Trials of Sarah: Make Your Mark

“It’s another beautiful day in Maretime Bay.” Hitch smiled as he was walking through the peaceful and quiet steets. “The sun is shining the Pegasi are flying and absolutely nothing can go, WRONG?!”

Suddenly his calm demeanor turned shocked when he found Daliah near his station and vines blocking the exit. “Oh hi Hitch. Sorry about this. I was trying to open the station for you.” She apologized. “I know you don’t like magic.”

“Whaat? Me not like magic? Pfft!” Hitch tried to play off. “I’m totally cool with it now.”

Looking at Daliah with a nervous smile the camel Earth Pony left before Keith chirped at him. “What Keith?!” Hitch exclaimed and Keith mimicked someone looking at a watch to check the time.

“Oh right! I’m already late for my morning rounds!” Hitch panicked an galloped to do his morning rounds but….

“Good Morning Sheriff Hitch.” Three fillies; Glory, Peach Fuzz and Seashell called to the Sheriff in a odd situation; being caught in Seashell’s magical vine.

Glory was a young light blue pegasus pony with a pink ribbon on her tail, white hooves, blue eyes, pink and white feathers on her wings and has her mane and tail being light purple with light blue lines.

Seashell herself was a young purple Earth pony with white socks, pink hooves, she has green eyes and green mane and tail. Her cutie mark is a green conch shell and two pink stars

Peach was a young orange unicorn with light green eyes and red hooves. Her mane and tail are white with blue, yellow and red streaks, she wears a red ribbon on her tail. Her cutie mark is a red peach with some sparkles around it.

“Gah!” Hitch yelled before trying to recompose himself. “I mean…g-great job Seashell. L-let me help you down.” Hitch helped the three filled down from the vine.

”Thanks.”

”We we’re actually stuck.”

”Magic is pretty wild Huh?” Peach, Seashell and Glory quipped.

“Too wild of you ask me.” Hitch squealed nervously.

”Oh no. Are you upset?” Peach Fuzz asked.

“Me?! Upset? About magic? Never!” Hitch reassured.

”So we can use all the magic we want then? No rules? No holding back?” Seashell asked excitedly.

”Woah, Woah little fillies.” Sarah chided as she and Race hovered down to the scene.

“Just because Hitch is a bit on edge cause of magic it doesn’t mean he’ll-“ Race started before Hitch interrupted.

”You we’re holding back!” Hitch quipped nervously, “Uh….of course.”

That earned shocked jaws from Sarah and Race before the three fillies declared together loud and clear, “HITCH SAYS USE ALL THE MAGIC YOU WANT! DON’T HOLD BACK EVERYPONY!”

“Ohhh…this won’t end well.” Sarah frowned knowing everypony heard that including Sprout, whom was working with his buddies and bragging about his magic being the most powerful out of the trio. The two ponies didn’t believe him and walked off as he tried to activate his magic which worked but it created a large grapefruit plant behind him.

“Uh-oh! That’s a new feature!” Sprout quipped before two large grapefruits fell off, forcing him to run. “My magic is too powerful! RUUUNNN!”

His two buddies turned behind them and yelled at the rolling fruit and ran away from them.

“It’s everypony for themselves!” His friend yelled and Hitch, Sarah and Race saw the huge grapefruits rolling and bouncing side to side as Sprout and his buddies dodged them frantically.

“Berry Attack! This is not a drill!” Hitch exclaimed and moved to get ponies out of the way.

“Race! Shield Trap!” Sarah exclaimed and Race nodded at her. Sarah flew in front of one berry as it was getting closer to her as Race ran behind it and together they used their magic to create a magical Shield around the rolling berry catching it and making it splatter into berry juice.

“Fruity crisis averted.” Sarah smiled to herself as she and Race dropped their shield and Sarah picked up the berry remains with her magic and conjured up secret jars and placed the remains inside. “This should be helpful for Sunny’s business.”

Hitch pushed other ponies out of the way but he tripped into a cart and rolled down the street before his cart bumped into a book and made him fall out. The cart also caused the berry to launch high into the air.

“AAAAAHHHH!”

SPLAT!

The berry smashed into Hitch and coated him and part of the street in berry remains and juice. “Yes….just another day in Maretime Bay.” Hitch sighed as he laid down, slightly discouraged.

(The scene opens up with Sunny and Sarah roller skating out of the Brighthouse and Castle of Friendship together before Sunny changed into an Alicorn and their cutie marks appeared behind them)

Hey!

You gotta let it glow

Hey!

You gotta let it shine

(Switching to Zipp and Pipp, the sisters were flying above the clouds together before Zipp flew in front of Zephyr Heights as her cutie mark appeared behind her while Pipp appeared in the Mane Melody stage with Jazz Hooves and Rocky signing as her cutie mark appeared behind her.)

Oh, let's make our mark together

Just riding on forever

Just keeps on getting better, better, better

(Izzy is seen next uni-cycling before she happily leaps up and shows her cutie mark in the background)

(Hitch and Sparky come out of the Police Station together with Hitch's animal friends as he poses and Sparky flies off his back as Hitch's cutie mark is shown)

Everypony, everywhere

You can feel it in the air

Find your spark and just glow and shine

(Opaline's Dark Castle is shown next with the evil Alicorn and Misty in front of what appears to be a magical pool of water as Opaline smirks evilly before the final scene features Sarah, her family, the Mane Five, the Mighty Ones, their Pokemon all together walking and flying to the beat as Sunny's lantern is shown with Prisbeam Power inside of it before the title appears with the Mane Five, Mighty Ones and Sarah all together as Sunny changes into her Alicorn form)

Make a mark that you can share

Hoof to heart, you know we care

Oh ponies, come on, let's all unite

Trials of Sarah: Mark Your Mark

Sunny opened her Smoothie truck for business before she noticed Hitch walking by coated in glimmerberry juice and couldn't help but laugh as she and Sarah joined him at his side, "Wish I could have been around earlier. Sounds like you made a real impact." she joked and laughed.

"Ha, ha, ha." Hitch frowned and he pulled the vines off of the Police Station door. "Laugh all you want Sunny, but fruit juice funck can stay in your mane for weeks."

"Oh well, looks like someone had a chaotic morning." Discord chimed in gleefully as he popped beside Hitch and the girls.

"Ugh...not now Discord." Hitch frowned.

"This plant-powered magic is something special." Sunny declared. "Growing stuff at the stop of your hooves! Incredible!"

"Ugh, more like incredibly unpredictable. I mean we don't even know all that it can do yet."

"Earth Magic is highly complex, Hitch, there's no telling what can come without some guidance." Sarah advised.

"Well we know enough. Like, you and Sarah seemed to be the only ponies who can understand animals as Sarah can understand her Pokemon and Dragons and Mythical Creatures. But have you tried to grow anything yet?"

"To be honest, I'm to after this morning." Hitch admitted.

"Come on, you can't judge all Earth Pony Magic on one little mishap." Sunny reassured.

"Yeah, one bad mistake doesn't make all magic horrible." Sarah added.

Hitch sighed, "Maybe you just need to see the scene of slime for yourselves."

At the old Canterlogic Factory, Hitch, Sunny, Sarah and Discord interrogated Sprout who grew the glimmerberry plant. "I swear, I don't know what happened." he repeated. "All I did was stomp my hoof. Like this." Stomping his hoof, his Earth Pony magic activated and effected the plant to Hitch's fear.

"Stop the Stomping!" Hitch exclaimed and Sprout stopped before it could disturb the plant behind him. "First Maretime Bay gets shook up with magic and I said nothing!"

"Uh that's not true. I actually said alot." Sunny pointed out.

"Then Earth Pony Magic came. Now I say something!" Hitch frowned before walking away. "I keep this place safe and its too dangerous without rules."

"But if your magic produces crops and fruit in this perfect condition, you'd be able to feed yourselves and god know how many others, Hitch. I used my Plant Growth to help in the garden where I plant Carrots and such for my family." Sarah praised.

"There's no limit to what it can do. We can't cut off a whole planet of possibilities." Sunny added.

"More like a cosmos of calamities!" Hitch argued.

Sunny groaned, "But how are Earth Ponies gonna grow and learn....and learn with restrictions?"

Sprout sneezed cause of some dust from cleaning up the mess which activated his magic and affected the plant, making it grow bigger.

Sunny nervously chuckled, "Uh just consider what I'm saying before you jump to conclusions."

Hitch sighed, but claimed, "I'll think about it, but the safety of ponies in Maretime Bay is my top priority." Sunny and Sarah took some of the glimmerberry juice from Hitch's chest before he went to clean it off.

Tasting the berry, Sunny and Sarah liked the taste alot before they took out their Alicorn Mirrors to look at them selves.

At her Dark Castle, Opaline gasped seeing Sarah and Sunny, "Misty quick! Those Alicorns are using the mirrors we gave them! Soon their magic will be-" Just then, Sunny and Sarah closed their mirrors before the holographic image showed them in front of the Canterlogic Factory, "Teasing us as it trots away!"

Opaline made the image disappear for the moment, "Why have they barely used it? If it was me. I'd have checked my pout every minute on the minute!"

"And what a pout it is, Opaline." Misty chimed in cheerfully. "Equal parts chilling and charming!"

"Don't pander to me, Misty." Opaline scoffed before she walked over to the magical mirror pool, "Even though you are right. Well now its time for me to tell you something else to do." Her horn started to glow and Misty nervously whispered.

"Uh.."

Back at Maretime Bay, an hour passed before Hitch held a meeting in front of the police station. Zipp, Hawlucha, Pipp, Swanna, Izzy, Maractus, Sunny and her guardians, Sarah (holding Snowdrop in her arm), her Mentors, Zeraora, Zoura, Snowdrop, Discord and their pokemon were in the crowd as they listened.

"Ahem, I know we started the day with a pretty disastrous---I mean magical morning. After surveying the recent magical changes in Maretime Bay and the messy ways they have disturbed our daily lives, I have decided there will be no use of Earth Pony magic whatsoever!" Hitch declared to the crowds shock as they gasped.

"Until I've collected enough data from all of you to form proper registrations and guidelines. "Hitch added which got groans from the Earth Ponies. "I assure you, this is all for your own safety. We don't know what's possible with Earth Pony Magic yet. Until I've taken proper inventory of every flight, float, flora and fauna power, magic is off limits. That is all."

Just then Discord teleported next to Hitch, "Or maybe you should talk to the Alicorn who has the same magic as your Earth Ponies." Discord gestured to Sarah who lowered her ears at all the eyes looking at as she nervously chuckled and waved to them.

"I just said magic is off limits Discord, which goes for Alicorn Magic too!" Hitch barked.

"How else are ponies gonna learn how to harness their new magic if they avoid the one pony who has the magic all three pony kinds and has been practicing for years compared to you?" Discord questioned as he floated over to Sarah.

Hitch groaned and just walked away from Discord, not listening to him only to get an earful from Sunny, "I thought you said you weren't going to do anything drastic!"

"No! I said I would think it over and my thoughts are telling me its bad and its gonna get worse if I don't step up."

"Ugh, but Earth Pony Magic is powerful!" Sunny exasperated.

"Exactly! Too Powerful!" Hitch barked. "What's gonna happen if we have more mishaps. It's my job to make sure everypony is safe."

"Earth Ponies need to practice. Like Pegasi and Unicorns had to!" Sunny added.

"And everypony is safer with magic once they learn how to fully control it." Sarah chimed in.

"What are you gonna do if another villain like Scarlet Nightmare or this Opaline appears here and Pegasi and Unicorns's magic can't deal with them alone, leaving only Earth Pony magic to save the day." Keldeo added.

The friends spotted Seashell, Peach Fizz and Glory tied up in Seashell's vines again, "Growing pains, they'll get it," Sunny reassured.

"Guessing you ponies were too tied up for the town hall meeting earlier?" Hitch sarcastically joked. "Just a little reminder of the rules." Conveniently he made Anti-Earth Pony Magic stickers which had a red outline, purple background with a vine crossed out in the middle. He placed them on the three fillies hooves as they sighed in sadness.

Virizion used Sacred Sword and got the fillies down from the vine.

"Sunny and Sarah have a point Hitch. It's too early to know if Earth Pony Magic is anything to worry about." Zipp agreed.

Hitch sighed, "Look I'm part of the reason why Earth Pony magic is here now. What if I become the reason Earth Ponies get hurt. As Sheriff I can't let that happen!"

During a little montage, the group began conducting their research and test on the Earth Ponies new magic starting with Daliah whom coated herself in many Gardenia flowers which she was ironically allergic too. Next was an earth pony growing a Watermelon to normal size but when he tried handing on to Zipp, his magic caused the Watermelon to explode.

Pipp and Swanna were conducting their own test as they saw the Earth Ponies actually changing the color of the plants and vines that sprouted.

"The Magic is out of control!" Pipp exclaimed as the group regrouped as the Earth Ponies magic began to become unstable!

Hitch's own hooves started glowing green, "WAH! What does this mean!"

"I think it has something to do with the glowing hooves. I don't think you're suppose to hold your magic within." Zipp stated.

"Zipp's right. You're magic is meant to be expelled into the magical energies of the earth. If you tried to keep it in the magic will fight against it and come out anyway." Sarah added.

Hitch fretted, "I was wrong, I shouldn't have tried to put a pause on Earth Pony Magic. I should have gone straight to the Unity Crystal Pins! When ponies united, the Unity Crystal were created, everypony got their magic back. Maybe if we remove the Earth Pony Crystal-"

"WHAT?!" Sarah and Sunny barked in together.

"No! That's not what I meant!" Sunny added.

"You were right Sunny. Earth Pony Magic is powerful. Too powerful! We never had it before! Why do we need it now!" Hitch exclaimed before running towards the Crystal Brighthouse with the gang running or flying behind him.

"Hitch, you're going about this all wrong!" Sarah tried to change his mind. "The Unity Crystals are not the cause or the problem!"

"This is the only way to keep Maretime Bay safe!"

"Making rash decision is never safe and keeps nopony safe!"

The group made it to the Brighthouse and soon found themselves where the Unity Crystal Pins were in the Prismbeam Rainbow. "Taking the Earth Pony Crystals out is to keep everypony safe from mayhem."

"Woah, woah, slow your roll! You don't know that!" Zipp debated.

"Removing a Crystal is not like flipping a switch. We could lose everything just like we did with Scarlet Nightmare when we lost our magic before! You must remember that. We were helpless against her and her minions until Sarah and her family showed us where we went wrong. When we united in friendship it restored the Unity Crystals and gave us back our magic and defeated her. If we repeat history than this Opaline character could come back with a vengence....is that what you want...?" Sarah preached to Hitch.

Thinking about she said, Hitch reminisced about the sacrifice Sarah made to restore Equestria to its former glory which nearly ended with her being stone forever if not for Ryu, the Mighty Ones and all of the Dragons and Pokemon of Equestria.

"....You're....right....What was I thinking..." Hitch breathed realizing the error of his ways. "This isn't me! Guess I'm just...scared and unsure. Magic doesn't operate by any rules. Rule are what I know! But if I can't be the Sheriff everypony needs now?"

"You'll always be strong Sheriff Hitch because you care." Sunny reassured her fillyhood friend.

"I'm sorry everypony. I just love Maretime Bay so much. But maybe having less magic isn't the answer." Hitch apologized.

"You were just very scared of your own magic cause you never had it before. To be honest. Before I realized my Sword was magical, I was pretty sacred of what I found too, especially with the prophecy that came with it, but instead of running away from my past, I embraced and you all saw how it turned out, we defeated my Uncle and Team Eclipse for good....together."

Hitch smiled at his Alicorn friend, "I'm sorry I didn't listen to you..."

"It's okay Hitch." Sarah smiled as the pair shared a hug together with the Mane Five joining in together, which caused all of their Cutie Mark's magic to combine into the crystal.....revealing the holographic projection of Twilight Sparkle, the Guardian of Magic and Princess of Friendship.

Sarah gasped as did everyone else.

"Is that..."

"It can't be..."

"But it is..."

"What filter is that?!

"It's not a filter at all

"Twilight?"

"The Twilight Sparkle, the Princess of Friendship and Guardian of Harmony!"

"No way!" Cobalion, Terrakion, Keldeo, Pipp, Zipp, Sarah, Sunny and Izzy breathed in awe.

"If you are seeing this. Magic is now more powerful than ever before and the return of our allies has commenced once again and Earth Pony Magic has been activated for the first time in the history of Equestria. Magic is alive. Always changing, growing stronger. There are evil forces out there who will want to exploit it. Once a pony tried to steal all the magic in Equestria for herself by pitting Earth Ponies, Pegasi and Unicorns against each other and succeeded in driving them apart for many moon. She almost succeeded in stealing all the magic from Equestria including from our allies too. I did all that I could to protect it and our allies..." the hologram started to fizz a little, "by summoning all of my magical strength to achieve placing the magic in the three Unity Crystals and the....." it fizzed again. "But the spell is broken. You are exposed to the world once again. You must watch out fo Op-before she op-I am with you."

With that the hologram vanished, leaving everyone in total awe and shock at what they just witnessed.

".....Did that....just happen?" Zoura breathed.

"Yeah.....just like Discord said, Twilight used all of her magic to place all the worlds magic into the Unity Crystals to protect them from Opaline. But what this spell she talked about that was broken."

"She said we were exposed to the world once again." Sarah and Zipp wondered.

"When she used all of her magical strength, she created a large force field around Equestria at the same time.....keeping it hidden from evil threats like Opaline whom would want to steal the magic of Equestria as many villains' did times before." Discord explained. "Now the spell is broken and most likely Opaline knows this."

Speaking of the evil pony herself she and Misty were watching the mayhem unfolding in Maretime Bay. "Ugh, if its another complication of my hooves Misty, I don't want to hear it. 'Hooftastic isn't a word and I refuse to acknowledge it."

"No, the Earth Pony Magic is getting worse!"

"Magic isn't getting worse. It's growing into something it never have been." Opaline replied observing the events unfold.

"But if its growing this fast? How're we going to stop it. Oh no, no, no. We won't be stopping it anything, Misty. In fact, we're going to let it thrive. So that when we pluck it, it will be the most powerful it has ever been." Opaline manically laughed and Misty attempted to copy for adoptive mother but she didn't do it right and Opaline scoffed.

"If you're going to maniacally laugh with my Misty. At least me in sync. Ready?" Together, Misty and Opaline manically laughed once more.

The Pegasi we’re trying to control the spiting vines but the magic from them was beginning to be too much and now there were flowers on the buildings. “Forget what I said earlier! Use your magic as much as you can!” Hitch exclaimed.

”But this time you have to focus and control your magic. You tell your magic what to do not the other way around. Embrace it now.” Sarah advised. The Earth Ponies listened to the Alicorn Princess and concentrated their magic, focusing and their magic spread to the vines and plants making them shrink and vanish from the city. “That’s it. Express yourself to the extreme!” Izzy cheered as the vines vanished one by one.

Near the old Canterlogic Factory, Sprout, still a bit rusty used his magic and made a allege grape plant vanish. “Yes!” However the magic backfired greatly and created a huge grape fruit as large as the building!

“Uh-oh!”

One of the large grapes came off of the tree naturally thanks to gravity and nearly crushed Sprout if he had not dodged it!

“Waaahhh!” Sprout scream as he ran down th street and everypony saw the large grape rolling down the street and even worse Seashell, Glory and Peach Fuzz did it again and got themselves caught in Seashells vines!

“The follies!”

“Oh no!”

”They’re gonna get smashed!” Sarah, Izzy and Hitch gawked in horror.

“My pipsqueaks!” Pipp cried as the Mane Six, Race and Sarah ran towards the scene and stood in front of the giant grape.

“Link hooves just like we did around our Unity Crystals. Our magic is stronger together.” Hitch called as the grape for closer.

The Mane Five and Sarah linked their hooves together with Sarah and Race’s horns glowing as were Hitch’s hooves making him hesitant.

“Remember Hitch, embrace your new magic instead of resisting it.” Sarah advised.

“Just trust yourself, Hitch. You already have all you need.” Sunny added.

Together the Mane Five’s hooves and cutie marks glowed together they all combined their magic to create a large tree with crystalline flowers sprouting from the branches.

“The trees right in the berries path! Were protected! We’re gonna save the fillies. I can’t believe we’re actually going to do it!” Hitch smiled as Sunny laughed but when the berry collided with the tree it splattered and would’ve coated the ponies but Sarah and Race quickly shells everyone with their magic.

”Alicorn and Unicorn Magic Shield.” Sarah chuckled.

Baby Snowdrop cooed at the Barry remains and flew out of her mothers hooves. “Snowdrop!” Sarah cried in worry before the baby Alicorn giggled and turned the mess into beautiful chalk art on the ground!

“Woah!”

”Snowdrop!”

”Gorgeous!”

”Beautiful!”

”Cool!” The Mane Five breathed in awe

Snowdrop cooed before she fluttered over to the trapped follies and touching the plant with her horn, making it vanish and the fillies dropped to the floor.

Snowdrop giggled before she fluttered back into her mothers arms. “You’re a creative little folly just like me and Auntie Izzy, aren’t you?” Sarah cooed proud of her Alicorn daughter.

Snowdrop babbled and hugged her mother.

The ponies all cheered for the heroes of the day, “See. Earth pony magic is something special. Who knew you could grow a whole tree?” Sunny smiled at the tree in front of them.

Upon closer inspection Zipp and Ryu saw the tree had something familiar about it.

“Speaking of which have you seen this thing? It’s like five sparkle filters combined!” Pipp smiled taking her phone to take a picture as did Zipp but for research purposes.

”Zipps Phone 301: Flowers from magical tree look familiar somehow. Must investigate.”

”You were right Sarah and Sunny. I shouldn’t have tried to control all that magic, especially my own.” Hitch smiled.

“It’s okay Hitch. I know Magic can be a bit scary and unpredictable but you have to learn to go with its flow and not try to control every aspect of it. Magic works in mysterious ways and can affect many things as well.” Sarah grinned before they group heard a loud crash from the Police Station.

“What was that? It sounded like it was coming straight from the station.” Sunny exclaimed as the group saw green smoke coming from it.

Hitch gasped, “Sparky!”

Rushing inside, the group saw Sparky laughing as he sneezed again and his dragonfire....made balloons appear!

"Dragonfire that makes...balloons." Zoura quipped.

"Now that's a never before seen power of dragonfire." Keldeo smiled.

"You're a mysterious little dragon, aren't you Sparky." Sarah cooed at the baby Dragon who laughed at her.

"Right...now...we've got a new mystery on our hooves." Zipp declared. "Finding out the whole history of what happened to Equestria..."

Everyone nodded with their new mission at hand.