Pipp then walked out of Mane Melody and down the alley beside the salon. Allura was waiting for her.

“Pipp petals, who is your master?” Allura asked.

“You are Allura.” Pipp replied.

“Excellent! Now that the mind control spell has worked, getting the Friendship crystal will be easy!”

Allura then gave Pipp orders to go to the Brighthouse and retrieve the Friendship crystal, and to not let anything stop her. Pipp then began making her way to the Brighthouse.

At the same time, Misty came out of Mane Melody. She wasn’t in there for long, she only stopped in to get her mane straightened out. Misty then noticed Pipp walking by.

“Het Pipp! Do you like my new mane style? I decided to try something new. I would have loved for you to straighten my mane, but Jazz said you had walked out for some reason.”

Pipp kept on walking, completely ignoring Misty.

Misty was very confused. “Uh, hello? Can you hear me, Pipp?”

“Busy.” Pipp once again said with an empty voice.

Misty then stood and tried to figure out what was up with Pipp. “It must be some kind of new online trend.” Misty thought to herself.

Sunny, Izzy, Hitch, Zipp, and Sparky all followed Allura’s paw prints down to the beach. Sure enough, they led right to Allura’s ice cave.

“Are you sure we should be looking around?” Hitch asked.

“Allura is up to something. I can feel it.” Zipp said.

They all looked around the cave, trying to find anything that might indicate what Allura was up to. Izzy slid around on ice for fun.

“WEEEEE!!!!!” She shouted. Izzy then crashed into a pile of ice and rocks.

“Izzy! This is serious!” Zipp said with an upset voice.

Izzy stood up and steadied herself. “Sorry.”

Sparky looked over towards the entrance of the cave. He then saw the shadows of Allura and Twitch approaching. Sparky tugged on Hitch’s mane to get his attention.

“What is it, Sparky?” Hitch turned his head to also see the shadows. “Sunny, Zipp, Izzy! Hide!”

They all took cover as Allura and Twitch entered the ice cave. Allura walked to the center of the cave where a ring of light emerged and Alterro’s face appeared.

“Did it work?” Alterro asked.

“The spell worked, Alterro.” Allura said with a smile.

“Excellent!” Alterro proclaimed. “With one of those ponies under your mind control, the Friendship crystal will soon be yours.”

“Mind control?” Sunny whispered.

Twitch’s ears picked up on the low sound of Sunny’s voice. He then jumped up on Allura and whispered into her ear.

“Who’s in here?! Show yourself!” Allura roared.

Izzy poked her head up. “Hi!!!” She said as she smiled and waved her hoof.

Sunny, Hitch, Zipp, and Sparky then came out of hiding.

“What are you up to, Allura?!” Zipp yelled.

“That is none of your business!”

“It is when you have a pony under mind control!” Hitch yelled.

“And what do you want with the Friendship crystal?” Sunny asked.

“Shut up!” Allura then used her ice powers to launch large, sharp icicles at them.

Sunny, Zipp, Izzy, and Sparky all ducked for cover. Hitch pounded his hoof on the ground to activate his Earth pony magic to raise giant flowers that swatted away the icicles.

Allura then and Twitch then turned and fled. Before she left, Allura blocked off the entrance to the cave with a wall of ice.

“Great, now how are we supposed to get out?” Sunny said.

“Um, I do have a fire breathing dragon.” Hitch said. He then picked up Sparky and patted him on the back. Sparky then burped up a stream of fire that melted away the wall of ice.

After they all exited the cave, they looked around but could not find Allura anywhere.

“What was it that Allura said? Something about a pony being under mind control?” Izzy asked.

“You’re right!” Zipp said. “If we can figure out who it is, then we can stop them from stealing the Friendship crystal.”

“But how are we going to find out which pony is under mind control?” Sunny asked.

“We’ll ask around town.” Hitch said. “Somepony under mind control are sure to not be acting like their normal self.”

Author's Note

Misty getting a mane change is a shout out to Andy Price. He is the artist for the MLP comics. In the G5 comic "The Storm of Zephyr Heights." He was unfairly attacked by SJWs for making Misty's hair flat. Andy Price did nothing wrong.