It was a nice sunny day in Maretime Bay while ponies were talking to each other.

Passing by them, Sunny was on her roller skates, giving smoothies to the ponies around. Following her by flight was Tails, who started to work with her so he could get some money to buy materials for his inventions since Sonic was busy working on Zephyr Heights as the speed moderator for the Royal Guard, and Knuckles... he hung a lot with Izzy to help her with her Unicycling stuff.

Sunny came to Posey and gave her a smoothie. "Morning, Posey. One tropical treat to go," she said to her, then moved slightly and stood before Dahlia. "Dahlia. Free banana berry blast?" she smiled while Dahlia nodded. "I’ll be right with you," she said, then headed back to her smoothie stand, but she slipped on a banana peel on the floor and tripped. "Whoa!" she shouted as she tripped into the air, and all the bananas and a couple of smoothies flew out from her cart. "Myyy Baanaanaasss!" she cried out while things were moving slowly. The ponies watched as the smoothies spilled to the ground.

A family of pegasi were taking a picture together outside of Mane Melody. At the same time, an earth pony mare held the camera phone, but just when the picture was taken, Sunny got into the camera's view, and the picture taken showed her in a funny way from the trip. Sunny screamed and crashed into the ground, and a pile of bananas fell on her while the ponies around gasped.

Tails also saw this and gasped as well. "Sunny!" he cried out, then boosted flying to her. Sunny poked her head out of the pile, and a banana peel slipped off her helmet and into her face. Sunny picked it off and held it with an embarrassed look. "Um... Sunny?" Tails called out as he looked at what was in front of her.

Sunny looked in the same direction, and her embarrassment worsened since everypony saw that. At first, everyone was in shock, but then Posey started to laugh, and then everypony in the crowd laughed as well, finding Sunny's little accident funny. "Okay, so everypony saw that..." she said with a sheepish look as the crowd continued to laugh.

She saw in all directions, and then Tails helped her get up. "Let's just, uh... Let's get you out of here, Sunny," he told her as they both boosted out and towards the Brighthouse.

At the Crystal Brighthouse, Hitch, Pipp, and Zipp were watching something on the TV when the door opened, and Sunny and Tails came inside. Sunny was sad, while Tails had a hand over her shoulder to comfort her.

"You are not going to believe what happened to me today!" Sunny said to her friends.

"Did you do an epic fail in front of tons of customers and land in a big pile of bananas?" Zipp asked with an amusing smile. Hitch and Pipp did their best not to laugh but snorted a bit anyway.

"Huh?!" Sunny cried out in surprise.

"How did you guys know that?" Tails asked, confused.

"Sunny's gone viral," Pipp answered. "Everypony is talking about it!" she said as she picked up the remote and changed the channel on the TV. The video immediately showed Sunny tripping, screaming, flopping to the floor, and getting covered in the banana pile.

Then, Skye and Dazzle of the Zephyr Heights news appeared, and Skye cringed at the video. "Ooh, now that's embarrassing!" he said with a smile as he and Dazzle laughed from the video. "Let’s play that again," he requested with a smile while the video played again.

"No!" Sunny cried out with her hooves on her face.

And then Izzy started to sing behind her. "My bananas! Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na! My bananas!" she sang, then got to Sunny’s face and started to vocalize. "Sunny! Sunny! Break it down! My bananas!" she sang. Then she started to beatbox, waiting for Sunny to break down, but it didn’t come as Sunny was still upset.

"Not helping, Iz," Tails said with a frown. "And it isn't that funny at all," he added.

"What isn't so funny?" Sonic asked as he and Knuckles arrived with the rest.

Knuckles, however, looked immediately at the TV, at the video of Sunny tripping, and snorted a bit. "Falling to a banana peel! What a classic!" he said with a smile, but then he faced Sunny with a neutral expression. "But now that I have context, yeah, it isn't so funny," he added.

"Eh, I've seen worse trips," Sonic added with a neutral expression.

"This... is... the... worst!" Sunny cried out as she got in front of the TV and changed the channels, but they all showed the same 'epic fail' of her. "Ugh, I'm everywhere! I'm supposed to be the Alicorn defender of pony unity, and now I'm a joke!" she said with sad puppy eyes.

"Chill, girl. It's just a viral video of the internet, and the internet evolves quickly. Everypony will get bored about it eventually," Sonic said with a smile as he put a hand around her.

"He's right, Sunny. These things happen all the time!" Hitch smiled, then approached her and placed a hoof on her shoulder. "Trust me. In a couple of hours, they'll have forgotten all about it," he assured her.

Sunny smiled at her two friends. Maybe they were right, and everyone would forget about the video...

Or maybe not.

Sunny was covered in her blanket at night and watched from her phone, which was still playing her 'Epic Banana Fail.' A song called 'My Bananas' was even played in the background while Sunny kept looking at her video. She tapped the screen and saw two ponies wearing banana hats, a guy wearing a banana suit, and then Dazzle in the news again.

"'Sunny side down,' am I right?" Dazzle asked in a terrible joke, and she laughed. Sunny tapped the screen again, now feeling even more humiliated.

Now she saw Posey on the screen, participating in some contest. "My bananas!" she called out as she pressed a button, then rainbow lights appeared behind her and the audience off-screen cheered. "Yeah!" Posey cheered as well.

Then the screen went back to the news, and Skye appeared. "Not a 'smoothie' operator?" he joked and laughed.

The screen changed to a Unicorn Filly holding a lunchbox with a batch of bananas, then to a Pegasus mare who gasped at Sunny's video, and then back to the news, where Dazzle appeared again.

"Time for a banana 'splat'!" Dazzle laughed at her joke.

Then the screen showed Queen Haven laughing after seeing the video. "My bananas!" she laughed out loud. "Slip of the 'peel'?" she joked.

Sunny groaned in frustration and flopped to her bed, clearly seeing that the banana thing wouldn’t stop anytime soon.

The next morning, Sunny was still lying in bed, embarrassed and covered in her blanket to hide herself, as her friends were beside her bed.

"Maybe I was wrong..." Sonic said with a worried tone, looking at Sunny with worry.

"Sunny, what about the smoothie stand?" Pipp questioned.

"There's no way I'm going back out there," Sunny answered from inside her blanket. "It's too embarrassing," she added, not wanting to leave the Brighthouse.

"Come on, Sunny. I get it's embarrassing for you, but you can't let this affect you!" Tails tried to resonate with her.

"Yeah, what's the worst could happen?" Knuckles asked with a smile.

"I can list a few things, but for Sunny's sake, I'm not going to do it," Sonic said with a bored expression, looking at Knuckles.

"Come on," Hitch said with a comforting smile, returning to the topic. "It's not the end of the world. Hey, nobody even remembers that time I tried to arrest a baby raccoonicorn," he added, now with an embarrassed smile.

A baby raccoonicorn held some gems and stood on a tree branch. Then, the branch tilted slightly when the baby raccoonicorn saw Hitch on it. "It's the end of the line, raccoonicorn!" Hitch cried out. "Time to—!" he tried to walk towards the baby, but the branch snapped. Hitch and the raccoonicorn fell, but then Hitch’s straps got caught in another branch, leaving him dangling while the baby raccoonicorn landed on him with the gems in his paws. The baby raccoonicorn hopped up and down, making Hitch yelp while the ponies around him saw everything.

After Hitch told them that, a construction pegasus flew by through the window. "Hey, aren't you that 'raccooni-cop'?" he asked Hitch, who flinched at that old nickname.

"Get out of here!" Hitch cried out as he covered the window with the sheets. He turned to see Izzy, Pipp, Zipp, and Team Sonic stifling, laughing at him. "Okay, bad example," he said with a bored expression.

Sunny groaned because of this, and she flopped back to her bed since Hitch's idea didn't help her at all.

"Just get back out there and act like you don't care," Zipp suggested with a smile.

"Or just wear a disguise and start a new life!" Izzy strangely suggested. "Worked for me!" she cried out, which startled Sunny while Izzy laughed and flopped back into the ground.

"Uh... You did that before?" Knuckles questioned with both worry and confusion, but he got no answer.

"No!" Sunny yelled, a little freaked out by Izzy, but decided to ignore her. "It's hopeless!" she cried as she covered her face. "Looks like I'll have to stay here forever!" she muffled in the blanket with a sad tone.

The rest looked at Sunny with sadness, feeling bad for her. Sonic, however, had a bored expression and got close to Sunny.

"Well, this is ridiculous, and I have seen enough," Sonic said to her. Then he took Sunny’s blanket off, but he yelped once he saw her mane made a disaster. "Yikes!" he said in surprise.

"Uh... Sunny, does your hair always look this bad in the morning?" Pipp asked, getting close to Sunny and Sonic.

"Yes," Sunny replied, still looking sad.

Sonic and Pipp looked at each other and nodded. "Okay, ponies, leave this one to us," Pipp requested as she motioned them out of the room. Sonic took out his phone, looked for something quick, and showed it to Sunny.

"Look at this," Sonic said as Sunny took his phone to watch a video.

The video showed Sonic and Tails testing one of the many portals they tried to open. Once Tails pressed the button to activate the portal, it exploded, and even though Sonic was fine, he was now covered in smoke. But that wasn't the worst of all: near them was an Ice Cream stand, and part of the explosion caused some ice cream to fly out and fall straight into Sonic's head.

"Ten billion views. And that happened last week," Sonic said with a smirk. "It's called 'Sonic the Hedgehog's most epic fail so far," he added with a smirk.

"So far?" Sunny asked.

"Yeah, there's a few more, like, for example..." Sonic said as he moved to another video. This one showed him running as usual, but then he tripped with a rock that he somehow didn't see, rolled down the street, and crashed against a big sign that said 'Welcome to Maretime Bay'. "I would like to say I tripped with style, but I would be lying," he added again with a smirk.

"Now watch this," Pipp said as she clicked on her phone and gave it to Sunny.

The first video showed Pipp, Rocky, and Jazz singing their main song on the Mane Melody stage. "Try something new, take a chance, just—" Pipp started, but then she lost her balance. "Whoa! Whoa! WHOA!" she cried out, falling off the stage into the ground. The next video showed Pipp eating spaghetti, but as she slurped some of the noodles, the whole spaghetti smacked on her face and fell to the floor, leaving Pipp with some sauce on her face and a shocked look, then she looked around and putted on her sunglasses to avoid eye-contact. The next one showed Pipp vocalizing herself, but her voice cracked slightly.

"The video was called 'Princess Pipp's Top Ten Most Epic Fails,'" Pipp explained to Sunny. "It has…" she started, cleared her throat, and continued. "... thirteen billion views," she pointed out, leaning on Sunny’s bed with a smile and shaking her tail.

That last action made Sonic blush a bit, so he tried to ignore the movement and looked at Sunny, who was laughing at the other video of Pipp. "We may have embarrassing moments, but you can either feel ashamed for the rest of your life or laugh with the rest," Sonic said with a smile.

"You see, Sunny?" Pipp said, placing a hoof on her shoulder. "You've got to own your fails. If you play this right, they could remember for months," she said, but that just made Sunny groan.

"Bad choice of words, Little Pipp," Sonic whispered at Pipp.

"Look, Sunny. When life gives you lemons, make lemonade" Pipp said with a smile. "And when life gives you bananas…" she said, while waiting what Sunny thought of this.

Sunny thought for a moment before replying. "... make a banana smoothie?" she said in confusion since a line for bananas had never been said before.

Sonic and Pipp looked at each other before gasping, as they both had the same idea. "That's it!" they both yelled in unison.

"Leave this to us!" Pipp said to Sunny with a smile.

"You won't regret this, I promise!" Sonic added, smiling as well.

In Maretime Bay, the 'My Bananas' remix played on speakers on both sides of Sunny’s smoothie stand while the ponies around were carrying banana balloons, wearing banana hats, banana suits, and everything banana-related.

The Pegasi family from yesterday was taking a picture, mimicking Sunny’s face when she tripped and wearing banana hats. As the sales continued, Rufus was selling banana plushies, some with unicorn horns on them. Clearly, Pipp and Sonic's idea was to use Sunny’s epic failure to start a festival to help Sunny accept this failure.

Unknowingly to them, Sunny went through the crowd in disguise, wearing a fake mustache, glasses, and a hat with an 'S' on it, heading to the smoothie stand as quickly as possible.

Pipp flew around the stand while she amplified her voice through the microphone. "You know her from the videos! You know her from the memes! You know her from the funky dance remix!" she said closer to the crowd with a little dance before backing up.

"And if you like 'My Bananas'..." Sonic said to the crowd, arriving with a microphone as well.

"'My Bananas'!" the crowd cheered to Pipp and Sonic.

"... then you'll love her Oopsy-Doopsy Banana Smoothie!" Sonic finished while striking poses after each word of the smoothie title

"Everypony, put your hooves together for... Sunny!" both Pipp and Sonic pointed out to Sunny, walking through the crowd. After Pipp announced her name, she stopped and looked back, taking off her disguise, giving a nervous smile to the crowd, and walking back to the smoothie stand.

But what surprised her was that, instead of laughing at her, Seashell popped up with a gasp. "Sunny! Sign my banana!" she cried out while holding a banana plushie.

"I want eighteen smoothies!" Dahlia cried out to Sunny.

Sunny laughed a bit inside her stand. "I guess this wasn't such a disaster after all," Sunny said with a smile. She placed a banana in the blender to make a banana smoothie. "Thanks, guys." She thanked Pipp and Sonic for helping her make this epic fail better.

"Of course. Anything to help," Pipp said with a smile.

"Anytime, girl," Sonic said with a wink.

But then the blender started to get a little too fast, and the three friends looked at it. It blended the banana so much that it popped open and splatted the banana juice on Sunny, Pipp, and Sonic's faces while the crowd of ponies gasped and took their phones out to take pictures of this moment. Then, Sunny, Pipp, and Sonic looked at each other and started to laugh out of this, since it was better to laugh at moments like this one.

THE END

Author's Note

Thanks to JD1 for editing this chapter!