My Little Pony (R:G5): Ponies Unite! (Book 1: A New Generation)

Sunny began to awake with a groan as she tries to sit up. She suddenly felt a pair of hooves on her back and her left side of her barrel as she then heard a familiar voice, “Whoa whoa, easy! I don’t want you to move around so much.” She rests her head back on the pillow as she could hear Hitch explaining to her, “You gave all of us a scare back at the castle.”

As she took her glasses and placing them back on the bridge of her nose, she then teases him, “Well, maybe I like to sleep in the castle and live like a princess for… once?” She seemed confused her vision getting a little weird as she reeled her ear back, “Whoa, who changed my lenses on my glasses?”

“Uhh, you okay Sunny?” The sheriff asked, a little confused himself.

“I-I don’t know I-” Sunny began, but stops herself as she took her eyewear off and see that her vision… it’s crystal clear now. She gasps softly at first. She quickly got out of her bed and to the mirror, not caring that she has a messy mane, and puts the glasses back on, then off again. She scoffed in excitement first, the she repeated the process again, and began to giggle to herself and then began to cry with tears of joy.

“Sunny?” The yellow stallion asked in concern, “What’s wrong?”

“Hitch…” she turns to him, tossing the glasses on the bed and then says, “I can see… I can perfectly see! I CAN SEE YOU PERFECTLY!!!” She ran to him and gave him the biggest hug she could muster as she happily cries into his shoulder, mutter the same sentence over and over again, “I can see! I can see!”

Hitch was completely dumbfounded, but not the one for ruining the moment, he held her close to a caring embrace. As she they ended the hug, he then asked, “But how?”

“That crystal Alicorn from my dreams! She brought my sight back!”

“A crystal Alicorn?” They both heard Twilight’s voice from the staircase, looking towards it they see the Princess of Friendship herself had came up. “That’s the second time you mentioned about her Sunny. How is she able to do that?”

She began to stutter in excitement, “I-I-I don’t know! She was with me the entire time, like she wasn’t physically there, but in spirit! W-well, technically, she saw everything through me, but she was helping us! A-a-and I was remembering who she is! She’s of royalty, a-a-and her mom was an Alicorn herself! And she-”

“Hold on!” Twilight stops her, grabbing her by the shoulders, and in very concerned tone she asks, “Sunny, are you absolutely sure she’s an Alicorn?”

“W-well, yeah…” the apricot mare answers, “that’s what she took in the form of anyway.”

Twilight was stunned at first as she looked out of the window. She trots to it, stares at it for a good few seconds and says quietly, “My niece… You’re alive… somewhere…”

“Princess?”

“Sunny,” the lavender Alicorn turns her head to look at her with a very emotional smile on her face, “That Alicorn you came in contact with is my beloved niece, Flurry Heart.”

The young mare and stallion were both in shock as they looked at each other, then at the Princess as Sunny spoke up first, “Flurry Heart… she was the one helping us?”

Twilight nods as her answer and continues, “I think there’s more than just a connection. I believe she was trying to clue you in as to where she was kept hidden.” She sat on her haunches and exhaled in nostalgia, “The last time I saw her, she was around at your height, and she was kept frozen inside a crystal chamber… but not of the Crystal Empire.”

Both Earth Ponies were once again stunned by the revelation. Hitch then asks, “Well, if she not here in that kingdom specifically, does that mean she was moved somewhere else?”

“Not here in Equestria,” the Princess tells them as she shook her head, taking another sigh, “I may need to do some research, tracking her down will be most difficult. For now, Sunny, I suggest that you and your friends should go on and celebrate.”

The apricot mare was surprised by what her mentor told her, “Wait… does that mean-?”

“Hey Sunny!” She heard Pipp’s voice calling to her, making the young mare look at the window, seeing the Pegasus Princess… flying?! “Come on! We’re gonna be late for the concert!”

She looked at her mentor again, unable to contain her excitement, then looking at Hitch as he says, “Well? You heard the mare!”

They both laugh like little foals as they hurry downstairs. Before Sunny could leave through the front door, she took a moment to stop and look at the picture of her younger self and her dad, telling the still picture, “I did it dad. I finally made it. Wish you were here to see it…”

“Sunny, c’mon!” She heard Izzy exclaim.

She readjusted the picture and said, “Well, I gotta go dad… I love you.” She gave the picture a kiss and gently closed the door behind her, then rushing off to join her friends.

All the while from the top of the lighthouse, Twilight Sparkle couldn’t help but giggle to herself, oh how she and her friends reminded her so much of herself and the friends she made back at Ponyville. If only she had given the ability to rewind time and tell them how much they meant to them, she would do it over and over again, but for now, she knows that everything will be alright again, seeing the dancing colored lights from the spotlights as music loudly play at the Maretime Bay plaza, singing a cheerful song that would become the anthem of the Champions of Unity.

Deep down though, Twilight knew that not only will she have to find her niece again, she will have to train her Champions to learn how to control their Unity Geodes, as she dubbed them, and find the their true spark in their power.

She looks up to the skies and said to herself, “My fellow Princesses, please help me watch over my little ponies.”

Maretime Bay Shoreside

As Argyle Silverline stood next to the tiny waves of the ocean, listening to it’s gentle crashes, his ear flickers as the sound of approaching hoofsteps were coming towards him. A distorted voice spoke to him, “A little late to listen to the waves, wouldn’t you say friend?” The silver stallion looks behind him and he was greeted by a figure in a red cloak with a strange mask, in shape of a lioness.

The earth pony chuckles, “My sincere apology friend. I thought I’d take an nature walk and back here to the shore when I had time.”

“Sounds to me like you took more than a nature walk.”

“That obvious?”

“Obviously, yes.” Both of them shared a laugh as the figured stood next to him and asks, “So, how did your nature walk went?”

Argyle took a moment to reflect on his journey and reports back, “Well, aside from the danger and excitement we had, I gotten a chance to meet her finally.”

“Her?” The figure asked intrigued.

“Yeah. You’d like her. Her name is Sunny Starscout…” he exhales a chuckle as he then said, “It’s funny… we’re two of a kind, she and I.” He then summons a stardust blue horn and wings looking the reflection in the water as he continues on, “We both have these Alicorn powers, born with them, and we use them to protect others who can’t help themselves. Only difference being is the approach.”

“Well,” the figure said, turning off the distortion, revealing a mare’s voice, “To be fair, I had my share of similarities with another pony I know.” She pulls down the her hood of the cloak, letting her red, yellow, and black locks of her mane fall freely, her Rudy red eyes reflect off from the sun’s light.

Argyle chuckles and asks her, “And why do you think that is Sunset Shimmer?”