It was nighttime in Maretime Bay, and the four mares and the hedgehog in the Crystal Brighthouse were sleeping peacefully in their respective beds.

Suddenly, a shadowy floating figure was passing over Sunny, then Sonic, then Zipp, and then finally Pipp, who didn't have her bed sheet for some reason, as she tossed and turned with a giggle in her sleep. Then, the shadowy figure revealed to be some ghost with a smiley face and hovered next to Pipp, who woke up slowly, opening her eyes. Once she saw the 'ghost,' she started to shake in terror and screamed in panic as she flew around the room, which caused Sunny to wake up from her screaming.

"Wake up! WAKE! UP!" Pipp cried out as she shook Sunny awake, then turned to the ghost. "Gho-o-o-ost!"

The ghost came right in front of them, and now Sunny and Pipp panicked and screamed. The two mares hugged each other in fright, then spread out while the ghost flew around. "No! No no no no no no no!" " Sunny cried out in panic. The ghost came in front of Zipp's bed as she worked up.

Zipp rubbed her eyes to see what was going on, then saw the ghost in front of her. She screamed in panic, and she jumped out of her bed, flying away to get away from the ghost.

Various screams were heard around the room as the three ponies tried to escape the ghost, flying or running back and forth in the room to hide or escape from the ghost. Sunny hid behind her bed and looked at the ghost cornered Zipp to the wall.

Suddenly, Sonic woke up in a bad mood, with his quills a mess and an angry expression. He looked from his bed at the three mares terrified by the ghost, which Sonic looked at with even more annoyance. Still in his bed, he awakened his new power, charged electricity into his fist, pointed a finger at the ghost, and released a small shock. When it hit the ghost, it immediately fell to the ground like it was nothing. The three mares looked at Sonic in surprise, while he was just furious, and his eyes lit up blue. But then they turned green again, Sonic stretched a little, scratched his head, took his blanket and lay down again, immediately falling asleep.

The three mares looked at each other and slowly walked towards the 'ghost,' expecting it to wake again, but it didn't.

"Hey! Hold on…" Sunny yelled as she narrowed her eyes in realization. She walked towards the switch light and turned the lights on, revealing that the 'ghost' was just a bedsheet.

"Hey, that's my bedsheet!" Pipp exclaimed, picking it from the ground with a frown.

Sunny then looked over at Izzy, who was still sleeping, but her horn was glowing, meaning that she had levitated the bedsheet and kept moving it around as if it were a ghost.

"Thanks, Izzy..." Pipp said, irritated with the sleeping unicorn, not caring if she heard her. Pipp then inhaled and flew back to her bed. "I am, like, so super traumatized right now. I'll be lucky to get any sleep!" she exclaimed as Sunny turned off the lights and returned to her bed, and Zipp did as well.

Sunny yawned as she lay on her bed with her eyes closed. "Just shut your eyes, count pegasheep, and--" she instructed but was cut off by Izzy and her annoying snoring.

"Glitter glitter glitter glitter glitter glitter…" Izzy mumbled between her snores as she twisted and turned on her bed with a smile.

Pipp, Zipp, and Sunny were both annoyed at Izzy's snoring and mumbling. Pipp placed a pillow over her head to try to block out Izzy’s noise. Zipp groaned and placed her blanket over her head, and Sunny groaned as Izzy mumbled in her sleep. The only one who wasn't even hearing the snores was Sonic since he was already deep sleeping.

The morning sun appeared as a rooster crowed outside the Crystal Brighthouse.

Izzy was in the kitchen, singing to herself in a cheerful tone with a tiara in her head. "Ha! This is how a unicorn sings, first thing in the morning. Oo-ooh!" she sang, humming to herself and dancing in the kitchen.

Izzy then found a hairspray can, twirled it for a bit, and then sprayed herself with it, styling her mane. She then found a crossword book and grabbed the pen with her hoof as she kept humming and wrote something in the crossword book. She tossed the book away as she hummed and placed the pen in her mouth, then went to the refrigerator and found peanut butter in it. She places the pen down to grab the peanut butter, which means she placed the pen in the fridge. Then she placed peanut butter in some bread, getting a little messy with some peanut butter on the table and some on her hoof. She continued humming and grabbed Pipp’s phone, took a selfie with her peanut butter, and got some peanut butter on Pipp’s phone. She put the phone down on the table, dropped the peanut butter bread on the floor, and then trotted away from the kitchen.

In the main room, Sunny, Zipp, and Pipp sit there with a tired expression. Izzy’s snoring and mumbling kept them up all night, which didn’t allow them to get any sleep.

Izzy trotted to the main room with a happy expression. "Oo-ooh! Morning!" she said to her friends, as they were too tired to do anything but listen to the hyper active Unicorn. "Don't you just love waking up to a new morning? It is just so new and morningy!" she exclaimed and hummed out of the main room, unknowingly knowing that her friends were tired.

"Waking up?" Zipp asked, looking very tired. "We didn't sleep!" she pointed out since Izzy had not let them sleep properly.

"Uhh... Was that my tiara?" Pipp questioned, noticing that Izzy had something on her forehead.

The mares then walked to the kitchen and saw a mess Izzy had made. Zipp grabbed her hairspray as it puffed out, revealing it was empty.

Pipp grabbed her phone and saw it messy with peanut butter oozing out. "Ugh!" Pipp groaned in disgust.

Zipp then saw her crossword book, seeing that Izzy had scribbled it out with the pen from earlier. She grabbed the book to look closer as her right eye began twitching. She then ran towards Sunny, showing her what happened. "Everything's ruined!"

Pipp came toward her sister's side as she looked at Sunny, who was about to freak out as well. "Sunny, you have to do something! Izzy's becoming a total nightmare roommate!" She then pointed to the unicorn on the other side.

Izzy was trotting by still humming, then gobbled down a cereal as she threw the box away, and she continued humming, walking away with a cheerful expression.

Sunny groaned tiredly, not knowing exactly what to do with Izzy. She decided to go to the bathroom to brush her teeth. "They're probably just cranky because they didn't get much--any--sleep, " she thought, trying to defend Izzy somehow. And... Uh, where's my toothbrush?" she asked to herself.

Izzy then opened the door, and she poked her head out. "Hey, Sunny! Love your ear-cleaner…" she said, then brought out Sunny’s electric toothbrush and turned it on. Sunny turned around and looked at Izzy in shock as the unicorn brought Sunny’s toothbrush to her ear. "Oh, yeah. Mm, uh-huh..." she said as Sunny looked on with her mouth open while Izzy was using her toothbrush to clean her ears. "And my ears have never been so minty fresh!" she commented as she giggled and shut the door, leaving Sunny alone and shocked.

Sunny then turned to the mirror with a determined look. She was going to solve this problem with Izzy because using her toothbrush to clean her ears was crossing the line. "Okay. Something's gotta be done!" she spoke out.

A little while later, the three ponies walked through Maretime Bay, wanting to solve this problem as Sunny explained to Zipp and Pipp about her problem. "But confronting Izzy is just too awkward and embarrassing…" she added since discussing with Izzy means that they might accidentally hurt her feelings and find it awkward to argue with her over the small things.

Suddenly, a blue blur passed by them, and it started running around all the buildings of Maretime Bay, then passed by them again and ran towards the Brighthouse, but it ran outside of the building and then ran over the water to quickly ran towards some toy on a high spot. The blue blur started to slow down a little, revealing Sonic smiling while looking straight into the toy. Sonic then jumped, still a bit far from the toy, but once he was at the same height, he used his 'boost' to move faster in the air and then grabbed the toy to stomp back to the ground.

The mare was looking at him with her jaws dropping, and Pipp felt her wings opening suddenly as she was blushing, but she quickly closed them and tried to think of another thing so the blush could go away.

"Phew!" Sonic exclaimed, wiping the sweat from his forehead. "Here you go, little buddy," he said to an earth pony foal, looking at him with sparkling eyes and a smile. "Next time, try not to throw it off too high, okay?"

"Thank you, Mr. Hedgehog!" the foal thanked, then ran away laughing with his toy.

"You're welcome, kiddo. And please, call me Sonic!" he pled. "Ah, kids will be kids, I guess..."

He then turned to look at his mare friends, but when he saw the dark circles under their eyes, he immediately felt bad for them. "Geez, girls. It seems like you couldn't sleep at all after what happened last night," he said, approaching them.

"Yeah... Izzy kept snoring and mumbling loudly after she levitated my bedsheet as a ghost..." Pipp replied and then yawned.

"And not only that... she's also using our stuff and messing up everything!" Zipp exclaimed.

"We're trying to figure out what to do and how to face her without feeling awkward..." Sunny explained.

"Well, if you ask me, I think you should just spill the beans on her face," Sonic suggested, but the mares blinked at him without understanding.

"Could you elaborate a bit?" Zipp asked.

Sonic just facepalmed and looked at them with a boring expression. "Go to the point, tell her the truth, don't hesitate, c'mon girls, it's not that difficult!" he exclaimed. "Look, just face Izzy and tell her what is bothering you about her. Being honest hasn't killed anyone as far as I know, and as cheerful as Izzy might be, I'm pretty sure she's also reasonable, so she'll understand. I found her trying to use my hair gel, but I told her that it would be good if she didn't take my stuff without asking, so she smiled at me and left... and yes, I use hair gel so my quills can get straight and not messy, leave me alone."

"Yeah... But we could also hurt her feelings, Sonic," Sunny pointed out. "And I don’t want our friend to be crying if we tell her that. Ooh! I know! Let's ask Hitch; he'll know what to do!" she exclaimed with a smile as Zipp and Pipp looked at her bored.

"Okay then, but I'm pretty sure he's gonna say the same thing to you," Sonic warned with a little smirk. "Anyways, gotta go now, see ya!" he exclaimed as he ran away quickly.

Walking to the Sheriff's place, the three ponies walked inside as they opened the front door and saw Hitch on his desk, playing with his landline phone. But as he made a bad movement, the phone wires tangled Hitch around, and he saw his friends looking at him blankly. Hitch chuckled nervously, embarrassed that his friends had to see that, then twirled around. When he stopped spinning, he was a bit and fell to the ground with a thud from his dizziness.

This caused Sunny, Pipp, and Zipp to gasp startlingly as they looked at Hitch, wondering if he was okay.

A few minutes after Hitch recovered, the girls told him about their problem with Izzy. Hitch hung up the phone and gave the girls some advice. “Well, it sounds to me that Sonic's right. You just have to be honest with Izzy,” he said, agreeing to Sonic's idea of telling Izzy the truth. "As a pony of the law, I can tell you honesty is always the best policy!" he assured with a confident smile.

"Hey!" a voice yelled out, and it turned to be a light blue earth pony named Rufus, who was wearing a jail hat and was in a cell. Hitch caught him doing something against the law earlier and put him in a cell until his short sentence was finished. "Keep it down, will ya? I'm tryin' to get some peace in here!" he yelled out, then turned his back against the others and faced the wall.

"Hold on one second," Hitch told his friends with a smile. He knew what to do as he came to the cell with a teacup and gave it to Rufus.

Rufus turned his head as he saw the teacup and smiled. "Aw, oh, this is lovely!" he said in a happy tone, then sipped some of the tea. "My favorite! Thanks, Hitch. Uh, sorry I bothered ya," he apologized for his outburst earlier.

Hitch then smiled at his friends. "Of course, sometimes a thoughtful gift can work wonders," he winked at them.

Sunny, Pipp, and Zipp all blinked at the same time twice before getting an idea for Izzy. "Ohh!" they all said in unison.

Sunny presents a present to Izzy at the Crystal Brighthouse as the three mares smile at her.

"You guys got me... a BOX!?" Izzy said in excitement as she grabbed the box and held it in her hooves. "I love it! Best gift ever!" she cheered as she held the box.

"Uh, Izzy. The gift is inside the box...?" Zipp called out with a sheepish smile, seeing that Izzy didn’t know the gift was inside.

"Oh...!" Izzy said as she started to laugh as she opened the box, but then stopped laughing as she looked at what was inside with a look. She looked through the box, finding a hairspray, a crossword book, and a toothbrush.

"Your own stuff," Sunny announced. "So, you don't need to use ours anymore!" she added with a smile, as did the rest of her friends.

Izzy then chuckled nervously, not sure what to say, but she saw where they were going with this.

"'Cause... it was getting kinda annoying," Zipp added sheepishly to her with a smile. "Hey! Honesty is the best policy, right?" she asked Izzy from the motto Hitch told them earlier.

Then, the four ponies stood in silence as Sunny, Zipp, and Pipp waited for Izzy to respond to what she thought about what they said and what they gave her. They stare at each other as the three mares sweat, thinking that their honesty and gift for Izzy didn’t work.

Izzy then stared at them with a sad look for a few seconds until she returned to her cheerful look and smiled at them. "Oh! Well, in that case, I don't really like these presents!" she called out, placing the gifts back into the box and giving them back to Sunny. "Honesty!” Izzy cheered as she explained why she used all that. "I was just taking selfies of my breakfast like Pipp, doing my hair like Zipp, and scrubbing my ears like Sunny! I also tried to dye my hair like Sonic, but he told me not to without permission," she explained, which caused the mares to gasp, realizing that both Sonic and Hitch were right about being honest. "I've never lived with best friends before. I was just trying to fit in with you all," Izzy admitted.

"Huh," both Zipp and Pipp said as they faced each other.

"We should've been honest from the start!" Sunny said, then walked to Izzy and placed a hoof on her shoulder. "Izzy, you don't need to try and fit in," she told her as Zipp and Pipp approached her.

"You're already perfect as you are," Zipp pointed out, and the group comforted Izzy with a smile.

Izzy looked at her friends with a loving smile as they reunited for a group hug without noticing that their Cutie Marks started to glow. "Whoof, great! 'Cause trying to fit in is…" Izzy said and then yawned in mid-sentence before continuing. So exhausting..." She then walked to the couch and lay on it. "I just need a…" She then went to sleep as she snored loudly.

The three ponies looked at her while she slept, really annoyed because Izzy’s snoring was the main problem for their sleep.

"We can work on that..." Sunny called out as Pipp face hoofed herself at Izzy’s annoying snoring.

At the police station, Hitch let Rufus go since he had already served his short sentence. Now, he was just reading a few complaints from the mailbox.

Suddenly, Sonic walked quickly through the front door and immediately closed it, leaning against it and looking at Hitch with a worried expression and a nervous smile.

"Hey there, partner..." Sonic greeted the sheriff. "Can I talk to you? Man to man..."

"Hello, Sonic," Hitch said, exiting his desk and approaching Sonic. "Of course!"

"Great!" the hedgehog exclaimed, still with a nervous smile, while he locked the door of the police station and also closed the shutters.

"Uh, why did you just...?" Hitch was going to ask, but Sonic cut him off.

"First of all, SWEAR to me that not a word I say right here, right now, will leave this station," Sonic said with a serious expression, staring at Hitch.

"I-I..." Hitch tried to reply.

"SWEAR IT, TRAILBLAZER!" Sonic yelled, this time a bit more violent.

"Ok, ok. I swear, calm down now," Hitch requested.

"Okay…" Sonic said, starting to calm down a bit. "I'd like to clarify that I'm entrusting this to you because I highly doubt the girls can keep it a secret."

"Really?" Hitch asked, confused. "Don't you think that's overkill? I know they could keep it as well as I can."

"Izzy would tell immediately after I told her not to; Sunny is bad at lying, Zipp hates lying, and Pipp would livestream the entire conversation," Sonic explained with a bored expression.

Hitch blinked a few times, with one helmet up and his mouth open, but he lowered his helmet as he could not contradict Sonic. "Okay, good point. So what do you want to tell me that's so secret that only I know about it?" the sheriff asked in a whisper.

Sonic didn't answer, instead walking over to the sheriff's desk. He pulled out a small bag from his spikes, and Hitch looked at him even more confused.

"Remember those Emeralds I talked about when we were heading to Bridlewood for the first time?" Sonic asked.

"Uh, yeah. What were they called? Chaotic Emeralds? Disastrous Emeralds…" Hitch tried to remember.

"Chaos Emeralds," Sonic corrected, with a hint of concern.

"Ah yes, those. Yes, I remember. You said they could help you get back home. Why do you ask?" the sheriff questioned.

"Well..." Sonic flipped the bag on the desk, and the 3 Emeralds he found a few days ago fell into it.

Hitch's jaw dropped; for now, he understood why Sonic wanted to keep this conversation a secret. "But what...? How did you...? When did you...?!" Hitch asked endlessly.

"The day before we decorated the Brighthouse, I went for a walk in a forest I've never been to, and I found them," Sonic answered, pacing the station.

"But this... this is a good thing, isn't it?" Hitch asked, a little wistfully since he didn't want Sonic to leave, but at the same time, happy that he already had a way to get back home. "It means you can get your friends back home!"

"I thought the same... but I can't go back..." Sonic confessed with a sad look.

"What?!" Hitch exclaimed. "Why not?"

"Because I already tried, but just like now, the Emeralds aren't shining like they usually do," the hedgehog explained. "When I touched and found them, they stopped glowing. I've tried to reactivate them again, but it doesn't work. And my new power managed to power them, but they almost went through the room, so using that isn't an option either..."

"So, you can't go back yet…" Hitch deduced.

"No… but it's funny because that's not what worries me the most…" Sonic revealed it now with an analytical look. "There are 7 Emeralds, and they were all together when the portal sucked me in, but I only found 3 of them, which means there are still 4 Chaos Emeralds out there that have probably also lost their power. I'm afraid they'll fall into the wrong hands, or hooves in this case, and be used to destroy this world..."

Now, Hitch looked worried and considered what to say. But he then got an idea and looked at Sonic with confidence. "...I'll help you find them, Sonic," assured Hitch.

"What?! No!" Sonic refused to accept help. "This is my problem, and you have enough taking over Maretime Bay, dude. This is my fight..."

"Now it's mine too," assured Hitch again with a confident smile. "You confessed this to me, and I won't say anything. But helping someone in need is what a sheriff does, and I'll help you whether you want it or not."

"...I don't want to cause you trouble, Hitch..." Sonic assured.

"And you won't, but I'm not going to leave you alone in this either," Hitch said with a smile.

Sonic smiled back and looked determinedly at the Emeralds on the desk. "Fine. So, until we figure this out, we won't tell anyone about the Emeralds…" he said firmly, and Hitch nodded in agreement.

Now, the two had a mission: discover how to reactivate the Chaos Emeralds and find the location of the missing ones...

THE END...?

Author's Note

Thanks to JD1 for editing this chapter!