"Welcome to the home of our dreams!" Sunny yelled joyfully as she and her friends admired their new home as her old lighthouse home had been redecorated into the Crystal Brighthouse.

Suddenly, a loud stomping was heard, and a giant crab came stomping to the Brighthouse, hit the roof, broke it in half, and then roared. But a hoof grabbed him, revealing that the Brighthouse was just a model of what Sunny, Hitch, Izzy, Zipp, Pipp, and Sonic looked at before the crab destroyed it.

Hitch laughed nervously at what one of his animal crew did. "Cool it, McSnips-a-lot," he whispered to the crab, but then McSnips snipped off a piece of his mane, leaving Hitch with an unamused look at his crab’s actions.

"Forget the model. We're going to make the real Crystal Brighthouse perfect!" she screamed excitedly while she pointed to the real Brighthouse beside them, ready to be finished inside.

Izzy gasped and squealed after seeing the Brighthouse. "Then we can spend every minute of every day together for the rest of our lives!" she said excitedly with sparkling eyes.

Zipp, however, laughed nervously at what Izzy had just said. "What?" she asked, not sure she had heard Izzy correctly.

"It's going to be iiiicooooniiiic-kuh!" Pipp exclaimed, singing out the last word.

"This is it," Sonic said. "This, right here, is the start of a new and exciting adventure. I hope you guys are ready because I feel things will get a bit crazier from now on."

"And I'm gonna teach this little fella how to build a shelf!" Hitch spoke up as he picked up a wrench with his hoof. "You know, I'm actually pretty hoovesy!" he said, spinning the wrench around, but then he dropped it, destroying what remained of the model. "Whoops..." he said in embarrassment as the rest looked at him with a bored expression.

"There's a lot to get done, but we can do anything if we work together!" Sunny said, walking towards the supplies they have for the final decorations. "Now, I think if we just—" but before she could finish, Hitch, Izzy, Zipp, Pipp, and Sonic started stampeding and took some of the supplies before heading straight into the Brighthouse. That caught Sunny off guard, but then she smiled. "Enthusiasm! I like it!" she giggled and then ran to help her friends. "Wait up, roomies!" she exclaimed.

Sunny gasped at the sight of her friends working, trotting back and forth between their respective lines of work in their own ways.

Pipp was livestreaming the whole thing on her phone. "Hello, Pippsqueaks! And welcome to the ultimate D.I.Y. home makeoveeeer!" she yelled excitedly as the Mane 5 and Sonic started their tasks.

Just a little touch-up
Just a little paint
And we'll be done in no time

Sunny saw Zipp painting the walls at her fast flying as she zigged and zagged the paint around the Brighthouse. Sonic was cleaning up some dust he found and throwing it out the window.

Izzy painted purple paint on her side while holding the paint jar with her magic. She nearly dropped and spilled it when she saw Sunny approaching her, but Sunny caught the paint jar just in time. "Hey, this is looking great!" Izzy said as she looked at her progress with Sunny.

'Cause they say many hooves
And the work gets lighter

Hitch then looked at the shelf instructions while showing McSnips how to set it up, with Sunny coming up to him with a smile. Hitch used his measuring tape, but McSnip snapped the tape with his claws, and Sunny walked away with a worried look. Hitch felt irritated with McSnip's continued snipping of his things.

And working with your friends
Will make the whole day brighter

The 6 friends then group up together with a smile as they continue their progress on decorating.

Gonna work, work, work
Got so much to do

Sunny was sweeping the floors with a broom to help Sonic with the dust while the group kept going with their tasks: Zipp kept painting; Izzy was running with the paint; Hitch was trying to catch McSnip to teach him more about the setting up the shelve thing, and also making sure he won’t snips anything else in the Brighthouse, Pipp kept livestreaming her progress with her phone while holding a wallpaper, and Sonic was keeping every tiny little dust away, with Sunny smiling at her friends’ progress.

Well, I don't mind the work
'Cause I get to work with you
Gonna work, work, work
Make our dreams come true

Izzy continued painting, but instead of following a specific order, she painted the whole wall.

Hitch looked at the shelf piece as he inspected it, then threw it away. He brought up his wrench, and McSnips grabbed a hammer and hammered a nail into the wood.

Sunny saw that her friends were going a little overboard with their tasks, and she started to get worried and have second thoughts about their progress.

'Cause when we work together
There's nothing we, nothing we can't do

Pipp then starts rapping and brings out a piece of purple wallpaper. "I found the perfect color!"

Hitch started rapping with his glasses and McSnips on his back while bringing out his measuring tape. "Yeah, and you know that I measure, right?"

Zipp kept painting and zig-zagging, and Sonic kept cleaning dust. "'Cause we'll be done in no time!" they both rapped.

Izzy then levitated the purple-pink bucket. "And we'll make this place a delight!" she rapped as she chucked the whole paint into the wall.

'Cause they say there is magic
In every pony
And when I need a hoof
I've got you there beside me
Gonna work, work, work...

Sunny saw the chaos her friends were making, then saw Zipp, who stopped to realize that she had painted zigzag the whole wall of her area. A bird flew into an open window and got stuck to the wall where a 'paint line' was. Zipp saw that, confused, and looked at her bucket, realizing she had used wall glue the whole time. She chuckled in embarrassment.

Sunny was sweeping, desperately trying to clean the floor, and Pipp flew over her while still livestreaming on her phone.

"This blank canvas is getting the royal treatment!" Pipp announced, then she flew in circles around Sunny, but her wind current blew the pile of dirt that Sunny swept right onto her head. "Big dreams for such a tiny little price!" Pipp commented.

Sunny looked irritated at the dirt on her head and Pipp’s comments. "Hey!" she shouted. Then Sonic suddenly appeared at her side, with a handheld vacuum in his hand, looking at the dirt on her head with a frown.

"More dust to clean? Not under my guard!" he yelled as he carefully sucked the dust off Sunny's head and then ran off, not even giving Sunny a chance to thank him.

Izzy laughed as she kept splattering the wall with different colors of paint. "It needs more! More!" she cheered with sparkling eyes as she splattered more paint onto the walls. Sunny ducked before a paint hit her, but another painting splattered a pony portrait, and Sunny tried to rub the paint off.

Hitch was having trouble setting up the shelf, and McSnips was on it tilting. He dropped to the floor as he yelped.

Pipp was then setting up photos of herself on the walls. "Fan art!" she sang cheerfully, but then Zipp flew by and wallpapered the wall with Pipp’s pictures. "Hey!" she shouted to her sister.

"Uh, ponies? I think we're losing focus here!" Sunny told the group as she was about to freak out.

Hitch then caught up to his crab friend, who was carrying his measuring tape away. "McSnips-a-lot!" he lectured to the crab.

Sunny shouted as a chair nearly hit her, as she ducked the incoming object. She then turned to see Izzy sweeping the floor with her right rear leg, carrying the dishes with her left front hoof as she levitated the chair with her magic. "Multitasking!" Izzy commented.

"Design hack!" Pipp called as she put wallpaper on the wall. "Picture wall!" she announced.

Sunny's jaw dropped at her friends, who were not focusing on their tasks. The only one who wasn't making a mess was Sonic, who was still cleaning dust. Then she turned to see something and shouted as she saw the chair about to hit one of her plants. She at least caught it in time but then heard someone screaming. "Aaahh!" Zipp yelled as she wobbled and fell to the ground

Pipp was trying to put her throne upstairs but was having trouble with how heavy it was. "How... much... further?!" she panted, as Cloudpuff - who was with them for some reason - was helping her by showing the way with safety signal sticks.

"What about my automatic breakfast butler bot?" Izzy asked as she presented her machine from the kitchen and turned it on, which started to spit out pancakes.

Zipp then got tangled in the ceiling lights as she hung upside down with McSnips on one of her hooves. "Help!" she called out while struggling.

"Help!" Hitch called out while hammering the shelf and having trouble setting it.

"My ice sculpture's melting!" Pipp cried out as the ice sculpture of herself in a pose started to melt.

Sonic, who wasn't even paying attention to the disaster, finally stopped and turned to see Pipp. "Did you seriously bring an ice sculpture of yourself?" he asked in disbelief. Pipp laughed nervously and blushed while Sonic rolled his eyes and kept working.

"Glitter!" Izzy announced as she threw glitter into the air, then at the fridge. "Glitter!", then at the same picture she was painting before, "Glitter!", then to a bird stuck into a wall. "Glitter!" finally, she put glitter on Sunny's face. "Glitter!" she sang as she twirled away from Sunny, who was looking shocked and concerned simultaneously.

Sunny went to check out the rest of the Brighthouse but immediately regretted it: with a freaked-out expression, she saw the living room a mess, then went to look at the bedroom and plopped to the floor with a shocked expression. She then checked out the bathroom, which was surprisingly intact, clean, and finished, leaving the earth pony with a big smile on her face, relieved that at least one room in the Brighthouse was intact and not messy.

"Oh. That's actually quite nice!" Sunny commented at the sight, but then she ate those words as Izzy came in and made a mess.

"Glitter! Glitter! Glitter!" Izzy shouted as she threw glitter all over the bathroom.

Sunny started to twitch her eye as she tried to stay calm amid all this chaos. "Ugh…" she grunted from the mess her friends had made.

"Phew!" Sonic said, arriving at her side. "I'm finally done with all the dust. So, what did I miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii—" he didn't finish because he saw all the mess his friends made while he was cleaning the dust. "How, when, where, why?!" Sonic exclaimed, looking with shock at the disaster.

Sunny tried to explain, but then their friends started to break down.

"I can't get it straight!" Hitch shouted as he plopped to the floor, admitting he couldn’t set up a shelf.

"What about the breakfast bot?!" Izzy yelled, not knowing what to do with her breakfast bot.

"Can somepony get me down?" Zipp asked, tangled in wallpaper again and hanging upside down with the ceiling lights while Pipp was panicking.

"Ponies!" Sunny called out, trying to calm them all down, while Sonic looked around in shock.

Suddenly, the pancake from the breakfast bot nearly hit Pipp as she flew out of the way, but it hit the picture of Sunny and her father. It tilted as it dropped from the wall, about to hit the floor.

"No!" Sunny gasped, but at that moment Sonic got out of his shock state and also noticed the picture falling. So he immediately ran to grab it and give it back to Sunny.

She sighed in relief while hugging the picture but then looked at her friends again and ran to the bedroom, quickly closing the door behind her. Sunny turned to see the bedroom made a disaster, but even if it was messy, the sight of the rainbow shining through the roof comforted her. She put the picture of her and her father on the front of her bed. "I don't understand! I thought working together would be easy, but it turns out it's super messy!" she stated, but then a paper got stuck on her right hoof, and it took her a hard time to shake it off.

Sonic quickly ran into the room, closing the door behind him and laying on it to catch his breath. Then, he looked at Sunny with a concerned face, "Working out with these guys is super messy!" he yelled in shock. But then looked at Sunny's sad face and thought he had said something wrong, so he tried to correct himself. "I-I mean, I've seen places that are messier, and this place is super clean in comparison," he said, but seeing that Sunny's sad face was still there, he sighed in defeat. "I'm sorry, Sunny, I shouldn't have said that..."

"I'm not mad with you, Sonic, nor sad because of what you just said," Sunny said, which made Sonic feel a little better, but he was still concerned about her friend's state. "I also think this is all a mess," she pointed out the room then suddenly a light fell from the ceiling and cracked in the ground.

"At this point, saying that this place's a mess is more of a compliment than an insult," Sonic said sarcastically. "I'm going to try to calm things down out there. Come when you're ready, Sunny," he requested her with a smile and then left the room.

Sunny sighed, sat beside her father's photo, and grabbed it. "I wish you were here, Dad. You always knew how to bring out the best in me. And right now, I really need my best..." she admitted. She looked at the photo, then at the door where she was, and then realized something as she smiled. "Wait. Maybe that's what my friends need me to do! To bring them together, to bring out their best!" she said, then kissed the picture and put it down, then walked to the door before taking a last look at the photo as she smiled. "Thanks, Dad," she said, opening the door and closing it.

In the main room, Sonic was trying to untie Zipp, who was still stuck on wallpaper, while Hitch was biting on the shelf in frustration, and Pipp kept livestreaming the bathtub that somehow got gems with Cloudpuff in it, with Izzy levitating the whole tub.

Sunny then walked in front of the group with a serious face. "Okay, everypony! Just stop!" she called out to the group as silence came to the room, with the others looking at Sunny in shock. Izzy undid her levitation, which resulted in a thud to the ground, and Pipp turned her livestreaming off. Sunny continued with a calm and gentle look, "Look, I love how much energy you're bringing to this. But this is supposed to bring us together, not pull us apart. And right now…" she gestured to the whole Brighthouse of the mess they made: one of the windows was covered in paint while a wallpaper piece fell to the floor, the breakfast bot was rolling around until it slip and fell on the floor from the mess on the ground, and the bird from earlier is still glued to the wall.

The group, except Sonic, realized the mess they made. Zipp got the wallpaper piece off herm, thanks to Sonic's help, and spoke out. "It's a mess..." she admitted with a frown.

"Yeah, I-I-I didn't want to say anything..." Izzy confessed with a frown as well.

"I'm in way over my head!" Hitch added as he leaned into the shelf with McSnips next to him.

"This is a total makeover fail!" Pipp dramatically called out as she flopped to the ground.

"I mean, it doesn't make my top 10 list of messed-up places you don't want to live, but still..." he said with a neutral expression as a wallpaper piece covered him completely. "It's a mess," he finished, still down the wallpaper.

"It's not a fail. It's a work-in-progress!" she called out. Then the group started smiling at what their friend said while Sonic took off the wallpaper piece and smiled. They all came closer to Sunny with big smiles. "Come on, everypony. We can do this…Together!" she shouted as the Mane 5 and Sonic got back to work and cleaned up the mess they made, keeping their focus this time.

Gonna work, work, work
Make our dreams come true

Izzy was levitating the furniture, with Hitch helping her decide where to put it. Once he found the perfect spot, Izzy set the furniture down.

'Cause when we work together
There's nothing we, nothing we can't do

Zipp was flying around, setting up the wire lights in a perfect pattern.

Gonna work, work, work
Got so much to do

Sunny was setting up the pillows on the couch, and McSnip helped to pound them to make them fluffy.

Well, I don't mind the work
'Cause I get to work with you

Pipp removed the portraits of herself while Sunny put one of her childhood drawings in. This drawing, in particular, showed how the lighthouse looked, with a rainbow next to it on a sunny day.

Zipp used her wings to blow away the dirt to hit the shovel Izzy was holding as the two ponies smiled at their accomplishments as they hoove each other. Sonic carefully took the dirt shovel and slowly took it out of the Brighthouse.

Gonna work, work, work
Make our dreams come true

In the bedroom, Sunny is setting up her photo of her and her dad beside her bed while Pipp is setting one of her picture frames next to hers. Sonic decided to frame his picture with Tails and Knuckles and put it beside his bed. Then, the three friends looked at each other with a smile.

Hitch, on the other hand, was using McSnips as a power drill so he could screw the nail in place so the shelf stayed in place.

'Cause when we work together
There's nothing we, nothing we can't do!

In the bedroom, the Mane 5 and Sonic got some decorative stains on them while working, but they finally finished the Brighthouse.

Pipp flew in front of the group with her phone on a hoof. Getting the hint, the rest came close to Pipp’s phone line of camera. "Say 'besties'!" Pipp called out as the camera clicked and snapped the group together in a photo.

A little while later, they printed the photo from Pipp’s phone, and Sunny then framed it on the shelf Hitch had made earlier.

The shelf then tilted a little, and both Hitch and Sunny gasped at it, worried that the photo might fall. They sighed in relief as the photo and the shelf didn’t fall.

The group then took in the view of the complete Crystal Brighthouse: on the outside, the Brighthouse was shining the rainbow right out of it, so everypony in Equestria could see it; in the bedroom, the glass of the rainbow to where the elevator to the top of the Brighthouse is was shining the rainbow to the top with the five beds of the Sunny, Izzy, Zipp, Pipp, and Sonic, staying there to fit each of their personalities.

In the main room, the group looked on with a smile at their teamwork. "It's even better than I imagined!" Sunny commented.

"Now this is the power of teamwork!" Sonic stated with a big smile.

The group smiled as they continued to look at their new home, but then a loud pounding was heard, startling the six friends. They looked around to find the source, only to realize that McSnips was pounding on the stairway of the Brighthouse. This surprised the group and made them wonder how strong that tiny krab actually was.

"Leave it, McSnips-a-lot!" Hitch lectured his animal friend. McSnips stopped to look at him for a brief moment before resuming his pounding, but way faster now, which caused Hitch to face hoove himself at McSnips's misbehavior.

"I guess you'll have to teach Mr. McSnips-whatever-was-the-rest to behave himself a little," Sonic replied with a boring expression.

"Don't tell me..." Hitch said with a sarcastic tone.

THE END

Author's Note

Thanks to JD1 for editing this chapter!