At Mane Melody, Pipp and Tails were working on new products for Pipp's fans. They both wore protection goggles, and Tails even had a little shield on his back, just in case.

"Totally amazing new products are coming at you!" Pipp said with sparkling eyes as she shook a drooper with a blue liquid and dropped all the contents into a bowl.

"Wait! You shouldn't have––!" Tails tried to warn, but once the entire content dropped on the bowl, it exploded and threw lots of blue glitter around the room and almost on Pipp and Tails' faces if it wasn't because of the shield. "...drop the entire thing..." Tails finished once the explosion passed.

Pipp sighed in relief that she didn't get all that glitter on her face. "Thanks again for the help, Tails," she thanked him. "This could be a very difficult task without your help," she admitted with a smile.

"I'm glad to help," Tails replied with a smile. The more I can do, the better since Sonic and Knuckles are still recovering from whatever happened a few days ago," he added. Let's try again with another substance, but this time, just put a drop," he advised.

After cleaning up the room, Pipp tried again with a pink liquid, but she dropped the whole thing again, and Tails looked on with worry. This time, there wasn't an explosion—the content came out of the bowl like a rocket instead and jumped all over the room. Pipp and Tails dodged the 'rocket,' but when it crashed on Pipp's face, Tails used the shield again, and the substance dissipated.

Once again, they cleaned the room, and this time, Tails decided to put the drop in the bowl. The liquid was green this time, and he put one drop in the bowl, just as planned. But not even that worked because the bowl's content floated like bubbles and then exploded in the air. This time, Tails wasn't fast enough to take out the shield, and the explosion covered their heads with green glitter or something similar to glitter.

Pipp growled in frustration and shook her head to take off the glitter. "What. Is. HAPPENING?!" she cried out in panic.

"This isn't working as we thought," Tails replied, taking off the 'glitter' with a towel. He then looked at Pipp's boring expression, and his eyes widened. "Oh! It was rhetorical..." he realized, chuckling nervously.

After cleaning up the room again for the third time that day, Pipp went over a shelf and looked for something. "Aha!" she cheered with sparkling eyes, pulling out a bottle with a rainbow liquid. "There you are!" she added with a smile.

"Um... are you sure about this, Pipp?" Tails asked. "Everything hasn't worked out pretty well so far," he pointed out with worry.

"Oh, I'm sure this one will work, Tails," Pipp said confidently.

She pulled some of the bottle's contents with the dropper and shook again. Carefully, she dropped the whole content on the bowl, and both she and Tails stepped back, with Tails using the shield. Since nothing exploded this time, they both got closer to the bowl and saw it glowing a rainbow color.

"Wow!" they both said in awe.

But then, the substance exploded on their faces and covered the room in rainbow glitter.

"Ugh!" You have got to be kidding me!" Pipp cried out with frustration.

"This is the fourth time we have to clean up the place," Tails said with a bored expression. "I guess we'll have to keep trying until it works," he pointed out.

"But I promised the Pippsqueaks a new product! Today!" Pipp pointed out with worry.

"Hey, it's not that big of a deal," Tails tried to calm her down. "I get it! Why don't you get out and try to clear your mind? A little walk always helps the ideas flow," he suggested with a smile.

Pipp's eyes sparkled, and she shook the rainbow glitter out of her mane. "Great idea, Tails!" she said with a smile.

However, Tails looked at her in shock because she had a rainbow beard, and Pipp didn't seem to notice it. "U-Um..." he tried to warn her, but Pipp walked towards the exit.

"I'm just gonna get a smoothie, and then I'll come back and try again!" Pipp said with a nervous chuckle. "No point in freaking out!" she added, then she got out of the salon.

"Pipp, wait!" Tails shouted and shook his head, too, but then he noticed he also had a rainbow beard. "Oh no!" he exclaimed with panic. "Ok, don't panic, Tails. Just find a way to take the beard off, clean the place, and then look after Pipp," he told himself. "Let's just hope nobody notices her..." he whispered to himself, although he knew she wouldn't be unnoticed.

After a while, Pipp was near Sunny's smoothie stand with a worried face. "I'm freaking out!" she cried out in panic. "Sunny! Help me!" she begged to her earth pony friend.

Sunny was blending some strawberries for Pipp's smoothie with a smile. "Morning, Pipp!" she greeted her pegasus friend. "I have your inspiration-packed strawberry ripple smoothie ready for you—– Agh!" she said, bringing the smoothie to Pipp, but she stopped at the end once she noticed Pipp's rainbow beard.

Pipp took the smoothie with sparkling eyes and a smile. "You are a total lifesaver!" she said to Sunny.

"Ahah..." Sunny replied with a nervous smile while she sweated a bit.

Pipp slurped a bit from the smoothie and then looked at Sunny worriedly. "My morning has been a complete disaster!" she explained.

"Ahah..." Sunny said again, still with a nervous smile.

"I'm supposed to reveal my new product today!" Pipp kept explaining with worry. But everything keeps exploding!" she pointed out. "And Tails has been trying to help me, but the explosions keep happening!" she added. Sunny then turned around and started to laugh nervously, grabbing an apple to distract herself. "Sunny, you're acting weird. Is everything okay?" Pipp asked her.

Sunny chuckled nervously again and turned back to Pipp. "W-Well... Now that you mention it... There is... something you need to see..." she told Pipp, then brought out a mirror so Pipp could see herself.

Once Pipp looked at herself, she screamed in panic and touched her rainbow beard. "I. Have. A. BEARD!!" she cried out in panic. She tried to take it off, but it didn't work. "How did this happen?!" she yelled with worry and panic. "Why didn't Tails tell me anything?!" she asked in the air, while Sunny just looked at her nervously.

"Just keep refreshing, Glory," Seashell's voice spoke.

"Oh no, Pippsqueaks!" Pipp cried out in panic. "They can't see me like this!" she said before entering the smoothie stand and hiding behind the table.

Glory, Seashell, and Peach Fizz arrived at Sunny's stand. Glory and Seashell held their phones, waiting for Pipp to post her new product. "Refresh! Refresh!" Glory said as she refreshed the page, but still nothing.

"Three strawberry ripples please!" Seashell requested Sunny with a smile. "That's Pipp's favorite, right?" she asked.

"Sure is!" Sunny replied with a smile. "Coming right up," she added, and then she got back to making the smoothies.

"Ugh, still nothing!" Glory cried out. "But Pipp said it's coming out today," she pointed out.

"Just keep trying; Pipp won't let us down!" Seashell pointed out.

Meanwhile, inside the stand, Pipp grew nervous when she heard her Pippsqueaks say that, knowing that she didn’t have a new product to show yet.

"There you go," Sunny said to the three fillies as she brought out three smoothies. "It's exactly how Pipp likes it. Enjoy!" she added.

The three fillies looked at the smoothies with sparkling eyes, then slurped from them. They thanked Sunny for the smoothies and then left while Sunny waved a hoof to the fillies. At that moment, Pipp came out of her hidden spot and looked at her Pippsqueaks, leaving with a worried expression.

"See Sunny?" Pipp called out. "The Pippsqueaks are waiting for my new product, and all I am going to do is let them down!" she cried with sadness.

Sunny started to think for a moment. "Aha!" she said, once she had an idea to help Pipp. "Maybe if you got to know the Pippsqueaks a little better, making products they love would be easier!" she smiled. You could even create something together!" she pointed out.

Pipp then smiled and looked at Sunny. "Sunny! You are a genius!" she said. "It's time to go undercover!" she announced with a grin.

"Uh... I-I didn't mean..." Sunny tried to correct herself, but Pipp cut her off.

"Now, all I need is a disguise..." Pipp said while rubbing her rainbow beard.

Then she put on a hat and pink sunglasses, got out of the stand, and followed the fillies. And at that exact moment, Tails came out of Mane Melody, now without a beard and holding a spray with a yellow liquid and a towel. He saw Sunny's stand and boosted towards it.

"Sunny!" Tails called out to her, which startled Sunny a bit. "Have you seen Pipp?!" he asked with worry.

"She left a few minutes ago," Sunny replied with a little smile.

"What?! No!" Tails cried out. "I need to find her!" he explained.

"This is because of her beard, isn't it?" Sunny asked with a grin.

"Yeah..." Tails replied and then boosted out, flying to search for Pipp.

The three fillies from before played on the swings in a little park while Pipp spied them from behind a bush.

Seashell pushed Peach Fizz on the swing, and Glory sprayed her hair. Once Peach Fizz stopped moving, she looked at her hair glowing and sparkling and smiled with joy.

Pipp looked through her binoculars and gasped in awe at Peach Fizz's new style. "So creative!" she said, and then she wrote down what she was looking at.

Later, Pipp followed the fillies again and watched them from a three-branch downwards.

Seashell and Peach Fizz were dancing to a song that Glory was singing on her mic, which was connected to a speaker. But then, Glory flew a little over her friends and accidentally disconnected the mic from the speaker, which disappointed the three fillies.

"Total design flaw," Pipp said and wrote in her notebook, but then she fell from the tree.

A little bit later, the three fillies went to Rufus's sunglasses stand, where he also sold lip gloss.

The fillies grabbed a lip gloss each and passed it over their lips, but Seashell stopped with a disappointed look. "Ugh, mine didn't work!" she complained. "Look! My lips aren't sparkly at all!" she pointed out.

"Yeah, this glitter isn't sticking to mine either," Peach Fizz added.

Pipp was watching them behind a cardboard copy of herself without eyes, but now it had her eyes since she was listening to her Pippsqueaks. "Glitter... lips..." Pipp repeated, and then she gasped with excitement. "Yes, that's it! Pippsqueaks, you are brilliant!" she called out and suddenly emerged from the cardboard, startling the fillies. "Pippsqueaks! I need your help!" she said to them with a smile.

The fillies screamed when they saw Pipp. "Help you?! We don't even know you!" Seashell cried out and then turned to her friends. "Come on, ponies! Let's get out of here!" she said.

"Wait! It's me! It's Pipp!" Pipp cried out as she took off her hat.

"Um, no," Glory answered, not convinced. "That is Pipp," she pointed to the cutout behind her, which made Pipp gasp since she had forgotten about her rainbow beard. "You have a beard. Nice try," Glory said while she and her friends walked away.

Pipp thought of a way to make the fillies realize she was the real Pipp. "Let out your light, shining bright, can ya see it? At Mane Melody!" she sang, while the fillies came back and looked at her with sparkling eyes, realizing that she was Pipp after all.

"Wow! It is you!" Seashell said with sparkling eyes. "But... what happened to your face?" she asked, a little confused.

Pipp gave the fillies a sheepish smile before answering. "That is a seriously long story," she replied, looking in all directions with embarrassment. "And more importantly, your lip glitter idea is genius!" she said with a smile.

"Ah!" the fillies said together with smiles.

"Would you ponies want to create it together?" Pipp asked with sparkling eyes.

The fillies giggled at Pipp’s request, knowing that this was one of the best moments of their lives to help their favorite pop star.

"Our answer is yes!” Seashell answered as she and her friends looked at Pipp with sparkling eyes.

"Pipp!" Tails' voice called out as he landed next to the pegasus. "I finally found you!" he added with joy.

"Tails!" Pipp said with a smile. "Where have you been?" she asked.

"I've been looking around for you," Tails confessed. "I tried to warn you about the beard, but then I realized I had the same problem!" he said, showing the spray with the yellow liquid inside.

"Really? How did you––?" Pipp tried to ask, but Tails sprayed her beard and passed the towel. When he retired it, the beard was gone, and Pipp touched her chin, confirming that she was free from her rainbow glitter beard. "Tails, you are a lifesaver!" she said with sparkling eyes and hugged the fox.

"I'm glad to help!" Tails said with a smile. "Now, I heard about your fans' idea," he smirked. "How about we go back to the salon and make it come true?" he suggested to Pipp and the fillies.

Sometime later, back in Mane Melody, Pipp placed her goggles over her eyes. "Ready?" she asked her fellow Pippsqueaks and Tails next to her, who were also wearing goggles.

"Ready!" the fillies answered with sparkling eyes.

"I was born ready!" Tails stated with a smile.

The four ponies and the fox started pouring contents into a white bowl: lemons, flowers, and some honey. In a blue bowl, they smashed some vegetables together to liquefy them, and Pipp stirred them together.

The bowl filled with purple glitter started to sparkle while the fillies, Pipp and Tails, looked at it in amazement with sparkling eyes. The fillies' and Pipp's Cutie Marks began to glow while the content was in the air before landing back down on the bowl, turning into a rainbow sparkle glitter that glowed. Pipp, Tails, and the Pippsqueaks gasped in fright and ducked for cover, with Pipp holding a shield to cover herself while Tails covered him and the fillies with his shield.

"Hmm?" Pipp said, realizing that the glitter didn’t blow up this time.

"Oh!" the fillies called out once they realized it didn’t blow.

"Wow," Tails said, looking like the bowl didn't explode this time.

The five of them cheered with giggles as they looked at their now successful new product. Then they high-hooved each other, with Tails using his fist since he had fingers.

Later, Pipp started her livestream to show her new product to her fans and to everyone who watched the stream in general.

"Hey, Pippsqueaks! My newest product is finally here!" Pipp cheered in the video. "And this one is extra special because the idea came from you, my friends!" she said while looking at Tails and the fillies, who giggled in response. "And here with a sneak peek at lip glitter is…" she said, then turned the camera to her fellow Pippsqueaks.

"I'm Seashell!" Seashell called out with a yellow lip glitter on her. "And I call this color 'Maretime Bay Babe'! Mwah!" she winked before blowing a kiss to the camera.

The camera turned to Glory, who had a pinkish lip glitter on her. "And I'm Glory! And my lip glitter is called 'Pega-Sassy'!" she said, winking at the camera.

The camera finally turned to Peach Fizz next, with a purple lip glitter on her. "Hey, it's me, Peach Fizz! And this lip glitter is called... uh... uh…" She stopped with a nervous look and started to think about something. "'Unicorny Morning Breath'!" she announced with a nervous smile.

Pipp returned the camera to her, laughing nervously at the name Peach Fizz gave to the lip gloss. "Well, you know, we're still working out all the details," she said to the viewers, holding the purple lip glitter with a wink. "But lip glitter is coming soon! Laters!" she said and then ended the livestream. "'Unicorny Morning Breath'?" she asked Peach Fizz in amusement.

Peach Fizz felt embarrassed when that weird name came out of nowhere. "Uh... I'm so sorry, Pipp!" she cried as tears began forming. "I-I panicked! I've never done a livestream before!" she cried out.

And then Pipp, Tails, Seashell, and Glory laughed at Peach Fizz's panic. Then, Glory and Seashell brought her in a group hug, while Pipp brought the three fillies into a big group hug, wrapping her hooves around her three Pippsqueaks with a laugh.

"The time has finally come to take some action!" Eggman declared with an evil grin as he pressed a button that opened the capsules before him.

Slowly, the five capsules containing the Metal Mane opened up. The five robots' eyes turned on, and they stepped out of the capsules to put on formation and Face Eggman.

"My masterpieces, my Metal Mane, your mission to blame and destroy the Mane 5 will have to wait," Eggman started to explain. "Right now, your priority has to be finding the location of the remaining Chaos Emerald," he declared. "Even if the ones I possess right now aren't at their full potential, having the remaining one must be a warning for Sonic to understand that I'm not playing around this time," he stated.

He then walked to his computer, made some images of Maretime Bay, Zephyr Heights, and Bridlewood appear, and turned back to the Metal Mane.

"Search up and down on each one of these cities," Eggman ordered with a frown. "Brake into places, mad some ponies, look under every single place, even on the ocean if you have to! But don't you dare to return unless you have that Emerald, understood?!" he questioned with a big frown at the Metal Mane.

"Yes, doctor," the five robots replied.

"Very well, then. Now, fly up!" Eggman ordered as the five ponies got out of the lab by a secret passage so that Opaline wouldn't notice them.

Eggman turned his gaze back to the computer and made an image of Team Sonic and the Mane 5 appear.

"Sonic, little ponies, be as happy as you can. Soon enough, I will erase those smiles," Eggman declared with an evil grin. He then started to laugh maniacally, ready to finally kill Sonic.

TO BE CONTINUED IN SONIC THE HEDGEHOG X MY LITTLE PONY: MAKE YOUR MARK (CHAPTER 2)

Author's Note

Once again, we're moving out to the Main Series!

But, unlike last time, I am going to put TYT on hiatus since it's going to take two weeks or three to publish the whole series before Winter Wish Day, so we're not coming back here until Monday November 14th or something like that, because after publishing Make Your Mark, I'm publishing Issue 6 of the IDW Comics.

Anyways, see ya on Wednesday with Sonic x Make Your Mark: Chapter 2! Bye!

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