Team Sonic, Pipp, Sunny, Hitch, and Izzy were walking towards Fluttershy's cottage, with Tails carrying the Daring Doo book since he and Sonic found a clue.

Just so you know, Sonic's ankle has recovered entirely from its injury, and he can run and move around as much as he wants again, all thanks to both Tails and Pipp's care of him.

However, once they all reached the entrance to the cottage, Pipp stopped them. "You need to be prepared for the worst," she warned with a bored expression.

"Discord's about to destroy a Unity Crystal, ridding Equestria of magic for the rest of eternity," Sunny pointed out. "I think our threshold for catastrophe is at an all-time high."

"Yours is just now? We've been dealing with a fat man our whole lives that ours even passed the limit!" Knuckles pointed out.

"Yeah, that's what happens when your hobby becomes your life," Sonic said with a bored expression.

Pipp sighed heavily before placing a hoof on the cottage's door. "You brought this on yourselves," she said tiredly, and then she pushed the door.

Inside, Zipp was having a massive breakdown. The couch, the windows, the stands, even a lamp—all of them—were covered in yellow tape that said, 'Do not cross.' As for Zipp's hair, it was a mess; she had massive eye bags, and her eyes twitched.

"HOLD UP!" Zipp shouted to the others, startling them and making them freeze in their places. "This is an active scene. If you touch anything, you'll contaminate evidence, and we'll never find Discord or save magic in Equestria," she said, desperate, and then she approached the others. "Which means I'll never fly again, achieve my 100-win flyball streak, or perform that air routine Mom asked me to do for the royal ball!"

"Zipp stressing over royal duties?" Pipp muttered to Sonic at her side with wide eyes.

"Okay, this is worse than it looks like..." Tails said as well with concern.

"We just popped in to... say a quick hello," Pipp told Zipp with a smile.

"Hi..." Sunny said sheepishly, waving her hoof.

"Hey!" Izzy said cheerfully, waving her hoof excitedly.

"Whazzup?" Hitch said as well, also waving his hoof.

"Yo!" Knuckles and Sonic replied, with Sonic making the 'piece' symbol with his right hand.

"I told you I'm fine..." Zipp said tiredly, also rubbing her left eye.

"And obviously, we can see that," Pipp said, patting Zipp's head softly. "You look as peaceful as a pegasus in a mud bath," she complimented.

"Or an orchid sun-soaked field," Izzy said with a sheepish smile.

"Or a bear surrounded by honey pots," Hitch added.

"...Or a pony who hasn't eaten or slept in several days and is on the brink of collapse," Sunny said with a bored tone.

"Or like Knuckles when the Master Emerald gets stolen from Angel Island on a random day," Sonic said with a bored expression.

"Nah, she looks even worse," Knuckles said with a bored expression.

"For Zipp's sanity's sake, I'm shutting my mouth," Tails muttered nervously.

Everyone else looked at Sunny, Sonic, and Knuckles, confused, while Zipp looked at them annoyed, and Tails gulped and covered his face with the Daring Doo book.

"Like we weren't all thinking it," Sunny pointed out.

"Go get a cup of coffee or something, Zipp," Knuckles said. "You look terrible," he added.

"But also, we're all gonna have to pitch in if we wanna find that old man already," Sonic pointed out.

"Discord researched how to destroy the Crystal in this very room," Zipp explained, grabbing her head as she tried to stay awake. "There's gotta be something that can point us in his direction."

"I found a claw nail!" Izzy said, cheerfully for some reason, after looking down a carpet.

"Ew. Cutting his claws in the living room has gotta count as suspicious behavior," Pipp said with a cringed expression.

"Unfortunately, I don't think it does for Discord," Hitch pointed out with a bored expression.

"Besides stealing the Crystal, what counts as suspicious behavior for him?" Knuckles questioned rhetorically.

"If Discord was researching... Wouldn't the answer be somewhere on this bookshelf?" Sunny questioned.

"I've read through every single sentence on every single page of every single book here, and I promise there's nothing helpful in them," Zipp explained.

"Maybe it's not about the books on the shelf... maybe it's about the one book that's missing," Sunny suggested. "The one Sonic said he had when he followed Reginald," she pointed out.

"Thankfully, my ankle has healed after that awful experience," Sonic said with a smirk. He adjusted his left shoe normally now that his ankle was fully recovered.

Sunny was moving her hoof around the books on a shelf when she stopped after noticing something. "Aha! Discord has every single Daring Doo book ever published on this shelf, except for one: her ninth book," she pointed out.

"Quick question: it doesn't happen to be called 'Daring Doo and the Curse of the Basaltic Caves,' right?" Tails asked, reading the cover of the book he had on his hands.

"It is!" Sunny replied with a smile.

"How did I miss that?" Zipp asked, confused.

Sunny smirked, "Sometimes, we're so busy looking for the inconspicuous that we miss the obvious."

"And how come you know about this, but I don't?!" Zipp asked Tails in panic.

"Sonic found the book in the Brighthouse's basement, and I looked at it for six hours just to find nothing..." Tails explained. "At least until Sonic told me which page was the clue instead of telling me about the clue itself," he added with a bored expression.

Pipp turned on her phone and tried to find information about the Basaltic Caves online, but Sonic placed a hand on her phone and shook his head in denial.

"Don't bother, Little Pipp," Sonic told her. "Tails and I already tried to look for something on the internet, but there's no info," he explained.

"That's because nopony's been there for hundreds of years," Izzy said with a smile.

"Izzy's right. The book says that the caves are full of dangerous lava creeks that are so hot they could melt an entire castle, a stone sculpture, an entire building..." Tails was listed, but then he got confused about something. "A dragon scale?" he asked.

"The point is, that thing can melt pretty much anything," Sonic explained.

"Didn't I tell you not to do anything Discord-related while you recovered?" Pipp asked with a raised eyebrow.

"I didn't pass the obedience class, Pipp. Do not blame me," Sonic replied with a mocking smirk.

"Hang on..." Sunny said, "Those lava creeks can melt anything... maybe even a Unity Crystal..." she said with an anxious look.

"Oh yeah, they could destroy a Unity Crystal!" Izzy said with a relaxed tone.

"Three, two, one..." Knuckles counted down with a bored expression.

"Oh..." Izzy realized her own words and panicked.

"There it is," Knuckles said with his arms crossed.

"Yeah... we kinda forgot that was the whole point of our investigation," Sonic confessed sheepishly, scratching his left cheek.

"Okay. What we are absolutely not going to do right now is panic" Sunny instructed to Zipp, Hitch and Pipp, who seemed to have the same anxious expressions as Izzy. "We know Discord took the book with him, so it probably has information about how to survive the caves," she pointed out.

"Well, I have a Daring Doo and the Curse of the Basaltic Caves for you!" Tails said, extending the book with a smile.

"In that case, we should pack up and get ready to head out!" Sonic stated with a smirk, then looked at Pipp's sparkling eyes and smiled at her. "And yes, Pipp. You can finally pack up all that you need for a trip," he told her.

Pipp squealed like an excited child in response.

Izzy, however, couldn't feel excited a single bit. "You mean... you want to go into the caves?" she asked in panic. "My uncle Fizzy once threw a flying star back to its home solar system using his bare hooves, and even he was too afraid to go to the Basaltic Caves," she said with worry.

"Daring Do was able to survive the caves," Sunny pointed out. "I'm sure that book will be able to tell us how," she assured.

"But Daring Do's a trained explorer..." Zipp pointed out with concern.

"Luckily for you, we have an expert explorer in the gang!" Sonic stated, looking at Knuckles with a smirk, who stood in pride at the compliment.

"And who will save magic if we don't even try?" Hitch pointed out.

"There are worse things than losing magic..." Izzy said with worry and concern.

Everyone else turned to face her, completely confused, except for Tails and Knuckles, who looked at each other for a second before looking back at Izzy.

"We've lived without magic before, and losing magic won't change ponykind coming together or any friendships we've made. Isn't that what matters?" Izzy questioned.

"Discord's words did stuck with you..." Sunny pointed out with concern.

"I'm not saying I want to get rid of magic. I love magic!" Izzy pointed out before using her magic to levitate herself. "I wouldn't be able to do this without magic," she added with a smile that disappeared once she put herself on the ground again. "But even good things like magic can come with some not-great things, too," she pointed out with concern. "Discord said he wanted to get rid of magic because he didn't want anypony feeling less because of their powers," she explained.

"He also said that's how you felt when we flew off without you near Canterlot," Zipp pointed out in concern.

"Maybe I felt that way, a tiny, little, atom-sized bit," Izzy confessed nervously.

The rest felt confused by that, except for... the entirety of Team Sonic. Yes, Sonic included.

Now Sonic understood Izzy's situation: When he was running around Maretime Bay that day, the same day Discord stole the Pegasus Crystal, Izzy felt down. He wanted to know what had happened, but the thing with the statue happened, and everything went downhill.

At first, he thought Izzy could be sad over something silly... But now, everything made perfect sense: she was left by Sunny, Zipp, Pipp, and Tails - although he didn't want to leave - for the fly ball game; everyone left her BUT Tails and Knuckles in the forest; she's been ignored lately and nobody, not even himself, was willing to listen...

He was so focused on finding Discord at any cost that he ignored a friend's feelings entirely. Now, he feels ashamed of himself. He was Izzy's first friend. How did he let her feelings slip so easily?

Unfortunately, while Sonic felt compassion for Izzy, Sunny seemed to take her words a bit harshly. "I told you, flying above those trees was about getting a better perspective of the forest," she pointed out to Izzy with a frown.

"And we still found nothing," Sonic pointed out with a frown.

"Sonic is right. It didn't help us find the Gate of the Ancients," Zipp pointed out with worry. "All it did was separate us and leave Izzy and Hitch alone," she added.

"We were fine!" Hitch said with a frown.

"Oh yeah, we were so fine that it took us like five hours to find nothing, while Izzy, Tails, and Knuckles found the gate in what? An hour? Maybe two?" Sonic pointed out with his arms crossed and a bored expression.

"Ugh! Don't you see?! This line of thinking is what Discord wants!" Hitch pointed out in concern. "You can't let him get in your heads," he begged with worry.

"All Discord wants is to make sure everypony is on equal hoofing," Zipp pointed out.

"By getting rid of what makes us special!" Sunny snapped back in concern. "Our magic has already saved us in so many ways!" she pointed out.

"Communicating with animals makes me a better sheriff!" Hitch said in concern as well.

"Izzy's not saying our powers haven't helped," Zipp defended her. "But I'm sure magic has made all of us feel left behind at some point," she pointed out worriedly.

"Don't you wish you could play flyball with everypony, too?" Izzy asked Hitch with worry.

And so, the four of them started to fight out loud, with Knuckles facepalming in frustration, Tails groaning in annoyance, Sonic putting on a bored expression, and Pipp frowning in worry.

"Alright, I had enough of this bullshit!" Tails said angrily, pulling out three headphones blocking external sound and extending two to Sonic and Knuckles.

Team Sonic put on the headphones, and Sonic then covered Pipp's ears, which made her blush. "S-Sonic?" she asked, confused.

"You'll understand soon, Little Pipp," Sonic replied with a smile that seemed to comfort Pipp a bit as she smiled back.

Then, Tails pulled out a party bugle and used it to make a loud sound that startled Sunny, Izzy, Zipp, and Hitch. Thanks to the headphones, Team Sonic didn't hear the horn, and since Sonic covered Pipp's ears, she didn't hear it either.

"Wow... thanks for that, Blue Star!" Pipp told Sonic, who retired his hands from her ears and removed his headphones along Knuckles.

"Anytime, Little Pipp," Sonic replied with a wink.

Once the rest seemed to turn their attention to Tails, they found the little fox frowning in anger at them. It wasn't really scary to tell the truth. I mean, is Tails what we're talking about here? Even when he's mad, you feel like a cupcake is threatening you.

"Now that I have your attention, can we please pass the page on the 'Discord is our enemy or not' thing? Because I'm pretty sure we already settled that three issues ago," Tails pointed out with a bored expression.

"We did?" Sonic asked, confused.

"You already left to chase Discord when that happened," Pipp replied with a bored expression.

"Look: Zipp and Knuckles already say it, Discord isn't a bad guy. There's no sides to all of this," Tails explained. "His methods are wrong? Yes. He's an older man with the wrong perception of unity? Totally. Does that mean he's a bad guy? No. He's just misguided. Maybe none of us can convince him not to destroy the Crystal..." he pointed out before turning to see the cottage's basement door and smirking. "But I think I know how to stop him for good," he stated.

"Well, if it stops Discord from getting rid of magic, any idea is welcome!" Sunny stated with a smile.

"Great!" Tails said. "The problem is that I still need to adjust some things, and it could take me a few hours that we don't have..." he pointed out in concern.

"Then let's make up that time!" Sonic said with a smirk, putting his arm around Tails' neck. "You guys go ahead and track Discord down. Knux and I will stay with Tails, and then we'll catch you up once he's done, okay?" he instructed the Mane 5, launching the Daring Doo book to Sunny, who struggled a bit at first before finally grabbing the book properly with a sheepish smile.

"Are you sure? You can tag along with them if you want," Tails said with a smile.

"And leave you alone? Yeah, not happening, little man," Knuckles stated with a confident smirk.

"Alright, then it's settled," Hitch stated. "Let's get moving, everypony!" he instructed with a smile.

The Mane 5 immediately left Fluttershy's cottage while Team Sonic waved their hands to say goodbye to them. Once they were alone, Sonic turned to see Tails. "So, what's the game plan here?" he asked.

"First things first: Knux, could you go to the basement and bring the crystal with Fluttershy's message?" Tails requested with a smile.

"Leave it to me!" Knuckles replied with a smirk before boosting to the basement.

"As for us, I think I have a little plan to trick Discord so we can recover the Crystal by using violence... but not hurting him at all," Tails said as he turned to Sonic with a smirk.

"And what would that plan be?" Sonic asked while Knuckles returned carrying the crystal with Fluttershy's message on his left shoulder.

"I'll explain everything on our way to Maretime Bay," Tails replied. "I have something on my workshop that I wanna show you guys, anyway. I've been working on it for months, but it's finally ready! And we can use it to catch up with the rest!" he smiled.

Sounds good to me!" Sonic said with his thumbs up. "One question, though: which one of you two is gonna explain to me why you didn't tell me about Izzy feeling excluded?" he asked them with a frown and his arms crossed. "And don't use the 'you should pay more attention' bullshit of an excuse with me! I want a real answer!" he added with anger.

Tails and Knuckles looked at each other hesitantly before nodding and looking back at Sonic. "We promised her to keep it a secret... and that we'd be with her at any moment if the rest didn't realize how excluded she felt..." Knuckles started to explain with concern.

"I tried to tell you several times before..." Tails confessed. "But... You were so focused on finding Discord and getting that Chaos Emerald back... that I decided it was better if you never realized in the first place... at least not until Izzy herself decided to speak," he added with concern, scratching his right arm with shame.

Sonic was frowning at first, but eventually, he sighed in defeat and rubbed his eyes with a hand. Then, he looked back at Tails and Knuckles with a smirk. "You two are a pair of idiots, you know that?" he asked them. "If you told me before, I would have listened instead of acting instinctually to track down Discord," he confessed. "But I guess it Is already too late to regret that. What matters is that you two were great friends with Izzy, and now that I know how she feels... I think it's time I also help her by finding that draconequus and saving magic!" he stated.

"Really?!" both Tails and Knuckles asked, while Sonic nodded with a smirk.

"But what about the final Emerald?" Knuckles asked, concerned.

"We'll deal with that once we get the Pegasus Crystal," Sonic stated with a determined look. "So, little bro, still wanna show us what you built?" he asked Tails with a smirk.

"Sure thing!" Tails assured with a smile.

"Then what are we waiting for?" Sonic asked as the three of them boosted towards the Crystal Brighthouse. "Let's roll!" he stated with a smirk.

A few hours later, the Mane 5 walked towards the Basaltic Caves.

Sunny was reading the Daring Doo book, supposedly guiding the rest, while Hitch carried some bags with stuff, and the others followed... but then they arrived at a very tight zone where they almost crashed against each other.

"Sorry!" Izzy exclaimed.

"Excuse me!" Zipp replied to her.

"Eyes on the road, Sunny..." Hitch told her with a bored expression.

"I'm sorry, but these instructions are really confusing," Sunny said with concern as she kept reading the book.

"You've got time until we reach the Basaltic Caves," Zipp pointed out with concern.

Sunny revealed that the instructions weren't for the cave. "They're for the Boulder Grit Canyon, which we'll have to pass through first. "

"That doesn't sound like the leisurely scenic route I want to be," Zipp confessed with a cringed expression.

"Don't worry, the canyons aren't dangerous," Sunny assured. "But there are huge boulders that separate the road, so if we go the wrong way, we could get very lost," she pointed out with concern.

"And we're already running out of time," Hitch pointed out with worry as he watched the sun setting on the horizon.

"Luckily, Daring Do left us specific instructions for navigating through the boulders," Sunny said with a smile, showing the others a map with some words.

"Turn right, then left, then right, right, right, left," Izzy sang cheerfully.

"Are you sure it was Boulder Grit Canyon Daring Do was talking about?" Hitch asked, pointing at their surroundings in panic. "We've been walking through Boulder Grit Canyon for the last half hour, and I can't see any boulders or turn," he pointed out with concern.

"T-That doesn't make any sense!" Sunny said in a panic. "The whole road is supposed to be one big confusing maze..." she pointed out with worry.

"Maybe Daring Do made a mistake," Zipp suggested as she approached Sunny to take a better look at the book.

"Yeah, maybe..." Sunny replied, unsure.

Later, the Mane 5 arrived at a bridge in the middle of the canyon.

"You decided to warn us about Boulder Grit Canyon but not about the creaky old bridge with the 1000-foot drop?!" Pipp shouted in panic. "The guys are not even here to catch us if we fall!" she pointed out with worry.

"It's perfectly safe," Sunny assured, burying her head in the book. Oh, wait! It does say there was an incident back in—–—" she tried to explain with a worried look, but then Hitch snatched the book from her hooves.

"How about we put the book away for now?" Hitch suggested, annoyed, putting the book on his badge. "Just follow my lead, and whatever you do... Don't look down," he instructed determinedly before carefully walking over the bridge.

The girls looked at each other uncertainly, but Zipp decided to be the first one to follow Hitch, then Sunny, and then Izzy.

Pipp stood behind for a few seconds since she was terrified, but then her phone vibrated, and she took it out to read a message from Sonic that said, 'Be there in 10! Maybe five if Tails can take us there as fast as he claims!'.

Pipp smiled at that, sighed in relief, then focused back on the road, looking carefully at where she stepped so she wouldn't fall at any moment.

"Turn right, then left, then right, right, right, left," Izzy sang to stay as calm as she could while also trying not to look down. "Turn right, then left, then right, right, right, left," she sang again.

"Careful. There's a rotting piece of wood here," Hitch instructed the others.

"Copy that," Zipp said, focused on the bridge.

"Turn right, then left, then right, right, right, left," Izzy kept singing.

"Izzy, we need to concentrate right now," Sunny told her with a frown.

"I've never been good at concentrating," Izzy confessed. "There're always too many fun things around, and how can you just pick one thing? It's impossible!" she pointed out.

"Well, you're singing, which is making it a bit difficult for the rest of us to concentrate," Sunny scolded.

"But it helps take my mind off the scary bridge," Izzy pointed out with worry.

"Your mind should be on the bridge! Focused" Sunny said in anger.

"Can we please stop arguing back––" Hitch tried to beg, but he stepped right on the rotting piece of wood and fell from the bridge. "––THEEEEERE...? THE BOOK!" he shouted as he fell, and the Daring Do book fell from his bag.

"My wings are glitching!" Zipp shouted in panic.

"MINE TOO!" Sunny shouted in a desperate voice. She wanted to save Hitch but could not because her magic had failed.

"Come on!" Pipp cried out as well.

Suddenly, Hitch was enveloped by a blue aura of magic and levitated back to the bridge.

"Come on, magic. Do your thing!" Izzy cried out, grunting as she struggled to levitate Hitch back to the bridge, which she could do.

"Izzy! You did it!" Hitch cheered with a genuine smile, although he and Izzy seemed anxious after Hitch almost freaking died, and Sunny even wrapped her hooves around Hitch as she hugged him tightly.

"But it looks like our magic is glitching out more by the second," Zipp pointed out with concern.

"And we kind of lost the Daring Do book..." Hitch added with worry and shame since he wasn't fast enough to catch the book before it fell.

"So we'll be entering the caves with barely any powers and no road map? That's just great..." Sunny complained, separating from Hitch.

"Well, the boys are on their way. Maybe they could take a detour to catch another copy of the book," Pipp suggested, taking out her phone.

"I don't think it's a good idea, Pipp," Sunny confessed. "I know they could go in a flash, but we're running out of time," she pointed out.

"Let's just keep moving forward," Zipp stated with a worried frown.

Once again, time passed by, but the Mane 5 managed to arrive at their destination.

"The Basaltic Caves! We finally made it!" Sunny cheered with a smile.

A giant rock door covered the caves with symbols around and a clock hand.

"Turn right, then left, then right, right, right, left," Izzy kept singing despite not being in a live or death situation anymore.

"We're not the only ones," Zipp pointed out, pointing at some footprints on the floor.

"Discord..." Hitch said with a frown before walking to one side of the giant rock blocking the entrance. "Get your hooves in position. It will take all of us to move this builder aside," he stated.

"Wait!" Sunny said, "According to Daring Do, the only way through is to solve some code." Sunny explained this with concern.

"Great. What's the code?" Pipp asked in a tired tone.

Sunny gulped and started to sweat nervously. "Well, I didn't make it that far in the book..." she confessed shamefully.

"Daring Do's not known for giving away clues," Zipp pointed out. "If it were in the book, it would have been hidden in some sort of riddle," she explained.

"A riddle that has to do with turning this dial," Hitch also pointed out.

"But how many times and in what direction?" Sunny asked in concern.

"Turn right, then left, then right, right, right, left," Izzy sang again.

"Izzy! What did I tell you about singing while we're trying to concentrate?!" Sunny scolded her with a frown, and Izzy flinched at her outburst.

However, Zipp realized something. "No! Wait... keep singing. The directions Izzy was singing were clearly not for Boulder Grit Canyon, but this rock dial also turns right and left," she explained with a smile. "What if what Izzy's singing is the code?" she questioned.

"It's worth a shot," Hitch smirked, grabbing the giant clock's hand.

"Turn right one, left one..." Zipp and Hitch repeated as they moved the clock hand in said directions.

"Right one, right one, right one..." Sunny kept going.

"And then left!" Izzy sang again.

Just like that, the doors to the Basaltic Caves opened up, granting access to the Mane 5.

"It worked!" Hitch cheered.

"WOOHOO!" Zipp cheered as well.

"Yes!" Sunny celebrated as the entire group entered the caves.

"We did it," Izzy cheered.

"Nice one!" Pipp added with a smile.

"That code was a real head-scratcher!" Discord's voice spoke, and everyone saw him, Reginald Fursome and the squirrel Izzy helped a while ago over some rocks, with the draconequus holding the Pegasus Crystal. "But look at us, able to figure it out by working together as a team, and blah blah blah," he added in a mocking tone.

"Discord!" Izzy growled with a frown while lighting up her horn to get the Crystal away from him.

"GET THAT UNITY CRYSTAL!" Sunny shouted in concern.

However, Izzy's magic was fading away, and Discord giggled since Izzy's magic tickled him.

"Oh, please, stop! It tickles, it tickles!" Discord pled. "You are all trying your best, aren't you?" he added in a mocking sad tone. "Let me save you the embarrassment.

So Discord snapped his fingers, transporting the Mane 5 to a cage hanging where the bridge they had crossed before used to be.

Then, Discord transported over the cage and looked bored at Hitch, bitting the cage with his teeth and at Sunny glaring daggers at him. "Don't look at me with those woebegone eyes. I'm doing this for you. For all of you!" he pointed out with a smirk. "One day, you'll thank me for creating equality among all ponykind. But in the meantime... at least you can indulge in these fleeting moments of magic trapped with the ones you hold dear. You're welcome," he added confidently.

However, besides the annoying protests of the Mane 5 begging him to set them free, he noticed something else. Something that was... off.

Discord counted the group's members and then gasped, confused. "Hey... wait a minute," he said with a frown. "I thought you used to be eight," he pointed out.

And then, without being able to dodge or even notice it, Discord was punched hard in the face by a blue ball that soon enough disappeared in a way he could not understand.

"What the–– WHO DID THAT?!" Discord shouted in anger, with fire forming in his eyes.

However, as he looked around, he didn't notice something else coming at him, and so he ended up punched in his stomach by Knuckles, who smirked with joy after he finally could strike a punch on the draconequus.

"Oh, I was dying to do that to you, old man!" Knuckles stated before landing over some yellow wings.

Discord put his hands over his stomach and looked around with a frown, but then his eyes came out of his body, and he screamed like a little filly when he saw something coming right at him.

The Mane 5 inside the cage felt confused by Discord's sudden change of attitude, and they also wondered who attacked him.

"Uh, what's going on?" Hitch questioned, confused.

"Why did Discord just scream like a filly?" Zipp asked, startled.

"Uh... guys?" Pipp called out with wide eyes. "P-Perhaps you wanna take a look at this..." she added, pointing at something outside the cage.

The others looked in the direction she was pointing at. Their eyes also widened in surprise: Tails was wearing a pilot hat with pilot goggles, piloting a yellow plane with white stripes, no wheels, and white wings with his iconic two tails printed on the sides and the words 'Tornado IV' written down beside the plane. Over the wings, Sonic and Knuckles were standing with smirks, and their electrical powers charged up.

"Get him, boys!" Sonic instructed with a confident smirk as the three of them prepared for the showdown against Discord.

To be continued...

Author's Note

Next month, the Final Battle approaches:

THE MANE 5 AND TEAM SONIC VS THE LORD OF CHAOS!

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