Transcripts/The Traditional Unicorn Sleep-Over

:Sparky Sparkeroni: [chomps]
:Izzy Moonbow: Oh! Sparky, save your snacking for food, not flowers!
:Sparky Sparkeroni: [whines]
:Izzy Moonbow: Aww, it's okay. You didn't know any better, and you're just getting your sillies out. [giggles]
:Sparky Sparkeroni: [babbles]
:Izzy Moonbow: Oh, no, no, no! I didn't mean to "silly-out" even more! [panting] Sparky, stop! Sparky, slow!
:Toots: Oof!
:Izzy Moonbow: Oh... Sparky, wait!
:Sprout: Ugh!
:Izzy Moonbow: Sparky!
:[screech!]
:Izzy Moonbow: [panting] Okay, enough running for today.
:Sparky Sparkeroni: [whines]
:Izzy Moonbow: What's wrong? You're acting like there's some mysterious and scary presence lurking in the shadows directly behind me.
:
:Izzy Moonbow: [gasps] Hi, friend! What's your name? I'm Izzy Moonbow!
:Misty: Uh, Misty. I, um, just got into town. And now I'm gonna leave! Bye!
:Izzy Moonbow: Wait, wait! I remember when I was new in town! Where ya going?! Do you want me to show you around?
:Misty: Uh... I...
:Sparky Sparkeroni: [growling]
:Izzy Moonbow: Aw, don't mind him. He's probably just excited to see another unicorn like me— [gasps] Wait a minute! Unicorns! You! Me! Us! We can be... [gasps] Unicorn friends! Oops! Sorry. I've been told my hugs can be pretty heavy-duty.
:Misty: Uh...
:Izzy Moonbow: This is incredible! I can't believe I've made a new unicorn friend! Poof! Just like that! I mean, I've known a lot of unicorns, but I dunno, something about you feels... different.
:Misty: It does?
:Izzy Moonbow: Mm-hmm. It must be... because you're my first official unicorn friend here in Maretime Bay!
:Misty: Yes! That must be it!
:Izzy Moonbow: Yes! This is such perfect timing because I have been missing Bridlewood so much lately! The trees! The teas! Even the jinxies! I bet we could spend hours bonding over Bridlewood experiences, having both grown up as unicorns, right?
:Misty: Yeah— I gue— I, uh, well...
:Sparky Sparkeroni: [growling]
:Izzy Moonbow: [gasps] What's gotten into you, little Spark-Spark? Misty's our friend.
:Sparky Sparkeroni: [growls]
:Izzy Moonbow: [gasps] We'll celebrate us meeting with a... traditional unicorn sleepover!
:Misty: What's that?
:Izzy Moonbow: Uh, it's the unicorn tradition for whenever you make a very special, new best friend. You've never heard of it?
:Misty: Oh! Yes! Of course! I thought you said "weepover"! Which is when you, like, cry over not having any lunch! Like me! Which is why I thought of it just now! I'm really hungry! [exhales]
:Izzy Moonbow: So, it's official! You're gonna sleepover at the Crystal Brighthouse [singsong] toniiiight!
:Misty: Oh, uh, tonight? But I can't really— And there's something I have to—
:Izzy Moonbow: I'm gonna have snacks! And streamers! And tea lights for ambiance! And those hay pillows over there! Okay, gotta go get ready! See you later, Misty!
:Sparky Sparkeroni: [growling]
:Misty: So... I get to go to the party?
:Opaline: Oh, Misty, you're going to party it up, all right. You're going to party all night until you steal Sunny's precious magic lantern.
:Misty: I'm not really sure that's how parties work. I've never been to one. But you're the expert! [nervous laugh]
:Opaline: Get in that lighthouse and—
:Misty: Brighthouse.
:Opaline: Whatever! Get there and find... that... lantern!
:Izzy Moonbow: And she had a horn just like me! And hooves just like me! [laughs] And a face! Just like me.
:Sunny Starscout: [laughs] She sounds like a unique unicorn.
:Zipp Storm: And you said Sparky was growling at her?
:Hitch Trailblazer: [muttering playfully]
:Zipp Storm: I wonder why.
:Sparky Sparkeroni: [babbling]
:Pipp Petals: [gasps]
:Sparky Sparkeroni: [giggles]
:Izzy Moonbow: Ahh, you know. Sparky growls at everypony and every twig, bug, and critter!
:Sparky Sparkeroni: [burps]
:[poof!]
:Izzy Moonbow: He's just a curious baby dragon. It's what he does.
:Hitch Trailblazer: Speaking of, it's time to get this little guy back to the station and start his bedtime routine.
:Sparky Sparkeroni: [whines]
:Izzy Moonbow: [gasps] That's the time?! I've gotta get moving! There's so many great treats and traditions to get ready! This is gonna be the best sleepover anypony's ever been to in all of Bridlewood! I mean, Maretime Bay! I mean, Equestria!
:Pipp Petals: Well, I thought my birthday party last year was pretty epic, but guess the bar's always rising.
:Izzy Moonbow: [imitates trumpet] Roll out the yarn balls!
:Izzy Moonbow: Whoop, whoop! String up the tea lights!
:Zipp Storm: Aah!
:[bird chirps]
:Izzy Moonbow: Hang lots of colorful scarves for... ambiance!
:[doorbell rings]
:Izzy Moonbow: Sweet sauce horseshoe toss! She's here! [squealing]
:[door opens]
:Izzy Moonbow: Welcome to the Brighthouse, Misty... Misty, uh... [whispering] What's your last name?
:Misty: Ah, uh... Brighthouse!
:[beat]
:Misty: [nervous laugh] Bright, um... Bright... dawn? Uh, Brightdawn!
:Izzy Moonbow: Welcome, Misty Brightdawn, to the best unicorn sleepover of your unicorn life!
:Sunny Starscout: So nice to finally meet you, Misty. Izzy's told us—
:Misty: Told you?! Told you what?! [gasps]
:Zipp Storm: When did you say you got into Maretime Bay?
:Misty: Oh, I didn't—
:Zipp Storm: In town just for a visit? Or staying permanently?
:Izzy Moonbow: Zipp, Zipp, Zipp, Zipp, Zipp. Buddy, you're hoofing it up the wrong hill here. You don't need to "detective" her. Misty's our friend. Ooh! We're already way behind schedule! Come on, "unicorns"! [giggles]
:Misty: [gulps]
:Zipp Storm: Hmm...
:Sunny Starscout: [giggling]
:Izzy Moonbow: [gasps]
:Sunny Starscout, Pipp Petals, and Zipp Storm: Ooooh!
:All: [laughing]
:Pipp Petals: Oh, my glitter!
:[music]
:Izzy Moonbow: Ta-daaaaah! [screams]
:[thud]
:All: [laughing]
:Sunny Starscout: So, how does this game work?
:Izzy Moonbow: The rules of "Dare the Mare" go... [deep breath, quickly] If a player spins the wheel and lands on an odd number, then they dare the mare to do something fun! But if they land on an even number, they dare the mare to do something funny, and if their fun is too funky or funky too fun, they go back and do it all over again!
:[beat]
:Pipp Petals: That makes total sense.
:Izzy Moonbow: [gasps]
:[smack!]
:[clattering]
:Sunny Starscout and Zipp Storm: [gasp]
:Izzy Moonbow: Whoops! Explaining the rules took too long! We've gotta move on, party ponies!
:Izzy Moonbow: The art of hoof-reading has been in the Moonbow family for generations! It all started with Great-Great Auntie Buttons.
:Misty: [gulps, gasps] Ooh! So interesting!
:Izzy Moonbow: Tea time!
:Misty: [slurping]
:Izzy Moonbow: Uh, Misty? Those tea leaves were for reading, not for drinking. [laughs] Remember?
:Misty: [spitting]
:Pipp Petals: [singsong] Ponycorn statiooooon!
:Sunny Starscout: Yum! Oh, thanks, Izzy!
:Zipp Storm: Yeah!
:Misty: [crunch] Mmm! This is the best thing I've ever eaten in my entire life!
:[beat]
:Pipp Petals: [crunch]
:Misty: ...that I say every time I eat it 'cause I eat it all the time! Or did when I lived in Bridlewood all my life! [crunching, nervous laugh]
:Izzy Moonbow: Oooh! "Trotting Hill"! A unicorn sleepover classic! But we only have three minutes to move through! Let's go! [humming] Aha!
:Movie Unicorn and Izzy Moonbow: Don't you see, Salty? I'm just a unicorn, standing in front of another unicorn, asking him to share with her!
:Izzy Moonbow: [swoons] So romantic.
:Sunny Starscout: Say, Izzy, you think we can slow down a bit?
:Pipp Petals: Yeah, I've barely made a dent in my chocolate ponycorn.
:Misty: I'll help you finish it!
:Izzy Moonbow: [gasps] Slow down?!
:Misty: Aah!
:[thud]
:Izzy Moonbow: If anything, we need to speed up! If we don't do everything, it's jinxie!
:Misty: What's jinxie?
:Izzy Moonbow: [laughing] You are so funny!
:Zipp Storm: Don't you think it's a little weird Misty's just as lost as us? She claims to have grown up in Bridlewood, but it's as if she's never even been there, Pipp. Pipp?!
:Sunny Starscout: What's next, Izzy?
:Pipp Petals: [reading] "Ask an Amethyst". What's that?
:Izzy Moonbow: You mean having conversations with your crystals is just a unicorn thing? Whoa. [scoffs] Can you believe that, Misty?
:Misty: [gulps] Uh, totally! It's, um... what you said! So, uh, hmm, where's that little dragon from earlier? Shouldn't he be enjoying the party as well?
:Pipp Petals: Oh, Sparky? Hitch is limiting the overnight dragon-sitting until he gets the hang of his dragonfire.
:Misty: "Dragonfire"? Is that magical? Like your cut— o-our cutie marks?
:Sunny Starscout: It's definitely something. We're not sure what yet.
:Pipp Petals: It can transform all sorts of stuff, though! Even cutie marks! Just ask Sunny about the "Hitch-switch"! [giggles]
:Sunny Starscout: Oh! [nervous laugh]
:Misty: Hmm...
:Izzy Moonbow: [clears throat] And now, for my favorite part— Well, next to my other favorite part and my other, other favorite... [deep breath] It's the sleepover sing-along!
:[low, echoing note]
:Izzy Moonbow: We sing this all the time back in Bridlewood. Even foals know it.
:Zipp Storm: Well then, why don't you and Misty do it as a duet? Teach us together.
:Izzy Moonbow: [gasps] Brilliant idea! Oh! We'll jump into the chorus together, then you take the verse! [clears throat]
::Sing now, sleepover friends
::Time to dream of crystals and gems
::When night has come and games are done
::Unicorns hold their crystals and siiiing
:[Misty]
::[singing poorly] ...and siiiing
::Get on your hooves and play... along
::'Cause it's... it's a party
::And... that's what happens
::When you have fun with frieeeeends...
:Ta-daaaah?
:Izzy Moonbow: Ohhh, I guess we just learned different versions. That's okay.
:Sunny Starscout: I'm sorry we don't know a ton of unicorn stuff, Izzy. But we're happy to learn.
:Pipp Petals: And we're happy to do all the other things you had planned.
:Zipp Storm: It may just take us a while.
:Izzy Moonbow: Aw, thanks, guys. Maybe we can continue our list and... I'll just sing the song by myself later.
:Pipp Petals: No, no-no-no-no-no! Of course not! I'll sing it with you!
:Sunny Starscout: Or maybe we can play another game together.
:Pipp Petals: Oh! What about that unicorn tradition you mentioned where we all balance yarn balls on our heads and count to the highest number we can think of?
:Misty: Hmmm... Where is that lantern? Ooh! I can use this! Opaline? Opaline! Oh, right. This thing doesn't work inside the Brighthouse. [grunts]
:[window creaks]
:Misty: Opaline, I'm in! But no lantern. What do I do next?
:Opaline: [groans] THINK, Misty! There's got to be some way up to that glass room at the top! It'll be there with the pris-beam! Don't come back without it! Then their power is ours! [laughs evilly]
:Misty: [laughs evilly]
:Opaline: Oh. Better, Misty. But it's a marathon, not a sprint. Don't be a show-off.
:[door hisses]
:[beep]
:Misty: Why isn't it working?
:[beeping]
:[alarm blaring]
:Misty: Aah! No! Shh! Shh-shh-shh! They'll find out—!
:Zipp Storm: Find what out?
:Misty: That, uh, I can't figure out this keypad to go up to the washroom! [nervous laugh] So embarrassing.
:Zipp Storm: You were trying to find the washroom in the elevator?
:Misty: No, but I thought— Well, I thought I'd go look at the view first! It's a fun Bridlewood tradition, which is probably why you didn't know about it! [nervous laugh]
:Zipp Storm: First Bridlewood tradition I totally get! I love awesome views! Maybe I'll take you up there to look some other time. But the washroom is down there.
:Misty: Heh... Thanks, Zipp. Um, I'll be sure to take you up on that.
:Zipp Storm: Hmm...
:Izzy Moonbow: [sighs] Well, that was fun, but I guess it's over now. Good night, everypony.
:Sunny Starscout: I'm not that sleepy. Are you, Pipp?
:Pipp Petals: Oh! Uh, no, no! I'm... [yawning] ...I'm really fired up for more... fun, actually.
:Sunny Starscout: [gasps] Let's tell stories!
:Izzy Moonbow: Sunny! How did you know we do that at a unicorn sleepover?!
:Sunny Starscout: That's one tradition we do here, too.
:Izzy Moonbow: Whoo!
:Sunny Starscout: This is the true story of the Guardians of Harmony and the beginning of Equestria...
:Pipp Petals: [sighs] I loooove this story. [claps]
:Sunny Starscout: Once upon a time, there was a very special unicorn...
:Sunny Starscout: [narrating] A bright unicorn, as bright as the sun. One day, she was summoned by the princess for an assignment: to learn about friendship! She moved to Ponyville and met Earth ponies, unicorns, and Pegasi who became her best friends! Together, they taught the power of unity and how to live in harmony to everypony in Equestria.
:Sunny Starscout: But then one day, a magical accident happened!
:Sunny Starscout: [narrating] An Earth pony got hurt by a unicorn! Everypony started fighting with each other! The princess, wanting to protect her kingdom and all of the ponies in it, decided to put all magic into three crystals before it got out of hoof. After that, Earth ponies only felt safe with other Earth ponies. Unicorns with unicorns. And Pegasi of a feather flock together. The ponies galloped, trotted, and flew as far as they could with their crystals, settling in what would become Zephyr Heights, Bridlewood, and Maretime Bay. And that's where they lived forever...
:Sunny Starscout: ...until now.
:Misty: Wait! But that is not the true story at all!
:Sunny Starscout: Yes, it is. We pieced together the crystal part ourselves. Literally.
:Zipp Storm: Why? What have you heard, Misty?
:Misty: You were right about magic being in Equestria at the beginning.
:Misty: [narrating] But most of it came from another pony, who wasn't a pony at all, but an Alicorn queen! Her magic was too powerful. They were jealous of her ability and wanted it all for themselves. So the princess stole all the magic from the queen and hid it away somehow. Then the princess put an enchanted invisi-bubble around Equestria so the powerful Alicorn queen could never find the magic or the kingdom of ponies again. The queen was left alone, with only a shadow left of her strength and power.
:Misty: All while the other ponies created towns built with her stolen magic!
:Pipp Petals: What?! That's the true version?
:Zipp Storm: [claps] Who told you that?
:Misty: Ah! Uh, nopony! Uh, you know, I-I may have made some of it up. [nervous laugh]
:Izzy Moonbow: "True", "made-up", what difference does it make? Each story was great! Especially that Alicorn queen part, Misty. [gasps] So creative! So epic! Got any more?
:Sunny Starscout: Yeah.
:Pipp Petals: So is this like an old Bridlewood pony's tale or...?
:Izzy Moonbow: I've never heard it, but maybe that's just my own corner of the community. Where did you say you grew up exactly, Misty?
:Zipp Storm: Yeah, where did you grow up, Misty?
:Misty: Uh, nowhere! And nopony! And I... probably gotta get going to get back right about now! Bye!
:Izzy Moonbow: Wait, Misty! You can't leave! This party is all just for... you.
:Zipp Storm: Hey, I didn't mean anything by all my questions. I was just trying to get to the bottom of things and figure out the real truth.
:Izzy Moonbow: Heh. The truth? You wanna know the truth, Zipp? My first real sleepover in Maretime Bay has been a complete and total jinx-a-thon!
:[beat]
:Izzy Moonbow: That means "failure".
:Izzy Moonbow: Party's over, ponies.
:Sunny Starscout: But we don't have to start cleaning just yet, Izzy. I know this didn't go as you planned, but the night is still young.
:Pipp Petals: Yeah! We can still have more fun!
:Izzy Moonbow: [sighs] That's really sweet of you all to say, but it isn't just Misty leaving. This isn't a real celebratory sleepover without being in Bridlewood, anyway. I just wish I could... lay on the ground and stare up at the big branches of Bridlewood trees rustling above me. It's what I always did when I felt... un-sparkly. I mean, I love living in the Bay with all you ponies. But sometimes I miss my unicorn stuff so much. And I thought having Misty here would help.
:Sunny Starscout: So, what exactly do you miss about Bridlewood? Be specific.
:Izzy Moonbow: Do you reeeeally wanna hear? Are you suuuure? The list is longer than the lyrics to my unicorn sleepover sing-along song.
:Zipp Storm: Ohhhh... Then I'm gonna have to get comfortable.
:Sunny Starscout: [chuckles] Tell us everything, even if it takes all night and into the next day.
:Izzy Moonbow: Well... [quickly] I miss the jinxie dances! Horseshoe games! Sparkle seasons with hot chili peppermint honeysuckle iced teas! The critter contests! The bunnicorns! The Wishiehoofs! The bongo beat poetry! Learning how to hold my breath for long stretches so we can excitedly exclaim long lists like this very one that I'm exclaiming now! [deep breath]
:Misty: [whimpering] I have to go! I have to get out of here! I've already said too much! But I can't just leave! Not without that lantern! But if I go back, they'll ask me more questions and expose my lies! Unless I sneak past them and bypass the elevator with somepony else's hoof! But whose? And how?! [panicked breathing] Is it too late to tell those ponies that I was just kidding?! [nervous laugh] Whew!
:Izzy Moonbow: Oh! Fuzzy pops in the summer! Funky horn fashions in the fall! Lighting the glowpaz stones on each day of the Wishiehoof holidays! [continues under]
:Sunny Starscout: Pssst! Zipp! Can you distract Izzy while we redecorate a little?
:Zipp Storm: Sure, but I don't think my help is gonna be necessary.
:Sunny Starscout: Come on. It's time to bring a little bit of Bridlewood to the Brighthouse.
:Izzy Moonbow: ...Glow horn hats! Staring at the sky crystals shooting across a shimmering, starry sky!
:Izzy Moonbow: ...Crunchy unicorn corn cakes! Sweet, salty horn-shaped strudel! Knitting scarves for armadillos in the winter!
:Sunny Starscout: Okay, stop listing things, Izzy. Because one... two... Surprise!
:Izzy Moonbow: Ahhhh! What... is all this stuff?!
:Sunny Starscout: It's all the stuff you said you missed from Bridlewood! Give or take a couple horn-shaped strudels.
:Pipp Petals: Now you can lay down and look up at the branches, just like home.
:Izzy Moonbow: I-I can't believe it. You guys did all of this just as I was talking?!
:Zipp Storm: Well, to be fair, you had a lot to say.
:Izzy Moonbow: Oh, this is some pretty impressive unicycling, too! Huh! Maybe you all have a bit of unicorn in you, after all. [gasps] Hey, Misty! You're back!
:Misty: Uh, yeah. I-I was hungry, so I thought, maybe I'll go out to the garden and harvest glimmerberries? That I ate all myself, which is why I don't have any right now! [nervous laugh]
:Izzy Moonbow: Oh, I'm just so glad you're back! I hope you know how welcome you are here. Look! Doesn't it remind you so much of our sweet little hometown?
:Misty: Uh, yes! It's like I'm transported back in time. It's actually... pretty incredible.
:Izzy Moonbow: [laughs, imitates trumpet] Hear, hear! I, Izzy Moonbow of the Bridlewood Moonbows, hereby start the unicorn sleepover ceremonies again!
:Sunny Starscout: Should we start with another unicorn song?
:Pipp Petals: I'll count us in. A five, six, seven, eight!
:Izzy Moonbow: Oh, we don't have to.
:Sunny Starscout: We insist!
:Izzy Moonbow: Really? Do you know the words to this one?
:Zipp Storm: I mean, we don't.
:Pipp Petals: But we can definitely try.
:Izzy Moonbow: Okay! [deep breath]
::Glow your horns and glitter your hooves
::The unico-orn song!
::Hug your pony friends
::And have them si-i-ing-a-long!
:[Sunny, Pipp, Zipp, and Misty]
::Grow some corn and fritter your puffs
::The unico-orn song!
::Bug your pony friends
::And make them smash a gong!
:All: [laughing]
:Izzy Moonbow: "Smash a gong"?! I actually love that lyric!
:All: [laughing]
:Main ponies: [snoring]
:[window creaks, thuds]
:Opaline: What took you so long?! Did you find it?!
:Misty: I tried, Opaline, but this plan has been, well, more difficult than we originally anticipated. But don't worry! Though I haven't picked up the lantern per se, I have gathered plenty of info about their new magic! Well, they believe a completely different story about the origin of Equestria. Oh! And they told me all about dragonfire and how it changes cutie marks! Also, we did a hoof-reading and ate ponycorn and did horn decorating and—
:Opaline: Hold on. Misty. "Horn decorating"? "Ponycorn"? And "hoof-reading"?! Did you have FUN with these puny ponies?!
:Misty: No, no, of course not. It was strategic hoof-reading for gathering intel. [gasps] But seriously, have you ever tried ponycorn before?! Because it's the best! I mean, the best way to trick the ponies into thinking I'm one of their friends! [nervous laugh] I'm telling ya! They were gabbin'! I was grubbin'!
:Zipp Storm: [yawns]
:Misty: We were getting our top secret info that will take us to the next level, Opaline! Promise!
:Zipp Storm: Hmm...
:[credits]