Magical Mystery Num

Magical Mystery Num is the thirteenth episode of the third season of My little Num Noms. It aired as the final episode of the third season and the sixty-fifth episode overall. It is the first episode to feature Sparkle Mellie as an Magical Num and the last episode to take place before the spin-off film My Little Num Noms Equestria Girls.
== Plot ==
The episode begins with Sparkle Mellie awakening to a bright and sunny Yummyville day, singing that she's certain today is going to be perfect. During her song, she wakes up Gumdrop (who goes right back to sleep) and passes by numerous ponies around town, including the Quills and Sofas store owner, who previously appeared in Nom’s Well That Ends Well. As her song reaches its climax, Twilight is suddenly interrupted by a splash of rainwater. She immediately accuses Rainbow Pop for the rain but instead finds Razz Rock on a nearby bridge attempting to manipulate the rainclouds; and to Mellie’s shock, Razz Rock has Rainbow Pop’s scent.
=== The Scent Switch! ===
Sparkle Mellie questions Razz Rock about why (or even how) she's controlling the weather and what happened to her scent. Razz Rock doesn't know what Mellie is talking about. She explains that she is simply doing what she's done since the day she first smelled herself to reveal a mystery scent. Razz Rock’s "quilt" of clouds causes it to rain and snow simultaneously in Yummyville, earning her the irritation of the town's residents. 
Mellie and a very sleepy Gumdrop go to Pink-Ade Macaron’s Yummy House (which, according to Razz Rock, is actually Rainbow Pop’s Yummy House) to find out what's going on. They find a sullen Rainbow Pop inside and open the Yummy House door to the sight of dozens of woodland animals running amok. What's more, Rainbow Pop has Pink-Ade Macaron’s scent. Mellie finds Pink-Ade Macaron at Pinky Dough’s Yummy House with Pinky Dough’s scent, trying to make Num Noms laugh. Pinky Dough, with Apple Pop’s scent, is trying her best to manage Sweet Apple-Scented Acres, and Apple Pop (with Razz Rock’s scent) is at the Boutique trying to make dresses. Each of Sparkle Mellie’s friends fail miserably at their new tasks and are clearly unhappy, but they sing that they are just doing what their scent is telling them to do, that it's their destiny to do so. 
=== Nilla Swirl’s unfinished spell ===
Sparkle Mellie and Gumdrop frantically return to Golden Cake Library as Mellie realizes what must have happened: The night before, Princess Buttercream had sent her Nilla Swirl the Yummy's spell book (seen at the end of The Crystal Numpire - Part 2). The last page in the book contains Nilla Swirl's secret, unfinished masterpiece, and Buttercream had tasked Mellie with making sense of the spell, believing she is the only Num capable of doing so. She had started by reading the spell aloud: 
As she did so, she inadvertently cast the spell on the nearby Elements of Harmony, causing them all (aside from Mellie’s) to change colors. Mellie deduces that this caused her friends' scents to be swapped around as well. Gumdrop suggests casting a counter spell, but there is none. He then suggests her memory-fixing spell from when Numord was freed the first time. Mellie explains that it isn't her friends' memories that have been altered but their true selves. And Willow Wafer's cure for the nummy pox wouldn't help either. Realizing their dead-end situation, Gumdrop reasons that maybe their friends will grow to like their new lives, but Mellie truly doubts it, accepting blame for her friends' misery. 
Mellie goes up to her room and laments over her terrible mistake and how much misery she's brought to both her friends and to Yummyville. Gumdrop consoles her, saying he's sure she'll find a way to help her friends and fix everything. Reassured, Mellie looks at a photograph of her with her friends. 
Suddenly, Mellie starts to glow, and she gets an idea: if she can't remind her friends of who they are, she'll remind them of what they mean to each other. She puts the element of magic on and places the rest of the Elements in their chest, then heads out with Gumdrop.
=== Finding their true selves ===
Mellie and Gumdrop find Pink-Ade Macaron in front of the Twinkling Balloon. Disappointed by her failure to make anyone laugh, she decides to move back to Cloudsnum. Before she does, Mellie asks her if she could help Rainbow Pop with the animals. Pink-Ade Macaron is very unsure, but she is willing to do whatever she can to help her true friend. 
Back at the Yummy House, the situation is even worse than before: Rainbow Pop is tied up in a pot, with the animals dancing around her. Pink-Ade Macaron asks Mellie for a spell, but Mellie refuses and tells her to handle the animals. Pink-Ade Macaron steps in to feed the woodland creatures, and they instantly calm down and warm up to her. She begins to glow, realizing that this is what she's meant to do, that this is her destiny. Mellie then places the element of kindness on Pink-Ade. In a burst of comprehension, Pink-Ade finally remembers who she is, and her scent returns to normal. 
One by one, Mellie restores the memories and identities of each of her friends by reintroducing them to their correct roles, with the help of her restored friends and the Elements of Harmony: Rainbow Pop helps Razz Rock clear the weather, Razz Rock helps Apple Pop make dresses, Apple Pop helps Pinky Dough save Sweet Apple-Scented Acres, and Pinky brings smiles back to everyone in Yummyville.
=== Finishing the spell ===
With her friends restored to their true selves, Mellie has another epiphany: She knows how to complete Nilla Swirl's spell! She and her friends return to the library, and Mellie rewrites the spell's incantation: 
Having completed the spell, the Elements of Harmony spark to life, bathing Mellie in their light. She suddenly vanishes into thin air, leaving a scorch mark on the wood floor in the shape and pattern of her scent. 
=== Mellie’s transformation ===
Mellie appears in a strange, ethereal space full of stars and nebulae. Princess Buttercream appears before her, congratulating her on creating a brand new form of magic, accomplishing something even Nilla Swirl the Yummy couldn't, since she didn't understand friendship the way Mellie does. She leads her student down a pathway of stars as dozens of images float by, depicting key moments in Mellie’s life and study of magic and friendship. Buttercream sings of how proud she is of her student, and that she is now ready to fulfill her destiny.
Suddenly, a shifting blob of green energy emerges from Mellie’s bow and begins to swirl around her while a pulsing white light grows from her very center. Mellie is lifted into the air, the whirls of green and white blanket her, and she disappears in a brilliant flash, like the supernova of a star. 
In the night sky over Yummyville, a variation of Sparkle Mellie’s scent (sporting a watermelon) appears and floats down to the ground. Mellie’s friends watch as the light fades away and Mellie appears, now a little bigger and with a big rainbow bow and magic ears. 
As the others gather around to marvel at Mellie’s new look, Razz Rock states that Mellie has become an Magical Num, with Pink-Ade commenting that she looks just like a princess. Princess Buttercream appears and states that Mellie is a princess, explaining that since arriving in Yummyville, she's displayed the charity, compassion, devotion, integrity, optimism, and leadership that a true princess is known for. Mellie worries that this means she won't be Buttercream’s student anymore. Princess Buttercream says she'll still be there to help and guide her, but Mellie has just as much to teach now as she has to learn. Mellie’s friends and Buttercream then bow to her. 
=== The newest princess in Numquestria ===
The next day, a princess coronation ceremony is held in Numterlot, which Princesses Buttercream, Mid-Cake, and Love-Heart preside over. Buttercream addresses the assembly of ponies, saying Mellie has proven without a doubt that she is prepared to be crowned Numquestria newest princess. 
The audience beholds Mellie as she and her royal procession enter the throne room. Before the three other Princesses, she is crowned with a new version of the element of magic tiara. On the castle balcony, Mellie waves to a crowd of hundreds of cheering ponies. Princess Buttercream prompts her to say a few words. 
In her first official address as princess, Mellie says friendship was at one time something she didn't care much about, but she wouldn't be standing there if it weren't for the friendships she's made. She expresses to her friends her undying gratitude, and considers herself the luckiest num in Numquestria. It's an emotional day for all, even Sparkle Mei, who Mellie is surprised to find crying. Mellie's friends congratulate her, and she meets the five of them in a group hug. 
In a reprise of the episode's first song, the newly crowned Princess Sparkle Mellie is brought out of the castle in her own chariot before she jumps out to trot and sing alongside her friends. Num Noms line the city streets to witness the coronation parade, including Blueberry Muffin, C.C. Cloud, and Butt’r. In a final shot of Numterlot, Mellie takes flight on her new magical ears and soars at the screen, proclaiming everything's going to be just fine.
== Trivia ==
# This episode is a parody of Magical Mystery Cure