Celeatia's sun shown brightly in the sky as the Solar leader had decided to bless Equestria with yet another beautiful summer day. Ponies trotted up and down the streets of Ponyville as the morning was a buzz with life as birds sang and squirrels and chipmunks chartered and argued to the rights over which nuts belonged to whom. Curious rabbits hopped between the flower stands only to be shooed away by the ponies that considered them little more then pests and young fillies and colts ran through the town laughing and playing excited to still have plenty of summer left to look forward to.

This however as a delightful sight as it was, sadly was not what one ever perky pink pony was looking for. No Ms. Pinkamina Diane Pie the element of laughter and party pony extraordinaire, head confectionary craftsmare of Sugarcube Corner had little time to focus on enjoying the everyday sights and sounds of Ponyville as today she was expecting a letter; and not just any letter but a very special letter from her bestest best birdy/fishy friend Princess SkyStar!

"Oh Muffins and Mangos where is that Mailmare!?" Pinkie nervously asked herself as she stuck her top half out of the Corner's backdoor.

"Something the matter deary?" She heard Mrs. Cake ask. "You seem rather antsy this morning, even for you." The older bakery mare chuckled looking at Pinkie who's back right hoof seemed to be tapping at an ever increasing pace as she turned around to address Mrs. Cake.

"Oh no, everything's fine." Pinkie reassured her employer. "I mean I guess I might be a teensy weensy bit anxious to get my weekly letter from Princess SkyStar." Pinkie admitted. "But that's only because in the last letter I got from her she said she might have some super awesome surprise good news for me and I told her in my letter back that sounded awesome and I couldn't wait to find out what it was and I was super excited and today I'm supposed to get my super awesome surprise letter which I guess isn't really a surprise cause I already know about it but Skystar told me to be excited anyway so I am super duper excited!!" Pinkie Pie finally finished as she took a moment to catch her breath after such a long and energetic response.

Mrs. Cake just smiled and nodded her head. "I see" she chuckled still trying to process everything Pinkie had excitedly spewed out. "Well don't worry deary, I'm sure Derpy will be hear any minute." Mrs. Cake reassured Pinkie with a soft motherly smile.

All of a sudden the two heard a loud thud on the bottom half of the backdoor. "Speak of the devils" Mrs. Cake chuckled once more recognizing the sound as the villages cross-eyed mailmare crashing into the door yet again.

Pinkie Pie quickly opened the door right as Derpy was getting back on her feet.

"Good morning Pinkie Pie!" The grey furred Pegasus greeted as she stretched out her wings and brushed her blond mane out of her eyes. "How are you this morning? Got any muffins?" She politely asked.

"Mornin Derps!" Pinkie smiled back at the mailmare. "Yep, I've got your morning muffin right here!" The peppy pink pony smiled as she presented a plate with a freshly baked bran muffin, Derpy salivating as she slowly moved her hoof towards it only to have Pinkie pull it away at the last minute.

"Hey!?" Derpy angrily huffed. "What'd yea do that for!?"

Pinkie just mad a mischevious smile. "My letter first Ms. Hooves, then you can have your muffin." Pinkie faux-bribed the klutzy Pegasus.

"Oh, yea-almost forgot about that." Derpy blushed as she plunged her left wing into one of the rather large saddlebags tied around her torso containing the town's mail for the day. After rummaging around for a minute she finally found the sea-weed green envelope with a red seal showing a picture of the Nuevo family royal crest.

"Trade?" Derpy asked.

"Trade" Pinkie happily agreed as she tossed the muffin to Derpy, the bubbly pegasus doing the same to her for the letter.

"Yum!" Derpy proclaimed as she quickly devoured her treat, licking her lips as to make sure to get any and all crumbs. "Thanks Pinkie, have a great day!" Derpy exclaimed as she headed off to deliver the rest of the mail and if she had time maybe check-up on her dear friend The Doctor as well.

Pinkie Pie set and watched the Pegasus fly off for a bit to make sure she didn't bump into anything big and once Derpy was out of sight she refocused her attention to the letter she had just received as a large happy smile spread across her face.

"Well, are you going to open it?" Mrs Cake asked now quite curious as to what news it might contain herself.

"You bet your sweet cupcakes I am!" Pinkie excitedly cheered as she moved to quickly open her latest cross-country correspondence before abruptly stopping right before her hoof ripped the seal.

"What's the matter deary? Why'd you stop?" Ms. Cake asked a bit confused by Pinkie's sudden hesitation.

"Wh-what if..." Pinkie paused.

"What if what?" Mrs. Cake asked the paused pony.

"What if the news isn't good news!?" Pinkie panicked. "What if SkyStar is writing to tell me she doesn't want to be Pen Pals anymore!? What if she doesn't want to be friends!? What if she got wooed by some sexy serpent into living a life of crime & debauchery at the high seas!" The erratic earth pony exclaimed.

Mrs. Cake just rolled her eyes and slowly trotted towards her young friend. "I doubt it's anything as...extreme as that." Mrs. Cake replied as she softly patted Pinkie on the back in an attempt to calm her down. "Besides, didn't you say it was good news earlier?" Mrs. Cake reminded her.

"Oh-yeah" Pinkie Pie blushed looking at her more relaxed co-confectionist. "Well here goes nothing!" She stated as she found her courage and slowly opened the seal and removed the letter inside looking at it and reading as fast as she could, her eyes practically glued to the page.

"AAHHHHH!!" Pinkie Pie screamed.

"What is it!?" Mrs. Cake asked in a panic.

"YOU WERE RIGHT!" Pinkie happily cheered. "You were right Mrs. Cake it is good news! It's SkyStar! She's finally coming for a visit! She's finally coming to Ponyville!!" Pinkie Pie cheered as she jumped up and down and squeezed the dark blue earth pony with one of her pattented super tight, super happy hugs.

"G-glad to hear it Pinkie, n-now would you mind putting me down deary, I-I need to breath" Mrs. Cake wheezed as Pinkie finished up her hug.

The cotton candy maned mare did as she was told as she continued to hop up and down and out the back door. "Oh I can't wait to tell all my friends that SkyStar is coming to visit! They'll be so excited!!" She exclaimed as she continued her happy stride, Mrs. Cake just looking on and chuckling as she closed the door behind the peppy pink pony.

Author's Note

OK. Finally got this story off the ground. Yay!

Since it's more or less a side story to LIAT though as opposed to the direct sequel I'll probably be a bit slower on updates, but Don't worry it'll still be A good one. And a proper LIAT sequel should be along sometime within the first quarter of 2018 so be on the lookout for that as well!

As always thanks for reading and will try to go back and fix errors later on!