In the Brighthouse bedroom, Pipp started a livestream on her phone to give her Pippsqueaks some news about her next 'big thing.'

"Goooood morning, everypony!” Pipp greeted through her phone. "Today, I’m trying something a little different," she announced. "Instead of streaming, I’ve decided to write my next major life update," she added with a smile. "I know, I know! But this kind of update calls for many selfies," she explained.

She didn't know that her fans didn't like her idea that much.

"Plus… It’s about Discord," Pipp added. "Okay, love you, gotta go write! Pipp, Pipp, hooray!" she finished and ended her livestream.

Pipp put her phone down and went to her laptop to get to work. She opened up the gallery she managed to take during her and her friend's time with Discord. Once again, she had to thank Sonic for giving her a portable charger back in the woods.

'Pippsqueaks, when I went flying with my friends, I had no idea it would lead to a journey that ended in Discord and a Unity Crystal…' Pipp typed on her post; being 9 a.m., she started to tell everything about their adventure with Discord.

And she spent all day on that.

It was now 7 p.m., and Pipp was still writing about their adventure on Canterlot's ruins. '... And that’s where we are now, searching for Discord before he destroys the Crystal!' Pipp continued typing. 'If anypony knows how to find him, we need your help! Thank you, love you, Pippsqueaks. Pipp, Pipp, hooray!' she finished and posted her story. Then, she walked off yawning to get something after being on her laptop all day.

Pipp returned with some hot coffee two hours later and checked her laptop to see how the post was doing. She had 100,157 views, 99,398 likes, and 6,780 comments.

Pipp took a sip of her coffee and called her mother since she needed to ask her about something that had been on her mind for a while.

After waiting for some seconds, Haven answered the call from her daughter. "My little filly! How are things in the Brighthouse?" Haven asked after greeting Pipp.

"Great!" Pipp answered. "Um, Mom? Can I ask you something?" she asked her mother.

"Of course," Haven answered while Cloudpuff tried to grab a makeup accessory.

"Well, I’ve been thinking, maybe, about getting a little more real with the Pippsqueaks," Pipp told her mother while Haven was trying to get Cloudpuff to drop the makeup accessory he grabbed.

"No, that is not for pets!" Haven scolded Cloudpuff, trying to get the accessory out of his mouth, and then she turned her attention back to Pipp. "Sorry, darling. 'Real' how?" she asked.

"I want to write about the day everypony learned I can’t fly," Pipp revealed.

"WHAT?!" Haven asked in shock while squeezing Cloudpuff, who barked from the tight hold.

"It’s a little different from what I usually post, but I think it’s important," Pipp reasoned.

"But, darling, that day was so hard on you" Haven said with a concerned look. "The only good thing you recall from that day was meeting him," she added, obviously talking about Sonic.

Pipp turned to see some pictures she had with her friends and smiled. "It was such a difficult, confusing, awful day. I want to show ponies that side of me. That it’s okay to be sad sometimes," she explained, wanting to show ponies that it's okay to be sad, even on their hardest day. "And, like you just said, sometimes you can find some good things in the worst situations," she added with a little blush, thinking about Sonic and how grateful she was for meeting him.

Haven then gave her daughter a touching look. She looked at Cloudpuff and hugged him with a smile.

She faced her laptop and placed her forehead on it while Pipp did the same. "Of course, my brave filly. It’s a wonderful thing to do. But if it doesn’t go exactly how you want it to, you’ll tell me, won’t you? You know you’re always welcome back home." she said with a careful tone.

"Of course, Mom! What could go wrong?" Pipp asked her mother.

And we all know that things would mostly go wrong...

After chatting with her mom, Pipp got to work on typing about how she felt when everyone discovered she could not fly.

"Done!" Pipp cheered and finally finished typing. She moved the mouse to the 'Post' button but stopped when she started having second thoughts about this. "Maybe I should ask my friends what they think before I post it," she said to herself. She moved the mouse to the 'Save' button and clicked it. "Yes, that’s a good idea," she told herself again, then turned off her laptop and headed to bed. "I’ll get up suuuuper early and ask everypony what they think before they head out for the day," she assured before falling asleep.

The next day, Pipp was still asleep on her bed since she snored. But once she woke up, she widened her eyes in shock when she saw it was noon.

"Oh no! I overslept!" Pipp cried out as she got up. She quickly did her mane and flew out of the window. "Everypony’s already gone! I have to find them and ask them about my post!" she exclaimed, as she decided to go and find her friends.

After searching for a while in Maretime Bay, Pipp spotted Sunny, who was strapping her smoothie cart with a worried expression.

"Sunny! I knew you’d be close by. You’re just who I wanted to talk to!" Pipp cheered.

Sunny turned once she heard Pipp. "Oh, hey, Pipp. Late night?" Sunny asked since Pipp wasn’t with them all morning.

"Yes. I was… creating," Pipp answered. "Sunny, you’re, like, the smartest pony I know. I need your advice," she said as she put Sunny closer. "I want to post on social media about the day everypony learned I couldn’t fly. What do you think?" she asked.

"Oh, that…" Sunny said with a concerned look, then placed a hoof on her face. "Sorry, Pipp. Everything with Discord has me so distracted. I can’t focus on anything else," she explained to Pipp since she was too worried to think straight.

"Oh. Okay. I can ask somepony else," Pipp said, understanding that Sunny could not talk right now.

Sunny gave her a comforting smile since she had an idea. "Why not try Hitch? He’s who I go to when I need a grounded opinion. Uh, so to speak," she suggested.

"That’s a great idea!" Pipp replied with a smile.

"He’s in the Main Square, I think, helping set up for the street fair," Sunny stated.

"Thanks, Sunny!" Pipp called out as she flew to where Hitch might be.

Sometime later, Pipp found Hitch helping other ponies set up a festival fair while Hitch instructed what to do.

"Be careful with that banner! We don’t want to block hoof traffic!" Hitch warned. "... Again," he whispered to himself.

"Hitch! Just the pony I wanted to see!" Pipp called out as she flew to him.

"I am?" Hitch questioned, a little confused.

"You’re so silly sometimes. Yes!" Pipp answered. "I wanted to ask you about my next big social media post!" she explained.

"Uh… Okay," Hitch said before turning his head to the other ponies around. "Raise the banner more on the right side!" he requested before facing Pipp. "Sorry, Pipp. Go ahead," he said.

"I want to post about the day everypony learned I couldn't fly. How sad I was and how ashamed I felt," Pipp explained. "What do you think?" she asked Hitch for an opinion.

"Er, isn’t that a little different from your normal posts? You know, your brand?" Hitch asked, finding this sudden change a little weird. "Isn’t it usually singing, sparkles, and glamour?" se asked.

"Yeah, but that doesn’t mean it can’t change. It can be sparkles and real feelings," Pipp pointed out as she began to fly away, now with a little conflict about the post.

"I suppose," Hitch replied with a smile.

"Well, thanks, I guess," Pipp said to Hitch.

"Anything!" Hitch called out before he turned his attention to another pony. "No, no, no, the banner’s all crooked now!" he yelled with worry and frustration.

Sonic was running around Maretime Bay, looking for anything strange or out of place. Since Discord was chaos itself, anything that seemed wrong in a chaotic way could be a hint to Discord.

"Come on!" Sonic complained angrily. "How hard can it be to find a guy that makes chaos wherever he goes?" he asked, looking around closely.

Pipp, a little sad after her talk with Hitch, noticed Sonic passing by and immediately smiled as she flew towards him. "Sonic!" she shouted.

Sonic heard her and stopped immediately, but Pipp crashed with him. They rolled until they reached a grass field far from town, with Sonic lying on the grass and Pipp over him.

They looked at each other for a few seconds before blushing and smiling nervously. Pipp moved aside, and Sonic stood up. He looked at her momentarily with a little smile as his heart beat fast. "Are you okay?" he asked her.

Pipp looked at him, still blushing, and cleared her voice before speaking. "Y-Yeah... S-Sorry for that, Blue Star," she said and apologized for crashing into him.

"It's okay, Little Pipp," Sonic assured. "You wanted to talk with me?" he asked.

"Yeah! I wanted to ask something important to me," Pipp replied. "I’m making a social media post on how I faboutt when everypony every pony can’t fly, and I want to know what you think before I post it," she explained quickly.

Sonic blinked a few times before he could say anything. "Wow... just, wow..." he replied with a little surprise. "That's big, Little Pipp. I mean big. As far as I know, you hated that day," he added wtle worry.

"Oh, no. I don't hate that day," Pipp assured me with a smile. "Yeah, it was awful, but I also met our friends that day. I met you, especially," she added, realizing a few seconds later what she just said. "I-I mean...!" she tried to correct herself with a little blush.

Sonic blushed again as well, but he smiled as well. "Gotta say, even if it wasn't in the best of conditions, I met you that day as well, and I wouldn't change it for anything in the world," he assured, which just made Pipp's blush increase, and her wings opened up. "As for your post... I think it's a good idea, but only if you're ready to tell that story, of course," he added.

Pipp looked at him with a raised eyebrow. "Of course, I'm ready, silly. Why wouldn't I be?" she asked with a confident smile.

"I'm not only talking about you feeling ready to tell it; I'm also talking about being ready for the mixed reception," Sonic explained.

"Mixed reception?" Pipp questioned, a little confused.

"Let me put it like this: there are some fans that won't care at all, let's face it, but the ones who would either thank you for posting that or would hate you for reminding them that you lied to them for centuries" Sonic stated with a worried face. "I think the idea is great, but just be careful. I would hate to see you down if the reception isn't what you expected..." he added gently caressing her cheek.

Pipp thought for a moment about his words and realized that she wasn't ready at all for a negative reception on a subject like this, but she was determined to try anyway. "I... I'm gonna think about it. Thank you, Sonic, for... for caring about me," she thanked with a blush and a smile.

Sonic ended up hugging her, something that she didn't see coming, but hugged the hedgehog back anyway. "If this doesn't work the way you expect, you can tell me, and I would pleasantly listen to you," he added.

"I know," Pipp replied. "And I will, I promise," she added.

They broke the hug, and they were going to go on separate ways, but Sonic decided to make a risky move. He held one of Pipp's hooves to stop her, then kissed her cheek softly and briefly. "Good luck, Princess Petals," he said with a smirk, a blush, and a deep voice, then ran away to keep for his search, as Pipp stood frozen in her place, shocked and with her face completely red as she tried to process what just happened.

Izzy was working on something big that required her Unicycling skills at her old home in Bridlewood.

Suddenly, Pipp poked her head in front of the open window in front of Izzy. "Izzy!" she called out.

"Agh!" Izzy yelled since she got startled and fell to the floor.

"It took me forever to find you!" Pipp added as she entered the house.

With some stuff on her mane Izzy got up and looked at Pipp. "Yeah, I came back to work on big crafts projects. I find La Villa Izzy 'Creatively Stimulating'!" she said with a smile.

"That’s great!" Pipp cheered. "Because I wanted to ask your opinion," she said, and Izzy then paid close attention to Pipp. "I want to do a social media post about whenever everypony found out me, Zipp, and my mom lied about being able to fly. What do you think?" she asked.

"Um…" Izzy thought about the right words before smiling. "That’s a great idea!" she cheerfully said, clapping her hooves.

"Really?!" Pipp asked with a hopeful smile and clapped as well.

"Yes! It’s just so brave!" Izzy called out.

Now, Pipp felt confused. "Brave? Why is it brave?" she asked, not understanding Izzy's point.

"I would never want to tell 1.6 million ponies about the worst, most embarrassing, most horrible day of my life!" Izzy pointed out.

"Oh, right," Pipp said, now feeling more conflicted.

Suddenly, the main door opened, and Knuckles entered carrying a tree trunk. "I got the trunk, Izz. Where do you..." he was about to ask something but stopped once he noticed Pipp was there too. "... want it?" he finished, then put the trunk on the floor and looked back at the mares. "Did I interrupt something?" he asked.

"Uh... not at all," Pipp replied with an awkward smile. "Izzy, could you give me a little context?" she requested of the unicorn.

"Knux is helping me to bring some materials while I do my work!" Izzy explained with a smile.

"Hitch said that I could be free today, so I decided to help the beautiful unicorn lady over here," Knuckles replied, smiling at Izzy.

"Aww, you're gonna make me blush, silly!" Izzy joked, but she did blush a little.

Pipp suspected something else was going on there, but the idea vanished as she remembered something. "Hey, Knuckles, I need to ask you something quick!" she said suddenly. "I know you were not there when it happened, but I want to post about the day everyone discovered we can't fly. And I need another opinion," she requested.

Knuckles knew what she meant but wasn't sure what to say as he scratched his neck. "Uh..." he said as he thought about what to say to not look bad in front of her. "Well... I think it is a good idea... but talking about the worst day of your life to many random people... are you sure you want to do it?" he questioned.

"Um..." Pipp didn't know how to reply, so she headed to the window. "W-Well, I, um, I should go. Bye!" she told Izzy and Knuckles before flying out of there.

"Bye, Pipp!" Izzy waved to her with a smile.

"Did I say something wrong?" Knuckles questioned.

Pipp entered the Crystal Brighthouse feeling down because most of the answers she received were not what she expected.

She passed by the living room when she noticed Tails was on the table near the Kitchen, with the box that had the 4 Chaos Emeralds Team Sonic had so far, many cables, and lots of electronic stuff that were not from anyone in the Brighthouse and many of his tools. Tails himself was using some goggles and he writing down something in a notebook when he realized Pipp was looking at him with confusion and curiosity.

"Oh, hi there, Pipp!" Tails greeted the pegasus. "Don't mind me, just making a little device to find the remaining Chaos Emeralds," he explained, as he returned to writing.

Pipp got close to him, being careful not to touch any of his things. "Hi, Tails," she greeted back. "Um, you got a minute? I want to ask you about something important," she explained.

"Fire away," Tails said, still focusing on his notes.

"I want to talk about the day the ponies found out I can't fly without magic on a media post. I know you were not there, but I want your opinion," Pipp explained.

Tails stopped writing, took off his goggles, and faced Pipp with an ashamed expression. "Um... Sorry, Pipp, I'm not the guy you can ask about that. As you said, I wasn't there, and honestly, I don't think the ponies are gonna take the post well, it doesn't matter if they're your fans" Tails warned. "No offense, tho," he added when he looked at Pipp's frown.

Pipp sighed with frustration as she flew away to the bedroom. "Non taken," she replied.

Tails then facepalmed and felt bad about what he just did. "I should not be that rude..." he complained as he got back to work.

Pipp was now walking upstairs to the bedroom, looking downtrodden and feeling so conflicted right now, when the bedroom door opened suddenly.

"Pipp?" Zipp said as she got out of the room.

"Zipp! I need your opinion about my social media post!" Pipp requested with desperation.

"Ummm… Okay…" Zipp replied with confusion.

"I want to get real with my followers. I want to tell them about the day everypony learned we couldn’t fly," Pipp explained, which surprised Zipp.

"Whoa," Zipp said with surprise.

"Yes! I want to show everypony that it’s okay to feel scared or hurt, like I did," Pip stated.

Zipp turned to the window and looked at what Pipp just told her. "I mean, I think it’s a great idea, Pipp, but…" she said, having second thoughts on Pipp’s idea.

"But what?!" Pipp cried out.

Zipp then turned to her sister with a worried face. "I don’t know, you used to worry a lot about what other people thought about you," she said with worry.

"I still do! My online persona is part of who I am," Pipp said with a smile.

"I know, and I’m afraid if everypony doesn’t respond nicely to your post, you might take it personally," Zipp explained, still worried about the idea.

"Of course I will!" Pipp exclaimed. "It’s extremely personal!" she pointed out.

"That’s my point," Zipp said, as she placed a hoof on her sister's cheek. "You know I’m all for being yourself, but maybe you should keep some distance between you and the Pippsqueaks, you know?" she said with concern.

Pipp sighed and looked at her sister. "I suppose I see what you mean," she said with a sad face. Then she turned and walked away. "Goodnight, Zipp," she said before heading to her bed.

"You too, Pipp," Zipp said to her sister as she went to bed.

Later that night, Pipp was looking at the draft of the blog she made last night, still feeling conflicted about what to do after talking with her friends.

Pipp groaned and flopped on the table, having a hard time deciding what to do... until she felt determined and opened her draft and posted her blog into her social media.

Pipp waited five minutes, getting 48 views and 27 likes.

But one day later, the views only increased to 102 while the hearts increased to 38, making Pipp nervous as Cloudpuff poked his head with curiosity.

A week later, Pipp started to have a teary breakdown since she only had 326 views and 92 likes, Cloudpuff barked and covered his eyes nervously since he felt that Pipp was about to explode at any moment.

And like he expected, Pipp snapped. "What is happening?!" she cried out as Cloudpuff barked, startled by Pipp’s outburst.

"My post about Discord had over a hundred thousand views in five minutes! Why doesn’t anypony want to read this?!" Pipp cried out as she held Cloudpuff close to her face.

"Bork," Cloudpuff barked as he placed one of his paws on her muzzle.

Pipp put Cloudpuff down and started typing on her laptop, tears streaming down her face. "That’s it! Hitch, Sonic, Tails,, and Zipp were right! I’m deleting it," she said tearfully as she moved her mouse to the delete button. But before she could press the delete button, she received an email from the blog she had posted, which surprised her. She moved the mouse and clicked on the message to read it.

'Dear Pipp, my name is Felicity. I’m a Unicorn, and my family just moved to Maretime Bay. I didn’t know what to expect. I’d never even seen the ocean, and I’d never talked to an Earth Pony. I wasn’t sure if I would fit in or if I’d be able to make any friends. I was scared that they’d think I was boring or weird if I tried to talk to them. So I decided to make things up. I told them about me, my family, and Bridlewood. But none of the stories I told were true. I told everypony that my hobbies were skydiving and surfing. I said my aunt was a princess and my grandma was a queen. I said I had two full-grown dragons as pets, and a sphinx was my best friend. At one point, I even said Bridlewood was made of cotton candy. Everypony loved it… But none of it was true. I’ve never seen the ocean, I’m not royalty, I don’t know any dragons or sphinxes, Bridlewood is made of normal trees, and I hate, hate, hate heights. It didn’t take long for my new friends to figure out I was lying. Someone visited Bridlewood, and you know what I said about the trees. Everypony was upset with me, but they weren’t just angry, they were hurt. They said we could've all stayed friends if I’d told them the truth. But I hadn’t. I’ve been afraid I wouldn’t make friends, but that day, I discovered it’s even worse to make and lose them. I thought I was the loneliest, saddest pony in the world… Then I saw your post. You made me realize I wasn’t alone, not really. Sometimes, we lie because we fear our friends won’t accept us. What I did was wrong, but I knew that if you could admit the truth and work past the fear and sadness… So could I," she read.

Pipp stopped to read and tearfully smiled at the message, feeling proud that her post encouraged somepony to move past their fears and be brave enough to overcome them. She decided to read what was left of the message with a smile. 'Thank you, from the Pippsqueak who thinks you’re the coolest pony ever. You helped me get my friends back. Love, Felicity' Pipp finished the message and stared at it for a long moment.

She decided not to delete the message, and not now that she knew somepony could overcome her fears thanks to that post. Pipp decided to sleep with a tired but proud smile, knowing exactly what she would do first in the morning.

The next morning, Pipp woke up and grabbed her phone to start a live stream with a smile. "Gooooood morning, Pippsqueaks. I wanted to talk about a post I recently put up. Most of you probably haven’t seen it…" she said.

In the main room of the Brighthouse, the rest of the Mane 5 were watching Pipp's livestream with proud smiles on their faces, specially Zipp. Team Sonic was there too, watching from the kitchen through Sonic's phone, who was also blushing with pride at the pegasus.

"What you’re seeing is my authentic self, bedhead-mane and all. A little over a week ago, I showed another version of my authentic self," Pipp said through the live stream.

In Zephyr Heights, the Pegasi watched Pipp's stream on the big screen.

"Part of me is the bubbly Pipp who loves to sing, dance, and talk to all of you," Pipp said to the viewers.

The Unicorns in Bridlewood listened to Pipp's live stream on their phones.

"But there’s another part of me. The Pipp who’s sometimes lonely, sad, and afraid. Who makes mistakes" Pipp said with a pride smile.

In the Zephyr Height’s Castle, Haven was watching her daughter’s live stream on her laptop with Cloudpuff next to her.

"Last night, I was afraid you wouldn’t accept me as I am. I should do a better job of hiding it," Pipp said to the viewers.

"Shout-out to Felicity for reminding me that who I am-- that every part of me--" Pipp said to her followers, not knowing that Felicity watched the stream with a smile, as her friends huddled close to her with smiles as well. "--is enough. Love you, Pippsqueaks. Keep doing what you do best: Being you." she finished.

"All of you. Pipp, Pipp, hooray!" Pipp said as she ended her livestream and put down her phone. She walked out of the room with a big smile, not noticing that her laptop had gotten a new message, a message from Discord himself, who watched both her post and her livestream.

To be continued...

Author's Note

Thanks to JD1 for editing this chapter!