A Little Horse

A Little Horse is the thirteenth episode of My Little Pony: Make Your Mark, the sixth episode of the series' Chapter 4, and the thirteenth episode overall. The title is a play on "a little hoarse".
In this episode, Pipp Petals gets sick on the morning of a big livestream announcement, and her friends help nurse her back to health.
==Summary==
===The Princess Pipp Flu===
Pipp Petals is preparing for a livestream collaboration with the Pegasus rock band Electric Blue – their second collaboration after Bridlewoodstock – when she suddenly exhibits symptoms of a cold and is forced to reschedule. Pipp's friends, having been watching Pipp's livestream, arrive and insist that she take some time to rest, even offering to take care of her while she is sick.
As the sick Pipp is confined to her bed, the rest of the Mane 5 take turns looking after her and helping her get better. Zipp Storm gives Pipp her complete collection of Chronicles of Chevalia novels to read. Sunny Starscout seeks to recreate a special, homemade soup that Pipp's mother Queen Haven used to make her whenever she was sick.
Hitch Trailblazer brings his many critter friends to cheer Pipp up. Lastly, Izzy Moonbow attempts to make Pipp a magical Bridlewood tea remedy for colds. Throughout all of this, however, Pipp longs to be outside and takes any opportunity to go on social media behind her friends' backs.
===Soups, teas, and investigations===
When Zipp catches Pipp trying to engage with social media in her condition, she confiscates Pipp's phone until she gets better. Meanwhile, when Sunny fails to make Queen Haven's special soup, she, at Zipp's suggestion, seeks out Haven in person to find out how to make it – without revealing to Haven that one of her daughters is currently ill. After some pressing by Sunny, Haven eventually reveals that her soup is not homemade but rather store-bought.
Back at the Brighthouse, Hitch, Izzy, and Zipp entertain Pipp with an all-critter Shakespearean play, magic voice-changing tea, and a visit from Misty. Zipp shares with Pipp her findings about the evil pony that Twilight Sparkle warned them about in her message and concludes that the evil pony is an Alicorn; Misty worries even more that Zipp is getting closer and closer to discovering Opaline's identity.
Eventually, Pipp gets so tired of being treated like a patient and being stuck indoors all day without social media that she snaps at Zipp. Pipp apologizes to Zipp for getting short with her; Zipp forgives her and shares all of her findings about the mysterious evil Alicorn thus far. Misty reports all of this to Opaline at her castle.
===A little high-maintenance===
As Pipp plays board games with Hitch, Sunny returns with Haven's "special" soup; though Pipp knows full well that the soup is not homemade, she still considers it to be special because of the effort her mother always made to get it for her. After a whole day of being pampered by her friends, Pipp finally recovers from her cold.
Pipp thanks her friends for putting up with her while she was sick, and she finally does her livestream with Electric Blue, even including her friends in the livestream to show her appreciation. Meanwhile, Opaline, frustrated by how close Zipp has gotten to figuring out who she is, tells Misty to do whatever it takes to deliver Sparky Sparkeroni to her.
==Quotes==
:Seashell: Only one more minute until another live update from Princess Pipp!
:Peach Fizz: I wonder what she's going to do! A big announcement? A song? A big announcement about a song? [high-pitched squeal]
:[buzzing sound]
:Glory: Low battery?! No, no, no, no! Where's my charger?! Where's my charger?!
:Pipp Petals: [raspily] Technical difficulties. Gonna reschedule until tonight.
:Zipp Storm: Oh, no. You're... sick! Fair warning – she's about to become very high-maintenance.
:Zipp Storm: My favorite books, A.K.A. every volume of the greatest fantasy series of all time – The Chronicles of Chevalia! Including expanded universe official canonical side adventure novellas and the official Chevalipedia! Every term defined, every creature species classified, and every map you'll need to find your bearing in this expansive and amazing universe!
:Hitch Trailblazer: We thought you might be bored in here all by yourself, sooooo...
:Pipp Petals: I actually haven't been by myself yet.
:Sunny Starscout: "Magic get-well soup". Nope. "Magic get-well soup Zephyr Heights"? Nothing. Uh, "Princess Pipp's perfect magic soup recipe for when Pipp is sick soup".
:Zipp Storm: Mom only made that soup when we were sick.
:Sunny Starscout: So?
:Zipp Storm: If she knows one of us is sick, she'll freak out and, like, fly here and stuff!
:Zipp Storm: No more secret singing! No more ClipTrots! No more livestreams!
:Sunny Starscout: Hi, Queen Haven! I-I mean, Your Majesty!
:Queen Haven: Oh, please, Sunny. Call me "Your Majesty Queen Haven".
:Pipp Petals: Did the winged gopher learn to fly because it was inside him all along or because the Breezie fairy granted him a wish? I'm sorry, it's just a little unclear. Feels like a first draft.
:Kenneth: [chirping angrily]
:Hitch Trailblazer: He says... You know what? I won't share that one.
:Pipp Petals: [in Izzy's voice] Again, delicious! Wait, why do I sound like this? I'm you, Izzy! I mean, I'm, like, not you but, like, I have your voice!
:Sunny Starscout: What was that soup you would make for Pipp? She made it sound so great the way she talked it up.
:Queen Haven: You mean the special sick day soup? For days when she was sick?! Why?! Is she sick?! My baby!
:Pipp Petals: If an Alicorn already has unicorn, Pegasus, and Earth pony magic... [sniffles] ...what other kind of magic is there?
:Zipp Storm: Dragon magi—!
:Misty: [coughing]
:Pipp Petals: What's stuck in her mane?
:Zipp Storm: ["I dunno" sound] Remember that one time I got a candy apple stuck in mine?
:Pipp Petals: No, that was me. You put it there. At the carnival. Took Mom an hour to get it out.
:Zipp Storm: Oh, yeah! [chuckles] Classic.
:Queen Haven: I admit it! That soup is not homemade! It's from the Souper Ladle Food Cart!
:Opaline: They had never heard of moi? The great and powerful Opaline?! What are they teaching these ponies in history classes?!
:Sunny Starscout: Pipp, I got it! I did it! I have your magical soup!
:Pipp Petals: Sunny, this is so nice! But I should tell you, there's nothing magical about it.
:Sunny Starscout: There... isn't?
:Pipp Petals: It's special because of the effort my mom went through to get it. And the stubbornness of her insisting it was homemade.
:Opaline: Sinister laugh, commence... now! [evil laughter]
:Pipp Petals: I'm sorry if I was a difficult patient. You all worked so hard to entertain me, keep me preoccupied, and even get my health back. But all I really needed was to know my friends cared about me.
:Izzy Moonbow: Argh! If I knew that's what you needed, I wouldn't have tried so hard!
==Gallery==
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