Zipp and Tails were flying around in the sky as they flew high with a few loops and looked at Maretime Bay below her.

"Wow! Look at this view!" Zipp said with a smile and sparkling eyes. "Flying is the best!" she cheered.

"Heck yeah!" Tails cheered.

"Thanks for tagging along, Tails," Zipp said with a smile. "W-We haven't spent much time together lately," she added with a slight blush.

"No problem!" Tails said with a smile that made Zipp's heart jump happily. "I owe it to you after I... you know, I was a jerk with you instead of just talking calmly," he said with a guilty expression.

"Hey, it's okay. I deserve it for getting too overboard with my 'detective side' and all," Zipp said with a smile. "And, what better way to bond than flying?!" she said, quickly looping in the sky.

Tails chuckled as he happily flew around Zipp. "Flying's the funniest way to make amends! Hands down!"

And then suddenly, Izzy somehow came next to them, in the sky, as she sighed with a smile. "Isn’t it just?" she asked.

"Wind in your hair, total freedom…" Zipp listened with a smile while neither she nor Tails realized that Izzy was flying next to them somehow. "There's nothing else like it!" she announced with a smile and sparkling eyes.

"I could not have said it better myself," Izzy said with a smile as she winked at her friends. "Cheerio, Zipperoonie! Milesy! Whoo-hoo!" she cheered as she flew down.

Zipp laughed happily. "See ya, Izz," she called out with a smile, but then she and Tails realized who they had just spoken to.

"Wait. Izzy?!" they both called out in shock.

"How, when, what, why?!" Tails asked out in shock.

It turns out that Izzy made a glider that she levitated with her magic.

But her glider snapped into pieces after a while, and the magic stopped glowing. Izzy turned and looked at her broken glider in shock. "Uh-oh..." she said, now falling from the skies... with a smile. "Wheeeeee!" she cheered as she fell beside the abandoned Canterlogic building.

Zipp and Tails started to sweat in worry and anxiety, seeing that Izzy was about to hit the ground. They both flew at a fast paste to Izzy before she turned into Pony Pancake on the pavement.

Izzy kept smiling as she fell, but that ended when Zipp and Tails grabbed Izzy as they carried her and took to the air. The glider came off as it fell on the pavement in front of Posey, startling her as a pony stallion next to her gave a confused look, wondering what had just happened.

Izzy, Zipp, and Tails all screamed, about to hit the roof of the Canterlogic building, which had some stuff and something big under a tarp in the middle of it; the three friends hit the roof and rolled across it before hitting the thing under the tarp. Once they crashed, they groaned from the impact of the hit.

Zipp got up and gave Izzy a look while sweating a bit from the sudden fright of Izzy nearly killing herself. "Izzy! What were you thinking?! You could've been hurt!" she scolded.

"Worst-case scenario? You could have killed yourself!" Tails said, as he also sweated a bit.

Izzy fixed her mane as she got it out of her eyesight and gave an apologetic look to her friends. "Sorry, Zipp, Tails," she said, then smiled at them. "But you two made flying look so fun; I wanted to do it, too!" she explained as she gave sparkling eyes.

"Still, doing something so reckless could have cost your life, Izz. And that would be no good," Tails pointed out with a frown.

"Yeah. It would be amazing if we all could fly. But we can't," Zipp pointed out. "So––" she tried to add but was cut off when Izzy got between Zipp's and Tails' cheeks with a smile and sparkling eyes.

"Maybe we can?" Izzy asked with a smile. Zipp raised an eyebrow at Izzy, and Tails looked on, confused. Then, Izzy grabbed the tarp behind them and unraveled it to show the old run-down tramcar Izzy had shown the others after they'd found Sparky. "Ta-daaaaa! My ultrasonic, fantastatronic, skyblastonic flying machine!" she called out excitedly while Zipp and Tails raised their eyebrow before the tramcar door fell from Izzy’s weight; she fell to the floor while her two friends looked at her to see if she was okay, but then Izzy got her head up and pointed her hoof at them with a smile. "I'm okay!" she called out.

"You want to transform a tram car into a flying machine?" Tails said, confused. "It was not the weirdest thing I'd ever heard, but still..." he added with concern.

"Yup! It might need a little work, but it's got good bones!" Izzy called out as she tapped it with a smile.

But then the tramcar began to creak, and the front titled to the front. The middle of it began to crack in half as the back half rolled backward, which made Tails, Zipp, and Izzy gasp.

Then, Izzy used her magic to put a spare wheel at the back end of the back half to keep it from rolling off the roof as she came next to it while having some sweat from the effort she used. "So, uh, what do you say, Zipperoonie and Milesy? Fix it up together? Take it to the skies?" she asked them with a smile.

Zipp gave an unsure look as she tapped on the mirror of the tramcar. "The skies?" she repeated, but after the second tap of the mirror, it nearly fell off as Zipp caught it and put it back gently. "I don't know, Izzy. This thing is in no condition to fly," she pointed out with worry.

"Hmm... with some slight modifications, we could make it fly up to the skies..." Tails pointed out with an analytical look.

"And who knows more about flying than you, Zipp?" Izzy pointed out with a wink. "And who knows more about vehicles and technology than you, Tails?" she added by giving a wink to Tails. "With your knowledge, guys, and my creativity, we'll have this baby uni-cycled in no time," she declared, waving her hooves when she mentioned her 'creativity.' Then, a piece of the floor behind the tramcar fell off as Izzy looked at it.

"I don't see why we can't try!" Tails said with a smile. "I'm on board, captain!" he joked while making a salute.

Zipp, on the other hand, sighed after thinking about what Izzy said. "It would be pretty sweet for all of us to be able to fly together," she said with a smile.

"Yes?" Izzy asked with a smile as she got closer to Zipp.

"Just think – day trips in Zephyr Heights…" Zipp listed with a smile.

"Yes?!" Izzy asked again, very excited with wide and sparkling eyes.

"...weekends in Bridlewood…" Zipp added.

"YES!" Izzy cheered excitedly while waiting for Zipp's answer.

Zipp turned to her with a determined expression and a smile. "Okay, Izzy! I'm in!" she declared.

Izzy squealed in excitement as Zipp and Tails came up to her with smiles on their faces. "Go, Team Zipzyils!" she announced cheerfully as they tapped hooves/hands. Zipp and Tails gave her small smiles and walked off to get some tools and make plans for the tramcar. "Get it? It's Izzy, Zipp, and Tails, but all squishy up!" Izzy added with a wave of her hooves.

"No nicknames!" Zipp called out to Izzy.

"Aw..." Izzy groaned in disappointment.

"Good names, though, Izzy!" Tails called out, making Izzy smile a bit.

In the meantime, Sonic was sneaking around the streets of Maretime Bay, acting like a ninja and moving quietly and nimbly.

He stopped in front of a building, looked at both sides and made a hand sign to indicate someone had to move.

Sunny, who pocked her head from behind a dark alley, went back inside it and came out of it again, lifting some boxes as she sneaked in Sonic's direction. Behind her came Hitch and Knuckles, with the former carrying boxes on his back and the latter lifting wooden planks.

The three of them waited for Sonic to open the building door he was in front of. Then the hedgehog pushed the door open, still in 'ninja mode,' as the two ponies and the echidna entered the place. Then, Pipp quickly arrived flying, with a box on her hooves. She nodded to Sonic before entering the building, and Sonic himself entered.

Inside, he and Pipp covered the windows with curtains, and Knuckles put a 'Sorry, we are closed' sign in the front door, then sighed in relief.

"We didn't forget anything, right?" Knuckles asked.

"The prints!" Hitch said with panic. "Dang! I probably left them on..." he tried to add, but...

"The kitchen table?" Sonic asked, pulling out the blueprints Hitch was talking about. "I took them before leaving the Brighthouse," he added with a confident smirk, rolling up the prints on a table to show some places and machines that Tails wanted to put... in his workshop.

"What are we seeing exactly?" Pipp asked.

"Well, as I've been telling you for a few days now, Tails' birthday is tomorrow, and I want to give him something more special than a simple gift," Sonic smiled. "And I discovered these prints of his a few days ago. So... here we are!" Sonic said, pointing at the empty building they were in right now.

"So you want to turn this place into a workshop and give it to Tails as a birthday present?" Knuckles summarized. "You're certainly getting better at this 'bro' thing," he added mockingly.

"Yeah, laugh it up, Knucklehead..." Sonic said with a bored expression.

"Wait!" Sunny said suddenly. "I think this is a great idea, but... shouldn't we worry about Tails coming in suddenly, ruining the whole surprise?" she asked with concern, while Hitch at her side nodded in agreement.

"That's why we asked Zipp to take Tails out for the day," Pipp said with a smirk.

"And Izzy said something about needing their help with something, so they'll be out for a while," Knuckles added with a smile.

"Okey then," Sunny said with a raised eyebrow and a smile.

"If we're done already, let's get started!" Sonic declared with a smile.

Sometime later, Zipp and Tails got some tools they would need for the tramcar. They turned and saw Izzy coming in with wallpaper, paint, and Sunny’s lantern on the wagon she strapped herself with.

Izzy, Zipp, and Tails started having lunch as they munched on their sandwiches. Zipp put her sandwich down, took out her phone, and drew the designs for the tramcar to fly. She showed it to Tails and Izzy, with Tails smiling at the design and Izzy nodding with sparkling eyes. Then she showed her desert, which she had shaped into a vehicle with wings before it dissolved.

"Huh?" Zipp asked in confusion before she groaned from that, while Tails chuckled nervously.

A little bit later, Zipp tried to put a star in an area of the tramcar but couldn’t keep it in place.

Izzy came to her as she held up a blowtorch and placed her blowtorch’s mask down on her face. Then, she held two blowtorches and wielded the star in place.

Izzy and Zipp smiled at this as Zipp nodded in accomplish of Izzy’s work, but as she tried to walk off, her tool sash got stuck on the star Izzy wielded, which gave the unicorn an irritated look from the pegasus as Izzy smiled sheepishly at her mistake.

Sometime later, Izzy levitated her glitter cannon with sparkling eyes on a wooden wing of the tramcar.

"Glitter cannon! Check!" Izzy announced with a determined smile.

But then, the weight of her glitter cannon made the wooden wing fall, causing it to roll across the roof as it turned to Tails, who was measuring something for the tramcar. Then, he turned and saw the glitter cannon facing him, which made him look confused.

The glitter cannon then went off, and a ball of purple glitter hit his face, shocking him.

Izzy got to the fox, giving him a sheepish yet apologetic look as she sweated nervously. "Y-You actually... have a little something on your…" she said, then tried to wipe the glitter off him, but after a wipe, his face was now covered in rainbow glitter as he gave an irritated look at Izzy. "Yeah..." Izzy said.

Tails shook his head with a cough as he got the glitter off his face and some on his mouth, and then he looked on with a tired expression.

Zipp then arrived at Izzy as she got to her face. "Izzy! We have to start working together as a team, or this thing will never fly!" she called out as she pointed to the tramcar, both halves glued back together with mac and cheese, and the two wooden wings fell off as they fell on the ground.

"And please, no Glitter Canon this time, Izz," Tails begged with a bored expression.

"You guys are right. Team Zipzyils?" Izzy asked them as she raised her hoof to them.

"Team Zipzyils," both Tails and Zipp said in unison as they gave Izzy a hoof tap with smiles.

"Now, let’s get to work!" Tails said with a determined smile as the three friends started to work together.

Sometime later, the three friends got to work on making the tramcar flight worthy.

Mane 5:
Just a little touch-up
Just a little paint
And we'll be done in no time

Izzy was searching through a box while tossing some things away, looking for something, when Zipp came by her side. She held a rope on her hoof with a smile, and Izzy smiled at her.

On the planning table, Tails reviewed the plans the three friends thought together.

Zipp was trying to get the engine block in a dryer machine with googly eyes and a heart on its door in front of the tramcar, but it was too heavy since she couldn’t get it off the ground. But then the engine block levitated as Zipp let go of it; she saw it go into the dryer and smiled when she saw Izzy using her magic to hold the block in place as she smiled back.

'Hey, this is looking great!'

Izzy thought to herself with a smile as she used her blowtorches to wield the railings of the front of the tramcar in place and fixed up its controls. She smiled at Zipp and Tails.

'Cause they say many hooves
And the work gets lighter

Tails attached a broken bike wheel to the place where the steering wheel was on the controls as he attached it.

Izzy used her magic to repaint the tramcar with a little rainbow color on the boarded wood on the windows.

And working with your friends
Will make the whole day brighter

Zipp and Tails used gray paint to repaint the tramcar's roof, while Izzy levitated a paintbrush and painted some pinkish-reddish color.

Gonna work, work, work
Got so much to do
Well, I don't mind the work
'Cause I get to work with you

Then, Zipp was on top of the tramcar to indicate to Izzy where she should put the wings on the tramcar. She focused her magic on where to put it, but she had difficulty placing it where it was supposed to go. Zipp smiled, and then Tails flew and kicked the wing in place.

Zipp and Tails landed with Izzy as they looked at their flying vehicle. They finished with smiles and sparkling eyes and gave each other hoof/hand taps at their hard work together.

Gonna work, work, work
Make our dreams come true
'Cause when we work together
There's nothing we, nothing we can't do

And then, the two ponies, Cutie Marks, began to glow as Sunny’s lantern started to fly past them; they saw it in shock and amazement while the lantern floated itself to the front of the tramcar, which used its magic to transform it into a motor vehicle with pegasus wings on its side, big window in front for the driver with a door with a heart window at the back and the windows on the side. The colors are light blue, purple, pink, and white, with a symbol of the Unity Crystals on the front.

"Whoa!: Zipp awed as Izzy and Tails looked at it in amazement. "Look at this thing! Incredible!" Zipp added with a smile.

"I did not see that coming," Izzy said in amazement.

"Sunny's lantern is full of surprises. It used the Prisbeam power to upgrade the tramcar into… This!" Tails said in awe.

A little bit later, Tails, Izzy, and Zipp entered the new vehicle as Izzy pressed her hoof on a hoof scanner.

"Thrusters?" Zipp asked Izzy.

"Check!" Izzy answered as the wings opened up from the side.

"Ignition?" Zipp asked again as Tails flipped a switch.

"Check!" Tails answered with a smile as the engines started roaring and the tailpipes in the back burst rainbows.

"Super-cool shades?" Zipp asked again with a smirk as she, Tails, and Izzy got their sunglasses on and put them on their eyes.

"Check!" all three friends said in unison.

Zipp grabbed the wheel with her hooves and clicked it forward, and the new flying motor vehicle began to move forward, with a rainbow trailing behind.

"Mare Stream ready for takeoff, Zippster and Milesy!" Izzy announced to her friends.

"Whoo-hoo!" Zipp cheered before realizing what Izzy had just said as she turned with a smile. "Did you say 'Mare Stream'? I love it!" she declared.

"Put the full speed, Zippster!" Tails declared with confidence.

"Whoo-hoo! Let's go!" Izzy cheered as the Marestream took flight, leaving a rainbow trail behind as it took to the skies.

The rest of the gang was finishing up the last details for Tail's new workshop at the building.

Sonic and Sunny painted the walls of the building yellow and orange, the basic colors for recognizing Tails.

Pipp was placing some decorations around, like a small replica of the Tornado I in the ceiling, some clouds to decorate the place, and even the two-tail sign that Tails had originally placed on his workshop back on Mobius.

Knuckles and Hitch were placing the tables and some of Tails' inventions around. They also brought Tails' tools for work.

After a while, they finally finished up the basic parts of the workshop.

"Well, that's settled," Knuckles said with a smile. "Now what?" he asked.

"We'll surprise Tails tomorrow! He'll decide if he wants to add something else or not," Sonic said with a confident smile. Thanks again for the help, guys. Buying the building was one thing, but getting this far for us..." he tried to add, but Sunny cut him off.

"Tails is also our friend, Sonic. And we're glad to help!" Sunny said with a smile.

"Besides, this is something he needs right now," Pipp pointed out. "You know, he's been a little... messy in the Brighthouse lately..." she said, remembering the few times Tails caused a mess because of his job.

"Yeah, I know," Sonic said with a little smile. "Let's just hope Tails likes it..." he added, a bit concerned.

Sometime later, the Mare Stream flew above the clouds as Izzy looked out the window in amazement.

"Zipp! Tails! We're flying!" Izzy said cheerfully as she got to the controls, but she accidentally knocked Sunny’s lantern off its spot.

Without Sunny’s lantern to power Mare Stream, the motorhome vehicle lost its power, falling from the sky.

"IZZY!" Tails cried out as he hung on to the vehicle.

"WE'RE NOT FLYING!" Izzy cried out as she tried to place the lantern back in place but couldn’t.

"Guys! Nothing is working!" Zipp cried out as she kept pressing on the controls, but nothing was happening.

"Sunny's lantern is the power source! Without it, we'll be part of history!" Tails cried out with worry.

"We're going to crash!" Zipp cried out. as they saw they were about to fall into the forest.

Izzy started to grow nervous as she sweated. Then, she tried to use her magic to lift the Mare Stream or slow it down a bit, but it frizzed out as the Mare Stream kept falling, and Izzy panted from the effort. "We're falling too fast! My magic isn't strong enough!" she cried out.

"I wish I knew Chaos Control!" Tails cried out. "The temporal moment where time stops around could be really helpful right now!" he pointed out with concern.

"There must be something!" Zipp cried out to her friends.

Izzy started to whimper as she looked around for something they could use. Then, she turned to the interior of the Mane Stream and saw a giant cloth attached to a rope. "I've got something, but I'm not gonna lie to you, guys–– it's risky!" she called out to them as she held the rope.

"Just do it, Izzy!" Zipp and Tails called out.

Izzy opened the ceiling window on Mane Stream's roof and got the cloth out while gruntingly attaching the rope to it, with the other end attached to Mane Stream. "There we go!" she called out with a smile.

At the controls, Zipp and Tails were pressing buttons in desperation. "Izzy, we are still falling!" Zipp cried out to Izzy, who came back to them with a smile.

"What did you do anyway?!" Tails questioned in anxiety as he and Zipp braced themselves for the impact.

"Wait for it… Now!" Izzy called out as the Mane Stream got tugged into the sky since Izzy used the tarp as a parachute to slow the Mare Stream down.

Tails, Izzy, and Zipp cheered with laughter as they felt relieved they were saved. The Mare Stream landed on something with a thud, and the three friends took off their sunglasses and looked at each other with smiles, relieved that they were saved.

Zipp opened the door with a smile, but she looked down and groaned once she saw that the Mare Stream had landed on top of some trees. "Ugh. Izzy, Tails, how are we going to get this thing down?" she called out with concern.

"No idea. I have never had this kind of struggle before with any version of the Tornado, so I don't know how to get something this big down here either..." Tails admitted.

Izzy gasped before smiling. "No idea either. But if there's one thing I know for sure, Zipper-doodle, we can do anything together. Hoof bump!" she called out as she raised her hoof while Zipp and Tails smiled and raised their hooves/hands. "Team Zipzyils," Izzy cheered as the three friends bumped hooves/hands with each other.

But then, the Mare Stream started rattling, which shocked the three friends. The motor vehicle then started to fall from the trees, seeing that the trees were not strong enough to support the weight.

"Whoa!" all of them cried out as Izzy held onto the couch while Zipp and Tails hit the ceiling from the force of the fall; the Mare Stream parachute then got caught on some branches, preventing it from crashing into the floor.

Izzy landed on the couch once the fall was over and smiled when she realized she was okay. She turned to give Zipp and Tails another hoof bump but then looked up and saw Zipp and Tails crashing into the floor with a thud since they didn’t have time to react to hang onto something or use their flying skills.

Izzy came down to Zipp's and Tails' level as she gave them a smirk. "Perfect landing, captain!" Izzy said cheerfully while Zipp smiled back at the unicorn.

"Zipp..." Tails called out, and then Izzy giggled when she saw that Zipp was over Tails, almost crushing him into the ground. "Please get off me..." he begged with a bored expression and puffed cheeks, while Zipp blushed slightly and chuckled before slowly standing up and giving some space to Tails.

"S-Sorry for that, Tails..." Zipp apologized.

"It's okay, Zipp," Tails said to her with a little smile, standing up and shaking his body.

The next day, Tails was suddenly woken up by Sonic, who only told him to put a bandage on his eyes, grab his hand, and follow him.

"Sonic..." Tails called out for the millionth time already. "Can you tell me where you are taking me already?" he asked in annoyance, suddenly waking up and having no idea what was happening.

"Trust me, lil' bro; it's a place I know you'll like," Sonic confidently assured. Even though Tails could not see his face, he knew he was smirking, which made him feel more annoyed now.

In the end, Sonic suddenly stopped, which caused Tails to stop, too, since Sonic was grabbing his arm.

Sonic let go of his arm and stepped away slowly from him. "Okay, Tails. Remove your bandage in three... two... one!" he counted down.

Tails sighed in relief and removed the bandage as he got used to the light of day again. Once he got his sight completely back, he gasped in shock at the sight: a yellow brick building with orange trim was in front of him, with a sign at the top of the main doors that had the logo of his new business, 'Electronic Tails.' The letters on his own name had two tails shaped at the start.

"SURPRISE!" Sonic cheered to his brother, standing in front of the building.

"T-This... This is..." Tails tried to say, but no words came out of his mouth.

"I knew you'd like it," Sonic said with a smile, placing a hand on Tails' back. What do you say if we go inside and take a look?" he suggested.

Tails was speechless, but he managed to move towards the main door. Once he opened it, he felt a wave of emotions through his body when he saw the inside of the building. His inventions, decoration, and even his two-tail logo on the wall hit like home for him. It was perfect.

"Happy birthday, Tails!" the Mane 5 and Knuckles said as they came off their hideouts to congratulate the young fox.

More emotions got into him because of that. "D-Did you guys do all of these?" Tails managed to ask.

"Yup!" Sunny replied with a smile.

"I mean, Izzy and I got you a bit busy yesterday... but yeah, this place is a gift from all of us to you, little guy," Zipp said with a smile.

Tails chuckled slowly, and some tears of happiness fell down his cheeks. "D-Dang it... I got emotional too soon..." he said with a smile, getting a big hug from Sonic.

"You're growing up fast, lil' bro. You're 24 now! I couldn't be more proud of you!" Sonic said, ruffling his brother with his hand.

Soon enough, Knuckles and the Mane 5 joined the hug, with some, like Zipp and Sunny, nuzzling the fox to congratulate him.

"T-Thank you, guys..." Tails said with a smile. "I appreciate this..." he added.

During the last 2 months, Eggman hasn't talked with Opaline, mainly because he threatened her with killing her.

However, this month wasn't useless for the doctor because he had some books from Opaline's library.

As he was still trying to translate the glyphs from the cave Metal Sonic, Metal Pipp, and Metal Sunny found a while ago, he found two very interesting things in those books that caught his attention: the first one was a story about a place called the Starfall Islands, where ancient technology was waiting for him, or at least that's what Eggman tells himself.

The second was about a Wishing Star that had the power to grant a wish to those who could look at it. As the evil genius he is, he was planning to steal the power of said star or destroy it in the attempt.

"All the magical properties of this star amaze me..." Eggman told himself. "But the vital thing that I'm missing is the exact coordinates of the closest spots where the star will travel..." he said with concern.

And then, a thought came to his mind, one that could succeed if he planned everything carefully.

"I know just the person that can help me on this assignment... or should I say pony?" Eggman said with a grin as he pressed a button on his computer, and the image of a certain earth pony mare showed up. "It'll be a pleasure to finally meet you properly, Sunny Starscout," he stated with a confident smile.

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

Author's Note

Ok, so. Winter Wishday comes out tomorrow.

I'll start working on it this week, and I should have it ready for Saturday. Also, no. I wasn't going to end this chapter without an angst :)

Anyways, I hope you guys enjoyed this episode, which is also my way to celebrate Tails' birthday since it's tomorrow. See ya on Saturday with both the Winter Wishday special and the Epilogue of Season 1! Bye, bye!

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