"Whoo!" Izzy cheered as her friends came to her and Sonic to celebrate T.U.E.S. Day together.

"Hey! Ho!" the Mane 5 and Sonic sang when they went hiking in the woods to spend time together.

"... Cause I get to work with you!" the Mane 5 and Sonic sang together as they worked together to finish up the Crystal Brighthouse.

"Besties!" Pipp cheered as she and the others huddled together for a group picture.

Then several images of the Mane 5 Cutie Marks shining pass by, unnoticed by them.

In the bedroom of the Brighthouse, the girls and Team Sonic were sleeping peacefully.

But suddenly, Sunny, who was still sleeping and had her messy mane, started to glow and levitate from the bed.

Sonic, Tails, Izzy, and Zipp woke up from the glow and were shocked to see Sunny floating in the air. The magic sparkled around Sunny and activated her Alicorn form, which shocked Sunny awake and caused glitter to fly around the room.

"Aaah!" Zipp yelled out in surprise as glitter hit her face and some on her bed. Izzy got the same outcome as Sonic, but Tails ducked under the blanket to dodge the glitter. As for Pipp, she got some over her mane and bed, and Knuckles was sleeping with his mouth open, so... some glitter ended on his mouth as well.

Sunny looked on in shock as her alicorn magic activated, but as soon as she looked at them, her wings and horn disappeared, and she fell into her bed, now covered in glitter.

Sunny groaned tiredly and rubbed her forehead. "What happened?" she asked tiredly, getting up on her bed.

Tails emerged from the blankets and flied towards her. "Your magic wings and horn came out of nowhere," he explained to her, "Literally," he added.

"You also exploded into a pile of…" Zipp tried to point to the glitter, but...

"Glitter!" Izzy cheered, seeing so much glitter as far as her eyes could see, feeling like she was in paradise. "Glitter!" she cheered as she hugged a pile. "Glitter!" she scooped some in a jar. "Glitter!" She went to Pipp’s bed, grabbed some glitter,, and tossed some in the air.

"Man, cleaning this up is going to be a mess," Sonic complained as he removed some glitter from his body.

Pipp got up because of Izzy and got her head off the pile of glitter. "Don’t you guys know what time it is?" she asked tiredly but then noticed the pile of glitter on her bed. "Wait, what?" she asked herself, noticing some glitter on her head, and gasped in shock. "All this glitter is drying out my mane!" she cried in panic.

Suddenly, Knuckles poked his head out of the pile of glitter on his bed and spat the glitter out of his mouth. "Why is there glitter in my mouth?!" he cried out with concern, noticing the whole room full of glitter. "Why is there glitter in the whole room in the first place?!" he yelled confusedly.

"Sorry, everyone." Sunny apologized to her friends as Zipp, Pipp, Sonic, and Knuckles approached her while Pipp shook the glitter off her mane. "My Alicorn magic has a mind of its own; I can't control it," she worriedly explained.

"Maybe you need a magic word?" Zipp suggested. "Something to help bring out your inner alicorn."

"Ohh! How about a catchphrase?" Izzy said cheerfully, swimming in her pile of glitter. "Like, 'Wing it'! Or 'Let’s fly'!" she started to suggest, then gave an exciting expression with sparkling eyes. "Oh, oh, oh! I know! 'Alicorn it up'!" she said, standing at Sunny's side, and then walked a bit away.

"Alicorn it up?" Sunny repeated with a confused look, but then her magic started to sparkle again. Her right wing grew and shone brightly as she and the rest of Team Sonic looked with surprise.

"Good timing," Knuckles said with a little smile.

"That's incredibly convenient," Tails said in confusion.

"That's just lazy writing," Sonic said with a bored expression.

But once her wings settled, they were the size of a little filly wing and flapped rapidly.

Izzy got to Sunny's side and looked at her wings. "It might need some work," she snorted. "You’re not going to fly very far with those wings," she pointed, giving a raspberry while Sunny put an unamused expression.

"Sshh," Zipp and Pipp shushed Izzy, not to make fun of her wings.

"Not helping, Izzy," Sonic said with a little frown.

Sunny, however, groaned with embarrassment at her wings. "Izzy’s right! I can’t help anypony like this!" she pointed out worriedly.

"Don’t worry, Sunny. All you need is a new look," Pipp said a little excitedly as she flew around Sunny with sparkling eyes and placed her hooves around her. "A makeover fit for an alicorn," she added while Sunny looked at Pipp with doubt.

"Before we do that, can we at least clean up first?" Sonic asked as he pointed at the room still full of glitter.

"Since when do you, from all people, care about cleanliness?" Knuckles asked, looking at Sonic with confusion.

"Ever since I lived here," Sonic confessed with a smirk. He looked at Tails. "Say, mind to help me out?"

"Usually, I'm the one asking, but okay! Let's do it!" Tails cheered as they both boosted and ran through the room with boxes and jars, filling them with glitter. Sonic put the jars at Izzy's Unicycling spot, while Tails put the boxes outside to find a later use for the remaining glitter.

The rest of them and Knuckles looked in awe at how clean the room was now that the glitter was cleaned up as Sonic and Tails returned and looked around with pride.

"Wow, nice work, guys!" Zipp complimented with a smile.

"This was peace of cake, thanks to Tails' help!" Sonic assured as he put an arm around Tails.

"Once we start to work together, nothing can defeat us!" Tails cheered.

"Running faster than sonic speed, get your tails on the field!" Sonic and Tails made their handshake, finishing it with a fist bump.

"Now, Sunny-bunny, let's change your style or whatever Pipp said!" Sonic stated with a smile as he looked at Sunny.

Later, at Mane Melody, Pipp took Sunny and the others to the salon to have Sunny’s mane styled.

"Ahh!" Sunny cried out as Pipp spun her around and placed her on a seat, with Sunny looking at the mirror.

Team Sonic, Izzy, and Zipp watch from the sidelines as Pipp inspects Sunny’s mane while Jazz and Rocky look from behind them.

"We are going to need highlights, low lights, hoof glitter, hoof polish, a facial, and a curl," Pipp said as she inspected every part of Sunny.

"You don’t mean…" Jazz said as Rocky looked at her.

"Oh, I do," Pipp answered, turning to Jazz and Rocky. "The works," she declared as Jazz and Rock gasped.

One, two, three, four

Pipp starts to sing, holding a manecut machine, with Jazz holding a hoof polisher and Rocky holding a brush.

Bring that tail right through the door

Jazz polished Sunny’s right hoof with a pink sparkle.

Five, six, seven, eight
You're not leaving here 'til you feel great

Rocky placed some facial cream on Sunny and then put some kiwis on her eyes. Pipp grabbed a brush and held a mane-cutter, and Jazz gave her a mirror while Rocky gave her the manedryer.

Shine bright, sparkle and glow
Flip that mane with a flow like "whoa!"

Pipp then used the four tools with all four hooves and assaulted Sunny's mane with her mane styling skills.

Vibe, you're on it
You're a brand new pony, so flaunt it
Hey!

In the end, Pipp twirled Sunny around and finished her mane, giving her the style she got on the Mane Melody's opening day.

Sunny looked at her mane in amazement as it sparkled a bit.

"And voila," Pipp said with a cheerful smile.

"I never thought I'd see the day where we pass from lazy writing to lazy drawing, but here we are!" Sonic said with a sarcastic tone, although everyone seemed to ignore it.

Sunny smiled at her mane style, but once again, her magic started to act up and made her mane glow a golden color. Sunny started to float again, but this time with a smile.

Team Sonic, Izzy, Pipp, and Zipp looked at Sunny with a smile, thinking that Sunny's magic must now be under control. But her mane grew a lot, and now her horn appeared too. As the light faded, the others gasped in shock to see Sunny’s new aspect.

"Uh. I don’t think it worked," Sunny called out.

"Man, wish I could understand magic; it would be a lot easier to help you with your problem, Sun," Tails said as he approached the alicorn.

"Aww, don't worry, Tails. I'm pretty sure we'll discover how to control my powers," Sunny said, and even if Tails could not see her, he knew she was smiling. "Somehow..." Sunny added.

Izzy trotted next to the two and excitedly inspected Sunny’s mane. "Whoa, Pipp," she said with awe and sparkling eyes. You’re good. Do me next!" she cheered, wanting a longer mane, too.

Sonic, Knuckles, Zipp, and Pipp came to the rest as Pipp chuckled nervously. "Look on the bright side! At least the mane covers those tiny wings!" she pointed out as she moved some of Sunny’s mane to show those wings, which flapped briefly.

"Not helping, kiddo," Knuckles said with a bored expression.

Zipp shook her head, agreeing with Knuckles. "No. No. No. This is about more than a mane; it’s about inspiration," she said as she zipped around Sunny with a smile.

"I don't like where this is going," Sonic said with a neutral face.

"And nothing inspires quite like a little…" Zipp added, looking at Sunny with a grin.

A little while later, the group was at the abandoned Canterlogic building. After the three tribes united, Phyllis closed the place, and now the old factory was completely abandoned.

"... Danger," Zipp finished, introducing the obstacle course she had made to the others. The first part was three logs swinging back and forth, a little pole over a tub of green bubbly goop slime, and the three hoops that head straight to the finish line. "A bit of danger will trigger your alicorn abilities," Zipp assured Sunny with a smile.

"Uh... this looks excessive," Tails said as he hid a little behind Sonic.

"Yeah, even I know this is a lot, and I love to do reckless stuff," Sonic admitted.

"I don’t know about this either, Zipp," Pipp said to her sister.

"Um. What am I looking at?" Sunny asked her friends since her mane was covering her completely. Zipp moved Sunny's mane out of her eyesight, and Sunny stared in fright at the obstacle course. "Are you sure? Because this looks…" Izzy cut off Sunny.

"Fun!" Izzy cheered with sparkling eyes.

"Impossible," Sunny corrected with a nervous smile.

"I guess we'll never know if we don't try... but I'm going to bet this won't work," Knuckles said with a neutral expression.

"For once, I'm with Knuckles on this one," Sonic said, looking at Sunny with a worried look.

"Pttss! She'll do great!" Zipp assured with confidence.

"Here. Let’s get that mane out of your face," Pipp said, and after a few minutes, Pipp styled Sunny’s mane to look like Phyllis', and now Sunny could look perfectly with her mane tied up. "There! Much bet…" Pipp tried to finish, but then she, Sunny, and Tails - who helped to tie her mane - saw Izzy putting a stocking on a button at one side of Sunny’s mane. "It will do," Pipp said with a bored expression.

"Ready…" Zipp called out as she went next to Sunny. "Set… Go!" she finished and then pushed Sunny to the obstacle.

Sunny screamed, rushing through the obstacle and dodging the logs. Sonic, Tails, and Pipp cringed while Knuckles, Zipp, and Izzy smiled. Sunny kept screaming and tried to balance on the log over the green slime. But then she started to scream even more as everyone else looked frightened at the scene. Sunny hopped over the hoops covered in slime, and as she made it past them, her left wing started to glow and grow into the normal size of Alicorn wings, but the right side stayed small, meaning Sunny still couldn’t fly without both wings.

Sunny screamed and fell to the ground, and the rest came to her worried.

"Sunny! Are you all right?" Pipp asked as she helped Sunny to get up, but then looked up at her mane covered in slime. "Your poor mane!" she cried out, then turned and glared at her sister. "Zipp. What were you thinking!?" she yelled at her.

"This is the best alicorn yet." Zipp smiled as she pointed out that Sunny was nearly complete to her alicorn form, as Sunny shook some slime from her left wing.

"Ah, we need better transformation words," Izzy suggested again. "How about 'Hooftastic-maneriffic-canterlogic-docious!'" she cried out.

"A new alicorn outfit would do the trick. Maybe a few accessories?" Pipp suggested it as well.

Sunny watched her friends come up with ideas, but she didn't feel too well, so she walked away from the group, and no one noticed. No one, except for Tails, looked at the exact moment she came out of the factory, and then he looked at the girls with a frown and growled.

At hearing the most calm and reasonable growling, Sonic and Knuckles looked at each other in fright since they knew things would heat up if Tails got mad.

"Maybe if I add fire to the obstacle course..." Zipp suggested, and that was what made the fox explode.

"STOP IT, FOR THE SAKE OF CHAOS!!!" Tails shouted at the mares while some smoke came out of his head, and his face was red with anger as he glared at the ponies.

The three mares immediately stopped and looked at Tails, both surprised and afraid. They never thought Tails from all the creatures would shout at them like that.

"They either die in the next few seconds or make them feel like talking trash," Sonic whispered to Knuckles. "Either way, they're screwed," he added.

"Oh, they are," Knuckles assured with fear.

"None of these things are helping!" Tails yelled again, this time a bit more calmed.

"B-But we were trying to help Sunny," Pipp pointed out. "Maybe if we get her a new dress..." she tried to add, but...

"HOW?!" Tails shouted again. "How are some makeup, a deadly obstacle course, and some stupid made-up words going to help her with her problem?!" he asked, waiting for any of the mares to answer. "For what you have told me, she hasn't been able to control this form for a while, and instead of trying to do something to make her feel better, you did something that makes YOU feel better!" he pointed out. "Pipp, a dress and a new style can change her outside, but did you make her feel better inside? NO! Because it's makeup! Izzy, you're funny. I'm not denying that, but not everything can be fixed with a catchphrase! And Zipp, Sonic gets his ass in danger every single week, and yet he hasn't done anything as dangerous as that obstacle course! You could have killed Sunny!" he pointed out to the three mares as he started to take deep breaths.

There was silence for a moment. Sonic and Knuckles were weirdly quiet, while Zipp, Izzy, and Pipp were both ashamed of their attitude towards Sunny and scared of Tails, although it seemed like he finally calmed down.

Izzy was the first one to talk to them after a while. "I-I'm sorry..." she said with a guilty tone as the rest looked at her. "I guess I just tried to make her feel better instead of helping..." she admitted shamefully.

"I'm sorry too," Pipp said, not in a dramatic tone as usual, but in an actual ashamed tone. "I shouldn't have made up those styles since she isn't me. Of course, that wasn't going to help..." she pointed out as she looked at the ground.

"And I shouldn't have made the obstacle course at all," Zipp admitted with guilt. "I'm sorry," she said.

Tails seemed to finally be calm, as he softened his gaze and looked at the mares. "I'm sorry, too, for exploding like that. I'm usually the one who tries to calm things down," he said with embarrassment.

"Well, I'm glad things cooled down a bit..." Knuckles said as he and Sonic arrived at Tail's side.

"Now, the only thing we have to deal with..." Sonic started as he stared at the exit. "It's finding Sunny," he finished with a worried look and tone.

A little while later, Sunny was at the beach after she had removed the slime and looked at the ocean with a sad face.

Three foals were making a sandcastle next to her, a little bit far, while Hitch walked towards Sunny. One of the fillies was shoveling the sand, but then her shovel got out of her hoove and landed next to Hitch. He picked up the shovel and returned it to the filly with a smile.

Hitch smiled at those foals and saw Sunny over at the corner. "Aha," Hitch said with a smile, walking towards her.

Sunny got the rest of the slime of her mane. "That was a complete disaster," she said, still sad for not controlling her magic.

"I figured I'd find you here," Hitch said to Sunny. "Knux told me what happened. Are you okay?" he asked her.

Sunny looked down and sighed. "Everypony else seems to be growing so fast. I just feel... stuck," she said, looking at him concernedly.

"You helped everypony believe in magic," Hitch said with a smile. "Now it's time to believe in your magic, Sunny. In here," he added, placing a hoof on Sunny’s chest where her heart should be.

Sunny smiled at her best friend, feeling a little better. "Thanks, Hitch. If only it were that simple..." she said, but something caught her attention. The two ponies saw a big wave coming to the beach, and then Sunny gasped in shock once she saw where the wave would hit. "Oh, no! The foals!" Sunny cried out while the foals looked at the wave and were too scared to move in time.

Sunny and Hitch ran to get the foals out of the way, but Hitch hit a little hole that caused him to trip and fall into the sand. He got the sand off his face but gasped as the wave approached.

"Come on, Sunny! You can do this! Those foals need you!" she said, giving a determined look. She started to glow as her Cutie Mark sparkled. Her alicorn form took form, and her mane got fixed. Now Sunny got her full Alicorn form back and flew to the sky.

Hitch saw Sunny with an awed expression and sparkling eyes. Sunny came right in front of the foals and faced the wave. Then, she focused her magic on her wings and blew them at the wave, which caused it to turn into a pile of glitter.

The fools looked at Sunny with amazement, and once she landed, she looked at herself with joy now that she had her alicorn form under control. "I did it!" Sunny cheered as she laughed a bit. "Now, if I can just figure out how to turn off the glitter..." she added sheepishly.

"I knew you could do it, Sunny!" Hitch said in a muffled sound, trapped in a pile of glitter, while Sunny looked at him with a smile.

THE END

Author's Note

Thanks to JD1 for editing this chapter!