It had been busy at SugerCube Corner, what with the party decorations and food being set at the tables for the upcoming party.

The food was mainly the sweet kind, with cupcakes and sugar drinks galore along with the classic charm of Pinkie Pie, the main head overseer of the party.

While Sugercube Corner belonged to her bosses, the Cakes, they always allowed her to have free reign of the building and set up a party as she saw fit.

While the party, one of the surprise kind, was being set up, some ponies who were invited came early to help with the party and chat with each other about the day. Some of those ponies were Flitter and Cloud Chaser, who were talking to Rainbow Dash and Rarity, two of the six Elements of Harmony. Spike had also come along, currently in the kitchen helping Pinkie with the food.

The four mares in the main room were talking about the pony that Pinkie was setting the party for.

“…And we left before Cloud Chaser could ruin the surprise with her big mouth.” Flitter told the other two mares, giving a deadpan glare to Cloud Chaser who blushed in embarrassment.

Rarity had a look mixed with horror and disgust when told about Taddison’s frog using mucus to get Derpy out. Rainbow Dash, on the other hoof, was holding her stomach, trying to calm herself from all the laughing she had been giving out.

“Oh Man! I gotta meet this pony. His pet sounds awesome! Stealing a slingshot and using it on you guys to get your attention, and then pouring mucus down a chimney to get Derpy out.” Rainbow said excitingly, before continuing her laughing fit.

Flitter gave the multi-colored maned mare an unamused glare, as she had been the victim of Theodore’s slingshot aiming.

Rarity coughed into her hoof. “As much as I disapprove of this frog’s way of sorting problems, I cannot deny that he certainly has a surprising intelligence” She said, admitting genuine curiosity on the frog’s intellect.

“Yeah, he also didn’t look like any of the frogs around Ponyville. He was way more colorful than the ones at Fluttershy’s house. Maybe wherever he came from, the frogs are smarter?” Cloud Chaser suggested.

To the slight surprise of the group, Pinkie popped out of nowhere next to Rainbow and Rarity.

“Oooh, I wonder if Mr Hopper is an explorer. Maybe he came across Theodore in some faraway land.” She said, while imagining what kind of stallion Taddison was.

“Pinkie, darling? Have you been listening in on our conversation this whole time?” Rarity questioned her.

“Not all the time. Spike and I just got done with baking some cupcakes, so we sorta took a break and I just came along,” Pinkie responded, “But yeah, I’ve been listening the whole time.”

The rest couldn’t help but roll their eyes upon Pinkie’s explanation.

Rainbow Dash joined in. “But yeah, like Pinkie said. Maybe he came from some dark mysterious jungle that‘s home to a secret tribe of frogs who trapped unaware explorers to cook ‘em in mucus. But Mr. Hopper, oh no, he must’ve recovered one of their ancient treasures and kept himself from not becoming fly food, and in return, was given a frog warrior as his pet.” She claimed her bizarre scenario.

The other four mares stared at the pegasus with a deadpan expression. Pinkie’s expression was the same, only she smiled at Rainbow.

“You’ve been reading the latest novel of Daring Do last night haven’t you.” Flitter stated, as everyone knew how Rainbow Dash came up with her own fantasies.

Rainbow Dash gave a slight pink blush and rubbed the back of her head.

“Maybe?” She weakly said.

The group shook their heads in amusment and smiled at Rainbow Dash's obsession with Daring Do.

Suddenly, a loud crash came from the kitchen, scaring the daylights out of everypony in the corner.

The present Element bearers rushed in to see what the crash was and came upon a wreck.

Cakes and cupcakes of many flavors were squished and smeared all over the area. On the cabinets, the windows, some even got on the ceiling. The victim of the mess was an annoyed looking Spike with a chef’s hat covered with green frosting on his face. The cause of the mess was a nervously smiling Derpy on the floor near the door to the kitchen. From the angle of her body, she apparently flew through the open window above the sink.

The girls gave a tired sigh together at the reoccurring situation with Ponyville's clumsiest mail pony.

"Heh, I keep missing the front door." Derpy nervously chuckled.

Spike wiped the frosting off his face.

“And that would probably be the 66th time that happened" he tiredly muttered.

Derpy shakily got up off the floor and wiped the frosting off of her. She then looked apologetically at Pinkie Pie, who despite the mess, still had that big smile on her face.

"I'm so sorry about the mess Pinkie. I just came to tell you that all the invitations have been sent for the party." She informed the pink pony.

Pinkie Pie, as usual, jumped all around the frost covered kitchen, spouting on about her excitement of the party and the guests coming. Her friends looked with amusement on how even a mess caused by Derpy would do little to damper the party pony.

Her happiness didn't quite reach Spike though, as he was too busy wiping off the rest of the frosting on him. When he was finally done, he noticed Derpy's mailbag on the floor next to him. While at times a sarcastic quipper, he was still well mannered enough to pick up the mailbag for Derpy. When he picked it up, he noticed a single pink envelope in the bag. A letter for a "Taddison Hopper".

Pinkie was still going on in her excitement. "-And then maybe Hopper will share his adventure stories of frog warriors. That will sure cheer Applejack up from-"

"I think that may not be happening for a while.” Spike interrupted, grabbing the attention of the girls.

“What do you mean?” Pinkie asked with confusion while jumping.

Spike showed the envelope in his hand, “He doesn't even know about the party.”

And that he was right. Derpy went wide-eyed with dismay upon seeing the envelope, Rainbow Dash facehoofed with exasperation, and Pinkie Pie broke the laws of reality by freezing mid jump.

Pinkie Pie, still in the air as if she had invisible wings holding her in place, went into a thinking pose with a hoof under chin.

"Hmm...That is a really, really big party pooper." She stated, as if she came to a simple collusion in school.

She was then grabbed by Derpy, who looked more troubled by this than the party pony was.

"I'm so sorry, Pinkie! I completely forgot about giving Mr. Hopper the letter when I was at his house! I'll give it to him right away!" She frantically apologized and let go of Pinkie Pie. Apparently, the contact with another pony was enough revert the laws of gravity back to normal, because Pinkie dropped to the floor as if she was a rock.

Quickly, Derpy grabbed the letter from Spike, and before the other girls could stop her, she was already rushing out the door with the letter in her mouth. She flew away so fast that her speed almost gave Rainbow Dash pause.

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Derpy was so ashamed of herself.

There were times where Derpy wasn’t aware of what she had done wrong. Even though the results were pretty obvious, like the event of townhall.

But this time, there was no excuse. She completely missed giving an invitation! To the pony of the hour even! She would never forgive herself if Mr. Hopper missed Pinkie Pie's party. Her parties were something everypony should experience.

Derpy finally arrived at Mr. Hopper's new home, and while in a rush, she still politely knocked on the door, albeit urgently.

"Mr. Hopper! Mr.Hopper! Are you home?!...Theodore?! Are you there too?!" Derpy cried to the door.

She looked through the windows, only to see no pony or frog in the living room. She then thought they were probably upstairs, so she flew up to the upper floor’s windows. Still no sign of the odd pair.

She landed back on the ground and started to pace nervously, wondering where on Equis Taddison Hopper was.

She stopped when she heard faint noises coming from the side of the house. She went over to the area and the sounds became a bit more clear. The noise sounded like something was being built as noises of wrenches tightening bolts and drills drilling nails was heard. Then she heard a voice she recognized.

"Alright, this goes here....and that goes there." Mr. Hopper said, a bit of strain in his voice as if he was trying to make sure everything was tight.

She then heard a sound of relief. "Whew. I tell you lad, this will be my greatest invention yet!" Mr. Hopper claimed proudly.

"Ribbit, Ribbit." said what was no doubt Theodore. Derpy swore it sounded like he wasn't agreeing with his owner.

"Oh come now, lad. Have a little faith. This time it will be absolutely smashing for us." Taddison assured.

"Ribbit, Ribbit, Ribbit?" It sounded like Theodore had a sarcastic tone.

"Oh, that was supposed to be figurative, not literal like the last time I said that." Taddison defended himself, although Derpy wasn't sure from what exactly.

She then found that the conversation was coming from a basement window, which was slightly open. Made sense to her as it was very warm outside.

"Ribbit, Ribbit!" Apparently the amphibian wasn't done arguing with the inventor.

Mr. Hopper gave out a sharp gasp. "You watch your tone young colt-Er, tadpole. Or...uh" The stallion trailed off confusingly.

Derpy looked through the window to see if she could see the pair. But apparently, the window went both ways, because she fell through with a startled yelp, landing on a table that broke her fall, the table even literally breaking in half.

This completely earned the attention of the pony and frog.

Derpy, knowing what had happened, was almost on the verge of tears. "Oh I’m so sorry, Mr. Hopper! First the letter, and now-" She stopped her apology as she looked around the room.

Her grief turned into amazement.

The basement was filled with doohickeys and gadgets that resembled frogs. Some looked complete, and others...well, not so much. The walls were filled with tools and incomplete blueprints. In the middle of it all was Mr. Hopper and Theodore. who seemed to be working on a strange contraption that looked like pony overalls, only the legs resembled that of a robotic frog.

Everything reminded Derpy of her friend Doctor Hooves and his work. She even thought about how similar the two ponies were, with Taddison having a similar-but-slightly-different accent compared to Doctor Hooves.

"Mrs. Derpy. What an unexpected surprise." The inventor greeted, not at all bothered by the mess that her entry brought.

Derpy put her attention back to Taddison.

“Mr. Hopper, did you invent all of this stuff?" She asked.

Taddison beamed with pride. "Oh yes, I have been inventing ever since I was a young colt."

Theodore had a deadpan look on his face.

"Ribbit, ribbit." he said with a still sarcastic tone.

Taddison coughed in his hoof to hide his embarrassed look from whatever Theodore had said.

"Right now, we are finishing my latest invention." He informed the mail pony.

He then showed Derpy the metal trousers that he and Theodore were working on.

"I’d like to introduce ‘The Hoptron 2000’. The newest way to travel." He claimed.

Curious as a cat, she examined the overalls.

"Wow!" She exclaimed, "...What does it do?"

Seemingly ecstatic at explaining to her what the machine does, Taddison put the metal overalls on himself as if they were ordinary pants.

"It's quite simple, really. These overalls are powered by tightening gears in the frog-like legs, giving it power large enough for it to leap. The power level to control how high you leap comes from this little knob here on the front." He gestured to a little red knob with levels of power. "Simply push the big green button next to it, and presto! You're leaping where you need to go like Theodore here." He gestured to his frog for emphasis.

The words 'where you need to go' reminded Derpy of why she was here. "Oh, Mr. Hopper, I came here to tell you that you need to come to Sugarcube Corner. A...ah...a…a meeting is being organized by Princess Twilight for you and her to meet face to face." She said, trying not give away the surprise of Pinkie's party.

Taddison, noticing the mare’s urgency, comforted the distressed mare. "Don't you worry Miss Hooves. This is actually the perfect opportunity for me to test out the Hoptron. With this machine, I’ll be there before you can say tea and cakes."

He then tried to walked up the stairs to go outside.

Unfortunately, he failed to notice a hammer on the floor and tripped on it.

The impact of the fall damaged the chest of the overalls, causing it to send sparks and make noises that were obviously not normal.

All three of occupant's faces grew into horror on what's happening with Taddison, the only one to voice his dread.

"Oh, dear." he managed to say, before the machine spluttered out of control.

Taddison started to leap all over the basement. His hopping took him to a couple of his other inventions, and with one hop, smashed them to bits, sparks and bits flying everywhere. It then took him to a red tool box, and with another hop, it sent his tools flying and crashing everywhere, a wrench almost hitting Theodore had he not hopped out of the way in time. Then, the hopping trousers lead Taddison to Derpy and Theodore, almost successfully crashing into them had they not rolled out of the way.

Taddison then leaped straight up, smashing through the basement ceiling, the main floor ceiling, and then finally the roof of the house.

Theodore and Derpy looked up through the holes caused by Taddison's out of control overalls.

"THEODOOOOOORE!!!!" The frog's owner cried out for help.

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Applejack was not having a good week.

The reason why was because Sweet Apple Acres was losing more and more apples by the day.

She searched high and low for the reason why. She checked the trees to see if they were healthy, which they really are. She searched for any varmints that could be eating her apples, like fruit vampire bats and parasprites, but she couldn’t find any apple-eating pests either. She even had Twilight come over to see if magic was involved, but there wasn't.

This was making Applejack madder then a cragadile with a toothache, metaphorically speaking because cragadiles have very bad tempers.

Because of this crisis, Applejack had to skip time with hanging out with her friends and helping Applebloom with school. Her patience was wearing thin and she didn’t want to lose her temper, especially in front of her friends and family. A large memory she could recall was the one time when Rainbow Dash tried to get an extra drink of cider. Even Applejack's ears were still ringing from her own yelling.

Even through her tense mood, ponies could tell that Applejack was scared. And with good reason too. It scares a farmer when they do not know why their harvest is isn’t giving enough as it should.

Big Mac helped her get through the worst of it. While he too was greatly concerned about the lack of good harvest, he still had a steady head and faith that they'll figure out what's going on.

When he saw how sad his sister was getting today, he forced her out of Sweet Apple Acres to attend Pinkie Pie's Surprise Party for a new pony in town. He claimed that Applejack needed be around her friends, maybe even befriend the new pony.

Applejack was hesitant...alright she was holding tight on the fence when her brother was dragging her out of the acres like a stubborn foal. Her brother, however, was the winner in strength. Applejack finally complied to go while her brother watched over the farm.

She was currently walking through a pretty empty Ponyville, the reason for it being barren because everypony was going to the party.

While walking, Applejack started to looked forward to the party.

“Maybe bein’ with mah friends and family is just what Ah need,” Applejack said to herself, feeling brightened up already, “Yay. Spendin’ time with ‘em has always helped cheer me up, and once Ah go back home after havin’ some fun the party, Ah could take mah harvest problems head on like a bull in a ring.”

Her positive line of thinking was violently crashed, because suddenly, a middle aged stallion wearing a strange contraption leaped in front of her, and just as quickly as he appeared, he leaped away.

This had caused Applejack to give out a frighten yelp that she prayed to Celestia that Rainbow Dash wouldn't hear about.

"PARDON ME MADAM!!" The leaping pony yelled apologetically.

Applejack looked dumbfounded at the stallion who was leaping all over Ponyville. The weirdness didn't stop as she then saw Derpy frantically trying to catch him. But, despite her efforts, Derpy was constantly missing him because of his limitless leaping.

The last attempt failed completely when Derpy went into a speed almost on par with Rainbow Dash to catch the stallion only to miss. She couldn't stop herself from heading straight toward Applejack.

Seeing what was coming, Applejack quickly backed away from the incoming Pegasus who was desperately trying to slow herself down by scraping her hooves and rump on the ground. She succeeded before coming to a jerking stop, which flung something green on her mane toward the apple pony.

It splatted right on Applejack's chest, which didn't hurt thankfully, as she then saw that the green thing was a little frog. The frog, in a state of daze, fell off of her chest and onto the ground.

Applejack examined the frog to see that it was brightly colored, what with its red eyes, bright green skin, blue underarms, red feet, and white belly.

This was the strangest looking frog she had ever seen.

“You alright little critter?” She asked the frog, not really expecting anything from him.

The frog gained back its sense, almost as if her voice was able to trigger something in it. It looked up toward Applejack, only to gain a face of utter awe.

"Ribbit Ribbit" the frog croaked, almost as if it was in awe and reassuring the mare he was okay.

Applejack, confused by the frog's attitude, looked up to Derpy. "Can somepony tell me what in tarnation is goin’ on?!"

The crossed eye pony smiled sheepishly despite the occurrence of the out of control stallion smashing a vacant stand.

"Well, Mr. Hopper had a machine called the, uh...Hop Krom 9000... or something, and it went out of control! Now he’s hopping all over the place." She explained while gesturing to Taddison, who know smashed a cart full of furniture.

This brought Theodore out of his dreamy look, and he shook his head to clear his mind.

"Ribbit! Ribbit!" he croaked out loudly and started to chase after Taddison.

Derpy followed him, and Applejack, still the dependable pony, went after them to help however she can.

The trio chased the leaping Stallion all around town. Although their attempts to try and catch him were pathetic, as most of the time they ended up catching each other after Taddison leaped out of the way. It was embarrassing for Theodore when he used his legs the best he could to catch his owner, only to land on Applejack's forehead.

Later on, Applejack had enough of going nowhere, so she grabbed her lasso out of her stetson hat and waited for the right moment to rope Taddison.

Then, she threw it when he was on the ground and successfully roped the target.

"Gmmt mm!" the farmpony said through gritted teeth on rope.

She tried to keep a good grip on the rope while holding her ground at the still leaping stallion. He dragged her around the town until she wrapped her hooves around a lamp post. She held on with all her might, not budging an inch.

Theodore was watching and became even more struck by this mare, only this time it was by how incredibly strong she was.

Derpy, while also amazed by Applejack's strength, swore she noticed hearts in the frog’s eyes.

Soon the tug of war ended when suddenly, Taddison’s mechanical frog legs were ripped off after the strain became too much.

He noticed this and whooped in excitement. "Jolly Good!!"

The trio on the ground also cheered at this...for about three seconds.

It was then that Taddison noticed he was still high in the air.

"...Knickers." He said, before gravity set in.

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Everypony in SugarCube Corner was waiting for Derpy to bring Taddison over. It had been over 40 minutes and there was still no sign of them.

Rainbow Dash, never one for patience, sprung up in the air in frustration. "UGH! That's it! I'm going to go see what's taking so long."

But before she could rush out there, Pinkie Pie's tail started to twitch.

Her famous Pinkie sense was on.

"INCOMING!!!" She yelled out in alarm.

She and everypony else jumped out of the way.

They jumped just in time, because something crashed down into the floor and created a hole in the middle of it.

The ponies slowly walked toward the hole to see what it was.

Before they could identify it, Derpy, Applejack, and Theodore rushed in and looked at the hole in concern.

"Mr. Hopper! Are you okay!? Please tell us you're okay!" Derpy shouted with great concern.

A hoof then came out of the hole, and following it was Mr. Hopper halfway out of the hole. He looked like he wrestled an angry bull and lost...four times.

Still, he gave a smile...a smile that was missing a few teeth, but it was still a friendly smile.

"Oh, don't you worry, Miss Hooves. I’m as jolly as a schoolboy." He said, trying to ease the concerned trio.

He then turned his attention to Theodore. "If you’ll excuse me lad, I'm about to experience unconsciousness."

Without another word, he passed out back into the hole, with Theodore and the herd of ponies feeling absolutely scared for Taddison.

Author's Note

Hello Boyz and Gurlz, I hope you enjoyed the new chapter. It has been what?... A...Year...I feel really sad. But anyway, Hopefully the next chapter wont take nearly as long and I want to thank my editor, A Man Undercover for his help and encouragement of this story. Hope to see ya soon even though the show will be over soon.
Take Care and God Bless