On a sunny saturday, Alice, Sunset and the others are at Max's house hoping to have an idea what to do with next month's Battle of the Band's competition. They also try to see if Sunset will like to be part of the act, but Sunset doesn't feel okay playing in public, but will be part of their band practice.

Right now they find out there is one little problem. During the garage sale, Max's grandmother, Samantha sell his guitar my mistake, so they need to find it before they can do any practice.

Max says to his grandmother as she pay a customer, "Okay grandmother, one more time. When you accidently sold my base at the garage sale, who did you sell it to?"

Max's grandmother tries to remember who she sold Max's guitar to

She then remember who she sell the bass to and answers, "I believe I sold it to the owners of the new pawn shop. Lost and something or rather."

Alice remember the store and says, "I know that one. It's called Lost and Founders,"

"That's a strange name for a store," Joseph says sounding awkward about the store's name.

Then Alice says, "I know the name seems strange, but the store you are able to sell items and by them too, and sometimes you can trade items too."

"Sounds interesting," Amy replies.

"So now what do we do, now?" Sunset asks.

"We go to that pawn shop and get by bass back," Max answers with determination.

He then walks away and hoping to find is bass and get it back. After some time on the bus, they reach their destination and hoping to get the bass back before it's been sold to someone else.

They walk into the store to see if the bass is inside. When they get inside, they are greeted by two men. They can tell right away that they must be the owners of store and the right people to talk too.

Both of the men happily says, "Welcome to Lost and Founders!"

"I'm Frank," The man says.

"And I'm Tank," The other man replies.

"Are you planning on buying?" Frank asks.

"Selling?" Tanks asks.

"Or trading?" Frank asks.

Alice and the others are very confused and are kind of disturbed by the encounter of the two men. They have no idea that those two will act like someone from a carnival or something.

Alice lead her head towards Jerry and whispers, "Those two seems worse than the Flim Flam Brothers."

"You can say that again," Jerry whispers back.

Max understand why they are feeling a bit weirded out by these two and know those two seems to like doing business with people. Max decides to talk about the problem later and decides to focus on getting his bass back.

He comes up to the two businessmen and explains, "Actually I'm here to get something back. My grandmother accidentally sold you my base my mistake. I'll give you the money back and we'll call it even."

Alice and the others smile and are agreeing to Max suggestion, but the two owners of the store don't think it's enough to convince them.

The two men narrow their eyes and says, "Likely story."

"It is. That's my bass," Max says in protest.

"And you can prove that is indeed your base?" Frank asks with a smug on his face.

Clarris narrow her eyes and seriously says, "His full name is engraved on the stem of the guitar."

The two men looks at the back of the guitar and can see Max's name right on the back. The problem is, they are not buying it either.

"That can be any Max Sawers," Tank says.

"It is a common name you know," Frank adds.

Then Tanks says, "Why I bet you don't even pay the base Max Sawers?"

Then then looks Max straight in the eyes and asks, "If that is his real name?"

Joseph comes up to Tank and angrily says, "Of course that's his real name."

"And he does play the bass," Jerry adds.

"And I'll show you I can play," Max says with determination.

With that, Max grabs his bass from the stand and decides to show the two businessmen that he can play it and the bass is his property.

When he grabs his bass, he starts to play some country music he knows and love. Everyone is amazed that he is playing it so well and there's no stopping him from playing his tune. Just then he strum the bass so hard at the last verse, that he transform just like Joseph did. His skin turns orange and hain pony ears as well. He also sends a sonic wave that flies across the room.

When he finishes his song. He still remain at his pony form and everyone are still in shock about the sonic wave and the transformation. The two businessmen are in shock while Alice, Sunset and the others cheer for Max for his playing.

"And I'm guessing that's magic too. I guess," Sunset says while clapping for MAx's performance.

"You were great Max," Amy says feeling happy.

The friends turn to see Frank and Tank are still shocked by the wave. In face the wave causes their hair to be sticking back.

Tank surprisingly says, "Perhaps this is his base."

Max holds up the money he want to trade for his bass. Just then the two decides to calk themselves down after the blast.

Frank straightens his hair with a smile and says, "But let's not forget you need to pay for transportation and over hand."

"Don't forget the snacking fee," Tank says as he straightens his hair and mustache.

"That's a excellent idea," Frank adds with a smile.

Max starts to feel glum and upset that he feels like he is never going to get his bass back from those two. Just then Alice and the others give the two men angry glares, and Joseph and Jerry are threatening to beat the two up. Frank and tank realized that the kids are very serious about getting the bass back.

Just then Tank has an idea and says, "Um, maybe we can do a little trade."

Max and the other are now glad that he is going to get his bass after all and he needs to trade something for it.

However:

The girls ends up helping advertising the store for the rest of the day and they ended up having to wear sun dresses from their store too.

Alice is wearing a light blue dress with white roses on it, white sandals, and has her hair in a braid in the back.

Sunset is wearing a black sundress with white swirls like vines on it, wearing black flats and she is wearing a high ponytail.

Amy is wearing a yellow green dress with pink butterflies, wearing pink sandals with white butterflies on it, and she has her hair down.

Finally, Clarissa is wearing a purple sundress with blue diamonds on it, wearing blue sparkling flat shoes and her hair is at the right side of her shoulder.

Clarissa mutters "I can't believe we had to do this."

"How did we manage to get ourselves into this?" Alice bluntly adds.

"Sorry about this guys," Max says feeling a bit ashamed for getting the girls involved in it.

"Don't worry Max, you need your bass for the band," Sunset replies.

"So we're kind of doing this for the great of good," Alice adds with a smile.

Then, Amy shyly says, "I hope it doesn't give us too much attention."

"Don't worry, they said we're only had to do this for a week and we'll be able to continue with band practice," Alice replies with a smile.

Amy smile and says, "Okay."

Just then Max turns to Sunset feeling a bit sheepish and says, "You know… black does look good on you, but I think you seem better in yellow."

Sunset blushes after Max's complement and says, "Thank you… Max."

Alice, Clarissa, and Amy are starting to get confused on what is going on. With that, the girls continue to do their part time job until it's time for them to head mom. The other already made it to their house, but Max wants to walk Alice and Sunset back to their house.

Max and Sunset are right next to each other and they haven't talk a little.

Sunset breaks the silence and says, "So Max, what does your family do?"

"Our family runs a store and I help out whenever I'm not too busy," Max answers.

"I see," Sunset replies and it's causing her to blush a little.

Max asks, "So how you been doing at Alice's house?"

"It's fine. I love being with her and her family, but it's still different from where I came from," Sunset answers.

As they walk and talk, Alice can tell that Max and Sunset are acting very strange towards each other. In fact, she notice that those two have been acting strange towards each other lately, but she decides to wait and see what happens. Just then the three friends arrive at the house and before the evening.

After they say their goodbyes, Alice and Sunset are in the room getting ready for bed. Alice thinks it will be a good time to ask Sunset what is on her mind.

Alice turns to Sunset and asks, "Are you okay Sunset? You been a bit quiet."

"I… I'm fine," Sunset quietly answers.

"It just, you been acting funny with Max today and I want to know if you're alright," Alice replies acting concern.

"No I'm not," Sunset protests as she blushes.

Alice can see that Sunset isn't in a mood to talk and decides to hold it off for another time.

Alice says, "Okay. Well, I'm going off to bed. Goodnight."

Goodnight," Sunset replies.

With that Alice leave to sleep in her room while Sunset gets into the covers and hoping to get some sleep.

Before she does, Sunset says in her thought, "I… I don't know, but… something about Max makes me feel… good and warm inside."

With that, Sunset falls asleep and hoping to clear her head and wait for another day.

Author's Note

Based on the Short: A Case of the Bass

And added some extra.

Sorry for the delay