Transcripts/A Health of Information


 * Fluttershy: Thank you so much, Zecora. I never would've found the crisscross moss without you.
 * Zecora: Of course. I know where it grows, so it's not much to ask. Though retrieving it has been a difficult task.
 * Fluttershy: Oh, but the oxen visiting Sweet Feather Sanctuary next week will surely appreciate it. It really adds a shine to their coat.
 * [splut]
 * Zecora: There we go. Now, that wasn't so tough. Fluttershy, tell me, will this be enough?
 * Fluttershy: Gee, I don't know. It's a pretty big pack. So maybe enough to fill up this sack? [gasps, laughs] Oh, my! You're rubbing off on me, Zecora!
 * Zecora: Whoa. Whoa!
 * [branch snaps]
 * [splash]
 * Fluttershy: [screams] Oh, no, oh, no, oh, no!
 * Zecora: [gasps]
 * Fluttershy: Zecora, are you all right?
 * Zecora: No need to fret. I only got wet. At least now I can easily grab all the crisscross moss there is to be had.
 * [poof]
 * Fluttershy: [gasps] What's happening to you?
 * Zecora: Honestly, it's hard to tell. But suddenly, I don't feel so well...
 * Fluttershy: [gasps deeply]


 * [theme song]


 * Dr. Horse: All right, Zecora. Let's have a listen to the old ticker.
 * [jazz drum solo]
 * Dr. Horse: Hmm. Hmm. Hmm.
 * Fluttershy: Do you think it's serious, doctor?
 * Dr. Horse: Well, that wasn't a good sign.
 * Fluttershy: I can't believe a flower did this. I take back thinking it was pretty!
 * Zecora: [coughing]
 * Dr. Horse: Mm-hmm. We're looking for any color other than red.
 * Fluttershy: Phew. [gasps loudly]
 * Dr. Horse: Oh, it's just as I thought. I'm afraid you have a very rare disease called... [echoing] Swamp Fever!
 * [thunder and lightning]
 * Zecora: Tell me, doctor. What should I do? I've never heard of Swamp Fever, mind you.
 * Dr. Horse: Unfortunately, very little is known about the disease. Except, of course, its symptoms – change of coat, coughing bubbles, shock sneezing, confusion, and the last stage, the afflicted turn into the very trees that drop the disease-spreading flower.
 * Zecora: Oh! Is there anything that can be done for such a terrible conundrum?!
 * Dr. Horse: A cure has yet to be discovered. I'm sorry, Zecora.
 * Zecora: Hmmm.
 * Dr. Horse: It's a lot to take in. I'll leave you two to discuss.
 * [door closes]
 * Fluttershy: Zecora, this is all my fault! If you hadn't been helping me get the crisscross moss, you wouldn't have gotten Swamp Fever. I'm so sorry.
 * Zecora: Fluttershy, you are not to blame. These things happen all the same.
 * Fluttershy: I refuse to accept that! There has to be somepony who can help you!
 * Zecora: Oh. There's a healer of legend who never would fail. But I only know her from ancient folktales. Mystical and masked, she came in the night and cured everything from hoof cough to fur blight. What became of the healer, nopony knows, for she disappeared ages and ages ago.
 * Fluttershy: The Mystical Mask! Of course! My parents would tell me about her whenever I was sick in bed.
 * Zecora: There's so many accounts of her power to heal. She can't just be a legend. I think she's real.
 * Fluttershy: If that's who we need to cure you, then I'm going to find her! And I know just the pony who can help!


 * Fluttershy: [pants] Oh.
 * [door opens]
 * Fluttershy: Starlight? Starlight? Starlight! Oh, I'm so sorry to bother— Are... Are you date us?

Starlight Glimmer: Thorax wanted to get out of the castle. I thought coming to town was a really, really great idea.
 * Spike: My cauliflower bites blew her sweet potato muffins out of the water!
 * Starlight Glimmer: Heh, I know. Weird, right?
 * Fluttershy: [grunts, gulps, grunts, gulps] Um, they're both delicious, but... [quickly] Zecora-has-Swamp-Fever-and-Twilight-has-Spring-Allergy-and-there's-no-cure-and-it's-all-my-fault-and-the-only-pony-who-can-cure-it-is-the-Mystical-Mask-and-I-need-your-help-to-find-her!

Starlight Glimmer: Ugh!
 * Spike: So, what'd she pick? The cauliflower bites, right?


 * [pages flipping]
 * Starlight Glimmer: So I think Fluttershy may be hurting her sister's feelings without even realizing it.
 * Fluttershy: Hmm. Did we check the unabridged versions?

Starlight Glimmer: Uh, Fluttershy! Wait! [deep breath] As you both know, the Mystical Mask sent me here for a reason, and I...
 * Fluttershy: Well, we might have to look through every book in the entire library, but I know we'll figure it out.
 * Starlight Glimmer: [sighs]
 * [music]


 * Fluttershy: [sighs] Another dead end. Have you found anything yet, Starlight?

Starlight Glimmer: [snoring softly]
 * Fluttershy: Starlight?

Starlight Glimmer: [yelps] Kites!
 * [thud]
 * Fluttershy: Goodness! Are you okay?

Starlight Glimmer: Huh? Oh. If this is about brunch, I-I, uh... You know what? Jalapeño red velvet omelettes sound gross. I-I just can't.
 * Fluttershy: Oh, I'm so sorry. I didn't realize how late it had gotten.

Starlight Glimmer: Oh. I guess Ghastly Gorge really does have the best rocks.
 * Fluttershy: Oh, no-no-no. I meant you should sleep. I can't rest until Zecora and Twilight is healed.

Starlight Glimmer: Fluttershy, I like Twilight.
 * Fluttershy: [not listening] Mm-hmm.

Starlight Glimmer: Ta-da... Friendship lesson... learned? [sighs]
 * [door closes]


 * Starlight Glimmer: [snoring]
 * [thud!]
 * Fluttershy: Starlight!

Starlight Glimmer: [yelps] Kites!
 * [thud]
 * Starlight Glimmer: Huh?
 * Spike: [groans] What's all the commotion in here, ladies?
 * Fluttershy: Sorry, but I figured out who the Mystical Mask is!

Starlight Glimmer: Yeah. She's weird!
 * Fluttershy: All I had to do was cross-reference a book about masks with another book on ancient Equestrian healers, then use a third book to translate it all from Olde Ponish, and there it was! Zecora and Twilight was right! The Mystical Mask wasn't just a legend. The Mystical Mask was Mage Meadowbrook!
 * Starlight Glimmer: I... [sighs] I want to say something, but it goes against everything I've been taught as Twilight's pupil.
 * Fluttershy: Absolutely! Mage Meadowbrook wasn't just a sorceress. She was also a healer, and back then, healers wore masks so they wouldn't get sick themselves!
 * Starlight Glimmer: And Twilight has a duty to the whole hive, not just his brother.
 * Fluttershy: Mm-hmm. But if we go to Hayseed Swamp, & Spring Frost, maybe we can find something she left behind! Something that could lead to a cure!
 * Starlight Glimmer: I think he might have to kick Zecora out.
 * [pyow!]
 * Starlight Glimmer: But I don't wanna be the one to tell Twilight that.
 * Fluttershy: [grunting] We have to try! I've got a route all planned out, and on the way, we can check up on Zecora and Twilight, and then—
 * Starlight Glimmer: We'll just use one problem to solve another.
 * Fluttershy: Of course! Every second we spend waiting is a second Zecora is coughing bubbles! And Twilight is coughing magic!
 * Starlight Glimmer: [coughs] Okay. Maybe there is such a thing as too cozy.
 * Fluttershy: There's no use trying to talk me out of this, Starlight! [grunts] We've got no time to waste!
 * Starlight Glimmer: I'm sure.
 * Fluttershy: I packed cauliflower bites.

Starlight Glimmer: I-I'm good! Just, uh... reading an exciting cure! [whispering to Fluttershy] He's gonna think I'm nuts!
 * Spike: I, uh, ate them all. They were actually really good. [chuckles]

Benson: JUST FILL IT UP BY THE END OF THE DAY OR YOU'RE FIRED!!!!!


 * Fluttershy: And that's when I realized the Mystical Mask was actually Mage Meadowbrook!
 * Zecora: [coughs] Twilight Sparkle: [coughing]

Zecora: That's marvelous, Fluttershy. I am quite impressed. While you are gone on your journey, I'll try not to be... worried.
 * Fluttershy: [gasps] Oh, no. Zecora, you didn't rhyme! You must be getting worse.
 * Zecora: Oh. No, no, no, not at all. Something... something... ball?

Zecora: [sneezes] Twilight Sparkle: [sneezes]
 * [magic zap]
 * [electricity crackles]
 * Fluttershy: [gasps] That's it! We have to go now!

Starlight Glimmer: I'll leave you Twilight and Zecora to it.
 * [thud]
 * [circling birdies]
 * Fluttershy: [groans]
 * [door opens]
 * [door closes]


 * [thump]
 * [music]

[teleportation zap]
 * Starlight Glimmer: Ha! Straight to the swamp forest! I told you I could do it.
 * Fluttershy: [yawns] I'm not sure. Maybe there's somepony we can ask.
 * Starlight Glimmer: [scoffs] It's like twelve steps away.
 * [beat]
 * Fluttershy: Wait! I recognize that tree! [gasps] Yes! This has to be it! It's just like the illustrations of her home!
 * Starlight Glimmer: Before Chrysalis' throne was destroyed, the closest magic would've gotten us was waaaaaaay over there.
 * Fluttershy: [grunts] Phew. Well, if the doorway is sealed up, we'll just have to dig our way in. Back up, Starlight! I don't want you to get hurt! [grunting]

Starlight Glimmer: On a scale of one to ten, how happy do you think Twilight is gonna be about our surprise visit?
 * Fluttershy: [laughs nervously] It really blends in with the bark.

Starlight Glimmer: Fluttershy, we're coming to offer Twilight encouragement and support.
 * [door opens]
 * Fluttershy: Wow. It looks like this place has been abandoned for years. [gasps] Starlight, look! It's the same kind of lilypad that gave Zecora Swamp Fever! And Twilight Spring Allergy!. Hmm. I wonder if Meadowbrook was looking for a cure for Swamp Fever, and Spring Allergy too. [gasps] Do you think she found it?
 * Starlight Glimmer: Um, I've been with you singing and standing in line.
 * [loud squeak]
 * Starlight Glimmer: His letters make it seem like the responsibilities of being a changeling leader are a little overwhelming.
 * Fluttershy: Uh, I wasn't making my excited squeaking noise.
 * [loud squeak]
 * Starlight Glimmer and Fluttershy: [scream]
 * Cattail: [Cajun accent] Y'all can stop screamin' now. Didn't mean to scare ya. I do that a lot.
 * Starlight Glimmer: He's dealing with the wants and needs of his subjects.
 * Cattail: Well, both, I s'pose. Name's Cattail. Pleased to meet ya.
 * Fluttershy: Likewise, but, um, may I ask, why are you in Mage Meadowbrook's home?
 * Cattail: Oh, I take care of the place. I ain't much of a cleaner, but from what I hear, my kin wasn't neither. So I doubt they'd mind a few cobwebs in our ancestral home.
 * Fluttershy: [gasps] You're related to Mage Meadowbrook?
 * Cattail: Mm-hmm.
 * Fluttershy: Oh, my goodness, Starlight, we did it! Not only did we find Mage Meadowbrook's old house – we actually found one of her descendants!
 * Starlight Glimmer: Redesigning the hive, a dread maulwurf wreaking havoc outside...
 * Cattail: So you're lookin' for some kind o' cure, huh? Well, now, I know Meadowbrook was known to always be writin' in her journals. If she had the cure you want, I reckon that's where it'd be. Come on. I'll show ya the library.
 * Starlight Glimmer: The dread maulwurf? Sure it is.
 * [beat]
 * Starlight Glimmer: Twilight said it's like half-bear, half-mole, half-raging-pile-of-claws!
 * Fluttershy: This is good. It'll take us less time to go through everything.
 * [thud]
 * Fluttershy: [blows air, reading] "Today, my mom made me eat peas. Peas are yucky." And we can probably skip this one, unless she found a cure when she was a foal.
 * Starlight Glimmer: But now that the changelings don't feed on the love of everything around them, plants have started to grow back.
 * Fluttershy: Wait! Listen to this! [reading] "Today, I tried again to brew an unsniffle elixir..."
 * Fluttershy and Mage Meadowbrook: [crossfading] [Cajun accent] ...and I finally got it right!
 * Chipmunk: [sneezing]
 * [sipping noise]
 * Chipmunk: [sighs]
 * Meadowbrook's Mother: Meadowbrook, I think it's time you had this.
 * [thumping]
 * Mage Meadowbrook: [gasps] My very own healer's mask! You think I'm ready, mother?
 * Meadowbrook's Mother: Mm-hm.
 * [knocking]
 * [door opens]
 * Meadowbrook's Mother: [gasps] What caused this?


 * Mage Meadowbrook: [narrating] Mother calls it Swamp Fever. We've been tryin' to find a cure, but it hasn't been easy.
 * [lily puffs]
 * Meadowbrook's Mother: [coughing]
 * [knocking]
 * [door opens]
 * Royal Pin: [coughs]
 * Mage Meadowbrook: [narrating] The fever spread like wildfire.
 * [ponies sneezing and coughing]
 * Meadowbrook's Mother: [coughing]
 * Mage Meadowbrook: [narrating] I fear if we don't find a cure soon, everypony will be in grave danger!


 * Meadowbrook's Mother: [coughing]
 * Mage Meadowbrook: [narrating] With mother sick, I didn't think I'd ever find a cure. But starin' at those cursed flowers today, I saw somethin'.
 * [flash bees buzzing]
 * [lilies puffing]
 * Mage Meadowbrook: [gasps] Flash bees! [narrating] I realized the flowers' poison didn't affect the flash bees. And if they were immune to Swamp Fever, their honey could be the cure!
 * [flash bees buzzing]
 * [branch snaps]
 * [flash bees buzzing]
 * [zaps]
 * Mage Meadowbrook: [narrating] But they were so aggressive defendin' their hive, I didn't know how I was gonna get it!


 * [flash bees buzzing]
 * Mage Meadowbrook: Here goes nothin'!


 * Mage Meadowbrook: [narrating] Today, I cured mother...
 * Fluttershy and Mage Meadowbrook: [crossfading] ...and the rest of the bayou!
 * Fluttershy: [reading] "It was the greatest feeling I've ever experienced, and I promise to dedicate my life to curing ponies all over Equestria!"
 * Cattail: And she did just that. Right up 'til she disappeared without a trace.
 * Fluttershy: So all we have to do is find those aggressive flash bees and get them to give us their honey! Of course, it doesn't say how she did that...
 * Rigby: Uh,
 * [beat]
 * Fluttershy: What? Is my mane messy? I know I haven't slept in a while, but...
 * Rigby: Fluttershy?

Fluttershy: [gasps] Oh, no! I've caught Swamp Fever!


 * Fluttershy: Huh?
 * [thump, thump]
 * Starlight Glimmer: Calm down, "Fluttershy".
 * Fluttershy: What?

Starlight Glimmer: We have to find out what's going on.
 * Fluttershy: Yes! I won't risk infecting you or Cattail!
 * Starlight Glimmer: Twilight might need our help.
 * Fluttershy: [coughs]
 * Cattail: Mm-hmm. You really should rest up before going up against those flash bees. They are nasty critters.
 * Fluttershy: Um, you don't know this about me, but I'm pretty good with animals. And besides, Dogtail—
 * Cattail: Cattail.
 * Fluttershy: Um, Zecora and Twilight is counting on me. I have to help her, just like Meadowbrook helped her mother and all those bayou ponies long ago!
 * Starlight Glimmer: Ugh! Why do you keep doing that?
 * Fluttershy: [strained] You're not gonna change my mind, Starlight!
 * Cattail: Ooh. For bein' sick, she sure is strong.


 * Cattail: The flash beehive is just up yonder.

Starlight Glimmer: I'm coming with you!
 * Fluttershy: No! It's too dangerous, Starlight. Besides, I've already gotten one friend hurt. I won't let it happen to another. [exhales] Okay, Fluttershy, you can do this! [coughs]


 * Fluttershy: [panting] [straining] Mind over matter! [grunts] [straining, panting]
 * [flash bees buzzing]
 * Fluttershy: Hello, flash bees! I was hoping I could get some of your honey.
 * [flash bees buzzing]
 * Fluttershy: Oh! I see. You don't let others have any. Well, I'm sorry, but I really need it.
 * [zap]
 * Fluttershy: [squeaks] I didn't want it to have to come to this, but I'll just have to use... the Stare!
 * [flash bees buzzing]
 * [zap, zap, zap]
 * Fluttershy: [shrieks] [coughs] You really are aggressive! [coughs] Oh, dear. [whimpers]


 * Fluttershy: [groans] What happened? Where am I?
 * Starlight Glimmer: Hmmm. Sounds like your mind's made up.
 * Cattail: You fainted, but Starlight shot some magic up and caught ya. It was crazy.
 * Fluttershy: Goodness gracious! [coughs] Have you heard from Zecora and Twilight? Is she okay?
 * Starlight Glimmer: Fluttershy, are you all right?
 * Cattail: We got word your zebra friend and alicorn pony has started sproutin' leaves and spring sickness.
 * Fluttershy: She's already turning into a tree and allergy?! I thought we'd have more time!
 * Starlight Glimmer: [nervous laugh] I might have relaid them to lead it back toward the hive.
 * Fluttershy: Three days?!
 * Starlight Glimmer: I thought if Zecora and Princess Twilight saw you were in danger, the loving, caring side of him would come out when he protected you!
 * Fluttershy: Oh, dear. We have to get back to the changeling hive! I've wasted so much time, and—!
 * Cattail: Now hang on there, Fluttershy. Those flash bee critters are tricky.
 * Starlight Glimmer: Second thoughts?
 * Cattail: We've tried everything from disguises to things I won't even speak of. [shudders]
 * Starlight Glimmer: [scoffs] Are you kidding? This flash bees isn't small. It's... eh... cozy.
 * Fluttershy: Wait... Disguises...
 * [flash bee buzzing]
 * Fluttershy: [gasps] That's it! I know how she did it! I know how Meadowbrook got the honey!


 * [flash bees buzzing]
 * Fluttershy: This is how Meadowbrook got the honey from the flash bees!
 * Cattail: She threw a mask at 'em? I wouldn't recommend that.
 * Fluttershy: No. The male bees aren't aggressive around the queen bee, and this mask has the same stripes that she does.
 * Starlight Glimmer: Fluttershy, there's plenty of high-quality inns to stay at on the way.
 * Fluttershy: [sneezes]

Mordecai: (sees it coming towards the windshield) Look out!
 * [zap]
 * Cattail: Whoa!
 * Fluttershy: There's no time to waste!
 * Starlight Glimmer: Don't worry about it.
 * Cattail: Oh, golly! I can't watch!
 * Fluttershy: [coughs] Mind over matter!
 * [flash bees buzzing]
 * Fluttershy: [buzzing]
 * [splat]
 * Fluttershy: Starlight... It's working!


 * Zecora: [gulps]

Twilight Sparkle: [gulping, hiccups]
 * [leaves rustling]

Starlight Glimmer: It is a lot harder than I thought. Still, I'm glad we tried. Mostly so we know not to do it again.
 * Zecora: Ohhh, I do feel fine, and this honey is divine.

Twilight Sparkle: It worked!
 * Fluttershy: Oh, you're rhyming again! Welcome back, my friend!
 * Zecora: Thank you, Fluttershy, for all you endured. If not for you, I would not be cured.
 * Fluttershy: Oh, if it wasn't for me, you wouldn't have been sick in the first place.
 * Zecora: Regret is not what you should feel, because on this journey, you've learned a great deal.
 * Fluttershy: That's true. I certainly learned that if you don't take care of yourself, you won't be able to take care of anypony else. In fact, if I had rested like Starlight had suggested all along, maybe I would have thought to use Meadowbrook's mask sooner.

Benson: I just lost the park to the guy in the fanny pack.
 * [window squeaking]
 * Dr. Horse: [coughing]
 * [bubbles popping]
 * Muscle Man: What the?
 * Dr. Horse: Please tell me you found the cure! [sneezes, sneezes]


 * [credits]