My Little Pony Make Your Mark Idea: Izzy Dates It (Chapter 5)

Izzy has a date with Rufus and asks her friends to help her get ready.

## Plot

Zipp and Pipp rose brightly and early in the morning. They had breakfast and then it was time to head back to Maretime Bay.

“Promise me you’ll stay connected with your suitors!” Queen Haven said as she walked them outside with Alphabittle by her side.

“I will Mom!” Zipp said. “I have them all in my contacts and we’ll be setting up a series of individual dates.”

“Wonderful, good luck Zipp,” Haven said before turning to her younger daughter. “And good luck with you and Hitch, Pipp.”

Pipp blushed. “Thanks, Mom.”

“Quick Hug Mother!” Queen Haven said as her daughters give her a big hug.

The two Pegasus sisters spread their wings and took off. They headed back to Maretime Bay.

…

Theme

…

Hitch emerged from his station with Sparky on his back.

“Ah, another beautiful day in Maretime Bay, huh Sparky?” Hitch asked his dragon.

“Uh-huh,” Sparky mumbled.

Hitch looked around. Everything seemed peaceful, though he knew from past experiences that could change at any second.

“Hey, let's wait for Pipp and Zipp to arrive.” Hitch said as he and Sparky wanted to Town Square to wait for his girlfriend and her sister.

…

Hitch and Sparky were at Sunny's smoothie cart.

"Here you go Sparky and here you go Hitch." Sunny said as she handed them the smoothies.

“Hitch!” a voice called from above.

The stallion looked up and saw Zipp and Pipp flying above. Pipp increased her speed as she saw her… well, he wasn’t her coltfriend yet, but the pony she’d started dating. She wrapped her hooves around neck as she got low enough. Hitch smiled and hugged her back then she landed in front of him closely followed by her sister.

“Hey! How was the race? I mean… I know I saw it on TV and it looked pretty cool but how did you think it went?” Hitch asked.

“I thought it was great!” Pipp said. “Zipp even managed to enjoy it.”

“Yeah, it wasn’t so bad,” Zipp said. “Now I got three suitors. Though I’m not sure the next time will be as enjoyable. My mom’s talking about looking into candidates from Unicorns and Earth Ponies as well. But I think I’d definitely prefer somepony I can fly with or at least have something in common with.”

"Love you have each other that's for sure." Sunny said.

“So Pipp, wanna go on a second date tomorrow?” Hitch asked. “Or would it be a third if we count the one where we went to Zephyr Heights?”

Pipp shrugged. “We can say it's our second official date! I’d love to!”

“I’m supposed to meet Right Light that night!” Zipp said.

“Oh my glitter! Maybe we can double date sis!” Pipp suggested.

“Uh, I think I’d rather have my dates alone,” Zipp said. “You two just enjoy each other’s company. What are you gonna do?”

Hitch thought for a moment. “Maybe we could have dinner and then a dance? I know you like singing Pipp. How about dancing?”

She smiled. “I love dancing too!”

She nuzzled him, and Hitch blushed. Zipp had to resist the urge to throw up.

As they walked to the brighthouse, they spotted somepony. Or rather two someponies. Izzy and Rufus, who wore his magician outfit. Plants around him juggle balls as Izzy and a couple other ponies watched. A few claps echoed and some poney bucks were handled to him.

“Thank you thank you!” Rufus said with a bow as his plants retreated underground.

“Hey Izzy!” Zipp called.

The hyperactive unicorn looked over her shoulder. “Oh hey friends! You’re back!”

“Izzy, we’re gonna hang out in the brighthouse tonight!” Pipp said. “Of course most of us live there but Hitch.”

“Oh, uh… I actually have plans! I’d love to though!” Izzy said. “I just asked Rufus out and he said yes! Isn’t that exciting! My first date!”

“That’s right!” Rufus said as he came up and put his foreleg around Izzy. “This magical unicorn and this Earth Pony magician are going to have a magical night together!”

“Oh come on Rufus, I’m not as magical as you!” Izzy said.

“I beg to differ!” Rufus said. “But anyway, I’m sure we’ll have a wonderful night!”

“Yes,” Izzy agreed.

Pipp flew over and grabbed Izzy.

“Come on Izz, we need to get you pampered for it!”

“See you tonight!” Izzy said as Pipp dragged her off.

Rufus waved goodbye, smiling as he thought of what they might do tonight.

Izzy went with Pipp, Zipp, Hitch as they headed to Mane Melody.

“So, tell me about how it all went down with Rufus, Izz!” Pipp said.

“Well, I was just heading out and-“

Flashback:

While Zipp and Pipp were on their way back from Zephyr Heights Izzy walked the streets of Maretime Bay. Izzy emerged from the Brighthouse saying loudly and proudly, “Today’s the Day I ask a stallion out!”

But as she walked along the streets of Maretime Bay her eager smile began to fade. She soon found Rufus (or Hoofdini as he called himself when he was in his magician garb) doing tricks in the square. Several ponies watched him including Seashell, Glory, and Peach Fizz. They’d at first thought of Rufus as a phony but after he saved Glory from falling he’d become one of their favorite ponies after Pipp.

She watched him as he did his tricks with earth pony magic as well as magician ones. He threw a smoke grenade and vanished, then appeared from out of the earth.

“Behold my newest trick! Hoofdini Underground!” he said.

The ponies clapped.

“Great trick Hoofdini!” Seashell said.

“Thanks again for saving my life!” Glory said.

“No problem little filly!” he said as he ruffled her mane.

“Uh..hey Rufus… or Hoofdini!” Izzy said as she approached.

“Hello Izzy!” Rufus said. “Anything I can help you with?”

“Uh… I have to ask you something?”

“Oh you need the Great Hoofdini to answer a question? I’m sure I can be just as wise as I am great!” Rufus said. “Ask it then?”

Izzy tried to speak but the words wouldn’t come for a moment. “Would… would you like to… uh… would you… uh…”

“Yes?” Rufus asked.

“Would you like to go out with me?” Izzy half shouted.

That caused some of the ponies still watching to look at them. Rufus’s eyes widened, as did his mouth. For a moment Izzy was sure he was going to say no and then…

He grinned. “Yes! The Great Hoofdini would!”

End Flashback:

“That’s amazing Izzy!” Pipp said.

“Yeah, looks like we’re all finding somepony special,” Hitch said. “First me and Pipp, then Zipp has three suitors...”

“And more to come once we involve the Unicorns and Earth Ponies!” Pipp said.

“Don’t remind me. I’m thinking maybe it would be best to stick with just Pegasi. I mean… I need somepony who I can actually fly with,” Zipp said. “Or maybe… investigate. One or the other. But both would probably be even better. In fact speaking of investigating I need to get back to it when we reach the brighthouse.”

“And now you and Rufus, Izzy!” Hitch said, giving Zipp and Pipp a slightly annoyed look since the sister had interrupted him. “I bet Sunny is gonna find somepony sooner or later.”

They arrived at the Brighthouse, They opened the doors, Sunny was still manning the smoothie stand until her shift was over.

Misty arrived at The Brighthouse.

“Hey guys, wassup?” Misty said.

“MISTY!” Izzy said and hugged her unicorn friend.

“Hey guess what, I am going on a date with Rufus tonight!” Izzy said.

“Wow. That is amazing Izzy.” Misty said.

“Hey Pipp, I saw your livestream when you went on a date with Hitch and I watched Zipp on tv about having three sailors.” Misty said.

“Glad you saw it, Misty, although we need to get you a date as well.” Pipp said as Misty blushed.

“See you ponies later I need to get back to my patrol.” Hitch said as looking at the rest of his friends.

He headed off. Zipp and Pipp got their bags from Zephyr Heights unpacked. Izzy then went to her work space.

Pipp headed off to Mane Melody while Zipp and Izzy stayed in the Brighthouse to work on research and art projects.

Zipp headed up to the top floor where the unity crystals were.

“Okay, so Opaline wants to steal all the magic contained in these?” she said. “But how? These crystals are very powerful with the prisbeem. A pony that wants them must be able to handle a lot of power. Hmm. Unique powers? Like… Sunny! Like an alicorn!” Zipp said. “But how does she do it? There isn’t a single alicorn out there besides Sunny that we know of at least. Twilight Sparkle became an alicorn and there was also Celestia, Luna, and somepony named Cadance as well. Am I missing anypony? Oh right Opaline. Those are the most famous. But… what happened to all of them anyway?”

…

Opaline sat on her throne looking at an old picture of Twilight Sparkle, as well as Celestia, Luna, and Cadance.

“You thought you could keep me from my rightful place did you, Twilight? After I destroyed your precious Celestia and Luna?” she asked. “Those arrogant ponies thought they were so much better than me, you know! They raised the sun and moon which gave them immense magic power and delayed aging! You had friendship and sweet little Cadence had love! Leh! I meanwhile represent fire. My very heart beats with the power. The power of WILL!” she shouted the last bit. “I alone among all the alicorns could create my own immortality with the force of sheer willpower! The rest of you needed to draw upon external sources to give you agelessness! Sun, moon, friendship, love! I am the best of all of you! Celestia and Luna, my wretched cousins who shunned me and locked me up the first time I tried to take all the magic and even when I offered to share it with them and give them complete immortality! But they refused and betrayed me, Locking me up for over a thousand and fifty years!”

Her voice echoed throughout her throne room. But then she spoke calmer.

“Although I did happen to meet a certain deviously wonderful pony there that gave me a wonderfully equally devious son,” Opaline said with a small smile. “That was good at least. And he turned out to be an alicorn like myself. Finally I had somepony I could truly shape in my own image. And one day I will rule over all of Equestria!”

Her evil laughter filled the room.

…

Once it was getting close to time for Izzy’s date, she, Hitch, Sparky, Misty, and Zipp headed to Mane Melody, when they arrived Pipp sat Izzy down at one of the seats in front of the magic mirrors.

“I think that style we did a while back where you had flowers in your mane will be just what we need!” Pipp said. “And glitter in your mane and tail and a purple stripe while your legs needed light green and pink highlights with green eyeshadow.

She got to work and styled Izzy’s mane, filling it with small lilies with glitter. Jazz then came forward to give Izzy a hooficure for the occasion.

“Alright, anything come to mind for this occasion?” Jazz asked as Pipp put glitter in Izzy’s tail.

Ever since Izzy had helped Jazz find the inspiration to start making her own unique hooficure designs the Earth Pony had started doing hooficures for situations of all kinds. Ones that matched upcoming events, or just what she thought went well with a pony. Her patterns varied from matching cutie marks to things a pony liked.

Izzy thought for a moment. “Hmm. The guy I’m going out with is a magician so maybe something for that?”

“Magician huh?” Jazz asked. “How about this?”

She got out a sheet of scratch paper and drew the image of a wand with a moon on the top.

“I heard that was the cutie mark of a magician from ancient Equestria,” Jazz said. “Maybe I’ll add a little heart for romance.”

Pipp does a glitter topcoat on Izzy’s horn.

“That will be perfect!” Izzy said as Pipp put light green and pink highlights and uses glitter spray paint on Izzy’s hooves

Jazz sprayed Izzy’s hooves, making them a little blue color with the wood bearing the moon on top and encircling it with a red heart as Pipp put green eyeshadow on Izzy.

“Yes! This is what I call a sparkle! And don’t forget the glitter.”

Jazz added glitter to Izzy’s hoof. Now it sparkled.

“You look great Izzy!” Pipp said.

“Yeah, pretty good,” Zipp said.

Hitch nodded as Sparky giggled and clapped. “I’m sure Rufus will love it.”

“Yay, I am so happy for you Izzy!” Misty said.

Izzy looked at the clock. “Just in time for my date with Rufus!”

…

She headed out and soon met Rufus. The sun was close to setting

“Wow,” he said as he saw her. “And I thought you looked fierce with that hooficure of a musical note the first time Jazz started making her own designs!”

“Thanks,” she said with a blush.

“Ready for a magical night?” he asked.

“I believe I am! What shall we do?” Izzy asked.

“Follow me,” Rufus said.

He led her to the edge of Maretime Bay before the woods.

“Uh, what are we doing here?” Izzy asked.

“Just watch and see,” Rufus said looking up.

The sky quickly grew dark, and the stars appeared.

“Oooh!” Izzy exclaimed.

“I like to gaze up at the stars every now and then,” Rufus said. “I know you like shiny stuff, especially glitter. Speaking of which…”

He reached into his magician robe pocket and pulled out a bottle filled with Izzy’s favorite thing.

“Glitter!” the unicorn exclaimed.

“Never enough for you is there?” Rufus asked with a chuckle.

“Nope!” Izzy said as she took the bottle in her magic. “Thanks Rufus!”

“No problem, Izzy.”

They looked up at the stars for a long time.

“Ah, a glitter that never fades,” Izzy said. “I could look at those all night.”

Suddenly her stomach rumbled.

“Or maybe not,” she said with a blush. “I still need to have dinner after all.”

“Well I had something in mind for that,” Rufus said as he reached into his magician bag once again.

He pulled out carrots and other vegetables that could be roasted over a fire. He also had matches and marshmallows. Procuring some twigs from the nearby woods with his plant magic, he then tried to light a match, but ended up wasting two.

“Let me,” she said.

She lit up her horn and shot a spark of magic at the wood they’d gathered. That did the trick. Fire lit up and soon the two ponies were roasting all the food. Rufus used a stick while Izzy levitated multiple things at once with her magic above the flames.

By the end of it they were famished.

“Ah that hit the spot.”

“One magical date,” Rufus said.

They looked back up at the sky in time to see a shooting star.

“Ooh, moving glitter!” Izzy said.

“Make a wish!” Rufus said.

“I think I will!” Izzy said.

There was silence. Rufus looked at her.

“Aren’t you gonna say it?”

“It’s jinxie to say your wish aloud,” Izzy said.

Izzy and Rufus looked at each other with stars in their eyes and shared a kiss, after the kiss, Rufus looked at Izzy.

“Well, it's probably about time to head back,” Rufus said. “I hope we get to do this again.”

“Me too!” Izzy said. “Thanks for the glitter!”

They headed back into town and soon parted ways.

The End.

## Characters

Izzy Moonbow

Pipp Petals

Hitch Trailblazer

Sunny Starscout

Sparky Sparkeroni

Zipp Storm

Jazz Hooves

Rufus

Opaline

Misty Brightdawn

Queen Haven

Alphabittle Blossomforth

Cherry Flyaway(Cameo)

Autumn Skies(Cameo)

Cherry Prancer(Cameo)

Posey(Cameo)

Delightful Trifle(Cameo)

Dahlia(Cameo)

Emerald Saucer(Cameo)

Leaf(Cameo)

Plum Library(Cameo)

Windy(Cameo)

Minty Skylark(Cameo)

Seagreen(Cameo)

Mayflower(Cameo)

Smokey Cobalt(Cameo)

Princess Celestia(Mentioned)

Princess Luna(Mentioned)

Princess Cadence(Mentioned)

Twilight Sparkle(Mentioned)

Potion Spring(Cameo)

Strawberry Rose(Cameo)

Powder Blush(Cameo)

Skater(Cameo)

Alpina Aspen(Cameo)

Seeds(Cameo)

Galaxy Star(Cameo)

Fifi(Cameo)

Flower Bloom(Cameo)

Slide Rule(Cameo)