> MLP G5 but it's written by me
>  by TPC-2k16
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> Prologue
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Hasbro Headquarters
Pawtucket, Rhode Island
MLP: A New Generation Pitch Ideas Meeting Conference Room

"What'd you mean I'm not in gen five?!?!" Luster Dawn asks pleadingly to the ten Hasbro Executives inside of the conference room.
"I only appeared in like, one episode! And it was the LAST ONE!!! I don't even get a chance at my own story?! How could you just end my story like this?!"
"Yeah, you see, it's just, we all thought about it and frankly, we decided on that, it's simply time to let you and all those other gen four characters go, and for us to start anew. Sorry not sorry. It's just business." The Head Executive (whose appearance is just a stick figure with the Hasbro logo as its' head, the other nine execs all looking the exact same too) tells Luster from the very bottom of his heart.
"Uh, start anew? Yet you're still using the same world as mine. Only in the "future". And don't even get me started on," Luster trots angrily over to a large cardboard cutout of Sunny Starscout and Izzy Moonbow, "Sunny Starscout? Izzy Moonbow? Those all sound like made up brony oc names!-"
"Sssssssshhh," The Head Executive shushes Luster Dawn off, "Don't say that word. Brony. Why, if the higher ups knew we were saying that word," the Head Exec gulps nervously, "they'll cut our pay about twenty percent less."
"You're not allow to say brony? After everything they did for you. After all the money they spent on your products over all the years. And you just treat them like that?" Luster acts surprised over the fact that these Hasbro Executives can't even say the word 'brony'.
"Look, it's a paperwork thing. And also, this conversation is boring now. Byee." The Head Executive pushes a big, red button on the conference table, causing a trap door to open under the exact spot where Luster Dawn is standing, causing her to fall through the trap door shoot.
"I WILL HAVE MY REVENGE!!!!!" Luster shouts out loud as so the entire building can hear her cry for revenge.
> The Book of Rainbow Dash, Movational Outlooker
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“Hiya Sunny! Whatcha doin’?!”
“Hi Izzy. I’m just reading, as you can see.” Sunny Starscout, the Earth Pony, tells to her Unicorn friend, Izzy Moonbow. The former reading inside of her now-half-destroyed house.
“Oh okay.” Izzy walks up to Sunny until she’s too uncomfortably close.
“Ah, anything I can help you with?”
“Whatcha reading?”
“This?” Sunny closes the book she’s reading, a marker marking her place, then holds it up for her friend to see. “This book is all about Rainbow Dash.”
Izzy looks confused and dumbfounded, her not knowing exactly who that is.
“Uh, Rainbow Dash. One of the fastest pegasi to ever exist. Captain of the Wonderbolts and pulled off a sonic rainboom. Many times, I should add. Not to mention she was best friends with Princess Twilight Sparkle herself.”
Izzy blinks once, still looking as dumbfounded as she was before.
“You really don't know who Rainbow Dash was?”
“Nope! Remember, unicorn,” Izzy points to her horn, “Our whole tribe was separated from the rest of the ponies for who knows how long,” Izzy brings up a map of Equestria, pointing more specifically to her home of Bridlewood, “Plus it’s not like all of Equestria’s history was preserved during all this time. So nope, I don’t know who this ‘Rainbow Dash’ is.”
“Oh.” Sunny says with a sad realization until she gets a bright idea. “It’s typical you and all unicorns not know who Rainbow Dash was, but I bet our pegasi friends, Pipp and Zipp, know all about her.”
“You really think so?” Izzy asks skeptically.
“Oh I don’t think so...” Sunny pauses for dramatic effect. “...I know so.”


***


“What’d ya mean you don’t know who Rainbow Dash was?!” Sunny acts surprised by the fact that neither Pipp Petals nor Zipp Storm know who the rainbow mane pegasus Rainbow Dash was either.
“Again, Rainbow who?” Zipp asks honestly. Looking as confused and dumbfounded as Izzy was.
“Rainbow DaASH?” Pipp says, her too looking confused and dumbfounded.
“Rainbow Dash! Y’know, rainbow mane... rainbow lightning bolt for a cutie mark... was a pegasus just like you!”
Both Zipp and Pipp stare at Sunny in silence, before Zipp breaks it:
“Oh. I think I know her. She was a ‘wonderbolt’, right?”
“Yes! They were a huge part of Equestrian history. Most noticeably pegasi history and pride!”
“Say Sunny, I know you sure know all about this ‘Rainbow Dash’ stuff, but what was the exact reason you were reading that book on ‘Rainbow Dash’ in the first place?” Izzy asks her friend, hoping to take this whole conversation someplace else.
“Why?” Sunny brings up out of her saddlebag the Rainbow Dash book she was reading just earlier. “This book tells all about her. From her achievements, her quotes, her motivational quotes,” Sunny says with an eye roll, “and not lastly, most importantly if you ask me, all of her downfalls.”
“Downfalls?” Zipp asks questionably.
“Y’know, all the biggest mistakes she’d made. Like,”  Sunny opens up to a random page, “That time she agreed to join the Cloudsdale Equestrian Games’ team over her hometown of Ponyville’s team because they had an opening.”
“Uh... equestrian games?” Pipp asks, still confused by all this.
Sunny blushes an embarrassing shade of red. “I’m getting ahead of myself. Just, Rainbow Dash was a pretty cool pony. If you want, you can borrow my book here. To, y’know, learn more about her.”
“Huh?” Zipp looks over to her sister. Pipp doing the same. “If you wouldn’t mind, we would like that very much.”
“Great!”


(The Next Day)


“Hi Izzy, what brings you today-“
As soon as Sunny opened her front door and sees her unicorn friend does she get tackled by the unicorn, causing the two to tumble down onto the grass.
“Izzy. Why did you-“
“No explaining. It’s... the pegasi... they want to see you!”
“See me? Really? Well I feel mighty glad-“
“Oh nononono. Not glad. You shouldn’t be. They want to see you to find out more about Rainbow Dash!”
“Yeah. And...” Sunny motions her hoof for Izzy to go on.
“And, they’re hungry, ready to devour MORE of Rainbow Dash’s life. And they all know you can help satisfy their hunger for knowledge of Rainbow Dash!”
“Again, what’s the problem? I just see it as-“
Sunny gets interrupted when a whole herd of pegasi land right about twenty feet from them.
And boy do they look hungry (for knowledge of Rainbow Dash).
“There she is!!! The smart, knows more about Rainbow Dash pony!" One of the pegasi exclaims to the whole herd of flying ponies.
And like that, all of them fly immediately towards the both of them. Most noticeably Sunny.
“We should get you to safety.” Izzy says as she picks Sunny right up with both her front hooves like there’s no problem and runs into Sunny’s house with her, closing and locking the door tight right after she sets Sunny down on an area rug.
The sound of excited knowledge seekers knocking violently on Sunny’s door.
“There has to be a reason for all of this. There must be somepony responsible-“
“I uh, I think we can explain.” Zipp Storm interrupts Sunny as both she and Pipp walk out from the shadows.
“How did you get in here?” Izzy asked.
“Long story. And yes, what you just saw is because of us.” Pipp Petals explains to them.
“You see, after we both finished reading the book you’d lent us, we were 'oh so inspired' by it. Like, it felt like we finally got in touch with our pegasus’ history. Reading all about Rainbow Dash helped us really get a new perspective on our pegasus lifestyle. Almost like we were truly missing something.” Zipp tells Sunny of what she’d learned from reading up all on Rainbow Dash.
“Mmhm. It truly was inspiring,” Pipp tells them both, “And that’s why this,” Pipp points a hoof towards the door, which is still being violently knocked on, “Is happening. You see, after reading from it did I decide I want to try to inspire other ponies. So, I live-streamed me and sis here reading the book together. And well, you see, because of my big social media following and influence did, yes, help inspire other pegasi but also, I guessed, they got so too inspired that they wanted to know more about her. And I may have blabbered on about you knowing way more. And that is why they are here.”
Sunny Starscout looks on in silence. Thinking about everything that is transpiring.
Like, ponies really want to know more about Equestria’s past.
And they want her to tell them all about it.
A smile grows big on Sunny’s face. An idea popping in her head.
“I think I have an idea.”


(Two Weeks Later)


Sunny Starscout, with the help of her friends and PRG (Pegasus Random House), wrote together a book.
A book about Rainbow Dash titled: The Book of Rainbow Dash, Movational Outlooker.
And once immediately the book released did it sell like wildfire. Becoming a bestseller overnight, ten-seconds-fast.
Pretty much every pegasus getting their own two front hooves on a copy. So they too can read up and learn all about one of the most prominent figures in Equestria’s history.
So they too can be inspired through the life of Rainbow Dash.
“Say Sunny, so now that you’re a successful author with a bestselling book, not to mention how popular you are now for all things pegasi, what are you gonna do now?” Hitch Trailblazer asks his longtime childhood friend.
Sunny opens her mouth to answer before thinking more about what she could say.
Coming up with nothing, Sunny simply strugs at Hitch’s question.
> I Can't Come Up With A Clever Title For This So In A Nutshell This Is Basically A Pipp X Hitch Shipfic
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“Aha! And that, is how you do it.” Hitch Trailbazer, the Head Sheriff of Maritime Bay, proudly states after another long day of patrolling the streets of the town.
“Ah, listen, I know you like to take your job seriously and all that, but all you literally just did today was issue parking tickets.” Sprout, Hitch’s Partner-in-the-Law said annoyingly.
“Sprout, we’ve been through this before many times. The ponies of Maritime Bay deserve a sheriff who can not only protect and serve while enforcing the law, but also somepony who can issue parking tickets properly. And I must be that pony. We must be that pony.”
“Ugh, fine. Just, I’ll be back at the station.” Sprout walks away angrily.
“Hm.”
As Hitch is busy packing up his things into his bag, little did he know he’d be meeting somepony else of whom he knows.
“Hey Hitch. How are ya?”
Hitch looks up from his bag to see that Pipp Petals, the Pegasus, is standing right there in front of him.
“Uh..., oh. I...” Hitch stutters, his eyesight quickly becoming dazed as soon as he moved his head and looked up towards the winged pony.
*gulp* “Uhm... I uh...” Hitch’s face starts to blush.
“Oh sorry. Were you saying something?” Pipp asks as she didn’t happen to notice Hitch (appear trying to) say something back as she was too busy looking at her phone. “I’m sorry. It’s nice to see you again, and-“
“Uh... what exactly is the reason you are here in Maritime Bay today? At this hour? At this minute? At this second?!”
“Oh, You know. Content.”
“Content?”
“Yeah. I figure, why only limit myself to pegasi when I can show off my stuff to earth ponies. You know what I mean, right?”
“Uh..., yes! I do, know. Understanded.” Hitch smiles sheepishly.
“Well, nice to see you again. I’m off to greet some unsuspecting earth ponies. Bye.” Pipp trances away happily, humming gracefully to herself, off to another area of interest.
“It was great to see you again!!” Hitch shouts out after her. Though Pipp is a good long ways away to have had heard him.
“Oh.” Hitch looks down at his hooves, feeling down about that whole conversation of which he’d just spoken. Thinking of what he could’ve done differently. Sad thoughts entering into his head.
Until he notices, as Pipp was busy trancing away, did she not must’ve notice a pen (of her own specialty) drop down onto the concrete sidewalk.
“Ah hey!! You dropped your pen here!!” Hitch shouts in the general direction of where she went, only Pipp is way too far away to even hear him.
“Huh?” Walking over to it, Hitch picks up the pen with a hoof and, looking both left and right, behind and in front of him, making sure no pony is around, does he uncontrollably sniff the pen. The pen having a strong perfume smell, smelling like... Pipp Petals herself, most likely.
The smell coming off of the pen making the pony feel... relaxed. The smell reminding him of that time he went to the spa. Getting a lovey-dovey grin and hearts appearing in his eyes.
Hitch continues to sniff the pen dreamily until...
“Uh, what exactly are you doing?!” Sprout asks, breaking up... whatever his Partner-in-the-Law is doing.
Hitch immediately freaks out of his funk, dropping the pen onto the ground and (trying) to regain his composure, to also pretend nothing happened.
“Uh, what? I... you...”
“Did I just see you sniff that pen?” Sprout asks questionably, pointing a hoof towards the pen on the sidewalk.
Hitch turns around to face Sprout, silent before speaking: “Pen? What pen? I most definitely was not sniffing a pen?!-" Hitch immediately draws a hoof over his mouth after what he just said.
Sprout moves closer to Hitch, staring at him and the pen intensely.
“I know who’s pen that is.”
“Noyoudon’t!” Hitch quickly bursts out.
“Aha! I knew it! You, like her. Admit it!!!” 
Hitch Trailblazer, staring at his coworker with a sheepish smile, sweat coming down his already blushed face, thinks of what he can say. How he can get out of this.
Only instead, he tells him the truth.
“Fine,” Hitch’s face returns to its normal look, picking up the pen with a hoof, “I’ll admit it. I like Pipp. Scratch that, I think I’m in love with her.”
“Oooooooo.” Sprout playfully replies back.
Ignoring him and rolling his eyes, Hitch continues: “It’s just, after everything that recently happened..., when I first laid eyes on her in Zephyr Heights, I got this feeling. And every time I was around her,  I felt weak. Like I couldn’t do anything. Like-“
“Like you have a crush on a pegasus,” Sprout interrupts him, “Yeah yeah yeah. And you liking her so much that you would sniff a pen of hers. Very stalker -ish y’know.”
“This pen.” Hitch looks down at the pen in his hoof. Seeing Pipp’s own name on it, written with her own hoofwriting.
“I have to get it back to her. I must... no, I need to. I-“
“If you wanna go, then go. I’ll take care of all parking ticket problems whilest you are gone. Kapleesh?” Sprout interrupts him again to just tell his fellow law enforcer to go see his pony crush waifu.
“Kapleesh? Kapleesh!"
Like that, Hitch immediately runs towards the direction of where he last saw her go.
To return her pen back. That’s all.


***


After five minutes of running, Hitch finally finds where his pony crush tranced off to.
Pipp Petals is standing right in the middle of the town’s square, live-streaming with her phone, showing all the earth ponies around her of how she’s just like them, but with wings.
Even if all the earth ponies are still hesitant with being around a pegasus.
“There she is," Hitch says to himself, "Okay. Just gotta play it cool.” Hitch takes a deep breath, puffing up his chest, putting on the most confident of smiles he’d ever had, and begins to strut himself over to by her. 
Though, the more he gets close to her, the more Hitch starts to quake with nervousness. His once confident smile getting less confident and his strut turning more into a mild speed walk.
“I can’t do this. I can’t do this. I can’t-“
“Hey Hitch. Nice to see you... again.” Pipp says as she sees the earth pony walk on over to her.
“Umph, mmph, eek.” Is all Hitch can muster out.
“Okay. Well if ya here to help, I could use it. These earth ponies still can’t get use to being around a pegasus. If ya could, maybe, oh I don’t know, you can talk them over for me?” Pipp asks as a favor to Hitch.
His whole demeanor getting more and more nervous, his whole face practically as wet as a water bucket, what with all the sweat pouring down.
“O...kay.” Hitch said slowly, then walking on over to the other earth ponies before remembering.
“Oh right.” Hitch takes the pen out from... wherever he had it, and shows it to her.
“This pen is for you. It belongs to you. You dropped it back there. I came to bring it back to you.” Hitch says as straightforward as he can get.
“My pen?” Pipp takes a closer look at the pen in his hoof before giggling to herself. Hitch’s face blushing red from her giggling.
“Oh that. You can keep it if ya want. It’s what I hand out to all my loyal fans. Why, it’s nothing more than a novelty item.”
Hearing this, Hitch’s left eye twitches, having on a sheepish smile, overall looking shocked and surprised.
Hitch looks as if he’s about to say something unflattering.
“You okay? You look like you’re about to say something unflattering.” Pipp asks after seeing Hitch's expression change drastically.
Only he doesn’t.
Taking a deep breath, Hitch instead decides to tell her the truth.
“Pipp, I might as well just say it. I like you. No, I love you.”
“Look, it all started my first time in Zephyr Heights. And when I first saw you... I felt weak, for the first time in, like, a long time.”
“I know this all sounds weird to you, but I really mean it. Look, you see, I don’t normally share with other ponies my true inner feelings, but it’s just, every time I see and think of you, I feel all wonderful inside. I feel like you’re somepony I’ve been truly missing my whole life.”
“Look, I’m sorry for bothering your time anymore. I’ll just talk to the ponies for you, then I’ll be outta your mane.”
Hitch said his true feelings to Pipp, though he himself felt sad doing it. His head down, slouched low.
Hitch starts to walk on over to the other earth ponies, his tail dragging between his hindlegs, before hearing:
“Sorry for what?” Hitch acts surprised by what he just heard, turning his head back to see Pipp being the one who just asked, most likely him.
“For you having a crush on me?” Pipp’s face blushes at that. “I don’t know if you know, but there’s a lot of ponies just like you.”
“Just like me?” Hitch asks surprised.
“Ayep!” Pipp walks closer to Hitch, whispering in his ear: “Only, you are the exception.”
“The exception?” Hitch asks confused as ever.
Pipp’s face blushes a bright red, Hitch’s doing so too in reaction.
“Wait. Huh?”
To answer Hitch’s confusion, Pipp Petals giggles to herself, kissing his forehead before walking away from the still shocked and surprised earth pony stallion.
For the next solid ten minutes, after everypony nearby had walked away from the scene, Hitch finally comes to his senses.
And his senses immediately told him that Pipp Petals likes him back.
Wearing a bright smile, Hitch straightens himself up, getting in his usual posture, and then trots off all lovey-dovey back to the Police Station.
> Izzy and the Quest for Beans at 3 a.m. with a Spoon
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Sunny Starscout’s Home
Maritime Bay
Equestria
3:05 A.M.

Sunny Starscout is asleep. Soundly asleep in her bed, until the violent knocks on her front door awakes her frantically.
“Oh, if this is another pegasus coming to ask about Rainbow Dash then they can wait ‘til morning-”
Sunny mumbles to herself as she tiredly walks on over to the front door, it still being knocked on violently, stopping herself from mumbling once she opens it and sees on the other side Izzy Moonbow.
“Izzy. What do you want?-”
“BEANS!!!”
Sunny, taken aback from the reaction she’d gotten, stares at her newfound unicorn friend in shock (and surprise).
“Huh?”
“BEANS!!! I! NEED! BEANS!!!”
Sunny again looks on in shock and surprise.
“SPOON!” Izzy shows Sunny a silver metal spoon in her hoof.
Seeing her friend not reacting at all, Izzy stomps away angrily from Sunny, stomping on down towards the town of Maritime Bay.
“Uh... I should see what the matter is, right?”


***


Maritime Bay Police Station
Maritime Bay
Equestria
3:15 A.M.

“Uggggh. How did I get stuck with the night shift?” Sprout angrily complains as, because of him making the whole town build a giant machine to help fight back against unicorn and pegasi, he himself is being punished with having to work the night shift at the Police Station for the next ten moons.
“Like, this town hardly generates any crime at all in the daytime. Why would we think there’ll be any at night?!” Sprout questions the logic of a nighttime shift in a town with a very low crime ratio.
“Whatevs. I’m going to sleep.” Sprout props both his hind hooves up on the desk, laying back in his chair and closing his eyes for a few minutes.
Only to be awaken frantically as the two front double doors of the Station get violently knocked on.
“Uggggh. Now what?!” Sprout angrily trots on over to the two doors, opening them both to see that on the other side is Izzy Moonbow.
“What do you want?-”
“BEANS!!!”
“Beans? You woke me up from my nap just for beans?” Sprout angrily points out, not noticing yet that the pony of whom he is speaking to is Izzy.
“Go on. Go away! I don’t have any-“
“SPOON!” Izzy shows Sprout the same spoon she had shown Sunny earlier.
“Yes. That is a nice spoon,” Sprout said sarcastically, “Now leave me be, okay.”
Seeing as how upfront Sprout is being with her, Izzy angrily walks away from the Police Station. Sprout taking no time at all to slam both doors shut.
“The nerves of someponies.” Sprout says annoyingly to himself before hearing another knock at the door, this knock though sounding way much lighter.
“Uggggh.” Sprout goes to open the door once again to see this time, Sunny is on the other side.
“What? Here to tell me of how much wrong I did for the gajillionth time. Look, I know I-”
“Have you seen Izzy here at all? I think she may need something.”
“You talking about your new unicorn friend? Izzy, is her name?”
“Yes! She came to my house and knocked violently on my door, just to ask for ‘beans’.”
“Beans?” Sprout thinks to himself. “Did she have a spoon with her?”
“Yes!”
“Nope. Haven’t seen her. Though my mom did use to tell me and Hitch when we were younger that every once in a while, unicorns like to go out and look for beans at this time of night. With a spoon no less. Though, I'm sure that's nothing but an old pony 'tail'."
“Oh. Well, I gotta see what’s up with her. Thanks anyways.” Sunny rolls her eyes at that last part, walking away from the Police Station. Sprout so too again slamming the doors shut as soon as she leaves.
“Any other pony wanna knock on my door at this hour?!” Sprout angrily shouts out. 
Not long after he said that, Sprout hears another light knock on the door.   Going over to reopen it yet again, Sprout see that on the other side is a light gray earth pony mare along with a dark gray earth pony colt.
“Um hi. You wouldn’t have to have any experience in exorcism now, would ya, perhaps?”
Sprout slams his head on the doorframe in frustration.


***


Zephyr Heights Castle, Zipp Storm’s Bedroom
Zephyr Heights
Equestria
3:33 A.M.

Zipp Storm is peacefully sleeping in her bed, tucked in neatly under the covers and snoring as loudly as possible (but not too loudly as to wake everypony in the whole castle up. Loudly as in at least getting the nighttime gardener’s attention right outside her window.).
“I hate my life.” [said the gardener]
While Zipp is peacefully sleeping, though constantly tossing and turning while mumbling to herself in her sleep, does she not know of the dark silhouette shaped unicorn creeping up on the side of her bed.
“Mama, no I-”
“I NEED BEANS!!!!”
“Aaaaaaah!” Zipp is completely awaken by the sound of a unicorn destined in her search for beans. Being scared as to have being thrown off to the other side of her bed in fright, along with the bed's covers.
Zipp groggily gets up on all four hooves, trying to get a good look at whatever is here in her bedroom at this hour.
“Izzy... why, why are you here?”
“BEANS!! I! NEED! BEANS!!!”
“Beans? Ya just want beans?”
“Yes!!”
“Then just go to the store to get them. There’s probably a twenty-four hour store somewhere.”
Izzy stares at the still tired, half asleep pegasus menacingly. Thinking in her head of what she’d just heard.
“Okay! Here’s my spoon.” Izzy immediately pops back into her normal, cheery self. Also not totally forgetting to show Zipp her spoon.
“Welp. I’m off!” Like that, Izzy happily trots away out of the bedroom and Castle. Continuing her quest onto the nearest twenty-four hour grocery store.
“Well, that was weird.”
Right after she’d said that, Sunny Starscout comes barging in through the door.
“Zipp! Have you seen-”
“Izzy? Yes I have actually. Weird coincidence, I know. Speaking of coincidence, how could you have possibly known that she’d be here?”
“Uhhh, lucky guess?” 
Zipp and Sunny both just stare at each other in silence for a moment.
“So, what is it you think got her all riled up? You think it’s...,” Zipp points a hoof towards her private area, then making quotation marks with both of her front hooves.
“What?”
“Ya know. Happens almost every month...-”
“Are you implying that Izzy is in heat?!”
“Oh. So you unicorns and earth ponies do that too, huh,” Zipp sees Sunny nod her head, “Well I didn’t know. I've had always thought it was more of a pegasus thing. Though I’m sure good ol’ Hitch knows about it now... I’m getting off track. I was just wondering and-”
“We need to find Izzy and end this conversation. Just, where did you tell her to go?”
“Well, I told her that she might actually find some beans at the nearest twenty-four hour grocery store. That’s probably where she’s headin’.”
“Perfect! Aight, let’s go get-”
“Uh, hey Sunny, Zipp. Nice seeing you two here, at this hour.” Both Sunny and Zipp, surprised for one, look to find (surprisingly) Hitch Trailblazer standing in the open doorway of Zipp's bedroom. Hitch’s face happening to blush a light red.
“Uh, I live here.” Zipp says sarcastically.
“Hitch, What are you doing here? Unless...” Sunny’s face starts to blush.
“Hm, must be Pipp’s time of the month.”
Sunny facehoofs in frustration.


***


My Little Unicorn, Twenty-Four Hour (except only on Wednesdays)  Convenience Store
Bridlewood
Equestria
3:46 A.M.

Izzy happily trots on over to the entrance to ‘My Little Unicorn, Twenty-Four Hour (except only on Wednesdays) Convenience Store, acting exactly like her usual, normal self, and totally not like from before.
“Beans!! I need beans!!!” Izzy exclaims happily all throughout the convenience store’s interior after having just opened and walked through the two clear, front double doors.
“Hello good sir. I hear this is an open twenty-four hour establishment. Got any beans?”
“Open only except on Wednesdays. And yes, we have lotssa beans. What kind?” The store clerk pony says to the unicorn of whom had just entered his store, asking the question, the clerk pony sounding with an Indian accent.
“Depends. How many kinds do you have?” Izzy asks inquisitiving yet playfully at the same time.
“Lots. But they’re all in the back. I can let you go back there and-”
“Oh no thanks. I’m just asking. I don’t actually want any beans.” Izzy said, revealing her true truest intentions.
“Are you kidding me?!” An angry, ticked off Sunny Starscout yells out into the convenience store. Her and Zipp looking both really ticked off.
“Uh hey guys. Got any beans?” Izzy smiles gleefully as the scene reverse circle transitions out over Izzy’s smile.


(Epilogue)


“Hey Hitch. I got a question. And that is, what is the exact reason you were at the Castle while I was there the same time I was looking for beans? With a spoon, mind you. Details.”
“Oh,” Hitch’s face starts to blush, *gulp* “Okay, I’ll tell you why... but only if you tell me why mayonnaise is a forbidden word for you unicorns to say. As a trade off, ya know?”
“Oh, I know.” Izzy said as she flutters her eyelashes at Hitch.
“And the reason why is...”


(To Be Continued... In The Next Chapter)

> Why is Mayonnaise a Forbidden Word?
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

“And the reason why is...”


***


Once upon a time, back in ancient Equestria, and I mean like really ancient Equestria, there lived two unicorn friends.
Their names were Bubblepop Berrytwist and Granola Canola.


***


“Bubblepop Berrytwist? Granola Canola? No offense Izzy, but those all sound made up. Like, no way in all everything that is holy did ponies back then have such ridiculous names.” Hitch interrupts Izzy’s storytelling, sounding skeptical.
“Oh, those were real names,” Izzy moves uncomfortably close to Hitch to whisper, “Back then, almost all ponies had such ridiculous names like that.”
Hitch just stares at Izzy, backing away from her.
“Anyway...”


***


Their friendship was truly a sight to behold. It was so powerful, so magical, so it makes everypony around them feel all the better about themselves and others inside.
Truly, it was great.
Until one day...


***


“Pause for dramatic effect.”


***


...one day, while it was lunchtime, and the two friends were busy making lunch.
Bubblepop Berrytwist and Granola Canola were both busy preparing daisy flower sandwiches. Then came the question that would eventually doom all of unicorn kind’s vocabulary!
“Hey Bubblepop, mayo or no mayo on your sandwich?” Granola Canola asks her longtime and bestest friend, Bubblepop Berrytwist.
“No mayo please.” Bubblepop Berrytwist cheerfully replies back.
“Okay!” Despite hearing what her friend had just said, Granola Canola puts a spoonful of mayonnaise on both pieces of bread, spreading it all over the bread slice with the same spoon.
“Uh, didn’t you just hear me?” Bubblepop asks, sounding annoyed.
“Mmhm. You said yes to mayo.” Granola said cheerily.
“No. I said no to mayo.”
“Oh well, no biggie. I’ll just use my hoof to get this mayo off the bread-”
“And spread your germs all over my slices of bread?  You know how much of a germaphobe I am!” Bubblepop feels taken aback, offended almost.
“Well geez, I’m sorry. Look, I’ll get another two slices and we can start over.” Granola sincerely apologizes to her best friend.
Though as she went to get another two slices of bread did she see that there were no more bread slices left.
“Oh.”
“Well that’s just great!  Guess I’m not eating lunch today.”
“Bubble, speaking as your longtime bestest friend, you can have my sandwich.”
“Your bread already has mayo on it!!”
Seeing her friend be like this for the first time in like ever (and also not knowing what to do), Granola Canola activates her magic to put everything away. From the empty bread bag, the small box of daisies, a head of lettuce and lastly, the jar of mayonnaise.
“Now what are you doing? Did I say you could do that?”
“Well geez Bubble, if I had known you were gonna act like this, over mayonnaise of all things, then I wouldn’t have bought it yesterday at the market.”
“Granola, you know me more than any other pony. You should’ve known that I don’t like mayonnaise.”
Granola scowls away from her friend, mumbling something under her breath.
“Hornhead.” Bubblepop mumbles under her breath as well, only though not realizing that Granola unfortunately had heard her.
“Hornhead?!”
And what followed after was the defining point of their relationship.
They argued. Argued for the first time.
And that argument would, sadly yes, help end their friendship.
The once powerful, magical friendship ended.
And what happened next was just the cherry on top.
Their friendship was a shining light. Not to themselves but to other unicorns. Their friendship helped made everypony feel good about themselves and others. Helped everypony be good.
But as soon as it ended, everypony changed drastically... for the worst.
Without their friendship to help remind everypony of being good and kind to others, they all eventually turned on one another.
Unicorns started dividing against themselves over the silliness of reasons. And when they couldn’t even think of anything divisive, they still went out of their way to divide ponies. 
And all that division eventually led to many wars. Pitting unicorn against unicorn. Neighbor against neighbor. Friend against friend.
The result of those wars eventually leading to the genocide of thousands, the slavery of hundreds, and the burned memories to every unicorn who’d ever lived during those times.
The burned memories of fear, hatred, and unkindness.
And all of it started with mayonnaise.


***


“And that, is why mayonnaise is a forbidden word.”
After hearing everything Izzy just told, Hitch does nothing but just stare at Izzy like a child stares at his parents like he did something wrong.
“All that really happened?” Hitch asks innocently.
“Nope. I made it all up. Mayonnaise is a forbidden word because we all think it’s disgusting.”
Hitch just stares at Izzy deadpanned, wide eyed. What after hearing of how Izzy just made up the whole story.
“Anyway. I told my part of the trade off. Now you gotta tell me exactly why you were at the Castle while I was there looking for beans.”
Hitch immediately goes from ‘being deadpanned’ to ‘complete and utter shock’.
“I was, uh...” Hitch’s face blushes entirely, “Izzy... I don’t think I should hang around you anymore.”
“And the reason why I was there was... because, I had to deliver sandwiches to the castle guards! Yes! And I just so happened to be in the area of interest that you were. Hehe.” Hitch smiles sheepishly (at his most obvious lie).
“Mmhm. Yes you were.” Izzy comes closer to Hitch, whispering: “But don’t worry. I knew that Pipp was going through her time of the month as I visited her first while I was out looking for beans.” Izzy raises both eyebrows up and down seductively, smiling big and bright while Hitch gulps in embarrassment.
> Steamed Hays
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Sunny Starscout’s Home
Maritime Bay
Equestria
12:02 P.M.

A disgruntled Sprout walks on up to Sunny Starscout’s house, knocking on her door three times. A bottle of apple cider in his hoof.
Opening up from the inside, Sunny welcomes the red, blonde haired stallion to her home, her having a bright smile on her face (all the while wearing a white apron).
“Well Sunny. I made it, despite your directions.” Sprout said, sounding disgruntled about having to be here.
“Ah Sprout, welcome. I hope you're prepared for an unforgettable luncheon.” Sunny greets the red stallion.
“Y- yes.” Sprout grumbles to himself as he walks on in to her home.
Watching the stallion walk on in, Sunny shuts the front door. Her doing so causing the picture of her dad and younger Sunny to fall to the side.
Of course Sunny would immediately notice this, taking the time to readjust the framed picture.
The main reason why Sprout is here at this luncheon with Sunny is because she oh so desperately wants to help him understand more about pegasi and unicorns. To help him not focus too much on differences and instead embrace them.
Hitch may or may not have put her up to this.
Walking into Sunny’s house, Sprout goes to sit at a small, round dining table set in the center of the living/dining room, not before placing his bottle of apple cider in a small bin filled with ice.
Sunny meanwhile heads into the kitchen, smiling still, until when she walks in does she see smoke coming out from her oven.
“Huh.” Sunny runs over immediately to her oven, looking in through the translucent glass oven door to see her casserole completely engulfed in flames.
“Oh Egads! My casserole is ruined!” Sunny exclaims before she gets the attention of a conveniently placed fast food restaurant right outside through a kitchen window.
“Hmm. But what if...” Sunny puts a hoof to her face, whispering to herself, “I were to purchase fast food and disguise it as my own cooking?” 
“Oh hoho. Delightfully devilish Sunny.”
Sunny unties her apron, setting it on the counter, then opening the kitchen window up. 
Placing one hindhoof on the window still and just about ready to climb out, Sprout comes walking on in to the kitchen, gasping at what he sees.
“Sprout! Uh... I was just..., doing isometrics exercise. Care to join me?” Sunny lied.
“Why is there smoke coming out of your oven Sunny?” Sprout begrudgingly points out the fact that her oven has smoke coming on up from the inside.
“Smoke?” Sunny stands up straight, “That isn’t smoke. It’s steam. Steam from the steamed hays we’re having. Mmm, steam hays.” Sunny lied again.
Sprout cautiously narrows his eyes, before then walking out of the kitchen.
“Phew.” Sunny lets out a sigh of relief before finally now climbing out through the window, then running on over to the fast food restaurant that just so happened to be across the street.


***


“Well Sprout, I hope you’re ready for mouth watering hayburgers.” Sunny proudly said as she walks into the room with a silver platter of both hayburgers and oat fries.
“I thought we were having steamed hays?”
Sunny sets the burger and fry platter down on the table, then taking a seat across from Sprout. “Yes! You see, that’s what the unicorns call hayburgers.”
“The unicorns call hayburgers 'steamed hays'?”
“Well now, not all unicorns I should say. It’s more of a regional dialect in parts of Bridlewood.” Sunny said, totally going along with the lie.
“Uh huh. What region?”
“Uh... Izzy Moonbow’s region.”
“Alright.” Sprout just simply strugs. Going along with Sunny’s supposed lesson on unicorn food dialect.
The conversation over, the two ponies each grab a hayburger with a hoof. Also each one pouring themselves a glass of the apple cider that Sprout brought.
After taking a few bites, Sprout speaks up: “Ya know these hayburgers sure do taste exactly like the ones they have at EarthPony Burger.”
“Oh nono. Patented Sunny burgers. Old family recipe.” Sunny laughs off Sprout’s observation.
“For steamed hays.” Sprout says deadpanned.
“Yes!” Sunny says with a smile, raising up her glass of apple cider.
“Yeah, and ya called them steamed despite the fact that these are obviously grilled.” Sprout points out as he takes off the top bun and shows the actual hay patty and how more grilled it is.
“Uh. I should... somepony let me... ‘Cuse me for one second.” Sunny’s nerves start to kick in, causing her to stumble her words, trying desperately to think of a more reasonable explanation before just deciding to get up and walk on back over to the kitchen.
“Of course.” Sprout said anyway. Any chance of him being suspicious of the whole situation totally not found on him.
As Sunny walks back into the kitchen does she immediately walk back out, stretching her hooves out and fake yawning.
Not even noticing of how her whole kitchen had seemed to be completely engulfed in flames.
“Well, that was a wonderful. But I’m pooped.”
“Yes I really should be going- SWEET CORN ON THE COB what is happening in there?!?!” Sprout gets up from his seat fast, what after having caught a glimpse of the fire in the kitchen.
“Aurora Borealis!” Sunny blurts out randomly.
“Wha, aurora borealis?! You mean the magical reindeer legend that was told to us all when we were foals? They just so happen to be in your kitchen this very time of year, this very day, and at this very hour?”
“Yes.” Sunny just so reluctantly goes along with.
Sprout, feeling taken aback, totally not expecting that answer. “May I see them?”
Sunny thinks it over for a bit before just giving a plain no. 
“No.”


***


“Help! Help!! The lighthouse is on fire!!” Some random pony screams as loud as they possibly can, while both Sunny and Sprout exit out the front door of the lighthouse.
“No silly. That’s just the magical reindeer.” Sunny tries to reassure the scared pony that there is no fire.
“Well Sunny, you are truly an odd pony. But I must say...” Sprout takes a deep breath.
“Look, I know I’m not the best pony in town. I’ve made plenty mistakes. Big ones especially. Lately.”
“But what you’re trying to do. To help me understand more. No other pony would do what you’re doing. Not even Hitch, shockingly.”
“Simply put, I’m glad, relieved actually, that you'd do anything to help me be a better pony. ‘Cause honestly, after what happened, nopony seems to want to care for me. Not even daring to look my way. But you. You are the exception.”
“And considering you would take the time and trouble to climb out a window, purchase fast food, and completely ignore your own house on fire, you must really believe in me. And I thank you for it.” Sprout said, true to his heart.
Sunny Starscout, after hearing everything Sprout had just told her, of how special she is to him, of how she helps him be a better pony, of how she's the exception. It really stuck with her.
“You really knew my house was on fire?” Is all Sunny can say.
“Oh, I could practically see it from where I was sitting. Also saw you climb out that window, and run totally not like you're in a rush.”
Sprout and Sunny both stare at each other for a solid minute. Their silence being interrupted by the sound of hooves clopping as Hitch Trailblazer frantically comes running over to the still burning lighthouse, drawned to him a fire engine wagon. 
“Sprout, what did we say about starting fires?!”
“Uh actually. This was of my doing.” Sunny says, blushing a deep embarrassing red.
> Hitch Trailblazer and the Quest for Pipp Petal's Love and Affection at 3 a.m. with a Spoon
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Hitch Trailblazer is just peacefully sitting up on his bed, not tired at all. In fact, since today is Thursday, it means that it’s his special time of the night.
Hitch goes to look at his alarm clock on his bedside nightstand, and sees it read: 3:01 A.M.
“Welp. Three AM. Time for my quest for Pipp’s love and affection.”
Hitch stands up on his bed, jumping off, landing on all fours, then making his way out of the bedroom.
But not before going back and opening up his nightstand’s drawer, digging through it until he retrieves his lucky spoon from it (for safety measures). 
“I wonder what today will be like...?” Hitch said to himself as he walks out of his home and into the cool three-in-the-morning nighttime air.
As Hitch walks farther outside does he see his pony crush waifu just openly standing out in the distance, expression looking as blank as Applejack after she’d have just served enough iced teas to the Manehattan Society of Lawn Care.
“Pipp! What’re you doing here?!”
“Help. You've gotta help me. I’ve accidentally eaten too many baked beans and now I can’t remember how to count to one hundred!” Pipp speaks, acting totally not like herself.
“Weird analogy. But okay!”
“Now repeat after me...” Hitch takes a long, deep breath.
“One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three, twenty-four, twenty-five, twenty-six, twenty-seven, twenty-eight, twenty-nine, thirty, thirty-one, thirty-two, thirty-three, thirty-four, thirty-five, thirty-six, thirty-seven, thirty-eight, thirty-nine, forty, forty-one, forty-two, forty-three, forty-four, forty-five, forty-six, forty-seven, forty-eight, forty-nine, fifty, fifty-one, fifty-two, fifty-three, fifty-four, fifty-five, fifty-six, fifty-seven, fifty-eight, fifty-nine, sixty, sixty-one, sixty-two, sixty-three, sixty-four, sixty-five, sixty-six, sixty-seven, sixty-eight, sixty-nine..., haha nice. Seventy, seventy-one, seventy-two, seventy-three, seventy-four, seventy-five, seventy-six, seventy-seven, seventy-eight, seventy-nine, eighty, eighty-one, eighty-two, eighty-three, eighty-four, eighty-five, eighty-six, eighty-seven, eighty-eight, eighty-nine, ninety, ninety-one, ninety-two, ninety-three, ninety-four, ninety-five, ninety-six, ninety-seven, ninety-eight, ninety-nine...” Hitch takes one last long deep breath. “One hundred!”
“There. Now you know... again.”
“Sorry, could you repeat that again? I was too busy staring at your massive hotdog.”
“Hey! Don’t stare at my massive hotdog like that!” Hitch acts offensively towards Pipp, a hotdog somehow magically appearing in his hoof.
“Why do you even have a hotdog? We’re both horses Hitch. We don’t eat meat!!” Pipp sternly states.
“That’s what she said.” Hitch though snarkly replies back, a ‘filmed in front of a live studio audience’ laugh track sounding right after.
“Oh, this is all so terrible. I still don’t know how to count to one hundred and I can’t quite figure out the complexities of twenty-third century isototalitarianism. I need somepony to comfort me right now. Hitch, will you do the dirty ‘dirty’ work?"
“Sorry Pipp, but it’s November. And you know what that means.”
“No queso bean dip with a side of mayonnaise, served also with an iced tea November? You earth ponies do that too?”
“Yes! Exactly that!” Hitch brings his spoon out and shows it to her, “Now if you’ll excuse me miss, I have a hot date to attend to with the most hottest pegasus voted three times, in a row, by the Zephyr Heights Society of Agriculture.”
“Hitch, I’m the the most hottest pegasus voted three times, in a row, by the Zephyr Heights Society of Agriculture.”
“No you weren’t,” Hitch brings his spoon up to his face, thinking long and hard, “Weren’t you voted most athletic by the Zephyr Heights Society of Agriculture?”
“No. That was Zipp!”
“I knew it! Zipp Storm was the one voted most ‘eggheadly’ by the Zephyr Heights Society of Eggheads!-" 
“Hitch, don’t say that word! You know how offensive it is. Especially to unicorns.” Pipp whispering the last part to him.
“I know,” Hitch said matter-of-factly, “And I love you oh so dearly. But frankly my dear, I don’t give nightmare night candy away to any other pony but...-”
“But what? I love you too, but you're just so weird to be around. Ask any other pony. Ask Sunny while you’re at it!”
“I know I’m weird. But if I don’t claim your love and affection within the next three hours and exact twenty five minutes and forty one seconds, then you’ll never want to come to my house and play 'tea time dress up' with Sprout and I!” 
Pipp raises an unsuspecting eyebrow after what he just said.
“Sounds like you are sus, Hitch.”
“I’m not sus. I'm pontalian!" Hitch says, feeling taken aback.
“Sus. Totally sus.”
“Oh. Wait ‘til I tell Izzy of how you and I played checkers that one night when I came to your room while I was out delivering sandwiches to the castle guards!”
“Trust me. She’ll ship us.” Hitch’s weirdness continues onto level eleven (out of ten).
“You out here playing chess while I’m out here playing 10D checkers.” Pipp’s weirdness too dials up to eleven.

Cock-a-doodle-doo!!

“Oh good. The morning rooster just sounded. That means everypony is going to wake up soon and the day will begin.” Hitch observes, sounding relieved.
“Did we just spend the last three hours talking utter, random nonsense?” Pipp asks, not knowing whatever the heck they just did exactly.
“Yes.” Hitch replies back as straightforward as possible.
Before both Hitch and Pipp leave on their way, they closely approach one another, giving each other a kiss on the lips. Though each pony not knowing when to stop.
Finally, they do stop once Pipp feels a gag in her mouth, then she just so blatantly vomiting into Hitch’s mouth.
“Mmm. Tastes like fresh toast.” Hitch says one last time as the two ponies walk away from each other.
Remembering fondly of what they had just done during the night.
> Epilogue To The Previous Chapter
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

"My crush said she liked me," Hitch smiles sheepishly, his left eye twitching, "And I blew it!"
> The First Annual Trivia Trot
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Tonight, for the first in a very, very long time, is the first annual night of the Trivia Trot.
Sunny Starscout helped arrange everything needed for this event, plus with the help of friends, most noticeably Izzy, tonight feels like it could, no will be a smashing success. Well okay, maybe not too much smashing entirely.
But Sunny still hopes tonight and everypony will be all good.
At least, fundamentally.


***


“Everything is set. Soon enough, everypony should be arriving and the night can fully begin.” Sunny Starscout said to herself encouragingly, hoping that tonight will be a success.
“No problemo Sunny. As long as we all have fun, then it will be a success.” Izzy said as she walks into the main living room area, with a tray of fast food hayburgers.
In Sunny’s living room there are three separate tables set for the contestants, each one finely decorated with a light blue with gold trim tablecloth. In the middle of the tables being a wooden moderator podium. Off to the sides being tables meant to be used for snacks.
“I know we all will!” Sunny goes over and puts a hoof around Izzy, both smiling as bright.
The night would officially begin with the sound of a knock on the front door.
“It’s open!” Sunny yells out over to the front door.
Being opened from the outside, Hitch Trailblazer is the first pony to arrive.
“Hey Sunny, Izzy. I’m here. And I brought snacks.” Hitch says as he walks on in, carrying with him a plate of spicy carrots with mayonnaise dip.
“Oh, and Izzy. Sorry about the mayo.” Hitch quickly apologizes as soon as he sees the unicorn inside Sunny’s house.
“None taken.” Izzy brightly smiles.
Next pony to arrive is Sprout. Looking as 'totally not wanting to be here' as ever.
“Why am I here exactly? Why do I have to be here? I have so many questions, not enough answers?!” The earth pony mumbles to himself.
“Hiya Sprout. What’s been happening with ya?” Sunny gives a bright welcome.
Though all Sprout replied back was nothing but grumbling under his breath as he walks further on into the house.
The next (and last) ponies to enter are none other than both Pipp Petals and Zipp Storm.
“Hi, we’re here.” Zipp greets the ponies inside as she walks on in through the front door.
“Uh huh. Yes.” Pipp walks on in after her, though she appears more focused on her phone more so than on the other ponies in the room.
“Well, now that everypony is here can we truly begin,” Sunny says to all the ponies, getting in the middle of them all, “Now, if you don’t know, we are doing a ‘Trivia Trot’. It’s something ponies used to do for fun. Like, a long time ago.”
“Now if you'll excuse me as I tell you all the rules and...-” Sunny interrupts herself when she sees of how everypony don’t seemed to be all focused on her.
Izzy being more focused on cheering up a grumpy Sprout. Zipp and Pipp having a rather ‘serious sister-to-sister conversation’. And Hitch just so balantly standing still by the snacks’ table. Not paying attention to anypony.
“...and, we should pair everypony up. Izzy, I believed you-”
“Righto!” Izzy pulls out a piece of paper from right out under the tray that has the hayburgers on. “Zipp, Sprout. You’re team one.”
“What now?” Zipp acts surprised.
“Huh?” Sprout asks, confused.
“Pipp, Hitch. You’re team two.”
“What?” Pipp acting just as surprised as her sister.
“Really Izzy.” Hitch says deadpanned.
“And Sunny is the moderator and-”
“Wait, but there’s only five of us. Meaning you don’t have a partner.” Sprout interrupts Izzy.
“Oh don’t worry. I invited somepony to be my very own personal partner. And he should be here in three, two...” Almost on cue, a knock sounds on the front door. 
“There he is!!” Izzy joyously bounces over, opening the front door and seeing her game partner on the other side.
This pony of whom Izzy has invited may not look like your average, run-of-the-mill pony... but it was.
With a pure black coat, mane and tail nothing but long strings of dark gray hair, and that’s not to mention the eyes. Yes!
It’s eyes having no pupil, just completely white.
Everypony appears shocked (while also confused, scared a little, and even more surprised), in awe completely at just the sight of Izzy’s partner.
“Uh Izzy, are you sure this is the pony? Do you even know him, or her... or...-?” Sunny asks her friend about her unusual partner she’d invited.
“You all look like you’ve seen a ghost. Plus, it’s no worry. He’s fine. We both met right outside that twenty-four hour convenience store from way back when, and wouldn’t ya know, we just hit it off.” Izzy explains to her friends of how they met. 
Everypony though still staring in silence before Sunny having to break it up again. Trying to put on a welcoming smile.
“Well okay. Nice to meet you. What’s your name?”
The strange pony, having heard Sunny’s question, and seeming to take kindly to Sunny’s smile, what with how it smiled back. No matter how creepy it looked.
To answer her question, the pony gave a long, dark, gloomy whinny in response.
“Uh, okay.”
“Pfft. Oh Carl, you're such a crackup!” Izzy giggles at her partner’s response.
“It’s name is Carl. Nice.” Hitch quietly says sarcastically to himself.
“Well, now that everypony is here, let us begin!”


***


“Now that everypony is seated, we can fully begin.”
Sunny officially starts the night off. Each pony with their partner and sitting at one of the three tables.
Sunny meanwhile standing at the moderator podium in the middle of them.
“Alright, so usually the rules are far more complex, so I have taken the liberty and completely simplified them. All you three teams have to do is shout, ‘LETTUCE!!’ to get a chance to answer the question I give you. And don’t worry, a pony of no bias will be keeping score... I’m talking about myself. Sounds simple, right?” Sunny flashes a smile over the whole room, being totally proud of everything she’d planned.
“Sounds easy enough,” Pipp speaks for the whole room in approval of Sunny’s rules for the game, “Oh, and Zipp, you're so totally going down.” Pipp said with a cocky smile and attitude.
“Yeah right. Back in school, you couldn’t even spell isototalitarianism.” Zipp claps back.
“Uh, what she said!” Both Hitch and Sprout say at once.
“Hehe. This is gonna be so much fun.” Izzy says to her game partner. The response she gets back is the same long, dark, gloomy whinny from before.
“Okay. Now you all got that out of the way, now let us officially begin.” Sunny brings up on her podium a medium sized box of trivia cards, taking the lid off and choosing a card at random.
“First question, what is the difference between-”
“Lettuce!!!” Hitch shouts out loud.
“Uh, maybe let me finish the question first?” Sunny says, inquisitive of Hitch’s sudden burst.
“No it’s, I forgot the lettuce that goes with the carrots I’ve brought! If you let me go home and-”
“Sorry Hitch. But if you leave, then you are disqualifying your team from competition. It’s a rule I created.”
“Oh.” 
“You get us disqualified Hitch and you’ll never play checkers with me again.” Pipp speaks intensely, obviously not wanting to lose. Almost making Hitch cry a little (on the inside).
“Well, if I may continue...” Sunny goes back to reading the card to everyone.
“...what is the difference between photosynthesis and chemosynthesis? Short answer only.”
“Lettuce!!” Zipp immediately shouts out. Clearing her throat before giving her answer: “Photosynthesis occurs in plants while chemosynthesis occurs in bacteria.” 
“Correct! Team Zout gets one point.”
“Beat that sis," Zipp looks across from her sister with a smug expression,  “And next time, give me a challenge.” Zipp said this time to Sunny as cocky as ever.
“You really know all about that kind of stuff, don't cha?” Sprout asks curiously to the white pegasus.
“Well yeah. It’s just basic biology we’ve all learned in school. Didn’t you guys learn the same thing?”
“Pffffft. Probably. Though I mostly forgot everything I learned.” Sprout says truthfully to her.
“You really don’t remember everything you've learned?”
“My best subject was lunch. Tells you all you need to know right there.”
Almost as if they’re long time friends, both Zipp and Sprout laugh off their whole exchange. Laughing like they were just told of an old inside joke.
Seeing their laughter, Sunny can do nothing but smile.
“Alright, next question...” Sunny pulls out another card. “...what are the names of the mystical reindeer legend told to us all when we were young?”
A loud whinny comes up, everypony looking towards Izzy and her partner.
“He says lettuce!" Izzy says for Carl, "Oh, and he also answered that their names are Aurora, Bori, and Alice. Boom! Double drop.” Izzy metaphorically drops the mic.
“Uh huh. Well, that is correct. Team Cizzy gets one point.”
“Hurray!!” Izzy cheers her team on, her partner giving an ever somewhat happy (and still creepy) smile and whinny.
“Listen here Hitch. We’re already down one point to everyone. Do something to make this better!!” Pipp grabs a hold of her partner, shaking him uncontrollably.
Hitch easily removes himself from Pipp’s hooves. “Yes honey.” He says ever so sincerely to her.
“Next one...” Sunny grabs another card. “Who is... Hitch Trailblazer?” Sunny acts surprised after just reading the card. Everypony else (including Hitch, maybe excluding Pipp) surprised by the question as well. Even Carl is surprised.
“Lettuce!” Pipp speaks up in a singsongery tone. “And Hitch Trailblazer is the most handsome -est, kind -est, most reliable -est, and best -est pony that you’d ever want to play checkers with, and...-”
Pipp breaks up her longwinded answer, seeing as how everypony (including Hitch) looking at her weirdly.
“Alright, well I’m just taking that as a correct answer. I’ll have to look into it on why this card is even in here in the first place. Either way, team Hipp scores one point.”
“Hurray!” Pipp celebrates her victory with a tight congratulatory hug around Hitch’s upper body. Her sweet mumbling of joy causing her to not hear Hitch being choked.
Carl, Izzy’s partner, whinnies at the sight of the two.
“I know right. Tell us you two are in a relationship, without telling us you two are in a relationship.” Izzy nods her head in total disapproval along with her partner.
“Well um, since each team now has one point each, let us continue the game!”


***


(Fifteen Minutes Later)


“Well, it appears you all have a tie.” Sunny speaks out to the three teams. Team Zout, Hipp, and Cizzy all having exactly twenty-two points.
It’s been a rough fifteen minutes, from some teams gaining points to some teams losing points. But not at all worrisome for Sunny. The six ponies (plus whatever Carl is) were all having fun.
At least, she hoped they were. Kind of. Okay, maybe they were really so super competitive as to want to win this thing. What you have the two sisters trying to ‘oneup’ each other, then you have one stallion trying so desperately to show the other stallion how much better he is/can be.
At least Izzy and Carl look like they’re having fun. Unless Carl is secretly plotting for world domination and neither pony knows what he’s talking about except Izzy because she’s “apparently” the only one to understand him.
Nah.
“And because of the sad fact that I’ve run all out of trivia cards, it appears that the game is over.”
Everypony (especially Zipp and Pipp) takes the news rather poorly. Not to mention in shock and surprise.
“No! It. Cannot. Be!!” Sprout yells out.
“Yeah! No way we can end this without me beating my sister!” Both Zipp and Pipp say simultaneously at the same time, both ponies too noticing it. “Hey! Stop repeating after me! No you! Ugh!!”
“I’m just here so I can have fun.” Hitch says quietly to himself.
Carl also gives a long, dissatisfactory whinny.
“It’s okay there. Your plans for world domination will eventually go through.” Izzy gives her partner a solemn understanding pat on the back.
“Now now everypony. I get you don’t want the game to end just yet. So to make ya happy, we will be doing one final round. A sudden death round, whichever team shouts lettuce first and answers correctly will be the winner. Any questions, if not, then we will continue.”
Hearing this, the room immediately gets quiet. The only action happening is the six nods of approval given by all towards the wooden podium in the middle.
“Alright! The sudden death round question is... uh...”
Of course Sunny hadn’t exactly planned this out. Thinking to herself long and hard on what she should say. And all that thinking caused her to sweat nervously and uncontrollably.
“Uh... uh... oh. Yes! Simple.” Sunny finally gets a lightbulb of an idea in her head. And her being so proud of it as she smiles as bright as ever.
“And the sudden death round question is... what, or who, are the six different and unique ponies, who are all friends, names?”
The question, seeming so simple yet so surprisingly hard, as it appeared everypony was having a real struggle trying to crack it.
The three teams did not seem to get it.
“I should mention that there is a timer.”
That last sudden bit of news also seeming to freak everypony out.
“Uh... LETTUCE!!!” Everypony blurts out at once.
“Sorry, but only one pony may ring in. So only one of you will have to answer.” Sunny says with a smug expression.
Everypony looks unto one another nervously until Hitch finally speaks up for everyone:
“Alright, I think I speak for everypony in saying that we don’t know the six names you are referring to. Sorry.” After Hitch finishes speaking does everyone look down onto their tables in defeat.
“Are you all serious! It’s you guys. You! The answer to the question, six names of six different and unique ponies, are Hitch, Sprout, Zipp, Pipp, Izzy, and me!! ...okay maybe Carl, so seven names then.”
“Oohh.” Everypony all say at once in unknowingly naive unison. Silence falling upon them all.
“Well, I for one had a great time. Right, Carl?” Izzy breaks up the silence, her partner replying back with a joyous, full of expression whinny.
“I supposed that was a great time for me too. And I even learned more about you Sprout.” Zipp said after, nudging her partner on the shoulder.
“I guess it was pretty great as well.” Sprout said, trying to sound as uninterested, but also showing a small grin.
“Me too. You and I are such a great team Hitch.” Pipp says to her partner, elbowing him light (but also surprisingly hard).
“Yes honey, it was.” Hitch responds back with a hoof around her. Pipp responding back with an almost embarrassing blush.
Carl gives a long whinny, speaking (to really Izzy only) on his thoughts on the two.
“Carl, not here. Not at this time.” Izzy feels almost taken aback by Carl’s latest comment on not only the game but towards both Hitch and Pipp.
“Hehe. He says he totally too had a great time. Hahaha!” Izzy lies to everyone, not even thinking of telling everyone of what Carl had really said (he said he wondered what a night of checkers must be like for both Hitch and Pipp).
“Well, since you all seemed to have fun, then I hereby declare that tonight, the first annual Trivia Trot for the very first time in a long time, was a success!” Sunny says emphatically, everypony else going along with it and cheering together.
And from there the night ended... but not until for another two hours though as they all decided to just hang out at Sunny’s place.
Hanging out as friends.
What are friends for indeed.
Especially since what’s about to happen next will not only test themselves, but their friendship.


(Far Away, In Another Generation. More Specifically, The G4’s Endspere)


“So, we now know of the world more clearly. Wanna check it out for ourselves?”
“Yes! Those ponies will definitely have no clue of what’s coming.”
> Short Story #1: Izzy and Pipp goes to the Zephyr Heights’ PonT&T Store
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

“I don’t get it.”
“Well, get it. ‘Cause it’s only here for a big, big purchase of twenty-nine ninety-nine if you purchase the diamond package. Only the diamond package.”
“Sounds like a rip-off. Just give me the starter package and I’ll happily be on my way.”
Izzy and Pipp are both inside the PonT&T store in Zephyr Heights. Both are debating whether they should buy the diamond package for the new PonPhone 13plusX. Correction, Pipp is the one trying to get Izzy to buy the diamond package. For the diamond package includes not only an extra two gigabytes of data but two thousand more talk/text minutes.
“I don’t know. Twenty-nine ninety-nine is already a lot of bits. Best I just stick with the starter package now for only twenty-four ninety-nine.”
“Yeah, but it’s only five bits more!” Pipp whines loudly, everypony in the whole store noticing (but not really caring).
“Y’know what, I’ll sleep on it. Then in the morning, we’ll both come back and get whatever I decide on. Okay?”
Pipp neighs in teenage anguish. “I guess.”


***


“Well, I made my decision.” Izzy rejoices in gladness as both her and Pipp arrived back at the PonT&T store the next day.
“I will gladly take the gold package!”
Pipp Petals facehoofs at Izzy's decision.
“Izzy, that package is fifty bits. You can’t possibly have that kind of money.”
“Yes I do.” Izzy brings out her billfold, and takes out exactly ten different credit cards.
“Izzy, why do you have all of those credit cards?” Pipp sincerely asks of her friend. “You do know that you eventually have to pay all of those off, right?”
“Oh, I know. And I do have the money to pay all these off eventually.”
“But wait, if you do have the money to eventually pay off all those cards, then why not use that money now to pay for your phone instead for towards your future credit card payments!?"
“Well geez, I don’t criticize your life decisions, now do I?”
The whole shopping day ends as Pipp facehoofs some even more while Izzy goes and buys the gold package for her brand new (but only temporary until the PonPhone 14 comes out) phone.
> Short Story #2: Sunny and Hitch's Childhood Memories
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

“Hey Sunny.”
“Hello Hitch.”
“Wanna go for a trip down memory lane? And by trip, do I mean only going and looking back at one memory from both of our childhoods.”
“Okay. But sure, why not.” Sunny, after agreeing, does she immediately start giggling to herself.
“Alright. What’s so funny now?” Hitch says in a serious tone of manner.
“Nothing, it’s just, remember that time back when we were kids and...”


(Sunny and Hitch’s (for one time only) Trip Down Memory Lane)


“Hey Sunny? This is gonna sound totally embarrassing but... can you help me with my homework?! I forgot to do it.”
A younger version of Hitch Trailblazer asks of his childhood friend, Sunny Starscout.
“And don’t worry, Sprout isn't around,” Hitch goes to whisper into Sunny’s ear, “He’s at the dentist getting a cavity removed.”
“What? Just one, or are there more?” Sunny snarkly whispers back.
The two foals immediately burst into laughter. Laughing together as two childhood friends would.
After they finally find the unfunniness of the joke, Sunny goes to a much more serious tone of body language.
“And why do you need my help with your homework? In the first place?”
“Uh, well you see, I kinda forgot to do it. I was, uh,” Hitch lowers his head down in embarrassment, “I was playing with my mom’s garden hose a little too much.”
“You know this homework was assigned months ago. Did you even read your book, let alone begin reading it?”
All Hitch gives as an answer is an awkward smile and a nervous expression.
“Well I..., you have the rest of the day off now, do ya?”
All Sunny can give is a disappointing facehoof.


***


Since today is apparently the day where Sunny helps Hitch out on his book report, the two foals had gone to the Maritime Bay Public Library. To help with their concentration.
“Okay so, do you have the book that you were supposed to be reading?” Sunny asks, the two foals sitting at one of the work desks.
“Uh huh!” Hitch happily exclaims as he brings up onto the work desk a copy of the book ‘The Apples of Wrath’.
Sunny looks at the book with a concerned expression. “This is the book you’d said that you were gonna do a report on?”
“Yeah. Problem?”
“It’s just, that book of yours is awfully way advanced for ponies our age. You couldn’t have picked a simple Colt Bredhann novel?”
“I wanted to impress the teacher.”
The two look at one another in silence.
Sunny nervously thinking of what she can do while Hitch just stares off into space.
“That’s why I came to you, Sunny,” Hitch breaks up the silence between them, “I know I’m not the most smarty smart of ponies, but you are. When I don’t know what to do, I know you know... of what to do, wait, let me rephrase that-”
“It’s okay Hitch. I know you’re not the smartest. And thanks for what you just said. I mean it.”
Hitch smiles brightly towards Sunny.
“Now, let’s open this book up and write you the most best -est, amazing -est book report Miss Freeilee has ever seen!”
“Okay!”
And so, the two ponies open up the book and begin on writing the most best -est, amazing -est book report ever written.
Two ponies as friends, being the best of friends.


(End of the Memory Lane)


“Geez, were we really like that as kids? I mean, at least for me?” 
“At least we got that book report done. Even if it took all night. By the way, how did you do on it, again?”
“You know,” Hitch says annoyingly, “Miss Freeilee gave me a D+ and made me bring my parents to meet after school just to tell them how much of a failure that report was.”
Both Sunny and Hitch bust out into laughter.
Laughing and remembering all the other weird stuff they did when they were foals.
Back when their lives were much simpler.
> Short Story #3: Zipp and the Microwave
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

“I’mma hungry. I’m getting a snack from the fridge.”
Zipp Storm stands herself back up, her just so blatantly sitting on the floor of the royal palace’s throne room, and walking on over down exactly twenty-seven corridors before finally arriving at the royal palace’s royal kitchen.
“Aha! There ye art thy fridge!” Zipp speaks sounding in old ponish.
Opening the fridge up, all Zipp can see inside though are nothing but pictures of Hitch Trailblazer.
“What the? These aren’t the types of snacks I’m looking for.”
Just now, Pipp Petals comes walking into the royal kitchen. Walking in as robotic as a robot pony would walk.
“Hey Pipp! Why are there nothing but pictures of your pony crush waifu in the fridge?!"
“I’m not acknowledging that last part of your question," Pipp quickly brushes aside, “And I did it because I thought they could use a little ‘cool down’ time.”
“That still doesn't explain why you still did this!"
“Well geez, if you want a snack so bad, why not try the royal pantry?”
“Oh yeah.” Zipp remembers, somehow forgetting the existence of the royal pantry.
The two sisters go on their own way. Zipp walking over to the royal pantry and Pipp walking over to... wherever she’s going.


***


After rummaging in the royal pantry for the past two hours, Zipp had finally found the snack of which she desires.
Microwaveable box pasta.
Getting out a microwavable safe bowl and opening the box pasta up, Zipp dumps the whole box of pasta into the bowl, then after reading the instructions on the back, takes a measuring cup filled with one and a half cups of warm tap water and pours it into the bowl, mixing it right after.
After she mixes the pasta and the water together, Zipp brings the bowl over to the microwave, opening it up and placing the bowl exact center of the glass turntable plate, then finally shutting the door hard and pressing into the appliance the time needed to cook.
Only, when she pressed the start button did the microwave not at all start.
“Hm.” Zipp, curious, presses the button again, still nothing happening.
She presses it again and still nothing’s happening.
After about the fiftieth time and still the microwave not working, Zipp boldly comes to the conclusion of...
“Microwave machine broke.”
Then an idea comes to her.
“If microwave machine broke, then I’ll just have to make a fire to cook my pasta.”
Ten minutes later, Zipp had gathered up all the newspapers and magazines she could get her hooves on and arranged them all in a pile in the literal center of the royal kitchen.
“Alright, fire time!” Zipp appears in her hooves two rocks of flint, and spends the next two hours aimlessly trying to start a fire with them.
After about the three-hundredt and fifty-eighth try of banging together two rocks did she finally get a spark.
“Yes!”
That spark would indeed become into a fire...
...an eventual big fire that would not only smoke up the whole kitchen but the whole palace as well.
Though Zipp wouldn’t know about that now as she placed her bowl of now soggy pasta onto a cooking stand over the fire.
“Alright, so, the instructions say one minute and fifty seconds, so that should mean that I have to cook this pasta for one minute, fifty seconds but times ten, which is... eleven minutes and fifty seconds.” Zipp strugs at the math she’d just calculated.


(Eleventh Minutes, Fifty Seconds Later)


“Finally, my pasta is done!” Zipp rejoices, carefully lifting the bowl of cooked pasta from the cooking stand with a washcloth.
“At last.” Zipp places the bowl onto the counter, grabbing a fork out from the royal utensils’ drawer, and ready to dig in (after waiting five minutes of cooling).
Zipp grabs her fork, and is about to finally eat her snack until...
...both her mom and sister abruptly interrupt her eating. Two firefighter ponies right behind them.
“What did you do?!?!” Queen Haven and Pipp both shout at Zipp, her staring at both of them, looking in awe.
“Uuuuhh..., pasta?”
> Finale
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

     To start out this new chapter of pony, the five ponies of Sunny, Izzy, Hitch, Zipp, and Pipp are all walking out of the Maritime Bay Movie Theater, having just spent the last two-and-a-half hours watching the movie ‘Sky Wars: The Alicorn Menace’.
     “So, how did everypony enjoy the movie?” Sunny asks everyone on their thoughts on the movie.
     “It was alright.” Said Hitch.
     “Okay.” Said Pipp.
     “Forget the movie. Did you not see those prices? Like, eight bits just for a small bag of popcorn.” Zipp speaks her frustrating thoughts on the movie theater’s apparent high concession prices.
     “That movie was terrible. It had absolutely no character development and the plot was all over the place. Why, the only good thing about it was the wacky, comedic relief character, and he got killed off in the first five minutes!” Izzy ends her rant, everypony staring at her in shocked silence.
     “Well, I at least enjoyed it. Anyway, let’s head to my house now for lettuce and crackers.” Sunny breaks up the silence, letting her friends all follow her back to her house.
     Not knowing of what, or who, they were about to see.


***


     “I’m telling you Sunny, who eats just lettuce along with crackers? Like, the lettuce has to go with at least a vegetable. Not just crackers. What you’re doing doesn’t make any sense at all?!” Hitch explains very thoroughly of how you can’t just have lettuce without a vegetable. The other four ponies rolling their eyes and giggling amongst themselves at Hitch’s latest weird rant as they all walk on the path that leads to Sunny’s house.
     “Ah come on Hitch. It’s not like nothing bad will happen because Sunny is only serving lettuce and crackers?” Izzy says to the stallion.
     “Hhmph. Well, something bad can still happen.” Hitch puts on a frowning face.
     Almost like Hitch knew what would happen, as the ponies got closer to Sunny's house does, out of nowhere, not even out of left field, does a portal magically appear right in front of them all.
All ponies Immediately stopping in their tracks once they see it. Surprised (and shocked) to be sure by the sudden appearance of this portal.
     “Uh, guys, I’m sorry for summoning this portal to existence.” Hitch quickly apologizes for just out of spite.
     “What...? What is it?” Sunny asks herself, still shocked and surprised by it.
     Right as Sunny has said that, the portal stretches upward, widening also, then out through the portal, walking into their world, comes Luster Dawn, human Sunset Shimmer, and Pony Life Rarity. All but the former looking with confident, brave daring expressions. The portal magically evaporating behind them once they all fully entered through it.
     The five ponies look on at their world’s newest arrivals with continued shock and surprise. Mouths may or may not open agaped.
     “Hm, so this is Equestria now. And youponies, taken by how you’re all different races, must be the new mane ponies.” Luster Dawn breaks up the silence between them, taking in the sight of her surroundings.
     The five ponies still continue to be silent, each one’s mouth still open agaped.
     “They’re most likely freaked out about us, as expected. Should we introduce ourselves?” Sunset asks Luster, also noticing too of her surroundings.
     “Yes," Luster walks over closer to the five ponies, “My name is Luster Dawn. Former student of Twilight Sparkle’s School of Friendship.”
     Sunset walks on over closer too. “My name’s Sunset Shimmer. Former protégé of former Princess of Equestria, Princess Celestia.”
     “And I am Rarity!” Pony Life Rarity dances over by them. “Actress, social media influencer with many followers, and-” PL Rarity interrupts herself once she sees both Luster and Sunset look down at her with confusion.
     “What? I am only introducing myself.”
     Both Luster and Sunset facehoofs/palms.
     “I... I...” Sunny tries to say something, anything about what is happening right here in front of her and her friends.
     “Who are you?” Izzy though is the first one to ask the newest arrivals.
     “We already told you. But you should tell us who you are.” Luster tells either one of the five ponies.
     “Um, we’re... we are,” Sunny straightens up her posture in newfound confidence, pointing a hoof at each pony, telling their name as she does, “Hitch Trailblazer, Izzy Moonbow, Zipp Storm, and Pipp Petals,” Sunny points her hoof towards her, “and I’m Sunny. Sunny Starscout.”
     “Huh, cute names.” Sunset comments on.
     “Really so. Are you sure you’re not from around where I used to live?” PL Rarity comments too, asking either any of them.
     “Okay. Look, just tell us why you are here and all that. Then maybe we can continue on our way.” Hitch says with upmost confidence, having with a puffed up chest.
     “Right. We’re here to see you guys,” Said Luster, “Our Equestria is no more. We’ve been cancelled.”
     “Uh, cancelled?” Pipp speaks up, breaking up her silence. “You mean, like, social media wise?-"
     “No. Absolutely not like that!” Sunset quickly speaks up. “We mean, the Executives cancelled our worlds for this one’s!”
     “Executives?” Izzy quietly asks herself.
     “Back on track. We’re here to see you guys... and also to find a certain crystal that’ll, with the right spell, will bring about destruction on this world, totally destroying practically everything you know and love.”
     “WHAT?!?!” All five ponies shout out.


***


     “I know it sounds crazy complicated, but we have to do it.” Sunset tries to reassure everything is okay. “It’s... complicated.”
     “How?! Destroying our world is complicated maybe to you, but to us...” Hitch loses his train of thought, thinking instead intensely of how what he just heard doesn’t make any sense.
     “It just doesn’t feel right. Why do you want to really do this?” Sunny asks them, getting suspicious of the three visitors.
     “We told ya. It’s complicated. Plus besides, you guys will all survive the destruction.” Said Luster, trying to still reassure to them everything is okay.
     “You’re still not explaining this?!?!” All five ponies shout out at once in anger.
     “Oh, we’ll explain it alright. After we find the crystal needed. It’s hidden in this world somewhere. I should know, I read a book about it.” Said Luster, saying the last part geeklily.
     “Yes.” Both Sunset and PL Rarity say at once, the three of them then deciding to just walk away from the five ponies and going off on their adventure to find the crystal hidden somewhere in this world.
     Leaving them all still in shocked and surprised silence.
     “Well, whatever we do next, we absolutely cannot let them find that crystal.” Zipp states, breaking up the silence, to her friends.


***


     “This is bad. This is really, really BAD!! This is bad times infinity, which equals bad!!” Sunny ‘sunnying’ about the situation at hand.
     “Uh yeah, Sunny, we get it. Everything is bad. But the more time we say how bad it is, the more likely they’ve already found that crystal," Hitch says to his panicked friend, “We need to find that crystal. Anypony know where to find that crystal?”
     Hitch asks anypony, either one of them (besides Sunny, who’s still panicking) staying quiet, strugging their hooves in the air, let alone not knowing anything.
     “I uh, think I saw something like that last week,” Izzy finally speaks up, Hitch’s expression livening up in relief, “Though, it was more of a rock than a crystal.”
     Hitch’s expression turn towards disappointment once he hears that last part.
     “Well, I think we’re pooped.”
     “Hey! We are not pooped. We just need to look harder. Like, twenty-percent harder.” Zipp says motivationally.
     “All this crystal talk is making my head hurt.” Pipp says quietly to herself, bringing out her phone to look at anything on it.
     “Wait, that’s it!” Izzy, noticing Pipp bringing her phone out, dashes over by her.
     “A crystal that can bring destruction on our world. Sounds just like your phone there Pipp!”
     “That doesn’t even make any sense.” Pipp responds back to Izzy.
     “Nor feel logical.” Zipp responds also.
     “No, don’t you get it,” Izzy snatches Pipp’s phone out of her hoof, “This ordinary household item is the perfect place to hide a crystal in. Now, I know there are many complicated inquiries and all that but, I just have a hunch.”
     Everyone stares at Izzy in dumbfounded silence.
     Until Sunny finally snaps out of her panicked funk and gets what Izzy is lying down.
     “I get it! Crystal that can destroy our world. Why not put it in an ordinary household object. It’s the perfect plan!”
     “Sunny?” Hitch walks closer to her. “I uh, think you ate too much popcorn from earlier, and-”
     “I’m going to go find a book so I can find out more about this crystal. You guys, stay here and figure out the ‘crystal in the phone' theory a little more. I’ll see you in an hour!” Sunny interrupts Hitch, then immediately gallops on off over to the Maritime Bay Public Library.
     Leaving her friends all by themselves. Them too processing in their brains of what they’re supposed to do.


***


     “So uh, got anything?” Pipp asks either one of them, the four ponies all sitting down on their haunches inside Sunny’s living room.
     Nopony answering her as they continue their undisturbed silence.
     Until they all turn their heads and see the front door open, and Sunny walking in. Having a not-so-good expression.
     “So, did you learn anything?” Izzy is the first to ask.
     “Yes, and no. I don’t know. Either way...” Sunny brings out a book from her saddlebag, “...According to ‘The Trotwalker’s Guide to the Galaxy’, and after reading from chapters two through five did I realize that yes, the crystal is real. But also that it being inside a phone is total ‘down the road pony conspiracy theory’.”
     “Okay, but it is real, right?” Hitch asks after hearing what Sunny just said.
     “Maybe we need to try a history book next Sunny. I’m sure somepony from the past knew all about the crystal.” Izzy suggests.
     “Don’t you remember Izzy. We tore all those up because of that song you sang.” Hitch says with a facehoof.
     “Oh right... wanna hear me sing it again?”
     “NO!!” All three of Zipp, Pipp, and Hitch shout angrily out loud.
     “Hey, no need for that,” Sunny quickly comes to the defense of Izzy, “It’s, fine. Plus, I do think we have one history book that wasn’t torn up. I’ll just go get it.”
     Watching Sunny leave to go upstairs, the rest of the ponies stare at one another in slight sorrow.
     “Sorry for yelling, Izzy. We just, really wanna find this crystal.” Hitch speaks up for him and the other two pegasi, them both nodding their heads, being ‘sorry’.
     “Ah, no big deal, I get it all the time.”
     Izzy’s reply back leaves the room back in silence until they hear the clopping of hooves coming down the stairs.
     “I think I may have something.” Sunny says relieved, holding close to her a nicely, well colored book.


(What Sunny Reads To Her Friends)


     “Princess, are you so sure about this?”
     “Indeed. My friends in the other world all have them, so why not us!”
     Princess Twilight replies back cheerily to the head scientist pony in charge of the first ‘official’ smartphone project that Equestria will maybe benefit from.
     “I get that, Princess. But the thing is, why do you want us to put a crystal that can destroy everything we know, inside of a phone?”
     “Meh, details!”
     The head scientist pony looks up at the tall, purple pony princess with doubt.
     “Okay. I guess this is the prototype after all.”


(End Of Reading)


     “So wait, you mean to tell me that my phone has not only potentially the crystal needed, but that it’s also a century year old prototype?!”
     Pipp being the one to ask rightfully after hearing what Sunny just read.
     Sunny can only just strug at Pipp’s question. 
     “Yes, no, maybe. Either way, we need your phone to... take it apart and hopefully find a crystal in there.” Sunny smiles a big sheepish ‘trustworthy’ smile.
     Izzy, Hitch and Zipp doing the same thing.
     “Uh, okay, I guess.”


***


     “Well, if anypony ever asked us what exciting thing we did today, and taking apart a phone isn’t considered “as exciting” by that pony’s standards..., well I guess he has a point then.” Izzy talks to herself after her and her friends had just participated in the surgery of Pipp Petals’ smartphone.
     Each pony even wore the proper surgical equipment usually needed.
     “Righto!” Sunny exclaims enthusiastically after accomplishing what they just accomplished.
     “Well, Sprout will most definitely not believe what I just did. Nopony no matter what would.” Hitch says his take on the job.
     “Hey, at least your phone wasn’t being torn apart by the very same ponies you know!! I mean, the ‘pippsqueaks’ must be worried about me!!” Pipp freaks out over.
     “Worry like, as a part of family or worry like, ‘why hasn’t Pipp posted anything?! This is... The... Worst... Possible... Thing!!’” Zipp snarkly mocks Pipp.
     “Look, I know you’re not much into ‘my thing’ but you can at least be supportive!” Pipp yells back in defense.
     “Ladies, ladies. Now is not the time to fight. Remember, all everything can possibly be destroyed. Anytime soon.” Hitch gets in the middle of the two sisters, hoping to try to defuse their little fight.
     “Uh guys?” Sunny tries to get everyone’s attention. “We found it.”
     Sunny said as she points towards the clear, bright blue crystal lying on the table used for the surgery they just did.


***


(Somewhere in a far off random jungle)


     “Hold on, I sense something.” Luster Dawn suddenly stops in her tracks, concentrating heavily, Sunset and PL Rarity taking notice almost immediately.
     “What is it? Do you sense the crystal?!” Sunset asks.
     “Hmm, no, dear. If it was a crystal, then I would have sensed it as well,” PL Rarity explains, “Special unicorn magic powers.”
     “I... I know where the crystal is,” Luster says after deep concentration, “And they, our new friends, have it.”


***


(Back at Sunny’s)


     “So, now what?” Hitch asks, not knowing exactly what to do next, neither anypony else. Almost like they didn’t think they’ll get this far.
     “Now, we...” Thinking to herself, all Sunny can do is strug. “I don’t know exactly. I guess we just, hide this crystal?”
     “Well, whatever the plan is, I am sure that-”
     Izzy gets interrupted by a sudden magical blast that just so happened in Sunny’s living room, each pony’s vision being blinded by the light and smoke coming from the blast.
     After the smoke from the blast clears and their eyesight returns to normal does everypony shockingly see Luster, Sunset, and PL Rarity are all now standing right in front of them.
     “How did you-?”
     “I sensed it," Luster interrupts Sunny’s question, “The crystal. NOW!”
     All five ponies just stare at the three somewhat strangers who are in the same room as them.
     “Uh... no.” Izzy balantly tells them.
     Luster takes a deep breath, motioning Sunset to tell them about the reason of why they should.
     “You see, if you give us that crystal, sure we’ll use it to destroy your world and everything in it, but here’s the thing...” 
     “...We only want to help you. Once your entire world is destroyed, you can start fresh. Anew!”
     “Imagine, everything is in your control. As you want it! You can control how things can be! Less disharmony, and more friendship!”
     Looking throughout the house while thinking of a reason as to try to persuade them even more, Sunset happens to notice how real close the earth pony stallion and the pink pegasus mare are, not too mention how he has a hoof over her neck.
     “You two!!” Sunset points towards both Hitch and Pipp. “If you give us that crystal, your love can be real.”
     Both Hitch and Pipp (plus everypony else) stare at Sunset in unknown, cocking their head to the side, silence.
     “Uh, what’d you mean, ‘can be real’?” Hitch asks.
     “She means... your whole romance saga is nothing more than the writer just doing so because he feels like you two ponies are ‘perfect shipping material’," Luster explains to Hitch, “And once your world is destroyed... you can make it so no ‘writer’ is just making your love up.”
     “I’m mean think, was that whole three-in-the-morning bit you two did recently really the real you?” Sunset makes them question about what happened in the chapter about five chapters ago.
     And that question would appear to really stump them both. Really confuse them.
     “Hey! Don’t make fun of their relationship just because you never got a proper one!” Izzy aggressively yells out, most noticeably towards Sunset.
     “Hey! I too had a... good relationship saga going on.” Sunset yells back.
     “Enough of all this!! Just give us the crystal, and we’ll be on our way!!” Luster, having enough of the horsepoop, aggressively asks them as a final warning.
     “And we already said, no!” Sunny confidently replies back. “And what we’re gonna do next is make sure you three don’t touch a hoof, or whatever it is your taller partner has!”
     “That’s right!” Hitch walks closer to Sunny, going to stand right by her side.
     “I’m with her!” Zipp stands by Sunny as well.
     “Me too!” Pipp follows along.
     “Crystal.” Is all Izzy says as she does what the other three just did.
     “And together, with the power of our friendship, we will protect this crystal at all- hey, how’d you get that?!” Sunny interrupts her friendship monologue once she sees PL Rarity walk into her shot of view, and seeing of how she's holding the very same crystal they’re trying to protect right in her hoof.
     “Sorry dearie. Nopony seemed to have noticed me so I, went and grabbed what we’re after myself.” PL Rarity explains as she walks over by her group, magically floating the crystal right in Luster’s hoof.
     “It’s cute ya know. You five were about to do a ‘friendship moment’. You even had the monologue all figured out. Let me guess, you’ve been practicing?” Luster asks so smugly.
     “No! You can’t destroy our world just because you don’t like it! Think about us!” Sunny hopelessly pleads one last time for the three for them to try to understand.
     “Sorry, but we do care about your world. It’s... complicated.”
     That was the last thing Sunny Starscout, Izzy Moonbow, Hitch Trailblazer, Pipp Petals, and Zipp Storm heard as together, all three of Luster Dawn, Sunset Shimmer, and PL Rarity placed a hoof (and hand) on the crystal.
     And what came next was nothing but blinding white light.
> Epilogue
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Hasbro Headquarters
Pawtucket, Rhode Island
My Little Pony: A New Generation Pitch Ideas Meeting Conference Room

“I told you! I knew this would happen, but did y’all listen... NO!” Hasbro Executive number nine speaks out in a ‘told-ya-so’ manner.
“I mean, why do something about the pony who so desperately wants revenge? Nope. Just like you said, ‘we should forget her. Focus on the new generation’... a new generation that’s now gone!!!”
“Aight executive number nine, that’s enough. We get it, we messed up.” The Head Hasbro Executive says in a ‘yeah-yeah-we-know’ manner.
“And as far as what we do about G5... I don’t know,” The Head Executive raises both his arms up in defeat, “I guess we might as well start on the development for G6.” The Head Exec says as he slides a folder labeled, ‘MLP: ANG’, off the desk and into a conveniently placed trash bin.
“We’re just gonna give up? We haven’t even started the actual series!” Executive number five questions the head exec’s true motivation.
“Well, what do you want us to do? Plus, I don’t think the writers are up to having to write this generation for a third time.”
“Hmph,” Executive number five crosses his arms all pouty like, “I knew we should’ve just gone with the whole 'mane six rebranding' idea.”
“Well, everyone, we’ll do a vote. All in favor of starting development on G6, say aye...”
“Aye!” At least seven of the Executives say.
“All not in favor say nay...”
“Nay!” The remaining three Executives say.
“Okay. Guess we better change the sign on the door to ‘MLP G6 Development Pitch Ideas Meeting Conference Room’... We really should come up with a shorter name.”
And so, for the rest of the day, the ten Hasbro Executives got to work already on the development of the sixth generation of My Little Pony.


***


(In The G4 Endspere)


After what they had just done, all Luster, Sunset, and PL Rarity can do next is just sit, cross legged, on the ground of the white void.
Neither looking at one another, let alone speaking amongst themselves.
Finally, PL Rarity breaks up their long silence: “So, we did what we needed to do. Now what?”
After hearing of her question, both Luster and Sunset cringe at it before looking at one another face to face.
“We really did just do that," Luster speaks up, “And yet, why?”
“Because... because, it’s complicated. Even for us to understand.” Sunset reponds to Luster’s question.
“It’s complicated? We told those ponies the same thing, yet here we are not even knowing of the full complexities of why we did it.” Luster says.
“Yes.” Sunset says.
The two go back and continue on with their silence.
“Well okay,” PL Rarity stands herself up, ladylike that is, “If I’m spending all eternity here, the best I can do is at least walk around this white void.”
“Huh. That sounds nice actually," Luster stands herself up as well, “I think I’ll join ya.”
“Me too.” Sunset does the same and stands herself up.
“Well, if it is just gonna be us from now on, at least we can be friends.” PL Rarity smiles at her two newest friends. Both Luster and Sunset returning one too.
The three friends would go on and walk all throughout the whole void of white. Maybe they’ll find something, maybe they won’t. At least they’re friends in the end.


***


(In The G5 Endsphere)


Whatever just happened, happened.
Sunny, Izzy, Hitch, Zipp, and Pipp all find themselves in a white void, nothing but white for miles on end.
“What is this place? Why are we here? Where, who... How is this possible?!” Hitch asks freaky-outy.
“I don’t know,” Izzy says, “I think we’re in ‘the matrix’.”
“Oh no we are not,” Zipp quickly shuts that down, “And whatever this place is, we better find a way out of it.”
“How?!” Pipp speaks up. “Because of those three strangers, everything is now destroyed! Everything I’ve- we’ve built up, now gone forever!”
While the four ponies continue arguing, Sunny is just standing off in the distance a couple feet by herself.
Thinking to herself. Of why all this is happening? Who those three strangers really were? Most importantly, what this place is? And lastly..., everything she’d known in Equestria is now gone.
As she’s thinking of these things do tears of sadness fall from her eyes and down her cheeks.
Everything is perfect, everything is fine.
But, while she’s mourning to herself of everything lost does she remember what the tall, weird two legged creature had said.
Of how once everything is destroyed, they can start anew.
“You can start fresh. Anew.”
“Well, why don’t we ask Sunny then?!” Sunny turns her head back after hearing of Hitch’s yelling towards her.
“What do you think Sunny?!”
Sunny walks over closer towards her friends. “Start fresh. Start anew," She says quietly to herself first, “I think they, those strangers, want us to start fresh.” She says this time out loud to all of them.
“How?! As far as we know, there’s nothing in this white space for us to “start fresh”.” Pipp questions Sunny's proposal of what they should do next.
“No, I think, like, in our minds.”
“Playing mind games are we? Well no problemo, as I am... was, Bridlewood’s number one mind game player three years in a row.” Izzy proudly says about herself.
“Not like mind games mind games. Like, create Equestria in our own image, by using our minds.”
All four ponies look at Sunny in ‘are-you-serious’ manner.
“I, don’t know if that’s what they meant Sunny," Hitch says honestly, “I think everyone and thing is now forever gone. And we’ll just spend the rest of our lives living here. In this white space.”
“But I mean it. Equestria of old may be gone forever, but what if... I heard one of them say of how we must be the main ponies. Maybe we, it’s our destiny to recreate another Equestria in our own image.”
The four remain silent again until Zipp steps up closer and says: “Are you sure we’re the ones who need to do this?”
Sunny, her eyes far from wet from her tears, looks confidently towards her friends.
“I uh, think I have a hunch.”
Hitch just strugs a hoof. “Well, guess I’ll try with you.”
“Count me in! Plus, recreating another Equestria in my own image does sound fun!” Izzy playfully agrees.
“Aw heck. Count me in too.” Zipp says cool and confidently.
“Mmmhm.” Pipp hums in support.
Smiling proudly, Sunny instructs them all to sit down on the white ground, and then next just think of a new Equestria.
They did just that continuously for the next four days straight.
> Afterword
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

     “And that, is how our new Equestria was made.” Frilly Sunburst, a light pinkish earth pony with an orange and red frilly mane and tail, finishes reading from the book, ‘History of New Equestria’ to her class of young earth pony colts and fillies. Her slamming the book shut to signify the book’s end. Doing so with a bright smile on her face.
     “Now class, what did you think of-”
     “Boring,” A red, blonde mane colt interrupts rudely, "Like, I’m supposed to believe that our whole world came to be because of so-called “Twilight Sparkle” sacrificing herself for not only her diverse group of friends, but for all of ponykind?”
     Frilly Sunburst breathes a deep sigh. “Now Sprout, I know you appear to not like the story, but look around, all your other classmates seem to like it.” She says as she waves a hoof all around the classroom. Mostly taking notice of how in awe everyone is from the story she’d just read.
     “Whatevs.” Is all Sprout replied back with.
     “Ah come on buddy, you gotta admit that whole ‘fight scene with Tirek’ was pretty epic.” A young Hitch Trailblazer playfully jabs a hoof at his elbow.
     “And it was definitely better than that whole ‘nuclear wasteland’ bit that Miss Sunburst read to us last year.” A young Sunny Starscout playfully jabs a hoof at Sprout's elbow too.
     Before Sprout can open his mouth to talk back, the school bell cuts him off, the bell ringing to signify the end of the school day.
     “Meh," Young Sprout strugs it off, "You didn’t wanna hear what I was gonna say anyway.”
     As every small colt and filly gets up from their desk and leaves the school building, Hitch instead walks over to Sunny. A look of him needing to ask her something.
     “Hey Sunny, are you sure us recreating our world as to back to when we were kids such a great idea? I say it because I don’t ever wanna have to live through my high school years again,” A tingling feeling comes all over Hitch, “Eee, ‘cause I do not want to relive that all over again.” 
     “Nothing to worry about Hitch. Besides, we’re still friends with the rest of the gang. Just, we’re as kids now.”
     “Okay. But when I start going through my puberty phase again, don’t be shocked when I spend unholy amounts of time in the bathroom!”
     All Sunny can do is giggle at what she just heard.


***


     “Again, are you really sure what we did was the right thing? ‘Cause I gotta go with Hitch here and say I’m not so sure myself.” A young Zipp Storm asks Sunny, sounding unsure that their recreated Equestria was the right move.
     “And again, I am sure of it. Just, think of it as a way to start over, again.” Sunny says, still confident of their recreation of Equestria.
     All five ponies (or young colt and fillies) are doing particularly nothing but lying around in Sunny’s bedroom at her house.
     “I don’t know. I think I’ll end up liking having to relive my foalhood, again.” Pipp says supportively to Sunny’s idea, her lying belly first on Sunny’s bed.
     “Me too!” Izzy enthusiastically jumps up onto the bed, causing Pipp to have hold onto the beds' covers to stay on.
     “Plus, I still can get to know you all... but from a younger age!”
     “See Zipp, Hitch. Everything is going to be a-okay!”
     Deciding then to just go along with Sunny’s idea too, Zipp and Hitch both strug in ‘alright-we’re-in’ manner.
     “Say Sunny, I know you decided it was best of us to recreate Equestria as to when we were all foals. The question I do have is, why?”
     As Sunny opens her mouth to answer Hitch’s question, she gets interrupted from a voice coming from downstairs.
     That voice sounding a lot familiar, for her and Hitch at least, like Sunny’s father. Argyle Starshine.
     “Oh Sunny, friends, I made a snack for the five of you!”
     The four ponies besides Sunny stare at her in silence while she bores nothing but a bright, big smile on her face.
     “Oh. I think I get why now.”
     “When I was little, I’ve always wanted to have a friend that could fly, do magic. And well, I thought this was my chance to finally have that.” Sunny explains the real reasoning for why Equestria is like it is now.
     Young Pipp walks over closer to Sunny, placing a hoof on her shoulder. “I get why, but you know you didn’t have to do that...”
     Izzy bounces right up to the both of them. “...Because you already had that...”
     “...You had us.” Zipp says right after Izzy.
     Seeing all her friends say this to her, Sunny’s bright, big smile only grows bigger.
     “Thank you... I don’t know what to say.”
     “You don’t have to say anything.” Hitch sincerely says to his longtime childhood friend.
     “I guess as long as we got each other, no matter the age, we got this.” Hitch sincerely said as he walks over and pulls Sunny and the rest of his friends in for one big hug.
     All five of the young ponies in true, honest friendship.
     “Uh Sunny, guys? I’m still here! And I still got snacks!” Argyle shouts back up to Sunny’s room, breaking up their true, honest friendship hug and reminding them about the snacks he’d made for them.
     Breaking up from their hug, all five ponies decide to go and walk on down the stairs, and into the kitchen/dining area.
     After their little snack, all five ponies would continue the rest of the day hanging out at Sunny’s house.

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     “So, this is Equestria now?”
     “Yes! It sure is awfully cute!”
     “Nevermind how cute it is! We’re somehow finally free from that stone prison that traitor got us in. Now is the time for revenge!”
     “Only in a matter of time. First, let us scope out this 'new' Equestria. Get to know of whom we’re going up against.”
     “Golly gee! I agree!”
     “Fine. But I get first dibs at conquering this world!”
     “Okay, then it’s settled then. These ponies definitely won’t know what to think of us.”
     The evil trio of Tirek, Cozy Glow, and Chrysalis say to one another as they look out from atop a high cliff over the town of Maritime Bay.


THE END

> Afterword 2
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Woah, I’m back!!
I'm back?
But how?!
…
Ohmygoshohmygoshohmygosh!!
…
I’m back? Who, what, where, how, why?!?!?!?!?!
…
And, why does Equestria look like this?
…
Everything looks different. So unlike how Equestria looked, from before.
…
Why?
…
Am I the only pony left from my time? Is everypony I once knew now… dead?
…
Princess Twilight? The rest of her friends? Richard, Ryan… Rose?
…
I guess I’m really am the only pony left.
…
But there has to be a reason why I’m here. I must have a purpose as to why.
…
I remember now, back from before Equestria… you know. Princess Twilight summoned me to the Castle one day to have me do something.
Her final mission from her to me was to, whenever I ever find the six ponies who look to share the same of her and her Friends' attributes, I were to finally open up this scroll she'd given me. And that… everything would be sorted out from then on, I guess.
That’s all she told me. My final time being around and seeing her, and she didn’t even maintain good eye contact. Let alone say goodbye, or anything.
…
Right, no time for that. I’m sure she was way super busy. What’s with the war that was currently going on, not to mention having to deal with the mass migration of Earth Pony. And how every other creatures from the surrounding nations deciding to straight up stop doing business with Equestria.
So yeah, she so tote had a lot of stuff on her plate. I’m sure if she knew if it was actually the last time we’ll seen each other, I’m sure she would’ve planned a much more better, proper goodbye.
…
Yeah.
…
Well, since I’m back, apparently, best I travel all around this “new” Equestria. See if there really are six different, unique ponies that are exactly like Twilight and her Friends. And to also see of how Equestrian life is like now. I can only imagine what the new Monster Energy flavors and the dirt bike riding is like.
…
No matter, my name’s Kyle, Alicorn and former Prince of (past) Equestria.
All I have to do is... find six different, unique ponies that are exactly like Twilight and her Friends.
Easy peasy, Diet Sunset Sarsaparilla Zero… queazy.