My Little Pony: Tell Your Tale (season 2)

My Little Pony: Tell Your Tale is an animated series of shorts based on My Little Pony: A New Generation. Season 2 of the series premiered on YouTube on January 11, 2024.__NOTOC__
==Development and production==
Tell Your Tale season 2 was first announced in Hasbro's My Little Pony 2024 Franchise Overview, with "a total of 328 minutes" planned.
=== Pony===
2022-2023:
*Lekia: winning entry Luminous Dazzle designed by Adina Johansson to appear in Secret Ad-mare-er, Sunny's Smoothie Moves, The Hunt for Eggmund Bunny‎, Diva and Conquer‎, Hot Day, Huh?‎, Sparkle School, Moon Festival, Scents of Adventure, Nightmare Nightmarket, Very Bad Hair Day‎, The Rise and Fall, Icy Prints, Cake Dragon, Cracked It, and a My Little Pony magazine
*Tiger Family: winning entry 莉芙 designed by 陳Ｏ馨小朋友 to appear in Ponykind Parade-emonium, Sunny's Smoothie Moves, The Hunt for Eggmund Bunny‎, Diva and Conquer‎, Hot Day, Huh?‎, Moon Festival, Scents of Adventure, Nightmare Nightmarket, Very Bad Hair Day‎, Friday Night Food Fight‎, The Rise and Fall, and Icy Prints; 2nd prize winning entry 莎莎公主 designed by 魏Ｏ琳小朋友; 3rd prize winning entry Jump Bo跳寶 designed by 王Ｏ卉小朋友; 4th prize winning entry 灣灣 designed by 林Ｏ萱小朋友; 優等獎 prize winning entry 小彩 designed by 林Ｏ靚小朋友; 優等獎 prize winning entry 芭蕾 designed by 曾Ｏ洺小朋友; 優等獎 prize winning entry 雪飛 designed by 陳Ｏ妮小朋友; 優等獎 prize winning entry Violet designed by Eugene小朋友
*The Entertainer: 1st prize winning entry Dreamy to appear in Very Bad Hair Day‎, The Rise and Fall, Equestria's Got Talent, Snow Business Like Show Business, Heavy is the Mane that Wears the Fruit Crown, Jazz Hearts Rocky, Cracked It, and The Blockywockys; 2nd prize winning entry Candy; 3rd prize winning entry Cherry Plumb
*BIG W: 1st prize winning entry Shortcakes the strawberry dessert pony designed by Annabelle Mead to appear in an episode in the second half of 2024 and a winner-received physical print; runner up prize winning entry Midnight dream named like G3 Midnight Dream and designed by Arthit Tan to appear in a winner-received physical print but not an episode; runner up prize winning entry Cherry bloom designed by Scarlett Alabacos to appear in a winner-received physical print but not an episode
==Series synopsis==
"Living in Maretime Bay, our Pony BESTIES are having a ton of fun together! These 5-minute episodes offer funny, fast paced stories that will have everypony in stitches."
==Episodes==
Episodes	Episodes	Episodes
#Icy Prints
#Heavy is the Mane that Wears the Fruit Crown
#Cake Dragon
#Jazz Hearts Rocky
#Misty-rious New Room
#Swirlpool Starlight
#The Lone Alicorn
#Bunnisi Beauties
#Cracked It
#Buried in a Good Book
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==Icy Prints==
Icy Prints is the first Tell Your Tale short of season 2 and the seventy-first short overall. It was uploaded to the official My Little Pony: Tell Your Tale YouTube channel on January 11, 2024. The animation focuses primarily on Zipp Storm.
===Summary===
While flying through Maretime Bay and interacting with some of her friends, Zipp Storm finds a section of the forest outside of town frozen over and a pawprint in the ice. She sends a message to Hitch Trailblazer about the possibility of a "town-destroying frost monster", but she slips on the ice just as she sends it, causing the message to be sent to all of her phone contacts and triggering a town-wide panic.
Zipp and Sunny Starscout investigate the frozen section of forest, discover Twitch delivering food and supplies to the evil snow leopard Allura, and retreat before they are spotted. At the Crystal Brighthouse, they inform the rest of the Mane 6 about Allura. Despite the looming threat, Sunny suggests they leave her be for the time being and give her a chance to enjoy freedom now that she is no longer trapped in Starlight Ridge.
Zipp informs the rest of Equestria about Allura but assures them they have nothing to be afraid of as long as they stick together.
==Heavy is the Mane that Wears the Fruit Crown==
Heavy is the Mane that Wears the Fruit Crown is the second Tell Your Tale short of season 2 and the seventy-second short overall. Part of it was uploaded to the official My Little Pony: Tell Your Tale YouTube channel on ; it was uploaded in full on January 18, 2024. The animation focuses primarily on Pipp Petals. The title is a play on a misquote of the line "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown" from the William Shakespeare play Henry IV, Part 2.
===Summary===
The Mane 6 and Sparky Sparkeroni dress up for the Maretime Bay festival of Carnival, with Pipp Petals as the designated Carnival Queen. When Pipp's official fruit crown is delivered to the Crystal Brighthouse, she discovers it is too large and heavy to wear. Misty and Izzy Moonbow craft a carting device out of recyclable materials so that Pipp can wear the crown and move around in it.
At the festival, Pipp draws a lot of attention with her giant crown of fruit. However, one of the traditions of Carnival involves festival attendees to shower the Carnival Queen with fruit as a sign of wishing good luck for the rest of the year. As a result, Pipp's fruit crown gets even larger and heavier, causing her to collapse under its weight.
Pipp is disheartened that she can no longer wear her crown, but her friends fix this by combining their cutie mark magic and magically levitating the crown, making it virtually weightless on Pipp's head. Reinvigorated with confidence, Pipp sings to the crowd as fireworks explode over the festival.
==Cake Dragon==
Cake Dragon is the third Tell Your Tale short of season 2 and the seventy-third short overall. It was uploaded to the official My Little Pony: Tell Your Tale YouTube channel on January 25, 2024. The animation focuses primarily on Hitch Trailblazer and Sparky Sparkeroni.
===Summary===
The Mane 6 celebrate Sparky Sparkeroni's birthday, and Hitch Trailblazer tells him to make a wish before blowing out the candles on his birthday cake. Sparky's wish is to have a brother, and as he blows on the cake, his magic dragon fire causes the cake to come to life, taking the form of a giant, ferocious "cake dragon".
The dragon wreaks havoc across Maretime Bay, roaring at ponies and covering everything in cake icing, and the Mane 6's efforts to stop it fail. When the dragon's rampage puts Sparky in danger, Hitch steps up to stop it; he uses his plant magic to capture it and return it to harmless cake form. The ponies of Maretime Bay cheer, but Sparky is sad to have lost his "brother". To cheer Sparky up, Hitch uses his magic to turn the pile of cake into a little dragon plush doll. Sparky is overjoyed with the plush doll and calls Hitch "papa".
==Jazz Hearts Rocky==
Jazz Hearts Rocky is the fourth Tell Your Tale short of season 2 and the seventy-fourth short overall. It was uploaded to the official My Little Pony: Tell Your Tale YouTube channel on February 1, 2024. The animation focuses primarily on Jazz Hooves and Rocky Riff.
===Summary===
Jazz Hooves has a crush on Rocky Riff and wants to invite him to go with her to the upcoming Mane and Hooves Expo, but she is unsure how to ask. Pipp Petals and her friends, having quickly picked up on Jazz's crush, offer their assistance to build up her confidence but have conflicting ideas. Sunny Starscout suggests Jazz be herself and direct, Zipp Storm suggests she act casual and aloof, Pipp suggests she be theatrical and regale him with a song, and Izzy Moonbow suggests she dance for him.
When the moment comes for Jazz to ask Rocky to go with her to the Expo, she tries to follow the Mane 6's advice, but their ideas only result in making Rocky uncomfortable. When Rocky discovers Jazz has tickets to the Expo, Jazz takes the direct approach and asks him to go with her. Rocky reveals he also got tickets to the Expo and was planning to ask Jazz to go with him, which she eagerly accepts. The short ends with Jazz and Rocky having fun together at the Mane and Hooves Expo while the Mane 6 giddily spy on them.
==Misty-rious New Room==
Misty-rious New Room is the fifth Tell Your Tale short of season 2 and the seventy-fifth short overall. It was uploaded to the official My Little Pony: Tell Your Tale YouTube channel on February 8, 2024. The animation focuses primarily on Misty.
===Summary===
While watching a scary movie, Misty is pulled away by a glowing, flying book. She follows the book through a magical doorway into a strange room with windows depicting events from long ago, such as Twilight Sparkle and her friends defeating Nightmare Moon, Shining Armor and Princess Cadance defeating the changelings, and the rise of Lord Tirek. The doorway Misty arrived through closes and disappears. While searching for a way out of the room, Misty interacts with various objects and wall symbols, causing inexplicable things to happen to her friends elsewhere in the Crystal Brighthouse.
As Misty fears she will never find a way out, she touches her horn to the floor; her magic causes a pedestal to appear out of the floor where the flying book from earlier comes to rest. She realizes it is a book of magic spells and follows its instructions to reopen the magical doorway she came through. A disembodied voice speaks to Misty and informs her that she can come and go to this room as she pleases, and one of the book's pages folds into a butterfly and binds itself to her cutie mark. Before the doorway closes again, Misty promises to return soon so that she can learn all she can from the spell book.
Misty returns to the Brighthouse and tells Sunny Starscout about the room she found and what she just experienced. Sunny tells Misty that, if the Brighthouse showed her this mysterious room, the Brighthouse is where she is truly meant to be. Izzy Moonbow, Zipp Storm, and Pipp Petals then burst in, alarmed by the strange things that happened to them while Misty was in the room.
==Swirlpool Starlight==
Swirlpool Starlight is the sixth Tell Your Tale short of season 2 and the seventy-sixth short overall. It was uploaded to the official My Little Pony: Tell Your Tale YouTube channel on February 15, 2024. The animation focuses primarily on Misty, Izzy Moonbow, and Violette Rainbow.
===Summary===
Misty and Izzy Moonbow are enjoying a spa day in the Bridlewood Spog when a swarm of Breezies flies over them. They are quickly joined by Violette Rainbow, who beckons them to follow. Violette leads Misty and Izzy to where the Breezies are holding the "Swirlpool Starlight", a ceremony held every ten years in which they gather in one place and combine their magic; those that witness the event are given a glimpse into their futures.
When Violette steps into the Swirlpool, she sees a future in which Bridlewood becomes green and lush, with herself as its gardener. When Izzy steps into the Swirlpool, she sees a glimpse of the creative works that she has yet to create. When Misty steps into the Swirlpool, she sees visions of her past actions as Opaline's servant and fears she is about to be judged for said actions, and she leaves the Swirlpool.
Misty fears she will be forever haunted by her past mistakes, but Izzy and Violette assure her that the universe will acknowledge what she has done to make up for those mistakes. She steps back into the Swirlpool and sees that her future will indeed be bright and full of friendship.
==The Lone Alicorn==
The Lone Alicorn is the seventh Tell Your Tale short of season 2 and the seventy-seventh short overall. It was uploaded to the official My Little Pony: Tell Your Tale YouTube channel on . The animation focuses primarily on Sunny Starscout.
===Summary===
Sunny Starscout has a dream about her friends all becoming Alicorns and flying together before their Alicorn wings vanish and they fall out of the sky. She shares the details of her dream with Zipp Storm and worries that she is the last Alicorn remaining in Equestria, but Zipp assures her that there must be other Alicorns out there somewhere.
At Zipp's suggestion, she and Sunny investigate the ruins of Opaline's castle for clues. They hear noise coming from inside the seemingly abandoned ruins, but it turns out to be a group of raccoonicorns partying and playing loud music. Sunny and Zipp's investigating turns up no results, but in the castle library, Zipp stumbles upon a tapestry depicting Alicorns flying around a bunch of floating islands. Sunny and Zipp's cutie mark magic causes the tapestry to come to life, and a symbol appears in the tapestry's center that Sunny recognizes as the Starscout family crest.
Before Sunny and Zipp can process this information, the castle starts to shake; the raccoonicorns' loud music has weakened the structure further, causing it to start crumbling completely. Sunny, Zipp, and the raccoonicorns evacuate the ruins before they get caught in the ruins' collapse. Sunny is overjoyed to have found a clue about the other Alicorns, and she and Zipp are determined to find them.
==Bunnisi Beauties==
Bunnisi Beauties is the eighth Tell Your Tale short of season 2 and the seventy-eighth short overall. It was uploaded to the official My Little Pony: Tell Your Tale YouTube channel on March 7, 2024. The animation focuses primarily on Hitch Trailblazer and Pipp Petals.
===Summary===
Pipp Petals, Jazz Hooves, and Rocky Riff have taken on the task of getting a large pack of bunnisi ready for their "Easter Egg-stravaganza" celebration, but the bunnies are more rambunctious and rowdy than the ponies can handle, making a mess of the Mane Melody salon. Hitch Trailblazer, using his natural ability to communicate with animals, brings the bunnies under control, and the ponies and critters relocate to the forest so the bunnies have space to play while they prepare.
Nearby, the evil snow leopard Allura and her rabbit sidekick Twitch observe the ponies and bunnisi from the shadows, still on the hunt for the Nova Charm. Believing the charm to be in Pipp's possession, Allura tasks Twitch with blending in with the bunnies in order to find it.
Twitch succeeds in infiltrating the bunnies' large numbers, getting a hairstyling and makeup treatment from Pipp and her friends. However. he becomes so taken with his new look that he forgets all about looking for the Nova Charm. In the end, Hitch transports the bunnisi to their Easter celebration in the Mare Stream aircraft, with Twitch as an unintended passenger.
==Cracked It==
Cracked It is the ninth Tell Your Tale short of season 2 and the seventy-ninth short overall. It was uploaded to the official My Little Pony: Tell Your Tale YouTube channel on March 13, 2024. The animation focuses primarily on the Mane 6.
===Summary===
While delivering smoothies to ponies in Maretime Bay, Sunny Starscout finds a giant egg sitting in the middle of town; Hitch Trailblazer closes off the area around the egg until he and his friends figure out where it came from. Misty, consulting the book she got in Misty-rious New Room, fears the egg houses a terrifying and destructive "fire hawk". Zipp Storm reaches out to Eggmund Bunny for information, but Eggmund is too busy looking after his children to answer the phone.
While caressing the egg, Izzy Moonbow discovers a switch on the egg's outer shell shaped like her cutie mark; additional switches on the shell correspond to the rest of the Mane 6. Pressing on these switches causes individual sections of the shell to rotate like a puzzle. The sections come together to form an image of Sunny's cutie mark; when Sunny presses the last switch, the egg hatches, and a majestic bird with rainbow feathers emerges.
As the bird flies over Maretime Bay, it drops hundreds of chocolate eggs. Eggmund finally returns Zipp's phone call and reveals that the giant egg was his present to Zipp and her friends for Easter.
==Buried in a Good Book==
Buried in a Good Book is the tenth Tell Your Tale short of season 2 and the eightieth short overall. It was uploaded to the official My Little Pony: Tell Your Tale YouTube channel on April 18, 2024. The animation focuses primarily on the Mane 6.
===Summary===
Misty shows her friends a new spell she learned from her spell book that produces an artificial butterfly. When the butterfly comes in contact with the book, however, it activates a magic that drags the Mane 6 and Sparky into the book itself. The ponies end up in a world of fantasy called "Questopia", where they are told by a book fairy that they must complete a gauntlet of quests and defeat "Zantorp the Furious" in order to escape.
As instructed, the ponies go on a series of quests, including vanquishing a monstrous living gingerbread house, beating a dragon in a race, and solving a floor tile puzzle, until they arrive at Zantorp's lair. There, they engage the dragon-like beast in battle, but he is too powerful for them. When Misty faces Zantorp alone, her empathy magic lets her see into the monster's heart, and she realizes the reason for his rage is because he is lonely. Misty offers to be Zantorp's friend, and he ceases his rampage.
With the Mane 6's quests completed, the book fairy reappears and offers to send them back home. Zantorp is sad to see his new pony friends leave, but Misty promises they will return soon to visit.
==Gallery==
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==See also==
*My Little Pony: Tell Your Tale (season 1)
==References==
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