In the Crystal Brighthouse, Pipp was doing a mane wig makeover, placing a couple of flowers on the wig with a smile at her accomplishment.

"Hooftag #Gorgeous," Pipp said, and then an explosion was heard while glitter got on Pipp's mane and the wig.

Pipp turned around and saw Izzy, covered in glitter, with a big cannon beside her. "Glitter Cannon! At the ready, captain. Oohh!" she said with a salute and a cheery smile.

Pipp looked confused at Izzy and shook the glitter off of her mane. "What?! Why do we need a glitter cannon?" she asked.

"For Sunny’s party," Izzy answered with a smile.

It was Sunny's birthday, and her friends were planning a party for her.

Zipp then zoomed in through the kitchen window and did a loop, wearing roller skates and a helmet with her signature colors. She landed on the ground in front of her sister with a smile. "The skate ramps are all secured. This party will be epic!" she stated since Sunny loved roller skating.

"Skate ramps?!" Izzy and Pipp cried out in shock, as this wasn't part of the plan.

And then Hitch danced his way to the group while humming a tune to himself, wearing a purple sparkle neck collar, a red sparkle party tie, and party glasses. "Hey! The dance floor’s all ready for…" he tried to say but got cut off when Izzy, Pipp, and Zipp looked at him in shock.

"... Sunny’s party?!" the three mares cried in unison.

"No, no, no. We agreed to throw her a 'makeover' party!" Pipp pointed out with a little frown.

"Uh, no! You said an 'awesome' party!" Zipp said, glaring at her sister.

"An awesome art party," Izzy pointed out, carrying a paintbrush and a wooden palette in her hooves.

"But I already choreographed a ground dance number!" Hitch said with a nervous smile.

"I already built a skatepark!" Zipp complained.

"What in the name of Chaos is going on here?" Sonic called out while the group turned to see Team Sonic standing at the kitchen entrance. Sonic stomped on the floor and crossed his arms while Tails and Knuckles looked confused.

"It's that a glitter cannon?" Knuckles asked as he pointed at the cannon beside Izzy.

"Yup!" Izzy replied with a cheery smile.

"We were supposed to make Sunny's Party! But we all made different things for her!" Zipp explained with worry.

"So you don't remember who gave the idea of the party, and now you planned four different parties..." Tails summarized with a confused look. "And I thought we didn't know how to organize ourselves," he added, looking at Sonic and Knuckles.

"What about you guys? Have you planned something for her?" Hitch asked Team Sonic.

"Nah, we're terrible on that aspect," Knuckles said with a neutral expression.

"Yeah, we just made a little gift for her, and we'll give it to her eventually," Tails added with a smile.

"Getting back on the topic, what kind of party do you want to make for Sunny?" Sonic asked the rest of the Mane 5.

"Makeover party/Art party/Awesome party/Dancing party!" the ponies all yelled in unison. "What?! No!" they all cried out again.

"Yeah, that doesn't help at all..." Sonic pointed out with a bored expression.

But then they all heard the Brighthouse's door open, and they knew what that meant.

"Oh no! Sunny’s back!" Hitch cried out in fear.

"Okay! New plan: We’ll all throw our own party for Sunny!" Pipp declared with determination. "After all, four parties are better than one, right?" she asked her friends with a smile.

"Right!" The group, except for Team Sonic, agreed to Pipp's plan.

"Oh, Little Pipp, you're so adorable sometimes that I could squeeze you," Sonic said with a soft smile, which caused Pipp to blush a lot, while Zipp at her side snorted a bit. "But let me be honest here: that is a terrible idea that I'm not going to support," he said, now frowning and with his arms crossed.

"Yeah, this should not be done in a rush," Knuckles pointed out.

"Come on, guys. This is Sunny’s birthday, which we’re talking about. What can go wrong?" Pipp asked with a confident smile.

Sonic immediately looked at her, almost saying, 'Really?' with his face. Knuckles gave a bored expression, and Tails took out a little notebook and a pen.

"Want me to write the 237 things that can go wrong with this plan?" Tails asked rhetorically, with a bored expression as well.

"NO!" the four ponies replied to him.

"This is going to bite us in the rump later," Sonic said to himself. "Fine! Do your plan and make the parties for Sunny. We still have to finish up the gift for her," he added, still unconvinced of the idea, but he knew they wouldn't listen for any reason.

At the front door, Sunny came in and sighed in relief since she had a good day today, but then she screamed in surprise when she saw her friends with party decorations and birthday signs around the main room of the Brighthouse.

"Surprise!" the rest of Mane 5 and Team Sonic called out to Sunny.

"I hope you’re ready for the best parties ever!" Pipp said with sparkling eyes and a smile, singing the last part.

"Oh!" Sunny said with a smile and sparkling eyes. "That’s so…" she got cut off when Izzy grabbed and dragged her off. "Aaahhh!" she cried out from the sudden snatch.

"Do you still feel this is going to end badly?" Knuckles asked Sonic.

"Yup," Sonic replied with a bored expression.

Sometime later, Sunny and Izzy painted with McSnips-a-lot as their model while the crab sat on a chair with a scar around him.

"Aw. Thanks, Izzy." Sunny thanks her unicorn friend. "I do love a good crafternoon!" she jokes.

Izzy laughed at Sunny’s pun as well. "'Crafternoon'! Oh, Sunny!" she said while she painted McSnips on her painting board. However, her painting was childish, while Sunny’s was more detailed and professional.

Sunny and Izzy cheered with their smoothies as they slurped some down.

Mane 5:
Party, party, party

Then, Zipp suddenly appeared between the two ponies wearing a headband. "You know what this party needs?" she said to the two ponies. "The element of danger!" she declared as she grabbed Sunny and dragged her out.

Outside the Brighthouse, Sunny got into her roller skating gear and raced against Zipp at a fast paste.

So tonight we’re gonna party
So throw your hooves up, everypony
We got that glitter, gonna roll
It's time to glow up the disco
'Cause when this place is poppin'
We'll party, party, party, oh yeah

Once they finished the race, Sunny took off her helmet and smiled. "This is so cool!" she cried out with excitement.

And then Pipp popped up between them, which slightly startled them. "Glamor waits for nopony! Come on, Sunny!" she cheered, holding two makeover brushes and hugging Sunny.

Team Sonic watched the whole race and the scene with Pipp showing off.

"Well, everything is going well so far!" Tails cheered with a smile.

"Watch it fade when the smoke rolls in, little bro," Sonic warned him, which made both Tails and Knuckles look at Sonic confused. "You'll get it eventually, guys," he added.

Sometime later, back inside the Brighthouse, Pipp got Sunny in a chair and put on some makeup.

Uh-huh, oh, yeah, uh-huh
We're gonna party, party, party

Then Pipp got Sunny to try out three kinds of mane wigs to see how she looked. The fourth wig was pink and had yellow flowers on it.

Sunny smiled at her new look with sparkling eyes. "I like it," she said to Pipp with a smirk.

"Of course you do," Pipp replied and smirked back.

Party, party, party
Uh-huh, oh, yeah, uh-huh
We're gonna party, party, party

Pipp reclined Sunny’s, laying her down and applying mod makeup on her forehead while Sunny sighed in relaxation.

"Oh, I needed this," Sunny said relaxedly while Cloudpuff flew wearing a red bowtie and holding a drink for Sunny.

"Say 'hooftag #BeautyGoals'!" Pipp said to Sunny, holding her phone. Sunny posed in the camera, but as Pipp took the picture, it showed Hitch grabbing Sunny, which startled her, and when Pipp put her phone down, Sunny was gone. "Hey!" she cried out with a frown.

Hitch danced beside Sunny on the dance floor, who was a little surprised.

So tonight we're gonna party

Hitch lifted his hoof while Sunny smiled and clapped her hoof with Hitch’s. "Crazy noodle! Unicorn-a-conga!" he called out as Sunny joined and danced with him. After a while, they faced each other with smiles while Sunny had sparkling eyes.

After the dance, they made their signature hoof-shake. "Up high, down low, hitch it to a post! Flip it sunny-side up and on a piece of toast!" they cheered, grabbing each other's hooves and holding onto one another as they twirled around.

Team Sonic watched on with a smile. "Huh, you were right, Sonic. They have a shake with their names included, just like us," Tails pointed out.

"Told ya," Sonic replied with a smirk.

So tonight we're gonna party

"Whoo-hoo!" Sunny cheered and laughed while they kept twirling.

"Well, she's enjoying it," Knuckles said with a smile.

"Yeah, maybe I was wrong, and everything would work out in the end," Sonic admitted, since up to this point, everything was going great.

"Whoa!" Sunny cried out because she couldn't stop twirling. She then twirled to some buckets of paint and fell on the painting board, covering the paint in the process.

Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles cringed at this. "Or maybe not..." Sonic stated, regretting saying those words too soon.

Izzy gasped cheerfully with an idea. "Paint angels! Great idea!" she cheerfully said, then dumped some yellow paint on herself and fell on the second painting board, making paint angels.

Zipp grabbed Sunny and dragged her out of the Brighthouse while Sonic groaned at the scene. "This is gonna bite us in the rump at any minute now..." he said to himself.

Back outside, Zipp got Sunny back into her roller skates, and Zipp was on a skateboard. They rode down the path, but Sunny started to lose her balance.

Zipp:
Can't stop, won't stop, the big move
Strike your best pose, do the pony hip-hop

"Call me 'Pony Hawk'!" Zipp said with a smile, then flipped into the air and landed on the ramp while striking her hind hooves, but Sunny was having trouble keeping her balance while Zipp landed on the ground at the end of the ramp.

Mane 5:
We might blow the roof off this place

Sunny screamed since she knew she wasn’t as good as Zipp at skating moves, and she was going so fast that she flew over the ramp and hit her face with a wall of the Brighthouse. She slid down and landed on a pile of leaves Pipp prepared on a wagon.

"That's gonna leave a mark..." Knuckles said as he cringed at the scene along with Sonic since Tails was finishing some details on Sunny's gift in the bedroom.

Back to Pipp’s party section, Sunny sat on the chair again, looking worse because of Izzy's paint and her smack on the wall because of Zipp’s ramp.

So tonight we're gonna party

"Ugh," Sunny groaned.

"Sunny, your pores seem really tense," Pipp said as she wrapped Sunny in a blanket.

"Well…" was all Sunny could say, feeling slightly nervous.

Pipp brought up her makeup brush, brushed it on Sunny's face, then placed two kiwis on her eyes and went off.

So throw your hooves up, everypony, uh-huh
We got that—

"There's my dance buddy!" Hitch said, arriving suddenly and startling Sunny, grabbing her from the chair and bringing her back to the dance floor, losing the kiwis as she twirled to the other side.

It's time to glow up the disco

"Are you ready?" Hitch called out.

"What?" Sunny asked, confused and nervous.

"Catch me!" Hitch called out as he jumped to her.

Sunny looked nervous, and then Izzy came next to her. "Craft time!" Izzy called out as she dragged Sunny off, leaving Hitch to land on the floor.

A little later, Izzy returned Sunny to the art section and used hardened clay to make sculptures.

Uh-huh, oh, yeah, uh-huh
We're gonna party, party, party

Sunny was having trouble with her clay going fast, but as she touched it to slow it down, the clay turned into the shape of Pipp's head.

Izzy gasped in amazement. "It's a masterpiece!" she cheerfully said while Sunny looked at it in amazement.

Then, Pipp popped up from behind her head, shaped like clay, and looked at Sunny with a cheery smile. "Time to tame that mane!" Pipp announced and dragged Sunny back to her section.

Uh-huh, oh, yeah, uh-huh

Izzy decided to give Sunny's sculpture head of Pipp the final touch, adding googly eyes and a cut-out mouth.

Back in Pipp’s section, Pipp put a blue wig with some pearl necklaces on Sunny.

So tonight we're gonna party, oh yeah
So throw those hooves up, everypony

Sunny felt unsure about this, but then Pipp turned Sunny’s head in the other direction, and Cloudpuff sprayed her with mane spray.

And now, for some reason, Sunny was at the highest ramp Zipp made, and she was shocked and scared because of how big the ramp was.

Zipp saw Sunny up with a shocked look. "Whoa! You're starting from way up there?! You go, Sunny!" she cheered.

Sunny did not like this, but her hooves slipped, and she rolled down the ramp at a super fast pace, screaming. She went so fast that she flew off in the air at the end of the ramp and right through the Brighthouse’s open window.

Before she could hit the ground, however, Tails grabbed her in bridal style, then slowly descended until he landed on the ground and put Sunny safe.

"Are you okay, Sunny?" Tails asked her once she was safe.

"A little dizzy... and overwhelmed..." Sunny confessed as she shook her head. Then she looked around to find only Team Sonic with her, and she sighed in relief, feeling like she had finally found peace.

Then they heard the door opening, and their friends came stamping in. Sunny began to freak out as she hid behind Sonic while Team Sonic stepped in front to protect her.

"I am so inspired right now!" Izzy said, holding some painting supplies.

"Sunny! I've been practicing the lift!" Hitch called out next.

"I just beat your track time by zero-point-three seconds, Sunny!" Zipp called out.

"Time to curl those eyelashes!" Pipp announced while holding an eyelash curler.

"Okay! Everypony, That's it! This is too much! I can't handle it!" Sunny spoke out, finally stopping her friends from dragging her to four birthday parties.

"If only someone had told you that this wouldn't work... Oh, wait! WE DID!" Knuckles yelled out at the rest of the Mane 5.

"Look, I get that you wanted to make her birthday special since it's the first time she has us in her life... but you couldn't have possibly chosen a worse way to do it," Sonic pointed out with a frown.

"And 49 things on my list ended up happening..." Tails said, rolling up the list of everything that could go wrong if they made four parties for Sunny. "I don't wanna say that we told you, but we told you," he added with a bored expression.

"They're right, guys," Sunny said to the rest with a smile. "I've had so much fun with you all. But it's not what I want. I want all of us to have fun together," she said.

"Just like it should be," Sonic added with a smile and a soft tone

The rest of the Mane 5 looked at each other and then smiled. "You know, it's pretty hard to do a conga line with just two ponies," Hitch admitted with a sheepish smile.

"And races are better with more competition," Zipp said with a little chuckle. "Maybe we should…" she started but kept quiet for a second.

"...combine all our parties?" Izzy suggested with a smile. "To make a…" she was cut off when Pipp gasped.

"... a roller-disco-beauty-glitter party?!" Pipp questioned in excitement. "I love iiiiit!" she sang with sparkling eyes. But then Sonic cleared his throat and called her attention, and she saw him pointing toward Sunny and immediately got the message. "Uh, that's if you love it, Sunny," she said to Sunny with a nervous smile.

Sunny smiled back at her friends. "Yes!" she cheerfully said.

Mane 5:
'Cause when this place is poppin'
We'll party, party, party

A bit later, Sunny and Hitch worked together to lift a disco ball to the ceiling and then smiled at each other.

Zipp and Sonic were too busy painting some indoor ramps, but then Izzy and Knuckles helped by using their hooves and feet to stomp the blue paint on the ramps. Zipp and Sonic smiled at their friend's idea, while Izzy and Knuckles smiled back.

So tonight we're gonna party (oh yeah)
So throw those hooves up, everypony (uh-huh)

Pipp and Tails used makeover hair curlers to curl the streamers down for decorations while Sunny brought in another decorating item, and they smiled.

Finally, the Mane 5 and Team Sonic finished with the decorations and smiled at their accomplishment with sparkling eyes.

We got that glitter, gonna roll
It's time to glow up the disco

Then, the group got their gear on one of their perspective sections, and while Sunny was a combination of all of them, Team Sonic wore clothes in the 90s style of their world since they had no section before.

'Cause when this place is poppin'
We'll party, party, party, oh yeah

Hitch then turned on the boombox as the Mane 5, and Team Sonic started to follow his dance moves and broke it on the dance floor in perfect sync.

Uh-huh, oh, yeah, uh-huh
We're gonna party, party, party
Party, party, party

Then, the group got into roller skates and skated around the room as they partied along. Sunny gave a happy smile and reached Zipp, twirling around when they grabbed each other's hooves before they let go.

Uh-huh, oh, yeah, uh-huh
We're gonna party, party, party
Party, party, party, oh yeah!

Then Pipp brought out her phone, and the whole group huddled together to take a selfie to remember the party. Then they saw Izzy coming in front of them with her glitter cannon.

"Glitter cannon!" Izzy cheered as the glitter cannon fired glitter in the air, and it sparkled down on the group.

“Now, this is what I call a party to remember!" Sonic cheered with a smile as he twirled Pipp around and then let her go. "Oh yeah! I almost forgot it!" he said, then boosted out roller skating to the bedroom. When he returned with a blue box with a red gift bow and a yellow birthday card, he whistled. Tails and Knuckles stopped dancing and rolled skated to Sonic's side.

The Mane 5 noticed that, and Hitch stopped the music so everyone could focus on Team Sonic for a second.

"Well, Sunny. We didn't have a party like the rest because we were doing something else... so, Happy Birthday!" Sonic said as he extended the gift to Sunny.

Sunny gasped in surprise and curiosity. "For me?" she asked as Team Sonic smiled.

She opened the box both excited and curious, and then her eyes sparkled at what she saw: wood-crafted figures of the Mane 5, just like the ones Sunny had of the Mane 6 from Ancient Equestria. She took out the one of Hitch first and then the one of Zipp, still with sparkling eyes.

"Wow!" Hitch said, admiring the wood-crafted figure of himself.

"No way!" Zipp exclaimed, looking at her figure as well.

Pipp and Izzy looked inside the box and took the figures of themselves. Pipp took a selfie with her figure, and Izzy looked at it with a big smile. Sunny then gave them the Hitch and Zipp figure and took out two figures of herself: one with her earth pony form and one with her alicorn form.

"We literally spent two hours discussing which form we should craft you, but in the end, we decided to make both," Knuckles explained to her.

"This... this is amazing!" Sunny said, admiring her figures. "Did you guys make them?" she asked Team Sonic.

"Yup," Tails answered. "Knuckles brought the materials, I crafted them, and Sonic painted them."

Izzy looked again at the box and saw three more figures. She used her magic to levitate them, and they also appeared to be figures of Team Sonic. "Wow, you even included yourselves!" Izzy cheered with a smile as she grabbed Knuckles figure, while Zipp grabbed the Tails one and Pipp grabbed the Sonic one.

"Yeah, well..." Sonic started, not in a very cheery tone anymore. "Ugh, let's face it already: We won't be here in Equestria forever," he said with a sad face and tone, which gained the attention of the Mane 5 again. "We are loving every day we spend with you, guys, and we want to take advantage of that because... the day we might leave can come at any second now," he added, then stopped to hold the tears back.

Tails saw that and decided to keep going. "So, besides Sunny's birthday gift, we wanted to give you something to remember us as well, and since we decided to make crafted figures of you, we crafted some of us, too," he added with a sad smile.

"We hope... No, we know that the day we leave, it's still far away, but we decided to give you this anyways," Knuckles added, with a little sad smile as well. "We try too hard not to think about that, but yet... it's something we cannot avoid as much as we would like to..." he finished with a cracked voice while a tear fell from his right eye.

The Mane 5 listened and now felt sad as well. They knew very well that Team Sonic would leave one day, but they didn't want to happen yet. Sunny looked back at the crafted figures of Team Sonic and then at the crafted figure of herself with her earth pony form. He smiled, and then he hugged Sonic and Tails suddenly.

"Even if we cannot avoid it, let's enjoy every day together as if it were the last, okay?" Sunny said to them with some tears in her eyes.

Both Sonic and Tails hugged Sunny back and could not hold the tears anymore since they started to wipe out of their eyes. Eventually, all the rest joined in and had a group hug. They were all crying now, but they were happy as well since this just made them grow closer.

"Okay, let's not cry at a moment like this," Sonic said between sobs as the group broke the hug and wiped the tears from their eyes. "This is a celebration after all, let's deal with emotional hurtful moments when we have to" he added with a smile. "And again... Happy Birthday, Sunny", he finished, looking at Sunny with a smile.

"Thank you guys. All of you." Sunny thanked her friends for the birthday. "Best party ever!" she announced with joy.

Then, the group decided to continue to party, skating and dancing around while Hitch’s animal crew danced to the music on the window, enjoying the party. But when they did the twirling, McSnips fell out the window and fell to the floor, but the two birds knew that he would be okay and continued dancing to the music.

THE END

Author's Note

Thanks to JD1 for editing this chapter!