Author's Note

WARNING!!!

I highly recommend you to NOT read from this chapter on without having read the first chapter of Sonic The Hedgehog x My Little Pony: Make Your Mark first.

If you do, go ahead, but don't blame me when you don't get half of the things that are going to happen.

Once I cleared that out, let the story start!

P.S: Thanks to JD1 for editing this chapter!

11. Maretime Bay Day 2.0

On the beaches of Maretime Bay, Posey and four other earth ponies were putting the finishing touches on a sand castle they had built since they were on a sand castle building contest on the beach.

"Steady... Steady..." Posey advised, sweating, as the other ponies put themselves on top of each other with Posey on the top, trying to put the flag on the top of the sand castle.

But when Posey was about to put the flag on the top of the castle, the water from the ocean hit the edge of the castle, which caused it to collapse as Posey and the other earth ponies lost their balance. The pony's back at the bottom cracked, and Posey was about to fall, but then she was paused because it was just a video on a pink laptop with wings.

"Oh. That is golden," Pipp said with sparkling eyes. "I am a pony in the zoney," she sang as she typed in the comment and then sighed. "Amazing what a little peace and quiet can do," she said with a smile, unaware that the rest of the Mane 5 and Team Sonic poked their heads behind the couch she was sitting on with smiles, wondering what she was doing on her laptop.

"What are you doing, Pipp?" Izzy asked cheerfully.

"Ah!" Pipp screamed, so surprised by Izzy’s voice that she flipped her laptop in the air but caught it before it dropped to the ground. "Hey, everypony!" she greeted with a smile, regaining her composure. "Just cutting together my Maretime Bay Day Blog," she explained in a little singing tone.

The other four ponies and Knuckles gasped in awe with sparkling eyes.

"Gasp," Hitch said with a smile since he didn't gasp.

Sonic and Tails, however, just stood with smiles and looked at Pipp with joy.

"A Maretime Bay Day blog, huh?" Sonic said, now smirking a little.

"Sounds cool!" Tails complimented.

"I know. It was so special; I just wanted a way to remember it forever," Pipp replied with a smile. "Plus, it’ll be great for my ponygram. Check it out! I got bloopers," Pipp said as she opened up her laptop and showed Jazz and Fifi trying to make Cotton Candy, but then Jazz’s mane got stuck in the Cotton Candy spinner. Her mane got all puffy like a Cotton Candy, and Jazz then laughed at her style. "Behind the scenes," Pipp kept saying with a smirk, switching to a video where Hitch was doing a weird dance, singing in front of the camera, with a high-pitched voice in an embarrassing way.

Hitch saw this and felt embarrassed of himself as he looked at the girls and Tails giggling at the video. But Sonic and Knuckles were dying of laughter on the floor as they let tears out.

"That's just hilarious!" Sonic said between laughs.

"And I thought I danced terribly!" Knuckles snorted.

Hitch lifted his chin and put a hoof on his chest.

"I regret nothing," he said with pride as the girls and Tails gave him a weird look, but Sonic and Knuckles laughed a bit more before finally calming down.

"I even caught the moment earth ponies got their magic!" Pipp said excitedly as she showed another video with Posey in it. She stomped her hooves twice, using her earth pony magic to make a giant pink flower, and gave off a proud smile before the flower came to fly and chomped Posey, trapping her inside the flower.

"Nice one, sis," Zipp congratulated her sister as Pipp shook her head with a smile.

Sonic whistled as he examined the blog closer. "You never cease to amaze me, Little Pipp," he admitted with a little smile.

Pipp's cheeks turned a little red as she smiled nervously. "T-Thanks, Sonic."

Suddenly, Izzy zipped around the couch and sat beside Pipp, grabbing her laptop into her hooves. "Whoa. So, it’s kind of like making a daisy chain. But instead of daisies, it's weird talking picture squares," she said with a smile.

Pipp started to feel nervous about Izzy having her laptop since she had never had one before. "Oh, right. But it kind of took me all day to put it together," she pointed out with a nervous smile. "So, just be…"

"So many memories," Izzy said cheerfully while going through Pipp’s files to see other videos on the blog. Like the one where Sunny tried to teach ponies how to make smoothies. "And this!" Izzy said, scrolling to another video with two of Hitch’s animal crew standing in front of a picture of Izzy and Hitch with holes to make them look like them. Two Pegasi laughed at the animals. "Oooh. And this!" Izzy said as she started to pass between several videos.

The others smiled as Izzy went through the blog, while Sonic felt bad about this, and Pipp looked nervous. "Seriously, Izz. You're going to press…" she was about to say, but...

"Files erased," the laptop announced, shocking the Mane 5, especially Pipp, Izzy, and Team Sonic.

"...the delete button," Pipp finished with a shocked expression.

"Um," Izzy said with a nervous smile and sweating. "Don’t worry. I know how to fix this. More typing!" she assured nervously and typed more on the laptop.

"Files gone forever," the laptop said.

The rest of the Mane 5 and Team Sonic gasped in shock. Pipp stared at Izzy with a mean look and twitchy eye, about to explode in anger, while Izzy gasped and nervously sweated before giving Pipp a nervous smile.

"Even more typing?" She suggested.

"Izzy, NO!" everyone else yelled as Pipp grabbed her laptop back before Izzy messed up more than she had already done.

"You did enough for a day, kiddo!" Knuckles added.

Izzy then looked at Pipp with an apologetic expression. "I’m so sorry, Pipp!" she tries to apologize. "My hoof slipped. And then the button slipped. And then the picture squared slipped into the trash. And I just…" she tried to explain her mess up.

Pipp was tearing up and started to shake, looking at her laptop. She closed her eyes and laptop, placing a hoof on her forehead. "It’s okay," Pipp said as she faced the rest of her friends with a forced smile. "We’ll just do it again next year!" she said as tears started coming. "No worries. Totally fine," she said with a cracked voice, and then she got up from the couch. "Um, I'm just gonna take a nap," she finished and walked upstairs into the bedroom, slamming the door while everyone else flinched from the slam.

Sonic then looked at his wrist as if he had a clock, and Tails looked at him confused. "Um, what are you–?" he tried to ask, but Sonic cut him off.

"3, 2, 1," Sonic counted down with his fingers and then pointed at the bedroom door.

And just like he expected, Pipp started wailing and crying out loud while her friends felt bad for her. "Oh, it hurts!" she cried out.

The rest looked at Izzy while she felt bad for her screw-up and began to lower herself to avoid her friend's looks.

Tails then approached the laptop and looked at it, a little idea crossing his mind. He ran towards Sonic's ear and told him the idea, and Sonic's eyes widened in surprise. "Are you sure? Do you think you can do it?"

"I have hacked Eggman's deleted files thousands of times now," Tails reminded his brother. "Some pictures and videos from a laptop? It's a piece of cake!" he assured with a smirk, then took Pipp's laptop and flew away.

"Uh, what is he doing?" Zipp asked, confused. Sonic approached her ear and whispered what Tails told him, and Zipp's eyes widened as well. "He can do that?!" Zipp asked in disbelief.

"He didn't earn the title of 'wunderkind' for nothing!" Sonic replied with a smile. "But he needs time, so we have to cheer up Pipp somehow as he does his magic work!" he stated confidently, as Zipp smiled back and nodded.

"Wait, Tails has magic?!" Knuckles asked with surprise.

"I'm gonna pretend you're just being sarcastic for my sanity's sake," Sonic said with a bored expression. "Everyone! We are going to cheer Little Pipp up, even if it's the last thing we'll do today!" he stated with a confident look as everyone else nodded in agreement.

A while later, Pipp was sitting on her bed with the pictures she had managed to print. However, they were hardly good without the videos and the rest of the files since they were gone, which made Pipp sob. Then someone knocked on the door.

"You can come in," Pipp said, sobbing while taking one of the pictures.

The door opened, and Izzy entered the room, holding a homemade picture frame of Pipp that she had made with her Unicycling skills.

"Hey, look. It’s me, Pipp," Izzy said, making it sound like her voice was coming through the frame. "The most iconic, pegasus in Maretime Bay," she said, walking closer to Pipp. "With a song in my heart and a sparkle in my eye," she finished, and one of the frame's eyes fell off.

Pipp cringed a little disturbed but then smiled a little.

The door opened again, and a giant smoothie entered the room. "And did someone order a giant strawberry ripple smoothie with pegasus wings?" Sunny asked with a smile as she and Zipp emerged from behind the smoothie, carrying a can of whipped cream. Sunny waved her hoof at Zipp, signaling her to add the wings from the whipped cream.

Zipp got the signal and shook the can of whipped cream, then flew up to the top and was about to spray, but then started flying around uncontrollably as the whipped cream sprayed out, making the shape of wings on the smoothie. Zipp came down as she and Sunny smiled at the great work, but then one side of the cream wingtips dropped on Sunny's face. Pipp smiled again, finding the situation funny.

"Or…" Knuckles' voice called out as Pipp turned and saw Knuckles, Hitch, and his animal crew right before her.

"How about a cheer-up dance!" Hitch cheered as he, Knuckles, and the animal crew wore red coats. They tried to dance, but Hitch tripped on one of his animal friends, fell to the ground, and bumped into his crew and Knuckles, leaving them dizzy. Pipp then giggled at this as she smiled at them.

"And if that doesn't work..." Sonic's voice was heard, and when she turned around to see him, her whole face became just as red as Sprout's. "Maybe a little glow-up can make you feel better," Sonic added with a smile and a deep, serious voice. He wore a black dinner suit, a white button-down shirt, and a blue tie. Miraculously, he wore pants, as he detested them, and black shoes, resembling his normal shoes, were much more elegant.

"Huh..." Knuckles said with surprise. "That girl has to mean something to him if he's willing to wear pants," he pointed out.

"I'm sorry, what?" Hitch asked, confused, still lying on the floor.

Pipp felt her heart race like never before, and she started feeling warm, too. She secretly took out her phone and took a photo of Sonic in his suit while her eyes sparkled. She smiled in delight at the hedgehog. She then calmed down a little and looked at all of her friends.

"Thanks, guys. But none of this is gonna bring back Maretime Bay Day," she said sadly as her friends looked at her feeling bad. Pipp walked out of the room while her friends looked at her with concerned looks, especially Izzy.

Suddenly, Zipp and Sonic understood what she said.

"Bring back Maretime Bay Day!" they both said with smiles.

"That’s it!" Zipp said as she walked towards the pictures on Pipp's bed and grabbed one with all of them from Pipp. Zipp nodded, looking at the picture. "Everypony, follow me!" she announced as she trotted towards the door, with Sonic following her immediately.

The rest looked at each other confused but decided to follow afterward until Sonic returned and stopped Sunny.

"Sunny hit the shower first," he requested. Sunny picked a piece of the whipped cream off her and gave a chuckle, then trotted out of the room.

Later that evening, Pipp was in the kitchen, assembling a castle made of bread.

"Yay," Pipp said in a nonchalant tone, still feeling down because her files had been deleted.

Zipp and Sonic suddenly zoomed by, smiling, and faced the young pegasus.

"Pipp, come out into the garden. We got something to show you!" Zipp said as she faced her sister and her crush.

"Um. I’m clearly a little busy building a sand castle," Pipp pointed out to the castle she had made. However, it crumbled and fell apart, causing Pipp to flop onto the table in depression.

"Hey, Little Pipp, trust us on this one," Sonic assured with a comforting smile as Zipp got Pipp to stand on the chair and push it out the door and into the garden.

"Look, unless you’ve recreated Maretime Bay Day in the garden…" Pipp was saying, but then she gasped when she looked at the garden. "Ooohhh! You’ve like totally recreated Maretime Bay Day in the garden!" she cheered, returning to her happy self as she flipped into the air and landed on all four hooves. She saw that her friends made a replica of Maretime Bay Day festivities in the garden with the stands, flowers, and a picture of Pipp in the back over a fountain.

Pipp came to the cake stand and looked at the cakes in awe. Then she went to the corn on a stick stand and ate one. Finally, she saw a sand castle, where the rest of her friends had popped up from behind it.

"Surprise!" the rest of the Mane 5, Tails, and Knuckles cheered to Pipp with a smile.

Pipp gasped joyfully and looked at her friends with tears and a smile. "It's perfect! Oh, wow, so many feels!" she cried out as her friends came in front of her. How did you do all this?" she asked them.

"Well, we had pretty great materials to guide us," Izzy answered, motioning her head to the board behind them, which held the pictures Pipp had taken and printed before the files were deleted.

Zipp pulled out Pipp's phone and extended it to her. "Here, so you can refilm it," she said with a smile.

"Thanks, Zipp!" Pipp thanked them and smiled back as she took her phone. She pointed the camera at her friends, who were looking at her with a smile, but then she started to have second thoughts about it. "But you know, I think I'd rather just enjoy an amazing time with my even more amazing friends," she confessed.

The rest smiled at Pipp’s decision, and Sonic and Tails blinked at each other, knowing that Pipp would love her surprise.

Pipp got on stage and looked forward with a determined look and a smile. "A one, two, three, hit it!" she yelled excitedly as she started to dance along with Hitch and Izzy.

(Hey) Try something new, take a chance, just believe it
Let out your light, shining bright, can't you see it?

Zipp, Sunny, Tails, and Knuckles moved their heads through Pipp’s song while Sonic tapped his foot in time to synchronize with the music.

Woah-oh-oh, oh-oh, woah-oh-oh (Hey!)
Woah-oh-oh, oh-oh, woah-oh-oh

The rest decided to follow the song's example and sang along with Pipp while enjoying the replica Maretime Bay Day festivities they also made.

Try something new, take a chance, just believe it
Let out your light, shining bright, can't you see it?

Izzy, Sunny, and Knuckles were at the cotton candy stand. Izzy used the maker to make one big batch of cotton candy.

Two of Hitch’s animal crew were dancing to the song, still in the same outfits of earlier.

Sunny was placed on top of Hitch's back to put the finishing touches on the sand castle they had built earlier, as Pipp filmed the whole thing with a smile.

Sonic, Tails, Pipp, and Zipp emerged from the bushes and sang as the flowers bloomed.

At Mane Melody (Hey!)
At Mane Melody

Hitch and Knuckles were back in the red coats, dancing with Hitch's animal crew.

Pipp flew around the sky before landing on the sand castle, where she and her friends finished the song. But the sand castle couldn't sustain Pipp’s weight, and it collapsed, making Pipp fall while her friends looked in shock, except for Izzy, who smiled as the picture was taken while catching Pipp before she fell to the ground.

A little while later, Pipp printed the pictures she had taken of the Maretime Bay Day replica her friends made and placed them on the board. She looked at it with a smile, and then Zipp, Tails, and Sonic came close to her. "I hope you liked your surprise, Little Pipp." Sonic was the first to speak.

"Like it?! I'd love it!" Pipp exclaimed as she went to hug Sonic and Zipp. "Thank you guys so much for that gift!" she thanked.

"You're welcome, sis," Zipp replied with a smile.

"Anytime, princess," Sonic said, smiling as well.

"And there's another thing," Tails added, smiling while hiding something behind him.

"More?" Pipp asked. "What could be better than my best friends recreating Maretime Bay Day in the garden for me?" she asked rhetorically since she could not think of anything better.

"How about getting your files back?" Tails asked as his smile grew bigger.

"Oh, that would be great, but unfortunately..." Pipp said, but then she stopped as an idea appeared. She felt some hope growing inside her. "W-Why are you asking me that?" she questioned.

Instead of answering, Tails took her computer from his back and put it on her desk. He then opened it and walked apart to let Pipp look at it. Nervous, Pipp walked to her laptop and put her password in. Once the laptop unlocked, her eyes sparkled, and little tears of happiness appeared: her blog was intact, and everything Izzy deleted was back, like it never left.

"H-How?!" Pipp asked in disbelief as she read the whole blog, confirming everything was back.

"I have some magic tricks of my own," Tails said with a smile. "And I don't need actual magic to make it work," he added, scratching his head a little in embarrassment.

"B-But I thought they were all gone!" Pipp exclaimed, still not able to believe that her blog was intact.

"Yeah, Tails has a natural talent with technology; it's his thing," Sonic explained. "And since he has restored deleted files thousands of times before, he wanted to do this for you," he added with a proud smile toward his brother.

Pipp immediately squished Tails into a hug as the fox struggled to breathe. "Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you so much, Tails!!!" Pipp thanked with tears of joy.

"Y-You're welcome... princess," Tails replied, trying to catch some breath, as Zipp and Sonic laughed a little at the scene.

THE END