

Find your spark and just glow and shine

(Opaline's Dark Castle is shown next with the evil Alicorn and Misty in front of what appears to be a magical pool of water as Opaline smirks evilly before the final scene features Edge Blade, the Filly Trio, the Mane Five, the Mighty Ones, their Pokemon all together with Sarah, her family, the Guardians of Harmony, Celestia, Luna, Cadence, adult Six, Discord, Queen Novo, Princess Skystar, Throax, Pharynx, Prince Rutherford and Grandpa Gruff, walking and flying to the beat as Sunny's lantern is shown with Prisbeam Power inside of it before the title appears with the Guardians of Harmony, Celestia, Luna, Cadence, Mane Five, Mighty Ones and Sarah all together as Sunny changes into her Alicorn form)

Make a mark that you can share

Hoof to heart, you know we care

Oh ponies, come on, let's all unite

Trials of Sarah: Mark Your Mark


"Don't worry Izzy, you're safe now.." Hitch breathed in relief.

"I know. I was just screaming 'Noooo!' because I lost my crafting glasses." Izzy replied before they fell right onto her face. "Double yeah!"

"I wish I could figure out Earth Pony Magic. I don't like how crazy it is." Hitch pondered.

"Well...it's similar to my Plant Growth power cause of my Solar Magic." Sarah chimed in.

"Really?" Hitch questioned.

"Yeah." Sarah nodded before the group heard Izzy sighing.

"But not triple 'yes'. I didn't get to finish my amazing birthday tower of friendship for Sunny!" she frowned before something fell from the tower and onto her horn. It was some kind of ornament. "Accidentally awesome! It's perfect!"

Just then, a tired Sunny, Sugarcoat, Sugarcake and Siren exited the Brighthouse together, "Did anypony hear that. That shook the whole Crystal Brighthouse?" Sunny asked before Izzy presented Sunny with the ornament on her horn.

"Happy Birthday friend! And happy first-time-saying-happy-birthday-friend to me." Izzy squealed. "I made you a present." Izzy levitated the ornament over to Sunny whom gasped.

"..Aww.. Izzy! This is the most amazing birthday present ever! I need to show it off." Sunny suggested and gasped having the perfect idea. "Wanna go to the Mane-Time Bay Craft Fair!"

"With my friend on her birthday?! Of course I wanna go to that!" Izzy hopped once before seeing Sparky running with a bucket on his head which Hitch took off and Snowdrop levitating some items before Sarah gently grabbed her, making her stop.

"Yeah and I wanna come too. First time I've heard of it." Sarah added, "Discord, you guys, you wanna come too?"

"Sure, should be something cool to see being what you put together for the Maretime Bay Day festival." Spike grinned.

"Oooh! And I get some inspiration for my own little creations." Silverstream giggled.

"Sure, but first, I'll gladly clean up all this." Discord smiled and with a snap of his eagle fingers made all of the stuff vanish.

"Woah....thanks." Hitch quipped.

"Note: Discord's Chaos Magic allows him to easily clean up stuff with just a snap of his fingers." Zipp reported on her phone before the group headed to the fair together.

"Thank you again, Izzy. I love this custom mane-cessory so much." Sunny again thanked Izzy.

"And I didn't even know that's what it was." Izzy smiled. "How awesome is that?"

"It's better than awesome. It's Izzy-tastic!"

Both girls laughed as they continued on their way, but Sarah slightly frowned.

"But Izzy you-" Sarah started but Izzy quickly covered her mouth and said 'Shhh..." Implying she wanted to keep Sunny thinking she made it instead of it just falling into her hooves...or horn.

Sarah muttered not liking Izzy's idea of lying but she would wait to see how this played out.

Unknown, by the group, Misty - a cutiemark less, blue female unicorn with purple hooves peeked out of the bushes nearby, spying on the girls with binoculars.

Misty had kinky navy blue and teal hair as her mane swoops to her right with three cornrows on the left side of her scalp. She also had teal-green eyes, dark blue eyebrows, and a long blue horn with a pink gradient towards the tip and pink swirls. In addition, she has freckles on her cheeks, a pink belly, and pink fetlocks.

"It's true Magic and the survivors of Ancient Equestria have returned to Equestria like you said, including Discord, The Guardians of Harmony and all of the survivors from Old Equestria and this new Alicorn!" Misty reported to Opaline through a magic compact mirror that was connected to the magical pool in her castle, allowing the pair to communicate.

"Excellent, then we shall proceed with our plan." Opaline smirked before Misty closed the mirror and smiled before following the group.


Entering Maretime Bay, Sarah, Discord, Spike and the adult Student Six were in awe at the many stands for the Craft Festival.

Even Queen Novo, Thorax, and their fellow Hippogriffs and Changelings had some booths in the fair which was good since the Changelings did have Craft Time in the past so it was a great way to show it to everypony else.

"Woah....this looks pretty cool." Sarah commented.

"Yeah, very cool." Smolder smiled.

"And creative." Sandbar added.

"Yes I suppose it does, but I think this festival could use some royal touch." Discord smiled before he used his magic and conjured up a personal stand for Sarah filled with different Pokémon items crafted by her, including unique pokeballs and different accessories for Equestrian Dragons. There was even a small cooking area in the stand as well (thanks to the Extension Charm.

"Woah...." Sarah breathed in awe at his Magic. "Amazing."

"Of course, little Sarah." Discord smiled as interested ponies, pokemon and dragons began appearing at the stand.

Izzy and Maractus happily galloped into the Maretime Bay Day Craft Festival where she saw many ponies either shopping for crafts or ponies selling the wondrous crafts as she waved to Sunny and her Rapidash Guardians who was running her smoothie business.

“Hey Sunny. Got your smoothie parts for ya.” An earth pony stated to her.

”Oh. Thanks. Just put them in the cart.” Sunny began before a loud crud was heard and when she opened her side door she saw the fruit and vegetables were much bigger than what she expected. “Earth Pony Magic just keeps getting….bigger.”

”Yikes!”

”Thats’ gonna be hard to put in the juicer.” Siren and Sugarcake commented.

Izzy wandered a little more before she ran into Pipp and Swabna

“Pipp! Swanna! She chirped happily.

”Izzy! Maractus!” Pipp greeted back with Swanna giving a happy ‘Swan’!

”You knew about the craft fair too?” Izzy asked.

“It’s the only place to be. At least that’s what I’ve been saying on my socials.” Pipp smiled before going live for her Pippsqueaks. “That’s right everypony. The Maretime Bay Mane Street Craft Fair is the only place to be for the hottest crag tables wearables and stackable. Tell them Izzy.”

“Uh....what you just said Pipp. Because I don’t really removed what you said.” Izzy replied.

“Aaaaaand. Post!” Pipp cheered as she spotted the video online before the girls and their Pokemon started walking. “I heard that Sarah and Edge suddenly have a stand here together too.”

“Really!” Izzy squealed.

“Indeed we do.” Sarah giggled as the girls were humorously right next to her and Edge's stand. “Figured we'd give this Crafts Fair a fair chance since I have a knack for crafting things all my own.”

Gesturing to her stand, Pipp, Swanna, Izzy and Maractus saw it and were astonished.

”Eeee! Sarah! This stand looks amazing!” Pipp squealed with glee as she live-streamed the stand to her fans. “Did you really make all of these things?”

"Well Discord created the stand and most of the items with his magic," Sarah replied modestly.

"But we all helped her quickly whipped up the food for the customers." Gallus grinned.

"My friend Mallow and I worked on different recipes together into this cookbook.” Sarah replied showing the cookbook. “And with my magic, I enchanted them with some helpful charms for the Pokémon and Equestrian Dragons. And I also made lots of food for Ponies, Dragons and Pokemon alike.”

Sarah displayed several trays of Malasadas, Fritter, Pokepuffs and more for the inhabitants. She levitated two Malasadas for Swanna and Maractus which enjoyed them greatly as Pipp and Izzy enjoyed the Pokepuffs.

“Sarah, these are incredible.” Pipp smiled. “Ooh! Maybe you could make your own accessories business like Sunny did with her smoothies? You could even sell copies of the cookbook to others.”

“Hmm…well I guess having another source of income is always helpful and nothings wrong with helping others.” Sarah grinned before Pipp gasped dramatically.

"Oh my hoofness..." Pipp immediately livestream Sunny's mane-cessory to all her fans, "What is Sunny wearing?"

"It's the birthday present I made for her. It was a bracelet but she put it in her mane, so its that now." Izzy explained as Sunny prepared to juice some of the large fruit while Sarah slightly frowned at Izzy again.

“It’s everything~.” Pipp sang happily. "I'm calling it! This mane-cessory is the trend of the day. Come down to the craft-fair and get one for yourself, Pippsqueaks." Livestreaming Sunny slammed the large strawberry into the juicer but it made her fall onto the floor making Pipp giggle as Sunny repeated with a large cup of her head.

"Look at all these likes Izzy." Pipp showed Izzy and Sarah the feedback as the girls watched as ponies came to Sunny's stand, interested as well, "And look at that."

Izzy nervously laughed before she gulped.


Back at the Brighthouse, Hitch and Zipp were together watching Sparky frolic, "So you know how my hooves glowed when the ground moves and then I heroically saved Izzy?" Hitch began.

"Heroically." Zipp replied.

"Good. That's how I remember it too. You think all this Earth Pony Magic stuff is safe, right?"

"Of course, You Earth Ponies can grow plants with your hooves. How can that be bad?" Ryu replied.

"But I'm still investigating what else our powers can do," Zipp added. "Especially Sarah, Sunny, Tempest and Snowdrop's Alicorn Magic. I do know one things for sure; whatever anypony's 'sparkle' really starts to shine, their cutie marks glow. Not to mention the reaction the lantern did" Zipp showed Hitch, Bounsweet and Ryu the pictures she took of different ponies with their magic activated at the same time their cutie marks glowed and the Lantern creating the Elements of Unity (which Sarah kept in the Castle of Friendship in her room).

"But why?" Hitch wondered.

"Still a mystery. But I can't wait to figure it out." Zipp smiled.

"Can you figure out where Sparky went?" Hitch questioned seeing Sparky out of their view before seeing the baby Dragon munching on roses.

Hitch gasped, "Sparky Sparkaronni! That is not healthy!"

"Sparky....Sparkarooni?" Zipp and Ryu echoed together.

"Yep Named him myself. Good huh?" Hitch smiled before Sparky started crying, a sign that he was tired. "This baby dragon needs a nap! I'll tuck him in." Hitch took his dragon son so he could be put down for a nap.


Back at the Craft Fair, Sunny has just finished a smoothie for a earth pony customer. "Here you go."

Handing it to the pony, he slurped it and commented, "You're smoothies are the best. What's your secret?"

"Well first I take a rally big strawberry and then--" Sunny began not seeing Izzy (whom somehow snuck into her truck) before she whispered to her.

"Psst! Sunny!"

"WOAH!

"What the-?"

"Izzy!"

"How did you-?" Sunny, Sugarcake, Sugarcoat and Siren gawked before Izzy pulled Sunny down out of view.

"Izzy, why are we hiding?"

"Shh! Pipp told everypony how great the gift I made for you is and now everypony wants one!" Izzy hushed.

"Isn't that a good thing?" Siren asked.

"No! I made that one for you! It was lightning in a glue bottle. What if I can't make another one?" Izzy stressed.

"Aw, you don't have to be afraid to share your special talents with everypony!" Sunny reassured.

"Right?" Pipp added as she and Swanna peered over the girls. "We pegasi always say let your creativity fly~" she giggled, "Come on, I'll show you!"

Pipp then yanked Izzy out of the truck and started down the street.


Up on the Maretime Bay Day bridge, Misty was still spying on the ponies from a distance before she sneakily crouched down and moved away, confusing one male pony.

"Oh you're over thinking it Izz, you don't have to make anything new. You just have to make the same thing but better!" Pipp advised.

"Like....I just have to copy myself?" Izzy asked.

"Yeah, but with a twist. That's what I do with my songs." Pipp smiled before she and Swanna landed, "Like this one." Taking out her phone (of course), she played a new song she was working on.

(All You Need is Your Beat - Make Your Mark)

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First thing's first, you gotta look for the spark

That bit of magic way deep down in your heart

You gotta follow your beat (beat, beat)

And then soon you will see (see, see)

You won't have that far to go

Until your song starts to grow

All you need is your beat (your beat, your beat)

All you need is your groove (groove)

Hey, come on!

To get them stomping their hooves (hooves)

And then the next thing you'll know

Imagination will flow

All you need is your beat

All you need is your beat (beat)

All you need is your beat

Ba-da-da, ba-da-da

The small group happily clapped for the musical pegasus, "So...what do you think? Do you like the song?"

"I like its. Its exactly like the last one, but better...." Izzy smiled.

"I like it." Maractus grinned.

"Well what can I say?" Pipp laughed. "I know my brand."

"And now I know what I have to do. But I'm gonna need to go to the Crystal Brighthouse for supplies!"

"Oh! I'll go too. I need to white a new hit!" Pipp grinned before the two girls and their pokemon left.

Watching from her stand, Sarah and the others smiled at the pair before Discord popped in beside her, "Do you honestly think Izzy will come to her senses?"

"If there's one thing I've learned, Discord. The best way to teach them is the let them make room for their own decisions and give them advice and guidance now and again." Sarah smiled.


At the Brighthouse, Izzy was in her crafting mode, going through the closet full of supplies and picking out exactly what she needed for what she had in mind with the help of Maractus.

"Has anypony seen my crafting glasses?" She asked aloud to nopony before they fell onto her face, "Nevermind!"

In her room with Swanna, Pipp was warming up her vocals while working on her new song before phone pinged with a message, "Oh a message. I guess I can take a tiny break." Answering it, she saw the message was 'When will your next new hit drop?'

The question made her more frustrated that she had writers block, "Oh I'll respond to that later. What I need now is a snack! Then make the new hit and then respond!" Pipp planned out before she fluttered down to the lower level and saw Izzy frustrated as well.

"No! No! That's not it!" Izzy exclaimed and the two girls came over.

"You okay Izzy?" Pipp asked.

"Ah! I can't decide what to make." Izzy sighed feeling a blank coming in for creative ideas.

"Ah, I know what's wrong. You have creative block." Pipp replied.

Izzy gasped, "Is is permanent?"

"Well lucky for you, I have the solution. You just need to listen to your fans and do what they want."

"Okay, that's, that's brilliant. Did you come up with that when you had creative block?"

"Me? I've never had creative block." Pipp admitted but turns out she was having it now.

"Well if you ever do, than you should listen to yourself before that totally heled. Now I just have to figure out how to bring all these supplies to the craft fair so I can my inspiration for pony fans." Izzy smiled before holding up two paper fans with Pipp's face in it, "Because these....these....didn't help..."

As she and Maractus went off to find a solution, Pipp approached the table and picked up one of the fans, "Now...what do I do? I'm so good at solving other ponies problems and not my own." she wondered to herself.

"Maybe you should take your own advice, Pipp?"

"I should just listen to....." Pipp gasped, "Myself! That's It! I gotta go to the place than makes my heart sing to find my sound!"

"Yeah!" Swanna happily smiled before the pair went off to Mane Melody.


On the stage, Pipp was practicing singing with Jazz Hooves and Rocky as an audience but she was having trouble finding the beat.

"That was almost it.." Jazz trailed.

"You're sweet. But that was so not it!"

"But you'll get there..."

Pipp paced a little before she gasped, "Wait what was that amazing advice that Izzy gave me that I gave her? Oh yeah! Listen to what the fans want! Looking at her phone, she saw three fillies which said.

"Make a new hit!"

"Just like the old one!"

"But better and different!"

".....That didn't help." Pipp deadpanned. "Huh...at least Izzy is having better luck."


At the Craft Fair Izzy managed to create a bracelet that was of similar structure to the one she gave Sunny and gave it to a customer, but the pony pointed out it wasn't the exact same one she created for Sunny before and passed on it, to her dismay. "I am just not feeling it." she frowned and Maractus patted her on the head for comfort.

"You'll get it Izzy. I know you will."

"No. But its not about me. Gotta make stuff to please everypony else!" Izzy declared as she tried to work again.


At Sarah and Sunny's stands, they served serval more smoothies and Malasadas and the customers loved them but the duo spotted Izzy walking by with a large amount of supplies, making the group take a break and follow her along with Discord and the others.

"Uh....Izzy?" Sarah called gently called.

"You alright there, Izzy?" Sandbar asked before Izzy turned to them.

"Do I look desperate?!" she asked with a crazed look in her eyes with leaves and paper in her mane, making the group slightly flinch.

"A little..." Sunny, Sarah, Edge Blade, Discord, the adult Student Six and Spike trailed in unison.

"Good because I am super desperate! And I have no idea what I'm doing! I mean even my piles aren't towers anymore! Doesn't that say it all!" Izzy frowned out of ideas.

"Izzy, you don't have to please everypony, what matter is that you like what you created."

"Don't you see. Nopony does it like Izzy does it." Sarah and Sunny reassured their down Unicorn friend.

"Making mess of things?" Izzy questioned.

"No! I mean that you can dream up such unique creations because of who you are." Sunny peached. "Dig deep and just...go back to your roots."

Izzy gasped, "Sweet Sause Horseshoe toss!" That response got confused glances from the latter, "Are you saying what I think you're saying?"

"I....yes. Yes I am." Sunny confirmed even though not knowing what she was saying.

Either way Izzy giggled and thanked the pair before gathering the supplies and moving off.

"I think she's another version of Pinkie Pie sometimes." Sandbar winced.

"I think we all think that." Edge Blade agreed. "She is the Element of Laughter afterall."

"Well that's not a bad thing." Smolder shrugged.

"True." Yona nodded.


Unknown by the group, Misty was in the crowd near Sarah's stand and staying out of view she placed a rainbow colored Compact Mirror on Sarah's stand and golden compact mirror on Sunny's stand as well, smirking before moving away.


At Mane Melody, Rocky, Jazz and Swanna saw the fillies outside the window waiting for Pipp's new hit.

"The Pippsqueaks are waiting!" Jazz urged.

"But we mustn't rush her process!" Rocky replied.

Before the trio turned and saw Pipp scrambling for new song ideas. "Ooh! How abut a power ballad?! No! That'll never work! Oh no, Oh no..." Pipp whimpered. "I'm finally out of hits!" she panted.


Meanwhile at Opaline's Dark Castle, the dark alicorn herself was sitting on her throne as Misty came in,

"So nice of you to come home Misty." she began. "You've been gone so long I thought you got lost...." She leaped off her throne and spread her wings, "Like the time I rescued you as a filly! So kind of me to do that...."

Misty looked at her surrogate/adoptive mother, "So what have you found?"

"Uh, Uh I think....the stronger magic has something to with the Cutie Marks, Opaline." Misty replied stammering a bit in a voice.

"Don't 'think', you sound foolish." Opaline scolded.

"Maybe...if I had one I could figure it out and--"

"Enough!" Opaline snapped making Misty shrink a little. "How could the magic have anything to do with Cutie Marks?"

"They glow then it happens." Misty replied. "And the Earth Ponies, they can control the plants! And this new Alicorn has appeared along with some survivors of Ancient Equestria."

"Hmmm..." Opaline muttered as she used her magic on the magical water pool in front, "New Magic and old survivors. Well then.....even more reason to begin the plan. And when we're done...you'll get your cutie mark." Misty joined her adoptive mothers' side as they looked at the magical water. "And I'll be even more powerful than I was before!"


Back at the Festival, Sunny and Sarah gave another customer a smoothie and malasada before spotting the bow wrapping items.

"Aww...Pipp must have left me a surprise birthday gift."

"Odd...where'd this come from?" Sunny and Sarah questioned curiously.

Snowdrop cooed at the mirror which had the symbol of an alicorn on it same as Sunnys while Discord himself was curious of it. "It appears to be somekind of mirror. Wonder whom planted it?"

"Don't know...." Sarah trailed before Discord and the Student Six packed up the stand for the day and they and Sunny, Siren, Sugarcoat and Sugarcake headed back to the Brighthouse where they saw Ryu, Zipp and Hawlucha outside.

"Hi boys, what is it?" Sunny asked.

"Izzy left a note." Zipp replied taking the note off the door, "B.R.B." she read before she paused. ".....F.B.B.B? What do you think that means?"

"I have no idea, but I hope its 'Izzy Code' for being inspired again." Sunny hoped.


In the path outside of Maretime Bay, Izzy’s galloping out in the open back to Bridlewood.

“The girls are right! All I need to do to find my creativity again is go back to my roots. Tree roots!” Izzy said to herself, while wearing her crafting glasses, as she saw Bridlewood in the distance, thinking that she needs to find her inspiration by going back to her ‘roots’, thinking that she needs to go back home to find her inspiration, something that wasn’t what Sunset and Sunny are saying.

“To Bridlewood!” She announced as she kept galloping back to her hometown, running past a bush that a butterfly was on as it followed her.

“This is great! Yeah. Nothing like a Creative walk to cure Creative Block!” Izzy said to herself and stopped once she saw a butterfly and looked at her surroundings as she chuckled. “Fresh air! Fluffy clouds!” She listened as she saw a bird pasting by. “Birds…” She said as she then gasped when she saw a bird and a cloud that looked like a cat on top of the bird. “Birds! Bird hats! Hats for birds?” She asked hopefully as the bird chirped and flew away as Izzy sighs.

“Yeah, you’re right. That is not it.” She said as she kept walking, didn’t like that idea one bit as she didn’t see where she’s going as she bumped into something head on, which made her gasped in pain as she fell to the floor and her glasses landed on her as she rubbed her head from the head bump as she got up.

“Oh no, another creative roadblock!” She cried out as she picked up her glasses and looked at the thing that bumped her, which appears to be a rusted up motor scooter as Izzy looked at it in amazement.

“Whoa!” She said, and then corrected herself. “I mean, I mean, oh yes!” She cheered as her Cutie Mark began to glow as she used her hooves to picture the scooter as she examined it.

“An actual roadblock!” She cheered, finally having an idea. “I can work with that!” She said as she walked to the side of the hill as she tried to move the scooter with her horn, grunting in effort as the scooter is heavy, with some effort, she managed to move it as she dragged it across the field.


Back at the Brighthouse, Sparky was now playing with the Filly Trio, "Hey, where's Izzy?" Hitch asked.

"I don't know. She left this note." Sunny replied handing the sheriff the note.

"B.R.B.F.B.B.B? What?" Hitch asked.

"Sometimes Izzy is a total mystery. Note to self: Learn to speak Izzy code."

"Agreed." Zipp and Sarah quipped.

"She reminds me of little Pinkie Pie with her strange ways." Discord smiled, reminiscing.

Unknowingly by them, Sparky sneezed which struck Zipp's phone turning it into a pepperoni pizza. Sparky grabbed the pizza in his mouth but before he could eat it he sneezed again and it turned back into Zipp's phone.

"Maybe we should check on her to see if she needs any help?" Sunny suggested.

"I'm on it!" Hitch instantly volunteered before turning to her animal friends. "Deputies and princess, keep and eye out for Izzy!" They saluted and got to work.

Just then, Swanna and Pipp busted in with Pipp in pieces, "I feel terrible! I gave Izzy bad advice!"

"You were only trying to help a friend." Sunny calmed her down. "I'm sure she will come back soon."

"Oh no! She's not here?!" Pipp exclaimed devastated. "She's probably avoiding me..."

"Oh come on, Izzy's way too happy to be upset." Sarah gently assured. Just then, the door opened and familiar voice chirped in.

"So turns out bird hates are not a thing, but guess what I made!" Izzy smiled.

"Izzy! the friends echoed seeing their friends safe and sound.

"No I didn't make Izzy's sillies." Izzy laughed as Sparky and Snowdrop hugged her legs. "I am Izzy."

"Where have you been? We got worried." Sarah asked.

"Didn't you read my note?" Izzy asked.

"B.R.B.F.B.B.B?" Pipp read.

"Be right back from Bridlewood Best Buddies." Izzy explained the expression.

"Ooooohhh....." the friends trailed now understanding what it meant.

"I would have never guessed that."

"None of us world." Zipp and Gallus quipped.

"Yeah.....that might have been obvious with the 'go back to your roots' advice we gave her Sunny." Sarah quipped.

"I realized I had to be more creative about being creative! And I needed more supplies." Izzy explained with Sparky and Snowdrop on her back now.

"So it wasn't something I said?" Pipp questioned.

"It was everything you said. You three taught me that in order to feel all sparkly and creative, I just need to be Izzy!"

"We did?" Pipp and Sunny echoed confused looking at each other.

"You ponies were right. My style was cramping and it was cramping yours too. Sometimes a pony needs open spaces for maximum craftability." Izzy cheered. "Come look."

Following the unicorn outside, the group saw she uni-cycled the old scooter she found and made it brand new once more painting it in a light blue coat with purple flowers on it. The group was at first speechless but amazed at what Izzy created all on her own.

"...I love it! Ah! Its perfect! Like wow!" Pipp praised. "Wait, what it is?"

"My Unicyling Cart!" Izzy declared as she leaped into the seat, "My trailer of treasures." She displayed multiple compartments built into it, for her supplies for crafting along with a retractable table, "My magic of whimsy. My-"

"Carriage of Creativity?" Sunny, Edge, Sarah and Discord concluded together.

"Boom! Zing! You got it!" Izzy laughed earning laughs from all the friends.

Sarah was interested in a small sash on the table with small pouches on it, "What's this?"

"My crafting sash!" Izzy smiled placing it on displaying the items inside of the small pouches including what she loved the most...glitter. "Glasses? Check. Tape? Check? Glitter? Whoo! And alot of other things I'd need on the go. Or even on the stay." She displayed a small sketchbook with Sparky and Snowdrop's faces painted on it.

Making the baby Dragon and Alicorn cooed happily and leap over to it, loving it. "So cool! I need to post about this." Pipp smiled taking out her phone.

"*Gasp*! Pipp, just just inspired me!" Izzy declared before taking Pipp's phone.

"You inspired her to steal?" Hitch inquired confused.

"I'm just borrowing!" Izzy's voice came from a distance.

"That's okay then."

"Everythings okay. And Pipp, I almost forgot, thank you for the mirror. I love the Alicorn design." Sunny thanked.

"Mirror? What Mirror?" Pipp asked and Sunny showed Pipp the compact Mirror she got as a present.

"The one you left on my cart. Sarah got one too." Sarah showed her Mirror as well to Pipp's added confusion and Edge suspicion.

".....I didn't give you that mirror. I was at Mane Melody for most of the day trying to think of a song..." Pipp trailed feeling uneasy.

".....Well.....if you didn't leave them for us..."

"Who did....?" Sarah and Zipp trailed off having an uneasy feeling about the mirrors.

"Hmmm...I think I have a pretty good idea..." Edge Blade frowned with her ears back.

"Note to self: Mysterious Mirrors given to only Sarah and Sunny, probably by Opaline and Misty. Suspicious." Zipp noted to herself.

"Well, try it out Sunny." Pipp suggested opening them up, "Looks great!"

Sarah, Izzy and Hitch joined in front behind as they all shared a laugh with each other....as Opaline watched the whole thing thanks to the mirror connection to her magical pool.

"So these are the weak little ponies brought the magic back?" Opaline questioned.

"Almost like anypony could do it." Misty chimed in.

"Sure, if they have a cutie mark." Opaline scoffed making Misty turned sadly at her blank flank.

"And I see my traitor of a daughter is amongst them too." Opaline snarled furious at seeing Edge in the picture as well. "She probably has the other fillies with her too. And....there's something unique about that Alicorn..." Opaline looked closely at Sarah and saw the Sun Sword and Moon Shield on her body.

Sunny and Sarah closed the mirrors to Opaline's distress as it returned to the image of the Brighthouse and Castle of Friendship side by side, "What? No! Why did it stop?!"

"They went inside. Maybe the Crystal Brighthouse and Castle of Friendship won't let us watch?" Misty suggested.

"Did you just make that up?" Opaline asked not pleased.

"I was just guessing-"

"Well stop, Because you don't know what you're talking about!" Opaline scolded. "They must have put a cloaking enchantment on the Castle and Brighthouse.

"Like the one that used to be around Equestria."

"If it won't let me see the inside from here....then one of my allies must find a way in."

Misty perked up, "Me?"

"Don't be presumptuous, Misty." Opaline frowned. "It unbecoming." Opaline walked away as Misty frowned, lowering her ears and watching the holographic image of the Brighthouse.


At said Brighthouse, all the ponies and the Patronus Ponies were celebrating Sunny's birthday party with the Brighthouse decorated in party decorations and all the participants wearing hats and eating strawberry shortcake, all thanks to Discord.

"This is the best birthday ever! Thanks everypony. And I'm so happy Izzy's back and inspired again." Sunny thanked.

"So am I..." Pipp added before she sighed, "But there's still one problem."

"What's that?" Hitch asked.

"I still haven't figured out a new hit song. It just hasn't clicked.

Just then, the door slammed opened and Izzy's voice came, "Pipp! She apparently took Pipp's phone and created what looked to be a record playing. "Try this out!"

Pipp fluttered over and pressed her phone as it played her old song, "Izzy...its' my old song but its...." Pipp breathed.

"Yeah." Izzy nodded.

"Unicycled. Um, genius!"

"Sing it Pipp!" Izzy smiled and with her Cutie Mark glowing, Edge Blade, Twilight and her friends, Celestia, Luna, Cadence, Sparky, the adult Student Six, Spike, Discord, Zipp, Sunny, Hitch, Izzy and Sarah dancing along with their pokemon, Pipp sang her new hit song to everypony.

Glowing hooves, all the earth po-onies

Unicorn lights beneath the trees

We're not just one (not one, not one)

It's you and me (it's you and me)

(Ponies living large)

In unity-ty-ty-ty (Ohh oo-oh)

All you need is your beat

Next Chapter: Tell Your Tale: Pony Partay