The Crystal Brighthouse doors were suddenly opened by Hitch and Knuckles, who had panicked expressions.

"Sparky is sick!" Hitch and Knuckles shouted in panic, while Sparky came out of Hitch's hair and erupted with a painful expression.

Suddenly, he burped his dragon fire against Sunny, Zipp, and Tails, who ducked down to dodge the fire.

"Was that a... hiccup?" Sunny asked with a raised eyebrow.

"I think it was a burp?" Zipp said, confused.

"Maybe even both?" Tails commented.

Sparky burped again, still in pain, while Pipp zoomed close to him with sparkling eyes and a smile. "Is a hiccup burp!" she exclaimed before squealing in excitement. "So adorable!"

Sparky burped again, with Hitch holding him with worry, while Izzy zoomed close with sparkling eyes and a smile, just like Pipp. "Aww! Oh, I'm sure he'll be fine, Hitch!" she assured him. "Like Elderflower says: If it's gassy, let it pass."

Sparky extended his hand, almost asking for help, but then, he burped against a teapot over the table in the living room and turned it into a watermelon.

"Okay... That's less adorable and a lot more annoying," Sonic pointed out with a bored expression.

"He's been hiccup-burping all morning!" Hitch explained, placing Sparky on the floor and ducking at his side.

"We don't know what to do, and I'm already freaking out here!" Knuckles added with panic.

"Yeah, we can see that, Knux," Tails replied with a bored expression before he noticed his fluffy tails moving a bit from the corner of his eye, and he suddenly felt the impulse to grab them. "We... are not..." he tried to add.

However, he soon tried to grab his tails, but they moved away. He tried again, but his tails kept moving. And so, he started to chase his tails on his place like a dog, which made everyone but Sonic look at him confused.

"Eh, don't mind us," Sonic said with a bored expression before feeling the impulse to scratch the back of his ear with one hand at a fast paste. Once he was done, he looked back at the others. "Ever since we smelled those blazeberries last episode, our animal's instincts are still showing up," he explained.

Once Tails finally managed to grab his Tails, he blinked and realized what he had just done. He blushed, embarrassed, and chuckled nervously as he let go of his tails and stood up normally. "Um... sorry for that..." he apologized.

However, the attention returned to Sparky once he burped another of his dragon fires.

"Please, guys, help these dragon daddy and uncle out!" Hitch begged, while Knuckles only imitated his actions and nodded in agreement.

Sunny, Zipp, Pipp, Sonic, and Tails looked down at them with concern, but then they got startled when Izzy popped out nearby. "Oh, oh, oh! I know an ancient unicorn remedy that'll help!" she assured with sparkling eyes and a smile.

"I'm sure I have a recipe somewhere..." Sunny said, rubbing her chin and thinking about where she read the recipe she was talking about.

"I could try to make a special soup someone always makes for us back home when we get sick," Tails said, scratching his neck.

On the other hand, Sonic took out from his quills a white phone with a black symbol that seemed like a ball and two lines crossing together. He marked a number and placed the phone on his ear before walking away. "Yo, Bowser! I know you probably didn't expect me to call at all, but I need help with some parenting stuff..." he said on the call.

"Oh, and there is this special Showbiz trick..." Pipp added as well with a smile.

However, Zipp smirked confidently. "Don't worry, ponies: I know exactly what to do!" she stated with a determined look.

"Please don't say flying, please don't say flying, please don't say flying..." Knuckles begged in whispers.

"Curse my stupid mouth..." Knuckles said with a bored expression.

Outside the Brighthouse, Zipp placed Sparky in a kangaroo bag for babies and put safety goggles on him and herself.

"A few high-octane stunts will shock the hiccup burp right out of ya!" Zipp assured Sparky before looking at the sky with a determinate look while Hitch shook in fear behind them.

"This is a Friendly reminder that you can legally demand her if Sparky ends up worse or even hurt," Knuckles muttered to Hitch.

Then, Zipp zoomed to the sky and started to fly at top speed while doing some tricks over the clouds and then boosting through a forest, while Hitch popped his head from a tree with a worried expression.

Meanwhile, Sparky's mouth was moving funnily as Zipp kept flying faster and faster. "I bet you're feeling better already, huh?" she told him with a confident smirk.

However, Sparky burped a massive dragon fire that turned a tree into a need of spaghetti with tomato sauce.

"Whoa!" Zipp exclaimed, surprised. She tried to slow down, but instead, she lost control of her own flight. "Spaghetti straight ahead!" she shouted in panic.

And then, she crashed against the spaghetti net, which sent her backward as she and Sparky shouted in fear. Holding some binoculars, Hitch noticed that and tried to move, but Zipp and Sparky crashed against him as they all fell to the floor.

Now, Hitch and Zipp were all covered by tree branches, with some even sticking on their manes, while Sparky came out of the branches as well, hugging his belly and at the edge of crying.

Knuckles came by and grabbed Sparky while approaching Hitch with a frown. "Want me to prepare a legal demand?" he asked him.

"No... No, I won't demand anyone..." Hitch replied, and Knuckles shook his head in disapproval.

None of them noticed, however, that a pair of yellow eyes with red iris were looking at them from a bush, as the eyes closed a bit in a glare.

Later on, Hitch and Knuckles took Sparky with Sunny on her Smoothie Stand.

She brought four books and started to read one at a paste but found nothing, so she threw it away and then began to read the next one.

Suddenly, Sunny stopped and smiled once she found the recipe she was talking about. "Six bananas!" she instructed while Knuckles put six bananas over the blender. Lots of mustard!" she informed, while Hitch squeezed a mustard jar on the blender, but with a worried expression. "Chocolate sprinkles!" Sunny said again, throwing chocolate sprinkles in the air while some fell over the blender. Toothpaste!" she finished, with Knuckles letting go of the contents over the blender.

Once all of this was in, Sunny closed the blender and blended the ingredients, making a very weird-looking smoothie. Then, Hitch gave the smoothie to Sparky, who tried to reach it, but he burped before trying to reach it again while Hitch gave it to him.

Sparky sipped the smoothie and tasted it before looking back at Sunny, Hitch, and Knuckles. Then, he felt his belly roaring again in pain while Knuckles curled into a ball, and Hitch and Sunny hugged each other in fear.

However, Sparky's belly stopped roaring after a few seconds, and Sunny and Hitch smiled brightly.

"It worked!/You did it!" Sunny and Hitch said happily. "Up high! Down low! Hitch it to a post! Flip it Sunny-side––" They tried to make their iconic handshake.

However, Sparky started to feel bad again and burped his dragon fire at a cart passing by the smoothie stand, so he turned the cart into a giant mushroom, leaving both the mare riding it and the stallion pulling it confused.

Knuckles popped his head and looked at the mushroom with a bored expression, now standing up completely. "At least it doesn't have eyes," he pointed out.

"Why would a mushroom have eyes?" Sunny questioned, confused.

'You don't wanna know," Knuckles replied, still bored.

Later on, Hitch and Knuckles returned to the Brighthouse to see how Izzy could help.

They placed Sparky over a chair in the living room while Izzy placed some candles and crystals around. Hitch and Knuckles looked at each other, confused, unconvinced that this could work.

Meanwhile, Izzy was doing a weird dance ritual and singing with a smile. "Hold your breath and count to three! Shake your tail and bend your knees! Throw some feathers in the air! Spin around and give them a scare!" she finished, with a 'mean look,' as she roared cutely and approached Sparky.

However, Sparky only tilted his head, confused at Izzy, while Knuckles blushed and tried to stay calm because of Izzy's attitude.

Izzy, however, felt confused by Sparky's reaction to her attempt to scare him. "Hmm... That wasn't scary enough..." she pointed out, rubbing her chin and shaking her head before smirking evilly and looking away. "Well... I guess we'll have to try something... BAD!" she shouted, now wearing a clown's hair and nose while smiling and illuminating her face with a lantern.

Sparky felt afraid of that as he trembled, but then, he burped again and turned Izzy's clown hair into a bunch of grapes, and Sparky tried to reach for some.

Izzy moved away and grabbed some grapes with her hoof while Knuckles zoomed by with his mouth and tongue watering as he also grabbed some grapes and licked his lips. "Bon appétit!" he exclaimed, throwing the grapes in the air and then eating all of them in one chomp. He chewed the grapes with happiness while Izzy giggled at his attitude.

Nobody noticed, however, that some critter with long white hair was watching them through the window, with their yellow eyes glaring dagger at them.

Soon enough, a snap was heard, and the critter disappeared.

Moving on, Hitch and Knuckles took Sparky with Pipp, sitting him on her bed.

Meanwhile, Pipp placed her microphone on the stand and put it in front of Sparky. "Let's try some vocal exercises," she said with a relaxed smile.

Hitch felt very nervous about this, while Knuckles crossed his arms and raised an eyebrow.

"Just do what I do, okay?" Pipp smiled and winked at Sparky before bringing out her lucky microphone. "Deep breath..." she instructed, and Sparky did so. "And... me, me, me, me, me, me!" she sang with a smile.

"Me, me, me, me, me, meeee!" Sparky sang back with a smile.

"Yes!" Pipp cheered to him in excitement. "Now... ma, ma, ma, ma, ma, maaaa!" she sang again on her microphone.

"Ma, ma, ma, ma, ma, maaaa!" Sparky sang as well with a smile.

"Good!" Pipp cheered at him before they both did a few more vocal exercises. Once they were done, Pipp squealed and nuzzled Sparky's cheek. "Aw, so cute! Oh, my glitter, we should collaborate," she said with a smile.

However, as Pipp pulled the microphone aside, Sparky felt the urge to burp another dragon fire, which made Pipp duck down for cover. In the process, she threw the microphone in the air, and Sparky's dragon fire turned it into a palette that fell into Pipp's mane.

"Ew!" Pipp exclaimed panickedly before moving to see herself in the mirror. Then she smiled and pulled out her phone to take some selfies. "I can work with this," she confessed confidently.

Sparky came by and looked at the palette on Pipp's mane with sparkling eyes, but then Hitch pulled him away, and Sparky complained. Meanwhile, Knuckles groaned in frustration and rolled his eyes, also facepalming.

Next, Tails was in the kitchen, mixing ingredients like milk, coconuts, peanuts, and chili.

"Tails, what the heck are you doing?" Knuckles asked him, confused.

"Remember that special soup Vanilla cooks whenever Cream, or anyone in general, gets sick?" Tails asked. "I once helped her cook it and learned the recipe and which ingredients to use," he smiled.

"Are you sure this can work?" Hitch asked in worry. "We had already tried a smoothie before, but it didn't work out too well," he confessed with concern.

"It always did wonders with everyone back home!" Tails replied with a smile, now putting the soup over a feeding bottle and extending it to Sparky, who grabbed it and started drinking it.

One sip made his eyes sparkle as he started to sip the soup faster.

"Huh... he likes it!" Hitch said with a smile.

"Vanilla's recipes are amazing. Thanks to her, I can cook so well!" Knuckles replied with a smirk.

"I tell you, sheriff: Sparky should be good as new in no time after this!" Tails assured with a confident smirk.

However, once Sparky was done with the soup and sighed in relaxation, he soon felt his belly roaring, so he let out a massive fireball that turned the kitchen's microwave into a pile of mint cans.

"Ah, dang it..." Knuckles said with a frown. "If Vanilla's soup can't help either, it is very bad..." he pointed out with concern.

"Then what do we do now?!" Hitch asked in a panic.

However, they were startled when they heard the sound of cans falling into the ground. They turned to see Tails chomping something with his cheeks puffing out.

"Tails, for the love of Chaos!" Knuckles exclaimed in panic. "How's that there's three empty cans of mints already?!" he asked with worry and concern.

"... Make it five," Tails replied as the other two cans fell to the floor after he swallowed all their mints.

"Tails! Isn't that a comical amount of mints?! You're exaggerating!" Hitch said with concern.

"And now make it six!" Tails replied with a frown as another empty can fell to the floor.

"Tails! You're worrying us!" Knuckles pointed out with concern.

Now, everyone went outside the Brighthouse with Sonic, the one Hitch and Knuckles feared the most.

Sonic had the most reasonable idea: he grabbed Sparky and laid the baby dragon's head over his shoulder. He also started gently hitting his back, and Sparky burped more dragon fire.

Behind Sonic, a pile of junk started to turn into food once Sparky's fire hit the things.

Everyone's jaws dropped after they saw Sonic doing this, especially Hitch and Knuckles' jaws since they couldn't believe Sonic had the most effective solution. Sonic, of all people. Tails, however, just tilted his head, very confused at Sonic's smart move, while Pipp blushed and giggled as she covered her mouth with a hoof.

"I just hope Bowser is right, and this helps," Sonic muttered. "Can you believe the same guy who kidnaps Peach every week is also an excellent father? It's still feels surreal to me," he confessed.

After a while, Sparky seemed to have finally stopped burping, and Sonic raised him in the air with a smile.

"Feeling better, little guy?" Sonic asked him with a smirk, but then, Sparky cringed a bit before burping another dragon fire above Sonic's head, which made him duck down and once Sparky's fire turned the pile of now junk food into a lot of chilidogs, Sonic sighed in defeat and gave Sparky back to Hitch. "Sorry, man. Seems like that didn't work, either..." he said with concern.

While Sonic grabbed a bunch of chilidogs on a plate, Hitch placed Sparky down with worry.

"Ugh... nothing is working!" Zipp pointed out with concern.

Then, Sparky burped another dragon fire that transformed a tree near the Brighthouse into a giant carrot.

"And they're getting worse!" Hitch exclaimed with panic.

However, none noticed a figure watching over them as the creature groaned in frustration before disappearing again.

Misty was walking over Maretime Bay with a smile.

However, as she stopped over Sunny's smoothie stand, she cringed when she saw the giant mushroom that used to be a cart, but of course, Sparky transformed it with his dragon fire. Worse, the ponies used it before leaving it there, and now it had raccoonicorns trying to take it away.

"Is that a... giant mushroom?" Misty asked, confused.

Then, the ground suddenly rumbled, and Misty turned her head to see an orange juice explosion coming from the ground near the Crystal Brighthouse.

"Orange Juice?!" Misty asked, concerned and confused.

Soon enough, Misty's amulet opened, and Opaline came out of it confusedly. "What's going on, Misty?" she asked her. "I've just felt a powerful surge of dragon magic in Maretime Bay––" she tried to explain, but then she also noticed the giant mushroom and cringed while raising an eyebrow.

"Uh..." Misty tried to say something, but then Opaline got into her face with a frown, and Misty started to sweat nervously.

"What are you waiting for?!" Opaline shouted to Misty. "Fetch me that dragon!" she instructed angrily before disappearing again, leaving Misty worried and sad.

Sparky was now burping completely out of control.

His dragon fire was turning everything into food, even the bushes where the Mane 5 sins Izzy and Team Sonic hid to stay covered from Sparky's fire.

Suddenly, Sparky's burps worsened, and he burped even more towards the group.

However, Sonic and Knuckles joined their arms with the watches and turned on their electrical powers, which caused their watches to activate some shield since their electrical powers combined.

Meanwhile, Tails was on the floor, checking his Miles Electric as he tried to find a solution to Sparky's hiccup burp, but so far, he got nothing.

Suddenly, one of Sparky's fires crashed against a bush, turning it into a giant red jelly. It tilted and was about to crush a snail that passed by. Once the snail noticed the jelly about to fall over him, he screamed in panic, but he was soon saved by Sunny, who launched over him and protected him from the jelly while she ended up all covered.

She popped her head out of the jelly and smiled when she saw that the snail was safe and sound, also licking her lips as she swallowed a bit of jelly on her mouth and smiled afterwards.

Sparky, on the other hand, was tearing up and rubbing his belly in pain as Hitch and Knuckles approached him.

"What's wrong with your tummy, buddy?" Hitch asked him with concern. "I wish you could tell me how to help you..." he worriedly confessed.

"Blame the writers for making him talk sometimes, and some others just make him do gibberish sounds," Knuckles said with a frown. "Damn you, Jessica and Naomi!" he shouted to the sky with anger.

Suddenly, Sparky grunted and tried to go somewhere while Hitch held him. Then he and Knuckles noticed the three-layer cake in front of them as Sparky tried to go to it, which made the two friends smile.

"Finally! Something we understand!" Knuckles cheered with a smirk.

"You are telling us, aren't you?" Hitch asked Sparky with a smile. "Oh, Sparky, good boy!" he said to Sparky as he turned and faced Sunny. "Sunny, the food is the cure!" he told her with a smile.

Sunny gasped in realization after hearing that. "Of course!" she called out with a smile before turning to the rest of their friends, who were hiding for cover while Pipp appeared out of a giant strawberry cake; Zipp was on top of a giant flower, Izzy appeared from a pile of cookies which she was eating, Sonic was digging deep in a pile of chilidogs. Tails came out of a big pumpkin. "Everybody, grab a little of everything! We're going to make a gross smoothie!" she said with a determined look and smile.

And so, everyone grabbed a piece of every food or treat around while a raccoonicorn was carrying a pile of pretzels. Izzy levitated one off the pile and trotted off with a smile, which made the raccoonicorn yelp and drop the pile of pretzels on top of themselves, buried in the pile.

Then, the group placed the food in the blender. Sunny brought it out as she closed the lid and blended all the food. Once the smoothie was ready and done, everyone cheered that the smoothie was completed.

Unknowingly to them, Misty appeared behind some bushes and got her eyes on Sparky with a frown while Hitch gave Sparky the gross smoothie.

Sparky cheered with a smile, grabbed the smoothie, and gulped it down at fast paste.

Misty gave a sinister chuckle, waiting for the right moment as Sparky finished the smoothie before his stomach began to rumble again.

"It didn't work?!” Sunny asked in a panic.

"He's gonna blow!" Zipp called out in panic.

"Everyone! Take cover!" Sonic called out, immediately grabbing Pipp and launching to a bush to cover.

Knuckles did the same with Izzy, and Tails and Zipp followed up as they also covered in the bush.

"Hitch!" Sunny called out as she grabbed Hitch and dragged him behind the bushes with them to take cover.

"Sparky," Hitch cried out as he tried to reach Sparky, struggling to break free from Sunny's grip, and they hid behind the bush.

After that, Tails returned and activated another shield with his watch, just in case.

Misty smirked evilly at this outcome, then jumped out with a grunt, about to grab Sparky. However, the baby dragon gave ended up farting out his dragon fire, which surprised Misty, who unfortunately got hit by it, while a stink smell came off her, and her eyes swirled from the stink, feeling dizzy from that.

"Aah!" Misty cried out before falling to the floor with a thud.

Sparky fell on his back and sighed in relief, feeling much better now that he farted out, while Misty got up, feeling dazed as she started to groan and aimlessly walked around, also smelling bad, and then made a dopey face before falling to a bush face first with a thud.

Then, the Mane 5 and Team Sonic got out of their hiding place; seeing it all clear, they started cheering, including Sparky, who was feeling all the better as he jumped happily.

"I'm so glad you're feeling better, bud," Hitch said in relief, smiling. "You had me scared for a moment there," he said as he nuzzled Sparky.

"And to think that you're only a baby, yet all-powerful!" Knuckles said with a smile.

And then, all the big food Sparky's dragon fire made returned to normal, while the Mane 5 and Team Sonic regrouped and laughed at this outcome, glad Sparky was feeling better.

Meanwhile, Misty was still hiding from the Mane 5 and Team, still dazed and stinky from Sparky's fart. Then, her amulet opened, and Opaline appeared as she looked around. "So? Where is he? Where is my dra––?" she tried to ask, but then she was cut off when Misty's stinky smell came to her. Opaline covered her muzzle and cringed as she looked down and saw Misty on the ground. "Misty! What happened here?! What did you eat?!" she questioned her.

"I... DO NOT... want to talk about it..." Misty replied with shame on herself.

Misty was obligated to return to the Castle several hours later, still smelling bad.

She was received by Eggman, who cringed at her smell at first. Then he pulled a press from his pocket and put it over his nose, making Misty enter the place as she looked down with shame.

After that, Eggman guided Misty to his personal bathroom, which actually looked very nice compared to the rest of the Castle: the sink, bathtub, shower, and walls were all white, while the floor seemed to be a very shiny grey. The towels were black and red, all with Eggman's symbol.

Then, Eggman grabbed Misty and removed her amulet before adding a lot of tomato sauce. He then used a brush and started to wash her stinky smell. Misty sighed in relaxation while Eggman took care of her.

"I keep telling Opaline that she should just ditch that stupid plan of the dragon fire already," Eggman said while washing Misty's back. "That thing is powerful, yes, but is way too powerful, and it could perfectly backfire her. But noooooo! She insists that only dragon fire can make her powerful enough, like if there weren't any other magical things out there that could help," he pointed out angrily.

"She's stubborn," Misty pointed out with a sad expression, even though she still felt relaxed from the bath Eggman had given her, even though it was with tomato soup.

"Tell me about it..." Eggman said with annoyance. "The worst part? She sends what I cannot say if it's her daughter anymore to nonsense missions that always get her in some dangerous and nonsense trouble, we could avoid if she had the guts to do all those things for herself," he pointed out angrily. "But don't even tell him that, Misty. You could end up hurt... or worse, and I don't want to imagine what she could do to me," he told her.

"It's not that I could—whoa!" Misty exclaimed as Eggman suddenly opened the shower, and all the tomato juice washed away from her body. "It's not like I could tell her, anyway. She's too intimidating for me, and I honestly doubt I could form a full sentence without being interrupted or called incompetent," she said with sadness.

"Well, know this: as long as I'm around, Opaline won't put a single hoof over you," Eggman assured, using a new brush to wash her mane again as the tomato soup ran over her body and left, thanks to Eggman's cares and thanks to the water.

Then, Eggman closed the shower and pulled Misty out before drying her up with a towel. Misty puffed a bit, which made her look on with a bored expression, while Eggman chuckled a bit.

Once Misty fixed her mane and fur, she and Eggman left the bathroom. However, Eggman still stopped her for a moment before she left.

"Since Opaline has a very critical eye over you, I wanted to give you this," Eggman said, as he took out of his pocket a small but robotic ladybug that immediately turned on and flew over until it landed near her ear, which made her smile with sparkling eyes. "This ladybug would watch over you when you are in trouble. It's also my way of looking after you and staying in contact," he explained with a little smile. "Just try to hide it from Opaline, alright? We don't want her to take it away from you," he instructed.

Misty only smiled warmly at him, and without warning, she hugged Eggman tightly, startling the evil scientist as he blushed in embarrassment.

"Thanks... Dad..." Misty said with tears of joy, still hugging Eggman.

Eggman blushed even more since he had perfectly heard what Misty whispered. Still, he smiled and patted Misty's back with a hand, embracing the hug a bit longer for her.

Several days later, Sunny and Pipp came out of the Brighthouse running while Zipp was flying in the air and Tails was standing on the ground with a board.

"If you’re done livestreaming, we’ve got a game of flyball to play!" Zipp called out to Pipp with a mocking smirk.

However, as Sunny and Pipp moved away, an eagle arm closed the door of the Brighthouse and started to move away.

The creature walked away, not noticing that they had accidentally moved one of the vases from its original position or that one of their white hairs had gotten stuck.

The creature entered the Brighthouse's bedroom and approached the elevator. However, instead of entering it like any other person, they traversed the crystal and started to float towards the ceiling, traversing it.

Finally, the creature reached the top of the Brighthouse and entered the Crystal Room, as they stared at the Unity Crystals with a frown.

Soon enough, they grabbed the Crystals with their other arm, which seemed to be a lion. They removed the Unicorn and Earth Pony Crystal before throwing them to the floor. They stared at the Pegasus Crystal on their lion hand, still frowning in rage.

The critter was finally shown and seemed made of many animal parts. His name was Discord, and he was better known as the Lord of Chaos.

Discord stared daggers at the Unity Crystal and snorted in disbelief. "You silly, little ponies... Soon, you'll thank me for getting rid of all magic in Equestria and bring up real unity among ponykind..." he stated with a smirk before snapping his fingers and disappearing.

TO BE CONTINUED IN SONIC THE HEDGEHOG X MY LITTLE PONY: IDW COMICS

Author's Note

FINALLY!

Ladies and gentleman: Behold! The Tell Your Tale episode that connects with the IDW Comics story!

Since the next issue is gonna be the last one I'll be adapting, I decided that it was finally time to connect this story with the comics, and here it is!

Next episode, however... Alright, you know what? I'll describe next episode with this phrase: Love will be in the air!

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