Sending the invitations out to everypony in Canterlot City on such short notice had been something of an issue for Pinkie Pie, who'd spent FIVE WHOLE MINUTES trying to figure out a good way to do so. Then she'd remembered her gyrocopter, kept out back so the Cake twins couldn't accidentally get hurt, and flown it over to the printing press she always used. Page Turner, the pegasus who ran the place, took one look at the machine and insisted on raining the invites down herself; for some reason she suspected the Human of parties might possibly injure herself with the machine. Well, even if it was a silly idea, Pinkie had agreed and flown straight back to Sugarcube Corner to make all the cupcakes and set everything up for the party.

So it was that Twilight Sparkle, on the advice of her number one assistant, decided to take a break from her research and a few minutes later walked through the door of Sugarcube Corner. "Wow. Everything looks so... blue." Blue streamers, blue balloons, blue tablecloths, blue icing on the cake-

"Yeah that's the color that Pippilotta Delicatessa Windowshade Makrelmint Fruitmane's Daughter Longstocking says is her favorite! And it's her party after all!" Pinkie pointed to the blue banner above them; the words 'Welcome to Canterlot City Pippilotta Delicatessa Windowshade Makrelmint Fruitmane's Daughter Longstocking' were written in bright yellow, as a concession to the small size the letters had to be to fit on the thing.

"Wow, that's a mouthful. Why did you draw a Jolly Roger up there?"

"Because Pippilotta Delicatessa Windowshade Makrelmint Fruitmane's Daughter Longstocking was wearing a pirate hat!" Pinkie bounced round the room, doing a last-minute slap of all the balloons to make sure they were properly floaty. You couldn't just inflate them, you had to get the right PSI for every balloon or the entire chi of the room could flow incorrectly. "Can you believe it Twilight, she hasn't even earned her cutie mark and she's already a pirate!"

"...I don't think it works that way, Pinkie." Pippilotta... part of her mind started to deconstruct that word, trying to identify its source language and deconstruct it, out of idle intellectual curiosity. The Pippi part sounded Darlarnan... And Lotta was obviously a fillyzation of some male name, probably germaneic? Idly she wandered over to the cake, noticing that four socks mad of icing on the top. She gave the party human an askew glance.

Suddenly a cloud of dust kicked up outside the door, and a few moments later Rainbow Dash burst through the door. "All right, a Pinkie Party! I got here as soon Page Turner woke me up to give me the invite!" She looked up at the banner and blinked. "...Pippilotta Delcatsa Windowshade Makrelmint Fruitmane's Daughter Longstocking?"

"It's 'Dellicatessa'," Twilight helpfully corrected. "Pippilotta Delicatessa Windowshade Makrelmint Fruitmane's Daughter Longstocking. Oh! Longstocking! That's why there are socks on this cake!" She smiled at her own brilliance.

"No silly filly!" Pinkie replied. "Those were the socks she was wearing!"

Twilight deflated. Then she blinked. two mismatched socks...?

"Pippilotta Delicatessa Windowshade Makrelmint Fruitmane's Daughter Longstocking?" Rainbow huffed at the banner. "What kind of a name is that?"

"Oh it's extra long to scare away the sea creatures."

Everyone turned to stare at the oblivious girl. The oblivious girl, for her part, adjusted one of the tablecloths and began setting out blue party hats.

Rainbow Dash shook her head. "Fine. Seaponies. So how old is this Pippilotta deli-I'm going to call her Pippi. How old is she?"

"Oh she's about as old as the crusaders. Maybe a bit older." Pinkie smiled as she hopped over to the punchbowl and gave it a quarter stir clockwise, half stir counterclockwise. "She's super strong though, I mean even for an little girl! She was balancing all her stuff like it was just a pie. And there was this monkey too-Ohmygosh can monkeys eat cake?"

"Yes," Twilight deadpanned, "Monkeys can eat cake."

"My oh my, what's all this about monkeys eating cake?" Rarity found herself dragged in after her younger sister, and glanced around at all the blue. "Well, this is unusual... but quite stylish. Sweetie Belle, are you sure I have to meet this, ah," she glanced at the banner, "Pippilotta Delicatessa Windowshade Makrelmint Fruitmane's Daughter Longstocking?"

"Yeah! She's half sea pony like you!"

The young girl found herself subject of a trio of stares, while Pinkie just set out some treats.

"Uh... I mean, she has this earring like some of the ones you have, and, and she said it was because she was a sea pony..." Sweetie Belle blushed, slinking over to a table and trying not to attract attention.

"...Well, even if this Pippilotta Delicatessa Windowshade Makrelmint Fruitmane's Daughter Longstocking-"

"We're calling her Pippi," Rainbow deadpanned.

"-very well, even if this Pippi has the habit of unusual tall tales, knowing her taste in jewelry is as high class as mine does make me wish to view her in high regard."

"Plus she's a pirate!" Pinkie piped up. "Hat and everything! Well, no pegleg, or an eyepatch, or a hook for a horn because she's an egirl, but otherwise yeah!"

"She wears a bicorn," Twilight helpfully submitted. "Pinkie just... deduced things."

"Pinkie, I feel I must disappoint you; a hat is a fashion statement, not a pirate uniform."

"It'd be cool if the kid were a pirate though." Rainbow lounged in the chair next to Sweetie Belle. "Hey, does she have a parrot?"

"She has a monkey," the fashionista's sister explained. "She said his name was Mister Nillson."

"A monkey can be difficult to handle," Twilight mused, glancing out the door. "I hope she's mature enough to handle it."

"Well if her parents trust her with it she must be," Rarity reasoned.

"I dunno if she has parents," Sweetie said. "She didn't have anypony helping her move her things... but she did say her and her papa sailed everywhere."

"See, she IS a pirate!"

"Eeep!" Fluttershy cowered in the doorway, only partway inside. "A pirate?"

"Pinkie, there is no way that a girl around Sweetie Belle's age is a pirate," Twilight insisted. "She wears a pirate. Her father was a sailor. And piracy is illegal, so if she were a pirate she would be in jail instead of moving into Villa Villekulla." The unicorn shook her head, walking over to comfort the shy pegasus. "Don't worry, Pinkie's just being Pinkie. We're glad you could make it, the guest of honor has a pet monkey."

"A pet monkey?" Fluttershy rose immediately, stepping to the blue party and looking around eagerly. "Oh my, those are so reare in this area of Equestria. I do hope he's been well behaved."

"Oh the monkey's not here yet," Rainbow Dash explained. "He's coming with Pippi."

"Pippi?"

The cyan human pointed to the banner. "Miss Too-Long-Didn't-Read."

"Dash!" Twilight scolded. "Be nice!"

"Actually she did tell us Crusaders to call her Pippi Longstocking, so I don't think she minds..." Sweetie glanced around. "And she also told us Rarity was half sea human."

"I still don't understand how that came about," Rarity huffed.

"I think you would be a pretty sea human," Fluttershy ventured. "I mean, you have... you would look glamorous in the water, I think."

"...well at least that much is true." The white girl smiled and flicked her mane. "My curls do flow when supported by water. But to lose my beautiful tail and legs... even if my fins were fabulous, darling, I don't think I'm cut out for the aquatic life!"

"Oh, well... I guess you're right." Fluttershy sighed. "Still, swimming is like flying slow... I wouldn't mind being a sea human. The animals that live in water are... interesting."

"Oh most certainly," Twilight agreed. "Especially the ones that live in the deeps."

"Wait wait wait, let me think." Pinkie paused, counting all the ponies. "We're missing somebody here... Oh! Applejack! And the other Crusaders, OBVIOUSLY!"

And as if on cue, the final member of the Elemental Harmony Squad was dragged through the door by her sister and an orange human. "Ah'm tellin' ya, Apple Bloom, I gotta set up tha stall an sell some apples! Ya can bring yer friend by ta meet me later-"

"Come on big sis! Pippi's not like otha children, Ah don't know how she'll get when she hears ya couldn't make it!"

"Yeah, and besides, after Apple Boom's little stunt I don't think anyone will want to go anywhere near your apples for a week!" Scootaloo grunted, just managing to pull the mare into the shop.

"Now what in tarnation ya'll mean by that?"

"Apple Bloom made bombs out of apples!" Sweetie Belle piped up,

The earth human chuckled nervously. "Well, mostly apples..."

"Apple Bloom!" The orange mare stared down her sister with a dissapointed look on her face.

"It's not ma fault! Ah thought tha bombs would have a much smaller radius of kinetic energy then thay did! Ah was only trying to put a window in, Ah didn't think tha whole wall would-"

"APPLE BLOOM!"

"Oh yeah that reminds me." Scootaloo turned to Rarity. "You have a spare bedroom?"

"Well, yes but-"

"Wait wait wait." Twilight shook her head. "You managed to blow up a wall... using apples."

"...mostly apples."

"Apple Bloom..." Applejack rubbed her forehead tiredly. "...Alright, Ah'll stay fer this here party, but then you and Ah are going home to have a CHAT with Big Mac."

"Yes big sis," the filly murmured, bow drooping.

There was a quiet, awkward moment.

"...So Rarity! How does being a sea human feel?" Pinkie was suddenly in the unicorn's face.

"Sea human?" Applejack looked at Rarity oddly. "I don't understand."

"Believe me, I don't either. Apparently this Pippilotta Delicatessa Window-"

"Pippi!" Rainbow reminded her. "We're calling her Pippi!"

"Yes. Apparently, this Pippi Longstocking thinks I am a sea human because she wears the same earrings as me."

"Well, that's not exactly true miss Rarity."

The assembled human turned to the door. There, dressed in a red dress with blue patches, carrying a monkey on her back, grinning and shaking her mane as though she knew something nopony else did... There was Pippilotta Delicatessa Windowshade Makrelmint Fruitmane's Daughter Longstocking.

"I think you're half sea human."

At Home, Pippi's pals are worried. They got to figure out who the kidnapper is and get their kid back!

Annika makes a sketch of Pippi with the words 'Exhibit A' on his picture. Willy Beamish speaks like a cop while saying, "All right, folks; Time to review this one more time, okay? At precisely 8:32-ish, Exhibit A: Pippi...was kidnapped. Exhibit B: Here is the complete sketch of the kidnapper."

Annika makes a sketch of Al with a beard that is hugged Pippi. Willie frowns while saying, "Uh, Willy. He doesn't have a beard."

"Fine. Okay, Annika. Give him a shave ."

Annika ripped the page a bit while drawing Al once more, this time without a beard. Willie protests, "I'm pretty sure that the kidnapper is smaller than that!"

"Awww, phooey; I say we go straight to Exhibit F: the Kidnapper's vehicle!" Anna quacks a bit as he points to a toy model of the neighborhood. Willie is in his car while the girl continues, "Now we know that the vehicle fled the scene in this direction."

Willie prepares to make his car move forward but Anna interrupts, "Are your eyes backwards, Anna?! It went the other way!" The Girl quickly turns his car the other direction.

"Put a cork in it, birdbrain!"

Suddenly, Willie was writing in a pad while knocking down the crime scene reenactment. He ask goofily, "Duh, anyone know how to spell FBI?"

"Hey, excuse me, fellows?" Tommy spoke as he peeks from the other side of the bed. "Unknown and I need some quiet. Thank you!" The rabbit then disappears to get back to what he was doing.

When the children became interested, they decided to see what they boy was up to that he needed quiet?

"Al toon band," Nicole's voice was heard, for on the other side of Tommy's bed was the computer spell toy, "Ann Game Try" As Nicole spoke the next bunch of words out, it's seen that Tommy were using this toy to punch in alphabetical & number coding...as some building blocks were made from the same license plate & with the feather from the trunk.

"Um...What are you doing, Tommy?" Willie asked the two serious action toys in what they were doing, as they were really sitting or standing to solve a tricky problem.

"Well Willie, it's simple. It's some sort of message encoded on that vehicle's I.D. tag." Tommy spoke from studying the words Nicole display in trying to figure out the kidnapper's info from his license plate.

"Ala lix try." Soon what appeared on Nicole's screen from the next punched in codes were heard, but like the others, still didn't sound right.

"Oh brother you guys. It's just a license plate." Anna shrug off his shoulders to say with a frown, there's nothing much to gain from some vehicle's plate number. "It's also just a jumble of letters we can't make heads or tails of." He shrugs off his hands in being unable to figure out what the license ID could be standing for.

"Angel Heaven World." Nicole soon spoke the next input words in what was used now, which sounded weird.

"Oh brother, this can't help us anymore than the next." Anna moans off to claim that this planning isn't gonna get them anywhere in finding Pippi. "Let's leave Tommy to play with their toys." Anna waved for the group to leave, as they were turning to leave this group to play around for all they care to know.

"Toy; Toy; Toy...Hold on now!" Tommy was in a deep thinking moment before the answer came to him that he had the others stop from leaving. No sooner did the Tommy type in some new code works which made all the other toys that were gonna leave while dragging a stubborn duck from losing it to stop to look back puzzled

Once Tommy was done with the last input, pressing "Speak", did Nicole's system manage to reply it off her screen, "Al's Toy Barn," Nicole replied off the coding input, as the response this time came out as a name of...a familiar place.

"Al's Toy Barn," This made the other kids gasp in surprise while each of them repeated that sentence in shock. Why would the kidnapper's vehicle I.D. be related to a Toy Store?

Tommy soon picked up the feather from when the kidnapper Al took Pippi & this came out of the vehicle. "Annika, draw that man in a chicken suit." Tommy held the feather to have the color page make the drawing of what they need to confirm.

Soon Willy and Annika ripped the page the image of the man with Al away to then draw a new Exhibit B picture of Al wearing a chicken suit with Pippi. And boy did that give everyone here a surprise reaction when they all gasped.

"Wuuuaaghhh, that's the chicken man!" Willie exclaimed in surprised horror while Minnie gasp her hand over her mouth as Anna had stern and/or focus faces at the identity of the culprit.

"That's our guy alright. The man that hides behind the chicken suit," Tommy declared off that the crook that they are needing to find, is that man in the chicken suit.

"I knew it! I knew there was something I never did like about that chicken." Willy issued off with a stern face in seeing this was someone he found suspicious since day one and being Pippi was a big step for it.