Transcripts/The Cutie Re-Mark - Part 1. & 2

The Cutie Re-Mark - Part 1

 * Twilight Sparkle: If somepony had told me when I was a blank flank that one day I'd give a speech to a class at Celestia's School of Magic, I wouldn't have believed it, but...
 * [cards shuffling]
 * Twilight Sparkle: I hope that I have been up to the task, because I can tell that all of you are and that the future of Equestrian magic is in good hooves.
 * Spike: [clapping] Wow, hehe. That was even better than the first eleven times. [clears throat]
 * Twilight Sparkle: Eh, I don't know, Spike. I'd like to be able to get through the whole speech without looking at the cards.
 * Spike: Come on, Twilight! You can't be nervous about giving a speech to a bunch of magic students!
 * Twilight Sparkle: Oh, I'm not nervous, Spike, but I do have to set a good example, especially for magic students. That's why this speech has to be...
 * Spike: [sighs] Perfect?
 * Twilight Sparkle: Exactly. Let's go through it one more time. [clears throat] When Princess Celestia asked me to speak to you today, I was honored to have the opportunity to talk about my favorite subject: magic.


 * [theme song]


 * Twilight Sparkle: Obviously, the long term effects of...
 * Audience Pony: Shhhh.
 * Twilight Sparkle: ...the simultaneous acquisition of cutie marks has yet to be determined, but...
 * Twilight Sparkle: [sips water] Mordecai: (sips tea)
 * Twilight Sparkle: Ahem. Next slide, please.
 * Spike: [snoring] Huh? Huh!
 * Twilight Sparkle: I can speak from my own experience that the power of Cutie Mark Magic is very real, and in the instance of my friends and I, it can be traced to a single event! Without Rainbow Dash's race to defend Fluttershy's honor, this rainboom wouldn't have happened. Fluttershy might never have discovered her love of animals. Applejack might never have realized that she belonged on her farm. And Pinkie Pie might never have decided to leave hers. It might be hard to imagine Rarity without her sense of fabulousness. But it's even harder to fathom what my life would be like. Without this rainboom, I might not have gotten into magic school. Celestia wouldn't have taken me on as her pupil or sent me to Ponyville to meet my friends. And the most powerful thing about Cutie Mark Magic that I found is the connection I share with them.
 * [beat]
 * Twilight Sparkle: But, um... Mordecai: But, uh...
 * [cards shuffling]
 * Twilight Sparkle: The real question about... Cutie Mark Magic is... who it seems to affect.


 * Spike: Starlight Glimmer?
 * Twilight Sparkle: I was sure I saw her, Spike. But when I looked again, she was gone! I'm just worried what she could be up to.
 * Spike: Nothing good, I bet. I heard she wasn't very happy the last time you saw her.
 * Twilight Sparkle: Forcing everypony in her village to have the same cutie mark wasn't right. We had to do something!
 * Spike: And now she's coming back for revenge. Uh, or she was just really interested in your speech!
 * Twilight Sparkle: Honestly, Spike. I'm not really sure what I saw. But as long as I have my friends, I know everything will be all right.

(We begin with a cold open at the park house. A new character, Thomas the goat, is knocking on the door. He then knocks again, waiting for a response.)

Thomas: Hello? (Peeks through window. As he backs away, he then notices the knob, and enters the house.)Benson, hello? (Knocks again.) Is anybody here? (Walks further in. His cell phone rings and he answers.) Hey, mom. Yeah, it's my first day at my new internship. No, I'm looking for them right now. Yeah, yeah, I met everybody yesterday and they all seem really cool. Yeah, it's gonna be a really easy way to get three credits.


 * Twilight Sparkle: Maybe I was just more stressed about that speech than I thought.
 * Spike: Yeah. That sounds better than Starlight Glimmer coming back with an evil plot for revenge.
 * Twilight Sparkle: Well, when you say it like that, it does sound kinda silly.
 * Spike: Or it's totally true!
 * Starlight Glimmer: Welcome home, Twilight!
 * [magic zaps]
 * Twilight Sparkle: What are you doing, Starlight?
 * Starlight Glimmer: [laughs] I'd tell you, but I don't want to ruin the surprise! Won't be needing that anymore.

Mr. Ross: Bye!

Starlight Glimmer: [laughs]
 * [magic zaps]
 * [clocks ticking]
 * [magic zaps]

Thomas: (Suddenly, an explosion of some sort occurs outside, shaking the house.) Mom, hold on!

(Thomas runs outside and sees a fireball explode right by the house as lasers fly past him. To the left, he sees Pops, Hi Five Ghost and Benson running in terror.)

Benson: Run! Run!

(All three are hit with lasers and stunned as Thomas watches. He then sees Skips running past the evildoers. After dodging some lasers, he is eventually shot and hits the ground. He turns to face the shooter, who has a recognizable-looking face. Muscle Man is shown watching from behind a trash can.)

Skips: You. You won't get away with--

(Skips is shot again; Muscle Man makes a break for it but is also shot down.)

Spike: Where'd she go? CJ: Where'd she go?
 * Twilight Sparkle: I don't know, Spike, but I think we better find out!
 * Spike: I guess we could start with this.
 * Twilight Sparkle: Spike, no! Don't touch that!

(Mordecai and Rigby are then seen running past the destruction. Mordecai is carrying a time machine, Rigby a file.)

Rigby: Dude, hurry!

Mordecai: (Mashing the buttons on the time machine.) I'm trying!

[magic zaps]
 * [clocks ticking]

(Just as they are about to be shot, the time machine activates, and Mordecai and Rigby disappear in a golden aura.)

Twilight Sparkle and Spike: [screaming]

[door opens]
 * Pinkie Pie: Huh! [loud chewing]

Benson: (Benson knocks at the door.) Mordecai, Rigby. Meeting in... (He opens the door to see nothing; sighs) Of course. (closes the door.)

Twilight Sparkle and Spike: [screaming]
 * [clocks ticking]
 * Twilight Sparkle and Spike: [screaming]
 * Spike: [continued screaming] Cloudsdale? Starlight doesn't even have wings! Why would she come here?
 * Twilight Sparkle: I don't know, Spike, but it looked like she could fly with just magic! Keep your eyes open. We don't know what she has planned.
 * [whoosh]
 * Spike: Isn't that Rainbow Dash?
 * Twilight Sparkle: Did Rainbow Dash look really young to you? And I didn't see a cutie mark. You don't think...
 * Spike: ...We traveled back in time to when Rainbow Dash raced the bullies who made fun of Fluttershy and performed her first sonic rainboom?
 * Twilight Sparkle: Spike, only Star Swirl the Bearded could do something like that, and even his spell just went back a week! How could Starlight do more than the greatest wizard in Equestria?
 * [paper rustling]
 * Spike: With this.
 * Twilight Sparkle: Star Swirl's spell! Oh, no!
 * Spike: Come on, let's go!
 * Twilight Sparkle: Go where?
 * Spike: To watch the race. I don't wanna miss the rainboom! Whoa!


 * Young Fluttershy: [yelps]
 * [various whooshes]
 * [thump]
 * Young Rainbow Dash: Whoa!
 * Young Hoops: Heh. Later, Rainbow Crash!
 * Young Rainbow Dash: Hey!
 * Starlight Glimmer: Aw, sorry about this.
 * [magic zap]
 * Young Rainbow Dash: Hey! What gives?
 * [foals cheering]
 * Young Fluttershy: [giggling]
 * [critter noises]


 * Young Applejack: [sighs]


 * Young Pinkie Pie: [exhales]
 * [crow cawing]


 * [crunch]


 * Young Twilight Sparkle: [straining]
 * [magic fizzling]
 * [scribbling]


 * Twilight Sparkle: What did you do?!
 * Starlight Glimmer: You are about to find out.
 * [magic zaps]

(Fade to two months later. We pan down to see a new place: Skips' Place, Body and Oil Transmission.)

Skips: Let's see... Pops? (Pan through the seats, to Pops, in a zookeeper's outfit.) We got a Pops here?

Pops: Huh?

Skips: You Pops?

Pops: Indeed!

Skips: Car's ready. Sign here. (Shows Pops a clipboard and hands him a pen.)

Pops: I hope she wasn't any trouble, Mister! Mister... (Looks at nametag.) Skips.

Skips: Not really. Just an oil change.

Pops: Oh, splendid! (Runs away, laughing. Skips then looks at the clipboard again.)

Skips: We got a Marcy Stevenson here?

(Pops starts up his car, and drives out of Skips', and onto the road. He turns on the radio to listen to old-style music. At the crosswalk, Muscle Man, dressed like a college professor, checks his watch.)

Muscle Man: Come on! (Looks at the crosswalk sign. It stays on the red hand for a few seconds, before the white stick figure flashes on, Pops is seen driving, not noticing Muscle Man, only seeing him and braking at the last second.) What the heck, old man? (Pops then backs up his car, and drives away.) Hey! (Throws his briefcase at Pops' car.)

Pops: Sorry!

Muscle Man: I'll find out who you are. (Walks up to pick up his briefcase, and Hi Five Ghost appears. He is now a Pizza delivery guy.)

Hi Five Ghost: Hey mister. Do you know the way to the park?

Muscle Man: Uh, hello, I almost died. Besides, I don't have time to tell you, I'm late for my lecture on Quantam Mechanics. (leaves)

Hi Five Ghost: Pff, brainac. (He now looks at a sign that says Old Town <--, and The Park -->, and heads to the park.)

(On the park gate is a sign that reads, 'Exit 9B Coming Soon', Hi Five Ghost knocks on the gate, and Benson opens it, revealing that he still works at the park.)

Benson: You're not the usual pizza guy.

Hi Five Ghost: I'm new. That will be $12.95.

(Benson takes the pizza to GBF Jr. inside the park, which is now a construction site.)

Benson: The pizzas have arrived, sir.

GBF Jr: Excellent. Thomas, come. (We see Thomas, who was listening to music, and he runs to GBF Jr.)

Benson: Sir, do you think I could have some pizza?

GBF Jr: What? Pizza's for winners. You're not a winner, Benson, you're a slacker. NOW GET BACK TO WORK!

Benson: Yes, sir.

GBF Jr: Intern, pizza. (Opens his mouth, and Thomas feeds him a slice. He lets out an evil laugh.)

(We scroll down a little bit)

[magic zaps]

(Mordecai and Rigby land from the time machine.)

Twilight Sparkle and Spike: [screaming]
 * [thump]

Mordecai: Agh, my chest.

Rigby: Are you ok?

Mordecai: Huh? (Gets up, revealing the time machine is now destroyed.) Aw, man.

Rigby: Where are we?

Twilight Sparkle: Ugh... I don't know what Starlight's up to yet, but we'd better figure it out before it's too late.
 * Spike: Um, Twilight? I think it already is.
 * Twilight Sparkle: [gasps]


 * Spike: Uh, Twilight? Where's your castle?
 * Twilight Sparkle: The map pulled us back, but whatever Starlight did in the past changed things here!
 * Spike: But why? And how did we get here? Where's here?
 * Twilight Sparkle: More like when.
 * Spike: What do you mean?
 * Twilight Sparkle: Starlight altered Star Swirl's spell, then somehow used it on the map to travel into the past and change something! Once she did, the map pulled us back to the present!
 * Spike: So we're back where— I mean, when we started?
 * Twilight Sparkle: Not exactly. Everything's different. Look. The map doesn't even make sense anymore! The Crystal Empire takes up half of Equestria!
 * Spike: Plus there's the whole missing castle thing.
 * Twilight Sparkle: Right! This is too big to handle on our own.
 * Spike: You think?
 * Twilight Sparkle: We need to find our friends and get help!


 * [crow cawing]
 * Spike: I'm gettin' a bad feeling about this, Twilight.
 * Twilight Sparkle: I know, Spike, but this is Ponyville. How bad could things be?
 * Spike: Is that Sugarcube Corner?
 * Twilight Sparkle: I don't understand.
 * Spike: [gasps]

(We go to Skips' garage, which is now barricaded, and now Mordecai knocks at the door.)

Mordecai: Skips? (Knocks again.) Skips?

Rigby: (Wipes the window.) Skips? (We now look inside the garage, showing that it's all dark and full of trash.)

Twilight Sparkle: I don't think she's here, Spike. I'm not sure anything we know is the same. But I know one place that could never change!


 * [sign squeaking]
 * [machines grinding]
 * [squeaking]
 * [machines grinding and hissing]
 * [rumbling]
 * Twilight Sparkle: Applejack?!
 * Applejack: What can I do for you?
 * Twilight Sparkle: It's so good to see you! We couldn't find Pinkie or Rarity or Fluttershy or Rainbow Dash, but I just knew you'd still be here!
 * Applejack: Of course I am. This is my home. But who in tarnation is Pinkie Bow and Flutterdash? Or you for that matter?
 * Twilight Sparkle: You... don't know who I am?
 * Applejack: Nope. Honestly, the only name I recognize is Rarity, but she left for Manehattan years ago.
 * Spike: Probably to become a world-famous fashion designer, I bet.
 * Applejack: Not that I know of. Last I heard, she went to help with the cause like everypony else.
 * Twilight Sparkle: The cause?
 * Applejack: The war against King Sombra and the Crystal Empire?
 * Twilight Sparkle and Spike: What?!
 * Applejack: Where have you two been?
 * Twilight Sparkle and Spike: What?!
 * Applejack: Did you bump your head on a crate of cider or somethin'?
 * Twilight Sparkle: I'm telling you the truth! And if you come with me, I'll prove it.


 * Applejack: Well, I'll admit. I've lived in these parts my whole life and I've never seen this before.
 * Spike: There's also supposed to be a castle that goes with it.
 * Applejack: But I still don't see what this has to do with you and I bein' friends.
 * Twilight Sparkle: Another pony named Starlight Glimmer used this map to travel through time and change things in the past. For some reason, the map's here but everything else is different!
 * Applejack: Different how?
 * Twilight Sparkle: Well, for one thing, where we came from, there's no war with King Sombra. Maybe you could tell us how the war started, then we can figure out when everything changed!
 * Applejack: That's easy enough. [sighs] When the Crystal Empire returned, it brought King Sombra back with it.


 * [flames whooshing]
 * Applejack: [voiceover] And it didn't take long for him to force every one of his subjects to fight for him against Equestria.


 * [marching]
 * [plane engine noises]
 * [sounds of battle]
 * King Sombra: [laughs]
 * [rumbling]
 * [rapid digging]
 * Applejack: [voiceover] And even with Princess Celestia leadin' the charge, it still takes every last pony in Equestria doin' their part, workin' day and night, to keep up the fight.
 * [train whistle]


 * Twilight Sparkle: I just can't believe it! We stopped King Sombra! You and me and all of our friends!
 * Applejack: But we aren't friends. At least not here.
 * Twilight Sparkle: Right.
 * Applejack: Look. I hope all this helped, but I really need to get back to cannin' those apples.
 * Twilight Sparkle: Thank you. We're going to set things right.
 * Applejack: [sighs] I hope you do.
 * Spike: So... how are we gonna set things right?
 * Twilight Sparkle: I don't know! The only thing we know for sure is that Starlight stopped the rainboom.
 * Spike: And that the map's still here.
 * Twilight Sparkle: [gasps] Spike, that's it! The map is connected to the Tree of Harmony! It must sense that something isn't right! That's why it's still here! I'll just use Starlight's version of the spell and go back a little earlier and stop her before she even knows we're there!
 * [paper rustling]
 * [magic zaps]


 * [magic zaps]
 * Spike: [screaming]
 * Twilight Sparkle: All we have to do now is find Starlight and—

Mordecai: (sees it coming towards the windshield) Look out!

[magic zap]
 * Starlight Glimmer: Well, finding her will be easy!

Mordecai: Great.

Starlight Glimmer: But stopping her's gonna be harder than you think. Sorry to disappoint you, but I created that spell to send myself back in time. So even when you cast it, I still get sent back here. It wasn't difficult to change Star Swirl's spell. He'd already done the hard part. But figuring out I could use the map to go to any time or place and pull you along with me? [short laugh] I even impressed myself with that. I knew you'd try to stop me. You're so predictable. Why else would I leave the scroll behind? Touching it triggered the map to whisk you here and watch me erase the one thing that linked you with your friends! My village was a sanctuary of equality, where nopony's cutie mark allowed them to feel superior! It was a special place, and you and your friends took it away!

[beat]
 * Starlight Glimmer: Now it's my turn to take something special from you! Without the rainboom, you and your friends will never form your special cutie mark bonds! Cutie marks for cutie marks! Sounds like a fair trade to me!
 * [tok]


 * [crystal shattering]
 * Rigby: Make it stop!
 * Twilight Sparkle: Oops!
 * Spike: [screaming] Thanks!
 * Twilight Sparkle: No problem, Spike. At least now we know exactly what we have to do!


 * [teleportation zaps]
 * Twilight Sparkle: Okay, keep your eyes peeled.
 * Spike: Right!
 * Twilight Sparkle: We have to stop Starlight as soon as Rainbow Dash and those bullies race by!
 * Spike: Um, Twilight?
 * Twilight Sparkle: So be ready.
 * Spike: I know, but—
 * Twilight Sparkle: Because she could pop up anywhere!
 * Spike: Like over there?
 * [aah-OOOOOOO-gah!!!]
 * Twilight Sparkle: [short gasp]
 * Starlight Glimmer: Just remember how you'd feel if someone said those things to you.
 * Twilight Sparkle: What's going on here?
 * Starlight Glimmer: Oh, I was just reminding these two colts how hurtful teasing can be.
 * Twilight Sparkle: Well, don't!
 * Young "Dumb-Bell" and Hoops: Huh?
 * Young Fluttershy: Huh?
 * Twilight Sparkle: I mean... you were?
 * Starlight Glimmer: Of course! In a world where everypony is unique, some are bound to feel more special than others. But that isn't a license to be cruel, is it?
 * Twilight Sparkle: No, of course not...
 * Starlight Glimmer: Oh, isn't it a shame we don't live in a world where everypony is equal? No one would ever tease anyone there! Wouldn't that be nice?
 * Young "Dumb-Bell", Fluttershy and Hoops: Mm-hmm.
 * Twilight Sparkle: No, it wouldn't! I mean, it'd be nice not to be teased, of course, but that's not the same thing!
 * Young Hoops: Come on, Fluttershy. Maybe I can help you get through the course this time.
 * Young Fluttershy: Well, I-I sure could use the practice...
 * Twilight Sparkle: I know you only convinced those bullies to not tease Fluttershy to stop the rainboom!
 * Starlight Glimmer: Oh, that's not true. I convinced them not to be bullies because everypony should be equal. Stopping the rainboom is just a bonus.
 * [whoosh]
 * Spike: Look!
 * Twilight Sparkle: This isn't over yet!
 * Starlight Glimmer: If you say so!


 * Twilight Sparkle: Hi!
 * Young Rainbow Dash: Um... hi?
 * Twilight Sparkle: You think you can stop for a minute?
 * Young Rainbow Dash: Sure.
 * [thump]
 * Twilight Sparkle: I hear you're pretty fast!
 * Young Rainbow Dash: Pretty fast? Please! I'm even faster than that!
 * Twilight Sparkle: Okay, so, um, hey, you want to race?
 * Young Rainbow Dash: Um, that wouldn't really be fair. I mean, you're a full-grown pony, and... Wait. Are you an Alicorn?
 * Twilight Sparkle: Come on, I thought you were fast!
 * [sproing]
 * Young Rainbow Dash: Uh, actually, I just remembered I have somewhere I need to be.
 * Twilight Sparkle: Okay, listen. You don't have to race me. I just need you to fly fast enough for a sonic rainboom!
 * Young Rainbow Dash: What?! I can't do that! Nopony can! It's not even a real thing! It's just an old mare's tale!
 * Twilight Sparkle: But it's not! I know it's not! I've seen you do it! In the future!
 * Young Rainbow Dash: Ooookay... I'm gonna go now.
 * Twilight Sparkle: No! Wait!
 * Starlight Glimmer: Gee, Twilight, what's the matter? Couldn't convince her to do the impossible? That's too bad.
 * Twilight Sparkle: [inhales]
 * [magic zap]
 * [clocks ticking]


 * [magic zaps]
 * [thud]
 * Spike: Ugh. Well, that didn't work.
 * Twilight Sparkle: This is gonna be harder than I thought. We'll have to try again!
 * Spike: Hey, Twilight?
 * Twilight Sparkle: I don't want to live in that awful future we saw!
 * Spike: I don't think you'll have to!
 * [spears clinking]
 * Twilight Sparkle: Pinkie? Fluttershy?
 * Pinkie Pie: Silence, changeling!
 * Fluttershy: All servants of Queen Chrysalis found in these woods must be... destroyed!
 * Twilight Sparkle: [gulp]

The Cutie Re-Mark - Part 2
Twilight Sparkle: Wait! We're not changelings! I'm a pony! And he's a dragon!
 * Pinkie Pie: A likely story! Do something dragonish!
 * Spike: [belches]
 * Pinkie Pie: [wheezes] That works!
 * Fluttershy: The servants of Chrysalis will do anything to save their evil skins!
 * Zecora: Stop! If they are changelings we'll soon see. Though I think they're not what they appear to be.
 * Twilight Sparkle: Zecora! Please, you have to listen.
 * Zecora: Beneath this salve, no changeling hides, for it reveals the truth inside.
 * [ponies gasping]
 * Pinkie Pie: What does it mean?
 * Zecora: The meaning is far worse, I see, for it is we who should not be.
 * Twilight Sparkle: I think I can explain.
 * Zecora: I'm sure you can, but let's not talk here. Chrysalis and her army will soon draw near!


 * Zecora: The changelings took over not long ago. Though I'll wager in your world that isn't so.
 * Twilight Sparkle: Chrysalis and her army tried to take over Canterlot, but my friends and I stopped her.
 * Zecora: Those friends as you know them are not here, alas. But tell me how all this came to pass.
 * Twilight Sparkle: Starlight Glimmer, a pony who traveled back in time to stop my friends and me from ever coming together!
 * Zecora: And it is these friends you have in life that keep Equestria free from strife?
 * Twilight Sparkle: I guess so. But this is the second time I've come back and this world is even worse than the last one! If Starlight keeps doing the same thing in the past, how could the present be so different?
 * Zecora: Ah. Time is a river, where even the tiniest changes seen can lead to a cascade of effects downstream.


 * Zecora: This part of the forest is dark and damp, but it's done well to hide our camp.
 * [thunk]
 * Spike: This is cozy.
 * Rarity: [shrieks] Please! You have to help us!
 * Rainbow Dash: The changelings attacked Ponyville! We barely escaped with our lives!
 * Zecora: The only changeling attack I see is the one that come here looking for me!
 * Applejack: It's taken quite a while to find you, Zecora. [laughs]
 * Queen Chrysalis: [laughs] What a lovely village you've chosen to stage your little resistance. It looks absolutely delicious! [slurping] Oh, come now, Zecora. You're vastly outnumbered.
 * [changeling wings humming]
 * Queen Chrysalis: I know you don't want your charges hurt. Come quietly to the dungeons of Canterlot and I promise to leave the others alone.
 * Fluttershy: Why would she ever trust you?!
 * Twilight Sparkle: Even if there's a chance Chrysalis will honor her word, shouldn't you try?
 * Zecora: [hushed] Race to the map while we hold off their attack. Stop Starlight and put the whole world back on track!
 * Queen Chrysalis: Time to make a decision, Zecora!
 * Zecora: Even if what you are saying were true, we'd never surrender to a creature like you! [yells]
 * [sounds of battle, changeling wings]
 * Twilight Sparkle: [panting]
 * [changeling roars]
 * [magic zaps]

Mordecai, Rigby, Skips, Benson, and Pops: TAKE US HOME, TAKE US HOME, TAKE US ALL BACK HOME!


 * [magic zaps]
 * [many magic zaps]
 * [many magic zaps]
 * Twilight Sparkle and Starlight Glimmer: [panting]
 * [magic zaps]
 * Young Rainbow Dash: Whoa! [chewing]
 * [magic zaps]
 * Young Rainbow Dash: No way! This is way more exciting!
 * [magic zaps]
 * Young Rainbow Dash: Aw, man. Rigby: Oh, man...


 * [magic zaps]
 * [thuds]
 * Twilight Sparkle and Spike: [groans]
 * Spike: That's strange.
 * Twilight Sparkle: Well, you obviously don't mean us falling, because that's becoming pretty routine.
 * Spike: No, it's just the other times we've come back, it's been day! But look!
 * Twilight Sparkle: Why would the map bring us back to a different time of day than when we left?
 * [branches cracking]
 * Spike: Um, maybe we should figure it out later!
 * [timberwolves growling]
 * Twilight Sparkle: [loud panting]
 * [timberwolves howling]
 * Twilight Sparkle: [gasps] The Castle of the Two Sisters!
 * [timberwolves howling]
 * Spike: Well, don't just stand here!


 * [door opens and closes]
 * Spike: This place looks a lot cleaner than I remember.
 * Twilight Sparkle: Rarity?
 * Rarity: The castle isn't open for viewings today. The tapestries all need changing. Again.
 * Spike: Rarity, it's me!
 * Rarity: I don't socialize with dragons. I don't know anypony who would.
 * Spike: [whimpers]
 * Twilight Sparkle: Rarity, you have to listen to me! The future of Equestria's at stake!
 * Rarity: I don't know how you know my name, but I am far too busy to entertain some tourist's ridiculous fantasies.
 * Twilight Sparkle: I have to get back to the map so I can stop Starlight from changing the past, because every present I come to is worse than the last!
 * Nightmare Moon: Time travel, you say? Now that's something I would like to see.


 * Nightmare Moon: [laughing] Tell me how you came by this magic to travel through time.
 * Rainbow Dash: The princess asked you a question! And unless you wanna end up in the dungeon, you'll tell her what she wants to know!
 * Nightmare Moon: Nopony in my kingdom but me should possess a magic powerful enough to change time.
 * Spike: Your kingdom?
 * Nightmare Moon: Who else?
 * Spike: Um... Celestia, of course!
 * Nightmare Moon: [laughing] My sister has been imprisoned in the moon for years! But it is no less a fate than she'd sentence me to! Now, reveal to me the source of this time magic!
 * Twilight Sparkle: ...Alright.
 * Spike: Twilight, no!
 * Twilight Sparkle: We have no choice, Spike. [to Nightmare Moon] I can take you to it, but you'll have to get past the timberwolves.
 * Nightmare Moon: I am the ruler of all of Equestria. Do you think I can't deal with timberwolves?
 * Twilight Sparkle: No. I know you can.
 * Nightmare Moon: And if you were thinking of trying to escape...
 * [chains clinking]
 * Nightmare Moon: ...it would be very unfortunate for your friend.


 * [magic zaps]
 * [timberwolf whimpering]
 * [crunch]
 * Nightmare Moon: How does it work?
 * Twilight Sparkle: A pony from my time used this spell to travel back and change the past.
 * Nightmare Moon: And now you will give this spell to me! With it, I will ensure that the Elements of Harmony are never found and my reign lasts forever!
 * Twilight Sparkle: But it won't.
 * Nightmare Moon: What?!
 * Twilight Sparkle: In my world, my friends and I found the Elements and used them to defeat you! And I will do everything in my power to bring that world back!
 * Nightmare Moon: No!
 * [magic zaps]
 * Nightmare Moon: Noooooo!


 * [magic zaps]
 * Twilight Sparkle: Now more than ever I know how important it is to stop you!
 * [crunch]
 * Starlight Glimmer: Well, good luck!
 * Young Rainbow Dash: Whoooaaaa!
 * [magic zaps]


 * [crunching]
 * [magic zaps]


 * [magic zaps]
 * Starlight Glimmer: [clapping]


 * [squeaks]
 * [splatting]
 * [magic zap]


 * [magic zap]
 * [sound of machinery]
 * [magic zap]


 * [magic zap]
 * Starlight Glimmer: Up for another race-ending fight, Twilight?
 * Twilight Sparkle: No. You were right. I can't stop you.
 * [magic zap]
 * Twilight Sparkle: But you can't stop me from trying, and we could be stuck doing this for all eternity!
 * Starlight Glimmer: If that's what it takes to keep you and your friends from getting your cutie mark connection, then I'm game!
 * [magic zap]
 * Twilight Sparkle: What you're doing goes way beyond cutie marks! Everything we do here in the past – even the smallest change – can snowball into an avalanche of trouble for the future!
 * [magic zap]
 * Starlight Glimmer: Oh, next I suppose you'll tell me that "the fate of all of Equestria hangs in the balance"!
 * Twilight Sparkle: It does!
 * Starlight Glimmer: Spare me your overblown ego! No group of friends, not even Princess Twilight's, is thatimportant!
 * [magic zap]
 * Young Rainbow Dash: Aaaaaaah!
 * [magic zaps]
 * Twilight Sparkle: I don't know how important other ponies' friendships are to the future, but I can show you what the world is like without mine!


 * [wind blowing]
 * Starlight Glimmer: Where are we?!
 * Twilight Sparkle: The future. Or rather, the present.
 * Starlight Glimmer: But there's nothing here!
 * Twilight Sparkle: I wish I could say I was surprised. But every world I come back to is worse than the last. I don't know why my friends and I are so important to Equestria, but we are.
 * Starlight Glimmer: I don't believe you!
 * Spike: Come on, Starlight, look around!
 * Twilight Sparkle: Like I said, everything in the past affects the future, even the tiniest act. And what you're doing leads here. I know I can't stop you, but I thought showing you this might change your mind.
 * Starlight Glimmer: Change my mind? You don't know anything about me! I was perfectly happy before you and your friends ruined what I built!
 * Twilight Sparkle: I don't know what happened that led you to make your village without cutie marks, and I'm sorry my friends and I had to take it away.
 * Starlight Glimmer: You want to know what happened to me?! I'll show you!
 * [magic zaps]
 * [clocks ticking]


 * Twilight Sparkle: Where are we?
 * Starlight Glimmer: That map of yours is connected to every part of Equestria, and this part is my home.
 * [young Starlight Glimmer clapping]
 * Starlight Glimmer: Sunburst and I did everything together. In fact, I don't remember us ever being apart. Until today.
 * [rumbling]
 * [myriad thumps]
 * Sunburst: [whinnies]
 * [ponies excited]
 * Starlight Glimmer: And just like that, my friend was gone. His family recognized his magical talent and sent him off to Canterlot. I never saw him again.
 * Spike: Well, why not?
 * Starlight Glimmer: Because of his cutie mark! He got his, and I didn't! He moved on, and I didn't! I stayed here and never made another friend because I was too afraid another cutie mark would take them away, too!
 * Twilight Sparkle: That's ridiculous. A cutie mark can't take your friends away.
 * Starlight Glimmer: Not everypony's lucky enough to get her cutie mark at the same time as her friends!
 * [magic zaps]


 * [magic zaps]
 * Starlight Glimmer: You don't know what it's like to lose a friend because of a cutie mark. But once I stop the rainboom, you will!
 * [magic zaps]
 * Starlight Glimmer: And when I destroy this scroll, there'll be no way for you to change it!
 * [paper ripping]


 * Twilight Sparkle: Starlight, you're right! I don't know what you went through! But I do know you can't do this! I've seen where this leads, and so have you!
 * Starlight Glimmer: I only saw what you showed me! Who knows what'll really happen?
 * Twilight Sparkle: I've seen it a dozen times! Things don't turn out well in Equestria without my friends!
 * Starlight Glimmer: Ugh! What's so special about your friends?! How can a group of ponies that are so different be so important?!
 * Twilight Sparkle: The differences between me and my friends are the very things that make our friendship strong!
 * Starlight Glimmer: I thought Sunburst and I were the same. But we turned out different, and it tore our friendship apart!
 * Twilight Sparkle: So try again! Make new friends! And if something that you can't control happens that changes things, work through it together! That's what friendship is! And it's not just my friendships that are important to Equestria! Everypony's are! When yours ended, it led us here. But just imagine all the others that are out there waiting for you if you just give them a chance!
 * Starlight Glimmer: How do I know they won't all end the same way?
 * Twilight Sparkle: I guess it's up to you to make sure they don't.
 * [whoosh]
 * [paper rustling]
 * [boom]
 * [magic zaps]


 * [magic zaps]
 * [thumps]
 * [magic zaps]
 * Spike: [kissing] One Castle of Friendship – check!
 * [door opens]
 * Rarity: What in Equestria was that?!
 * Fluttershy: Is everypony okay?
 * Pinkie Pie: [squeals] Can you do it again?
 * Spike: One group of amazing friends – check!
 * Twilight Sparkle: Yeah, Spike. It looks like we're home!
 * Applejack: Uh... what's she doin' here?
 * Twilight Sparkle: Actually, it's kind of a long story.


 * [muffled voices]
 * Rainbow Dash: I mean, I knew my rainboom was awesome, but I never thought all of Equestria depended on it!
 * Pinkie Pie: Or on us!
 * Twilight Sparkle: I think it's more than that. Friendship connects all of Equestria, and undoing one group of friends made its magic less powerful.
 * Applejack: I can't believe y'all were able to travel through time like that.
 * Pinkie Pie: That Starlight must be pretty magical!
 * Twilight Sparkle: She obviously has more talent for magic than almost anypony I've seen. My magic couldn't stop her. I had to convince her to stop on her own. Once I realized that, everything fell into place.
 * Applejack: But if she's as powerful as all that, we can't just send her on her way, can we?
 * Twilight Sparkle: Actually, I kind of have something else in mind.


 * [door opens]
 * Starlight Glimmer: [gulps, exhales] I know there's no excuse for what I did, but I want you all to know that I'm ready for whatever punishment you think is fair.
 * Twilight Sparkle: I've been thinking a lot about how badly Equestria fared without just one group of friends. Because even when one friendship dies, the results can be disastrous.
 * Starlight Glimmer: I know first-hoof how true that can be.
 * Twilight Sparkle: And that's why I've asked you here. If you're willing to learn, I'm willing to teach you what I know. You'll have the power to make Equestria an even better place.
 * Starlight Glimmer: [hushed] How do I start?
 * Twilight Sparkle: Starting is easy! All you have to do is make a friend! And you've got seven of them right here.


 * [Starlight Glimmer]
 * I never thought that I would find a place
 * To step right in and start again
 * I never thought that I could just begin
 * Right where I left off and make a friend


 * [Twilight Sparkle]
 * Don't ever think that it might be too late
 * You don't have to wait, there's no mistakes with the friends you make
 * A friendship's only made of what you bring
 * And if you do it right, you can do anything


 * [Starlight Glimmer and Mane Six]
 * Just use your eyes
 * This time, no lies
 * Just don't disguise
 * Who you are inside


 * Because your friends are always there for you
 * You don't have to be the same for friendship to be true
 * Because your friends are always there for you
 * Around the world, it's still the same
 * Together you have more to gain
 * There's nothing that a friend won't do


 * Everywhere you go
 * Friendship there will grow
 * When you find it, it's the key
 * Friends can change the world, you see


 * Everywhere you go
 * Friendship there will grow
 * When you find it, it's the key
 * Friends can change the world (ah-ah)
 * Friends can change the world (ah-ah)
 * Friends can change the world, you see
 * [credits]