Later that night at zephyr heights, sunny, Izzy and Thomas had put their plan into action, and were in position behind Queen haven's throne, anticipation for the upcoming show.

Up on her porch, zipp was leaning against the railings, with her mother and sister.

"I hear you paid our guests a visit," Queen haven spoke to her daughter.

"Pipp told you?" Zipp asked in shock.

"Oh, you know she tells me everything," Queen haven replied, while she was working on powdering herself. "I wish you would tell me more. You're going to be queen one day. You'll wear this crown. And trust me, it is heavier than it looks".

"Actually, there is something I wanted to tell you," zipp begin. "The unicorns don't have any magic, I think it's tired to why we can't fly..."

"Zephyrina!" Queen haven exclaimed, turning to her daughter. "I don't know what silly ideas those ponies put into your head, but we have a duty to protect our citizens. All the pegasi are happy enough knowing that we royals can fly. Why would you want to disrupt things?"

"Because it's a lie," zipp reaffirmed her statement.

"It makes them feel safe," queen haven replied. "Oh, one day you'll understand. Your sister does," queen haven smiled when pipp arrived, carried by wires, "oh, and here she is now."

"Me-me-me-" pipp sang, warming up her vocals.

"Showtime!" Queen haven declared with a spread of her wings.

With that, the light dimmed dark, followed by the sound of upbeat, pop music playing in the background, as the royals were carried up and gently lowered into the room.

"Remember to smile!" Queen haven smiled to her daughters as they flapping their wings, for show.

"Ugh!" Zipp groaned in disdain, as both she and her mother took their seat on their thrones.

Cloudpuff yapped as he took a sit beside queen haven. Looking behind her mother's throne, zipp looked to see sunny, Izzy and Thomas were all in place for the next phase of the plan. Just as zipp has said, her sister pipp, made a grand entrance above her adoring fans, as she proceeded to sing, and "fly" to further captivate the audience.

(Pipp)
We got the light
We're coming in stronger
We're in it together
If you want it,
it's all inside your mind
We got the light
Won't wait any longer
We'll get it together
If you want it then you can paint the sky

Just as zipp said, all eyes were all on pipp's performance, including queen haven's. Though, even Thomas couldn't help but whistle as he bopped his head to the rhythm of pipp's singing.

"Wow, she's got nice sets of pipes!" Thomas commented.

"Uh, Thomas?" Sunny called, as she stood on top of Izzy. "Little help here?"

"Oh, right," Thomas boost sunny up, until she's right on top Queen haven's throne.

I used to care what they'd say
Let 'em into my brain
But I found a new way
Ohh-hoo-ohh
Every time I fall down
I pick it up like rebound
Gotta get through somehow

From there, sunny made the swap with the fake crown that Izzy has crafted, while sunny stole the real crown. Once the task was done, Thomas put sunny back on the floor, before he walked over to inspect the Pegasus crystal embedded crown.

"Huh, so this is the Pegasus crystal?" Thomas look over the crown.

"Yeah!" Sunny nodded "well, we're got the crystal, next stop is bridlewood!"

With that, the three ponies galloped towards the nearest exit. Unfortunately, a guard was at the door. Fortunately, he was too busy talking to somepony, possibly his girlfriend, on the phone to notice.

"No, you hang up," the guard insisted.

Sunny and Izzy quickly closed the doors, when them and Thomas heard a dog whimper, to which they turned to see the royal dog, cloudpuff, growing and flaring up his wings.

Sunny and Izzy both let out a scream, while Thomas stop the dog in it's tracks. But the dog continued to bark and wriggle in Thomas' grip.

"You're a spunky little one, aren't you?" Thomas said to the dog.

We don't fly like we used to
We take what we're been through
And we can feel brand new
Ohh-hoo-hoo
I know I am a fighter, I feel the fire
I'm shinin' brighter
Ohh-hoo-hoo

With Thomas holding off cloudpuff, sunny and Izzy galloped to another door, only to find sheriff hitch, in a paper-thin Pegasus disguise, complete with a mustache and Emily with her paper-thin Pegasus disguise.

"Sunny Starscout," the sheriff barked. "You're under arrest..." Before he could finish, sunny closed the door on him.

Turning to the another direction, sunny and Izzy dashed off to find another way out, while hitch and Emily dashed in, only to find themselves enchanted with princess pipp's performance, causing hitch to swaying his hips to the sound of her enchanting voice and Emily laughed at him.

Glowing' up kind of love
Dip and slide through the cut
Glowing' up kind of love
We say "hi", you say "what?"

Thomas was still wrestling with cloudpuff, when the two guards from before caught him in the act. Luckily he was wearing the paper-thin Pegasus disguise and a hat that zipp gave him.

"Hey!" Zoom shouted. "What are you doing with the queen's royal dog?"

"Uh... I was just playing?" Thomas grinned nervously, as he held the dog in his hoof and gave it a scratch behind the ears. "I just love dogs! And isn't he a cutie?" Unfortunately, the small dog wriggled himself free from Thomas' grip "h-hey! Come back here!"

With that, Thomas took off chasing the dog, with zoom and thunder exchanging agreement.

"I don't blame him," thunder commented. "He's is cute."

Everywhere that I've been
Yeah, they say I'm say different
But I'm good in my skin
Ohh-hoo-ooh (hey)
If it doesn't feel right
Break it in with tie-dye
And don't you stop 'til sunrise

Cloudpuff dashed into the crowd of Pegasus ponies, forcing Thomas to sneak around the crowd in hopes of cutting off the little dog's escape at the other side. Unfortunately, he was too late. By then, cloudpuff has gotten to sunny and Izzy and stole the crown back, intent on giving it back to Queen haven.

Sunny and Izzy give chase, only to crash into Thomas in the process.

"Oof!"

The three ponies grunted as they fell to the floor.

"Wipeout!" Izzy moaned.

Sunny looked up and pointed, "there he goes!"

Unfortunately, what Thomas failed to notice, was that during the crash, his painted fake wings were starting to come undone.

We don't fly like we used to
We take what we're been through
And we can feel brand new
Ohh-hoo-hoo

Cloudpuff return to the throne, wagging his tail as he sat at the base of the step. Before zipp's mother had time to notice, she quickly stepped in, struggling to pry the crown away from the dog.

"Give me that!" Zipp grunted, pulling the tiara off, while cloudpuff ran off with the Pegasus crystal into the crowd.

At that moment, hitch had finally found his targets and was closing in on them. Thinking fast, Thomas beckoned both sunny and Izzy to hide behind some curtains, while he stepped in and blocked hitch's path

"Get out of my way!" Hitch ordered.

"Sheriff, I know you and sunny go way back," Thomas began. "But you don't understand."

I know I am a fighter (fighter),
I feel the fire (fire)
I'm shinin' brighter
We got the light
We're coming in stronger
We're in it together

"No, you don't understand!" Hitch argued. "I'm trying to keep sunny out of trouble!"

"By arresting her?" Thomas countered. "Yeah, real helpful."

"It's not like I want to put her in jail! She's at the point of no-" before hitch could continue, cloudpuff arrived and and crashed into hitch's leg, dropping the Pegasus crystal in the process. "Huh?"

When hitch looked down, like all the little critters, the little dog immediately took an instant liking to the stallion.

"Hey, he likes you!" Thomas said to the stallion.

"I can see that," hitch replied. "What is it with me and critters?"

Just then, Emily came up aside hitch, Thomas recognize her.

"Emily? Is that you?" Thomas asked.

"Thomas!" Said Emily and hugged him, "I thought I've never see you again."

Before the moment reunion between Thomas and Emily could continue, the spotlights begin to flicker out of control, interrupting princess pipp's performance.

"What the..." Pipp said in confusion.

The next thing everypony knew, the spotlight shines on Thomas, Emily and hitch. The Pegasus crowd all shared confused looks at the new ponies. Then, out of impulse, Thomas, Emily and hitch stated to dance.

While Thomas and Emily dance, in the meantime, sheriff hitch was singing awkwardly.

(Hitch)
Throwing up, find a glove, fly around
Bup-bup-bup
Doing stuff that I love
You're like, why?
I'm like what?

"What is happening?" Princess pipp asked, unsure as to how her spotlight could be taken by these strange Pegasi.

At the same time, hitch continue to sing awkwardly, with cloudpuff howling with the stallion.

Crisp and dry
Eat some mud
Glowing up
Lovey dove...

(Thomas and Emily)
They're not such little ponies
After all!

Suddenly, a scream was heard to which the crowd look up to see princess pipp was zipping around, out of control. Using the distraction, zipp slipped in and snatched the Pegasus crystal that cloudpuff has stolen, leaving Hitch and Emily with the dog, while the rebellious princess and Thomas regrouped with sunny and Izzy.

"I got it!" Zipp handed the crystal to sunny.

"Yes!" Sunny cheered as she took the crystal and tucked it away in her saddle bag.

"Let's go!" With a gallop, zipp lead the group to an exit.

"Nice work with the lights," Thomas complimented to sunny and Izzy. "What did you girls do?"

"We didn't do anything," sunny replied.

"But we did meet this nice backstage Pegasus," Izzy explained. "But he was scared of us, and jumped on this strange thing-a-majig, with flashing buttons, levers, and he then he took off screaming."

"Freeze!" A loud voice barked, to which Thomas and his younger companions stopped in their tracks.

"It's the prisoners!" One of the Pegasus recognized sunny and izzy from the mugshots.

At that moment, pipp came swooping down and knocked hitch and Emily's fake wings off, blowing their cover.

"Two earth ponies!" Another Pegasus shouted, causing hitch and Emily to take their leave, leaving a heartbroken cloudpuff behind.

"Whoa!" Pipp screamed, when she crashed into Thomas, knocking both his hat and his wings fake wings off.

"He's a unicorn!" Another Pegasus shouted.

However, the surprised Pegasus didn't stop Thomas, with princess had finally came to the end of her flight, to which she hung upside down, with the wirings revealed in the spotlight, above an entire audience of shocked Pegasi.

"She's a fake!" A Pegasus fan exclaimed.

"FAKE!" Another shouted, while the reporters in the room snapped a photo.

"The royals can't fly either?"

Knowing she's in big trouble, princess pipp desperately looked around the room, spotting her sister zipp, who had stopped to look back at the commotion.

"Zipp?" Pipp pleaded.

Sunny, Izzy and Thomas were galloping towards the exit, only for sunny to bump into zipp.

"Zipp! Hurry!" Sunny shouted, with the reluctant princess following.

However, in the process, sunny had dropped the Pegasus crystal from her saddle bag and left without her knowing.

Author's Note

Part 11 coming soon