Back in zephyr heights, the three ponies had just been escorted to the castle dungeons for presumably trespassing. sunny was gazing out a nearby window, in a deep trail of thought.

"Something is not right." Sunny whispered. "We haven't seen a single pony flying, except the royal family" she then noticed that there was no response from Izzy or Thomas. Sunny turned back to face them. "Izzy, Thomas, are you two listening?"

"I read you loud and clear, sunny" Thomas replied honestly. "But I'm not so sure about Izzy."

Thomas then gestured over to the purple unicorn, who was in a message chair as it hummed quietly, she had two cucumber slices on each of her eyes, and was holding a coconut with a straw and an umbrella.

"This isn't dungeon-y at all" she giggled.

As it turns out, Izzy was right about the aesthetic of the dungeon, it looked less like a dungeon and more like a luxurious spa resort. The only difference is that you can't leave, which sounded even more pleasing. As Thomas was thinking of a way to escape, he hear a voice.

"Hey" said a familiar voice.

"Huh?" Thomas looked over and saw none other than zipp storm standing there "oh, it's you."

"I'm sorry for you three got thrown in here, but I have to talk to you." Zipp said, getting to the point.

"Princess?" Sunny said in disbelief.

"Your majesticness! Y-your graceful highness!" Izzy stuttered.

"Zipp. Just... Call me zipp" zipp interrupted, preventing Izzy from embarrassing herself even more.

"Okay, zipp. I'm sunny" sunny introduced. "And these are my friends"

"Izzy moonbow" said Izzy

"And I'm Thomas" said Thomas

"Sunny, Izzy, Thomas, I really need to ask you something important." Zipp then looked both ways to make sure that nopony was around. "... About magic." She continued.

"What a coincidence, that's why we're here" said Thomas.

"Maybe you can tell us how yours works?" Sunny asked. "Izzy and Thomas has no idea how the unicorns lost theirs, so we thought maybe-" before sunny could continue, she was interrupted by zipp.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait. Lost theirs? As in no magic? Well... That changes things." Zipp whispered to herself, before continuing. "Listen, I might have some information that could help, but first, you need to tell me about this."

Zipp reached into her wing and presented a familiar looking journal.

"My journal!" Sunny gasped, taking the journal and was happy to be reunited with it again. "Thank you, zipp. I-i never thought I'd see it again."

"Yeah I can be pretty sneaky when I want to be." Zipp replied eagerly.

"Nice." Izzy remarked. "I'm-i'm only medium sneaky."

Well I admit, you've got the talent in you" said Thomas.

"Oh, thanks Thomas" zipp said gratefully, before turning back to sunny. "Anyways, so where did that come from?"

"It was my father's. Why?" Sunny asked.

"That star..." Zipp said quietly, as if she had seen something like it before.

As Thomas took a closer look at the journal, he did see a rather familiar symbol on it, but before he could explain to zipp what it was, they were interrupted by the faint sound of a digital trumpet fanfare nearby. Turning over to the source, they can see two pegasi guards rolling out a red carpet, with princess pipp petails following with a strut in her step, before noticing zipp next to the assumed fugitives.

"Zipp, what are you doing here? Mom said to stay away" pipp said with clenched teeth.

"Right, then why are you here?" Zipp asked with a smirk.

"For the content." Pipp scoffed as she pulled out her phone and took a couple of selfies.

"Um... Excuse me, princess, if I may." Thomas stuttered as Izzy brought sunny in for a hug while pipp was taking selfies.

"Please, just call me pipp" she said modestly.

"Okay then, pipp. I'm Thomas. if you don't mind me asking, why isn't anypony flying?" Thomas asked.

Pipp then gasped and turned around giving them a nervous laugh. "Everypony knows that only the royals can fly, of course."

"What?" Sunny, Izzy and Thomas exclaimed aloud in unison.

"I know, it's not fair. But that's just the way it is. If there were some way we could teach the citizens to fly, you know we would in a wing beat." Pipp said while fluttering around, before stopping to look at zipp to get her approval. "Right zipp?"

"Yeah. In a wing beat" zipp groaned sarcastically, before pipp's phone buzzed.

"Oh! Dress rehearsals. Gotta go." She said and then turned her head around to her sister. "And so should you" pipp said as she walked away, she started doing vocal exercises. "Me-me-meeeee! Red feather, yellow feather, red feather, yellow feather."

"Bust my buffers, she's like a worse version of James." Thomas thought.

"I have to show you something." Zipp declared.

With that, zipp put her hoof on the touch pad next to the luxury dungeon, and almost instantly, the jail bars quickly rise up, officially making the trio from their dungeon. Sunny, Izzy and Thomas gasped over how easy it was.

"Well bust my buffers, I can't believe it was that easy." Said Thomas with disbelief.

"You comin' or what?" Zipp called out.

"Nevermind that now, Thomas." Sunny said as they walked out. "We need answers."

But before Izzy and Thomas could follow behind, they looked back and took an orange and an apple from the fruit bowl nearby and replaced it with 2 tennis balls, giggling to themselves, they followed the others.

Author's Note

Part 8 coming soon