Spike (G4/G5)/Synopsis

==History==
===Past===
In the entrance exam for Twilight Sparkle’s enrolment into Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns, she was required to hatch a dragon egg with magic. The purple unicorn succeeded at this, resulting in Spike hatching from said egg. It is never revealed where he came from or who his parents are.
With this success, Twilight was taken in by Princess Celestia as her student and Spike went along with the purple unicorn as her sibling and assistant.
===My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic===
====Season 1====
=====Friendship is Magic=====
After reading up on Equestria's backstory, Twilight decided to study more on this issue, meeting up with Spike on the way. After some reading, they discover a prophecy on the return of Nightmare Moon, the villain of the previous backstory. The purple unicorn quickly writes a letter to Princess Celestia though she was oddly not worried about this and decided to send her to Ponyville with the baby dragon to prepare for the Summer Sun Celebration.
During her time there, she ends up meeting up with the ponies who'll later become her best friends in the future though at this moment, she finds them exhausting. After the day was over, she decided to take a break at her assigned home at Ponyville, that being Golden Oak Library. Before going to bed, she confided to Spike about her exhaustion and possibility that Princess Celestia had simply sent her here because she didn't believe the purple unicorn's warning.
At the celebration, Spike was present to witness the return of Nightmare Moon after the celebration, he stayed behind and was not present during their journey to retrieve the elements or after the return of Nightmare Moon’s less evil form, Princess Luna.
=====The Ticket Master=====
While helping out Applejack with apple harvesting, Twilight was approached by Spike who was bringing two tickets to the gala. With this knowledge, her friends began to approach her with their own reasonings for wanting to go to the gala. Uncomfortable with this, the purple unicorn explains that she needs time to think.
However, during this time, Twilight's friends began approaching her and attempt to bribe her with various items and services. The worst came when Pinkie Pie inadvertently informed all of Ponyville of the purple unicorn's extra ticket, forcing her and Spike to flee and hide. Back at the library, her friends are somehow all back which finally broke Twilight as she did not want to disappoint any of them.
In the end, the Mane Six agreed to all not go to the gala with Twilight sending a letter to Princess Celestia to return her tickets. However, the sun alicorn simply explained that she had made a mistake and proceeded to send back a few extra tickets, allowing for the rest of the Mane Six to be invited to the gala… though not Spike. This will be important later at the final episode of the season.
=====Boast Busters=====
After a session of magic practice with Spike, Twilight decided to go on a stroll where she explains how magic works for unicorns. This explanation was interrupted by news on the arrival of a particularly great and powerful unicorn under the name of Trixie Lulamoon. The two decided to check out the show, finding it to be unimpressive with lots of special effects and unsubstantiated feats of greatness.
Once the show was over, Trixie decided to let anyone challenge her which she wins through the use of her magic and due to Twilight not stepping forth to challenge her. This allows the blue unicorn to claim herself to be the most amazing unicorn in Equestria along with the benefits that come with it. Later Spike checks up on the purple unicorn who explains her fear of showing off and possibly losing her friends, much to the baby dragon's annoyance.
Later down the line, Trixie's statement is revealed to be a lie and after failing to fight off the monster, she is humiliated and banished from Ponyville.
=====Dragonshy=====
Fluttershy rushed to town after seeing a cloud of smoke which she believed to be a fire. Unfortunately due to her soft voice and meek attitude, she failed to get anyone's attention, until Twilight intervenes. The Mane Six were later warned that the smoke is caused by a dragon which they need to deal with. Spike stays behind to look after the yellow pegasus' critter as the team goes off and successfully deals with the dragon.
=====Bridle Gossip=====
Arriving at Ponyville, Spike and Twilight noticed the place to be empty. The two were quickly called in to Sugarcube Corner where their friends are hiding. They quickly briefed the two on Zecora, a mysterious figure who occasionally arrives at Ponyville to run some errands though the rest of the townsfolk believes her to be an evil enchantress. Despite her imposing form, the purple unicorn figured out that she was a merely a zebra and that the rest of the town is racist.
While observing the zebra, Apple Bloom, Applejack's sister, leaves to follow her, forcing the rest of the Mane Six to follow her to her home. Upon retrieving the yellow filly, Zecora came back to her home, scaring the rest of the ponies as the zebra tries to warn them on the Poison Joke plants outside her house. Said plants had randomized biological manipulating properties which ended up warping the forms of the Mane Six, prompting Spike to come up with some nicknames for them.
While the Mane Six are figuring out what to do with these issues, Apple Bloom disappears again to confront Zecora and after some issues, the rest of the team arrives to find her stirring something in a pot while mentioning the yellow filly's name. After some confrontation, it is revealed that Zecora was not evil at all and that Apple Bloom is still alive and coming back.
=====Swarm of the Century=====
After discovering a parasprite, Fluttershy decides to bring it to Ponyville to show to others, unaware that it had the ability to consume large amounts of matter and perform mitosis upon eating enough. While Twilight did not recognize it, Pinkie Pie did, prompting her to leave and get a few instruments. The purple unicorn later gives these horrifying insects to her friends.
The next day, Spike and Twilight find the library covered in parasprites who are consuming the books and parchments, terrifying the former greatly as it may ruin Princess Celestia’s visitation with her friends also experiencing the capabilities of the parasprites. Shenanigans ensue, ending in the swarm flying to Ponyville and wrecking havoc.
Luckily this is all dealt with at the end of the episode.
=====Winter Wrap Up=====
Excited for her first participation at the Winter Wrap-Up, Twilight wakes up particularly early in the morning with Spike being annoyed at being awoken too early. The baby dragon was right in this complaint as upon exiting the house, the purple unicorn found the place still dark. After listening in on the briefing, Twilight goes off to offer her services to various teams with little success.
While resting at the library, Spike suggests that Twilight use her magic despite it being banned for the occasion. For some reason, she took that advice to heart, causing a disaster which made a big mess, earning Applejack’s ire. This was enough to get the purple unicorn to flee and sadness before choosing to hide.
Spike eventually finds Twilight hiding in a bush, unwilling to exit it until the event is over. The two notice Mayor Mare meeting up with most of the teams who are all having issues with their jobs that may hinder the Winter Wrap-Up. Seeing this, the purple unicorn offers to help them organize, something she is particularly good at.
With Twilight’s directions, the ponies managed to finish the Winter Wrap-Up before the day was over. As gratitude, Mayor Mare creates a brand new position for the purple unicorn to fill, that being the “All-Team Organizer”, much to her delight.
=====Fall Weather Friends=====
Spike joins up the rest of her friends in their attempt to help Rainbow Dash and Applejack settle their score. In the end, the two continue to disagree until they decide to join the "Running of the Leaves" race
=====Feeling Pinkie Keen=====
During spell practice, Spike notices Pinkie Pie walking around with an umbrella hat due to her tail twitching some time ago which in her "Pinkie Sense" means that objects are about to fall. This capability was proven multiple times in a short period of time, much to Twilight’s dismay. Such events persist during the purple unicorn’s attempts understand them until one particular confrontation with the pink pony.
At that moment, Pinkie Pie has a prediction that’ll happen at the place Fluttershy is bringing frogs to, prompting Spike, Applejack, and Twilight to rush there. Upon checking up on her, the group witnessed a hydra which they end up having to flee from. Thankfully they later survived this encounter.
=====A Dog and Pony Show=====
In order to finish up an order of dresses, Rarity needs to resupply on gems and invites Spike to help gather them. On their way, they are attacked by a group of creatures known as diamond dogs who managed to kidnap the white unicorn. The baby dragon runs off to notify the rest of the Mane Six, beginning their attempt at rescue though in the end, Rarity took care of herself just fine.
=====Green Isn't Your Color=====
During Fluttershy's preparations in the boutique, Spike, Pinkie Pie, and Twilight decide to help out with the latter revealing his crush on Rarity. The pink pony reminds the purple unicorn that breaking one's trust is an easy way to break friendships and encourages her to keep this a secret... from her friend. Twilight did not succeed at keeping this secret though thankfully, nothing bad came from this besides Pinkie Pie’s disappointment.
=====Owl's Well That Ends Well=====
At a particular night during a meteor shower, Twilight and Spike are preparing to join their friends at a picnic. After going to said picnic, the purple unicorn notices the baby dragon already asleep, prompting her to bring him home before writing down her observations on the meteor shower.
Upon waking up, Spike finds that Twilight has employed an owl named Owlowiscious to help her out. The baby dragon is reasonably upset upon finding out about this and worse still, the owl continued to draw attention of many other ponies.
Twilight later finds Spike plotting ways to get rid of Owlowiscious and proceeds to scold him… which leads to him running away from home. Luckily, the purple unicorn managed to find him and bring him back with her pet’s help. She then explains that Owlowiscious is there to help out at night when the baby dragon needs to sleep. In the end, the two make amends and apologize to each other.
=====Party of One=====
After beginning to suspect her friends are doing something behind her back, Pinkie Pie kidnaps Spike and "interrogates" him which mostly involves her forcing the baby dragon to confirm her insecurities. Upon being affirmed, she walks away sadly as her hair straightens and her colors darken, beginning the madness of Pinkamena. Thankfully this is later resolved in the end of the episode.
=====The Best Night Ever=====
Remember "Ticket Master"? Yes, this is where those tickets come into play. Spike is unfortunately left behind by the rest of the Mane Six though this does mean he was not involved in any of the chaos from the gala. Later his friends met up with him again at the end of the party, followed by Princess Celestia. She explains that the gala is usually quite bad and she had hoped that the Mane Six would liven things up which failed. 
====Season 2====
=====The Return of Harmony=====
After viewing the chaos Discord had brewed up, Spike and Twilight plan on a counter-spell for all this chaos which fails, forcing her to do fix these issues manually with the help of her friends. Eventually the Mane Six were called in to meet up with Princess Celestia in order to brief them on the situation. The Lord of Chaos has awakened from his slumber and is planning to plunge Equestria into chaos and only the Mane Six can save it.
Spike stayed behind as the Mane Six went off to retrieve the Elements of Harmony. This in turn spared him from Discord’s plan. Later Twilight returns with her friends who have had their personalities warped. The Lord of Chaos decided to use this moment to taunt her by giving her the Elements of Harmony though in the twisted state her friends are in, they are unable to utilize their elements and instead proceed to torment her into leaving.
As Twilight left in the rain, Spike shows up along with the many friendship reports she had been sending all this time, allowing her to regain her resolve and figure out a way to cure her friends, by reminding them of their friendship through the use of a memory spell. She manages to successfully restore all her friends including Rainbow Dash though it took a bit more effort.
In the end, Discord was hit by the power of the Elements of Harmony, once again petrifying him.
=====Lesson Zero=====
During preparations for a picnic, Spike and Twilight pick up an order of cupcakes which is when the latter gets to show off her excessive perfectionism when a cupcake is slightly tilted, prompting her to rearrange the icing on the cupcake to ensure all of them has the same amount of icing. Despite this display, the baby dragon is unconcerned and proceeded to lick some of the removed icing.
Once back at the library, Twilight decided to check up on her checklist which is when she realized that she hasn’t sent a friendship report to Princess Celestia for the week which sends her into a panic, much to Spike’s confusion. In this panic, the purple unicorn rushes outside to find some friendship problems to deal with.
At some point during Twilight’s panic, Spike contacted Princess Celestia regarding this issue, resulting in her arrival at the ending of the episode
=====Luna Eclipsed=====
With Nightmare Night beginning, Spike and Twilight are ready for a night of fun and fear. Unfortunately, nobody remembers the figure the purple unicorn is dressing as despite his importance to the history of Equestria. Later the two greet some trick-o-treaters which included Pinkie Pie who believes that one is never too old for free candy.
She and the baby dragon were later scared off by Rainbow Dash who planned on using the event to prank others, much to Twilight’s disappointment. She and Spike later leave to join in the festivities which get interrupted with the arrival of Princess Luna. Staying in the moon for a few centuries had left her inept to the social norms of the current society, leaving everyone scared of her except the purple unicorn.
After calming Spike down and conversing with Princess Luna, Twilight goes off to focus on helping the moon alicorn out, an endeavor she is eventually successful with. 
=====Secret of My Excess=====
While Twilight was busy re-shelving books, Spike was gazing at a ruby he had been saving up. Rarity later shows up to pick up a book before noticing the baby dragon’s ruby which she admires. Realizing that, he decided to give the white unicorn said ruby, earning him a kiss in the cheek which he plans on never washing.
The next day before the birthday party begins, Twilight had to hold Spike down to wash him despite his protests. The two later join the party which was occurring at the library, the rest of the Mane Six also present. This is where the baby dragon learns that you can get presents on birthdays. Knowing this, he spent the whole night going around and receiving free items by telling others that it’s his birthday.
Upon returning to the library, Twilight noticed Spike to be a lot larger than before and hoarding a large amount of items. As it turns out, a dragon’s greed causes them to grow in size and upon returning, the purple unicorn finds that the baby dragon has grown to great size and was going off on a rampage.
During this rampage, Spike decided to kidnap Rarity which causes further chaos. Thankfully, she was able to change the giant dragon back into his small form with a few select words and seeing the gem he gave to the white unicorn earlier. In the end, the damages are fixed and Rarity gives Spike another kiss on the cheek for being able to control himself…
=====Hearth's Warming Eve=====
During the Hearth's Warming Eve play, Spike was cast as the narrator.
=====It's About Time=====
Spike’s ice cream dream was unfortunately interrupted by Twilight’s worrying though he quickly brushes it off and goes back to sleep, missing the purple unicorn’s encounter with her future self. Said encounter was about an unspecified great catastrophe next Tuesday, prompting Twilight to go off to spread her warnings Ponyville with only her friends believing her warnings.
After returning from a successful intervention against a cerberus, Twilight meets up with Spike who gives her a scroll. Said scroll gave the purple unicorn a papercut, just like on her future version which meant that the cerberus wasn’t the disaster.
At first, Twilight attempts to stand perfectly still and reasons that nothing bad will happen if she does absolutely nothing. Unfortunately, Spike and Rainbow Dash decided to prank her which leads to her flinging the latter away. This caused Spike to accidentally let out a burst of flames which burns the purple unicorn’s mane, just like her future version.
Spike decided to bring Twilight to visit the Pinkie Pie who was trying out fortune-telling. Unfortunately, her vision revealed nothing useful and her Pinkie Sense only shows near-future events including a flower pot which falls on the purple unicorn's head. The three decided to go to the library where another accident caused her to further resemble her future self.
With all these occurrences continuing, Twilight decided to try and find a spell to deal with this. She alongside the baby dragon and the pink pony organize a heist on Star Swirl's Archives while wearing black jumpsuits.
They manage to gain entrance to the archives though fail to find the spell they're looking for in which the so-called future disaster finally arrives... And nothing happens. Realizing that she had simply panicked for no reason, the purple unicorn decides to go back in time and tell her past self that everything is fine, only to time out before she could explain herself.
This of course is the cause of all the events of this episode.
=====Dragon Quest=====
News of the Great Dragon Migration is spread, prompting the Mane Six to come over to observe, well... Except Fluttershy. During the observation, Spike gives his friends some snacks though Rainbow Dash points out that he is a dragon, causing him insecurities. These continue to progress all the way into the night, preventing him from getting any sleep. Wanting to find any answers about who he is or his origins, he asks Twilight for help though the two fail to get any conclusive answers.
The next day, Spike meets up with Rainbow Dash, Rarity, and Twilight for breakfast before explaining his plan to go to the dragon lands for a self-discovery journey. He braves the journey alone, unaware that his friends were following him. Eventually, he arrives at where the dragons were going. His small stature, lack of wings, and origins earns him mockery though he is given a chance to prove himself.
After a variety of challenges, Spike finally succeeds the last one and acquires a phoenix egg which he refuses to smash, earning mockery from the dragons. The ponies finally take off their disguise and manage to get the baby dragon out of the situation. In the end, Spike realizes that he was always loved.
=====Hurricane Fluttershy=====
Spike and Twilight offered assistance for the pegasi training through the use of their methods and equipment, one of which being able to measure wing power. Later the two arrived to witness the tornado creation though multiple pegasi are not present, making this endeavor a lot harder. In the end however, Fluttershy joined in and the pegasi managed to pull through safely and successfully.
=====Ponyville Confidential=====
Spike arrived when the Mane Six learns of the existence of the Foal Free Press, explaining that he has earned himself a story on the paper, earning the interest of his friends. This also spared him from the slander the Cutie Mark Crusaders began writing when the paper’s fame began to rise. 
=====A Canterlot Wedding=====
Spike was responsible for bringing the invitation for help on a wedding and allowing the Mane Six to learn of it. He wasn’t tasked with anything in particular though he was still brought along. This is also when the Mane Six learns of the existence of Twilights brother, Shining Armor who is the groom.
After taking a train, the Mane Six arrive at Canterlot, finding security in the place already increased. Twilight ends up meeting her brother and begins to grow suspicious of Princess Cadance while Spike accompanied her during her time there. Despite being around the purple unicorn who is seeing the occurrences going around, the baby dragon was not suspicious of anything in particular. At the end of the day, the friends gather together to listen to Twilight’s "paranoia" which unbeknownst to them, was completely justified.
Twilight's attempts to warn everyone went horribly wrong and was witnessed by everyone, resulting in her being kicked out. Little did they knew...
After Twilight finds the real Princess Cadence imprisoned in a cave underneath, the two manage to escape from their prison and expose the impostor for who she is, a changeling, still in front of everyone that is. However this discovery was much worse as the impostor wasn't merely a changeling but their leader, Queen Chrysalis.
After explaining what she had done as well as her motives, Queen Chrysalis begins her assault, her changeling army already bypassing the castle guards. The whole crowd witnesses Princess Celestia's defeat in the hands of the queen, an feat that will become rather commonplace throughout the series. The sun alicorn begged for the Mane Six to retrieve the Elements of Harmony though they were soon stopped by the changeling army.
In a desperate attempt, Twilight convinces Cadence to try and break the spell on Shining Armor which she manages to do. With the power of love, the two managed to cast a powerful spell that blasts every changeling out of the castle. In the end, the wedding goes off without a hitch and a joyful party ensues.
====Season 3====
=====The Crystal Empire=====
In the library, Twilight spends the day making large amounts of preparations after receiving a letter from Canterlot, much to Spike’s confusion. The two later meets up the rest of her friends on the train, leading them to The Crystal Empire where they meet Shining Armor once again in the raging blizzard. The group was soon attacked by clouds of black smoke controlled by the evil tyrant, King Sombra. Thankfully they managed to arrive at the city, avoiding the clouds mostly unharmed.
After traversing the city, the group meet up with Princess Cadence again, now extremely exhausted from keeping up the barrier which protects the city. After some discussions, the Mane Six decided to look into the occurrence happening in the city and its denizens, the crystal ponies. The crystal ponies Spike and Twilight talked to seemed to lack parts of their memory, as are all the other denizens.
They had all faced similar results with all the ponies they talked to unable to give any valuable information. Visiting the library, Twilight was able to find a book on the history of the Crystal Empire, learning about a faire which served to restore the spirit of love and unity in the empire. After some discussions, the Mane Six are tasked with setting up said faire in hopes of restoring the memories of the crystal ponies.
After some nerve-wracking moments, the Mane Six agree to begin preparations for the faire with Spike and Twilight going off to find the Crystal Heart which is a pivotal part of the faire. The two return to the castle which is where the purple unicorn casts a spell, opening a stairwell downward. Finding a door, the two are exposed to their worst fears with the baby dragon’s being getting abandoned by Twilight.
Spike and Twilight managed to snap each other out of the spell before going through a door at the bottom of the place, now needing to ascend. Luckily, the purple unicorn still remembered an anti-gravity spell which allowed her to lift herself and the baby dragon up quickly. At the top of the spire, they find the Crystal Heart… and alarms.
Twilight quickly got Spike to safety and after avoiding some threats, he manages to get it to Princess Cadence. With its power and presence, she was able to restore the crystal ponies to their healthier form, allowing them to banish King Sombra once again and restore the city to its pristine form.
=====Too Many Pinkie Pies=====
Spike and Twilight’s spell testing session was interrupted when Pinkie Pie appeared and hugged the latter, causing her aim to shift. Later after getting invited to two events at the same time, the pink pony meets up with Twilight for advice. This is where she realized that she would need multiple instances of herself, prompting her to go off and find the legendary Mirror Pool.
While the army of Pinkie Pie clones was wrecking havoc in Ponyville, Twilight was trying to find a solution to this problem. While Spike helped her out with this, he finds a secret compartment which allows the purple unicorn to find it, a spell that can banish anything it hits... anything. This includes the real Pinkie Pie which is quite the risk as the clones had become difficult to differentiate.
Spike and Twilight managed to find the real Pinkie Pie a café which they managed to confirm. After a discussion, they figure out a plan to find the real pink pony, by getting them to do something really boring for long periods of time. After some teamwork, the Ponyville denizens manage to herd all the clones to one place in which they are subjected to the boring activity of watching paint dry which allows them to weed out any of the clones who quickly get bored.
In the end, only one Pinkie Pie was left, the real one. Despite the many activities she is invited to, she decided to just stay indoors and rest.
=====Magic Duel=====
After the ominous prologue, the episode cuts to Spike and Twilight spending time at Fluttershy's cottage while practicing a telekinesis spell. Despite her worries, the spell went well with the animals being put back on the ground safely. This is when Rainbow Dash arrives to warn Twilight of the return of Trixie.
After a vicious duel, Trixie manages to beat Twilight and banish her from Ponyville until the next duel. Until then, she will rule over the town with an iron fist. However, Spike was not seen during the blue unicorn’s tyranny and only appeared during break time.
During break time, the Mane Six and Spike attempt to find anything useful in Twilight's library. Fluttershy in particular managed to find a book on the amulet Trixie was wearing, an artifact of great power known as the Alicorn Amulet. In order to bring the information to the purple unicorn, the yellow pegasus was sent to get outside Ponyville and find her.
Fluttershy succeeds in her endeavors and later meets up with Twilight and Zecora, the former figuring out a way to beat Trixie and some time later, returns to Ponyville to challenge her. The purple unicorn managed to goad her opponent with an amulet of her own, allowing the duel to commence. After some amazing tricks and feats of magic, Trixie was left dumbfounded by the power of this new amulet, prompting her to snatch it and take off the Alicorn Amulet.
It was all a ruse however and said amulet was powerless all along, unable to even drag Rainbow Dash down after she managed to snag the Alicorn Amulet from Trixie's hooves. With that issue finished, the Ponyville residents can now safely welcome Princess Celestia's arrival.
=====Spike at Your Service=====
On the weekend, Twilight received a task of making book assignments for 12 books. With that massive task in-hand, she decided to give Spike a day off. With this free time, he ends up by the Everfree Forest and gets attacked by timberwolves. Luckily, Applejack was there and managed to save the baby dragon from this attack, earning his gratitude. Unbeknownst to the orange pony, this was enough to him to pledge loyalty to her and Spike ends up following her to Sweet Apple Acres to help out on a variety of chores, with limited success.
Despite Applejack’s insistence, Spike refuses to leave and later when sent to break the news to Twilight, he comes back again as he seemingly earned the purple unicorn’s permission. The orange pony attempts various methods to get the baby dragon to leave, even asking some of her friends for advice until she finally meets up with Twilight who comes with a plan to stage a timberwolf attack on her.
At first, Spike almost fell for the trick though eventually, he figured it out. Conveniently however, actual timberwolves begin attacking which allowed the baby dragon to save Applejack, allowing him to break his pledge.
In the end, Spike returns to Twilight and continues staying with her.
=====Keep Calm and Flutter On=====
Spike and the Mane Six minus Applejack and Fluttershy are meeting up with Princess Celestia who is planning on releasing and reforming Discord. As expected, everyone there has issues with this idea though the sun alicorn has faith in this plan and knows that the draconequus may be useful as an ally rather than an enemy. Rainbow Dash later leaves to pick up the orange pony and yellow pegasus, the latter having an important part in this endeavor.
After some security measures, the Mane Six use their elements to reverse Discord's petrification, allowing him to break free... and taunt them. He does not seem to appreciate this gesture and intends on wrecking havoc once he figures out a way to free himself. Despite this, he was still brought to Fluttershy's cottage where he ends up crashing in and causing property damage.
While this was happening, Twilight was looking around for her book on reformation spells, unaware that Discord had eaten the pages. She and Spike later visited Fluttershy who explained to them about the draconequus' paper eating habits which is how the purple unicorn realized where her reformation spell page went. The yellow pegasus wasn't too worried and invites the rest of the Mane Six to dinner with Discord.
Despite their suspicions, the Mane Six arrive later that night to find the cottage well-decorated and no longer spinning while Discord was wearing a waiter's outfit. As expected however, chaos ensues and while the other ponies expressed their disdain for the draconequus, Fluttershy insists on not abandoning him which made him pause for a bit. Still, his plan had already gone underway which Angel reported on arrival. One of the beavers Discord had mutated managed to direct water to Sweet Apple Acres, causing a massive flood.
Fluttershy still tries to convince Discord to fix this, resulting in him freezing all the water. Tired of all the abuse, she finally snaps which allows the draconequus to realize his mistake and proceeds to fix the damages he caused. In the end, Discord is visited by Princess Celestia who was quite impressed by the yellow pegasus’ feat with the draconequus claiming that he'll likely use his powers for good most of the time... a statement which he will contradict repeatedly later down the line.
=====Just for Sidekicks=====
While baking a gem cake with Owlowiscous watching him, Spike ends up eating all the gems he had before he could bake them into the cake, much to his despair. Before things could escalate, he noticed someone knocking on the door, finding it to be Fluttershy and Angel, the former wanting to temporarily leave the latter in order to deal with some tasks at the Crystal Empire.
Fluttershy was willing to pay Spike a gem for his services which gave him the idea to run a temporary critter-sitter service as these tasks were something the whole Mane Six were dealing with and they were leaving behind their pets. Some time later after the baby dragon has talked to the Mane Six, they arrive to leave behind their pets with him at Twilight's home. The purple unicorn is unsure of the baby dragon’s capabilities though she yields after some convincing…
As expected, everything goes wrong the moment the Mane Six leaves with Spike getting knocked out a few moments after. Waking up, he soon finds the library a mess and worst of all, Angel has escaped. With some effort, he manages to catch the rabbit without losing anyone else, much to the amazement of the Cutie Mark Crusaders who are currently around.
Either due to laziness or due to Angel’s stubbornness, Spike decides to ask the Cutie Mark Crusaders to look after the rabbit. With some convincing, he was able to get the fillies to do so and even take the other pets for the price of one gem. Checking up some time later, he finds that decision to be a mistake.
The Cutie Mark Crusaders were overwhelmed by the many pets they had to take care of, leading to them escaping. In the process of retrieving them, Spike ended up losing a number of gems. During an attempt to catch Angel, the baby dragon ended up in a train with the fillies. Losing his last gem, Spike finally manages to catch the rabbit though they have now been trapped underneath the returning Mane Six.
Finally, Spike apologizes to everyone around him for his greed and carelessness which was enough to earn him Angel’s forgiveness. The rabbit manages to stop their cover from being blown and in the end, everyone managed to remain unseen by the Mane Six. With that issue done, the baby dragon goes home to bake another cake with a broken portion of one of his gems…
And then he eats it before he could bake them into the cake, much to his despair… again.
=====Magical Mystery Cure=====
Spike woke up a lot later which allowed him to miss out on the horrific discovery Twilight had made, that her friends’ Cutie Marks have been switched up. As a result, they are doing each other’s jobs poorly and despite being unhappy, the ponies still continue to do these activities as it is their "destiny". The purple unicorn and her assistant returned to the library to figure out what had happened. Looking back, they realized that this is the result of a cutie mark switching spell Twilight had been practicing and there is currently no reversal spell, leaving her in despair.
Eventually Twilight comes to an epiphany, she can try to remind her friends of what they meant to each other and in the process, remind them of themselves. She soon goes through each of her friends, successfully switching their cutie marks back to normal. With that problem done, the purple unicorn realized that she can complete the spell that caused the cutie mark switching.
After reciting the spell, she ended up disappearing for a few seconds before coming back, now as an alicorn...
Celebration time
====My Little Pony: Equestria Girls====
With that celebration over, the Mane Six and Spike arrive at the Crystal Empire to attend a princess summit. During break time, they try to comfort Twilight who was beginning to get nervous of her new alicorn status. Later that night, an amber unicorn sneaks into her bedroom and steals her crown and despite all attempts to stop her, she manages to escape.
Later that day, Princess Celestia explained the identity of this unicorn, one going by the name of Sunset Shimmer as well as the nature of the realm she had went to. Twilight and Spike were sent on their own to this realm where they are changed to resemble the dominant species there… humans. And Spike is a dog.
Of course being reduced in stature into a creature not even considered sapient in-universe is a distressing situation. He and Twilight proceeded to explore this… school which is when she finds Sunset berating the Fluttershy of this realm. The purple… human quickly told the amber human off, earning her scorn and insults but also the respect of the yellow human.
The two meet up with Celestia who is a principal in this universe. They also find out the reason of Sunset’s scorn, Fluttershy had handed over the crown to the principal who is keeping it as a reward for whoever wins the title of “Princess of Fall Formal”. While it may seem straightforward, the yellow human warns that anyone who attempts to oppose the amber human will usually suffer someway and that the school is split into rigid groups who all need to be convinced in one way or another.
Twilight later meets up with the human counterparts of her friends who have grown to hate each other. While walking by a hallway, she is confronted by Sunset who proceeded to threaten her before leaving, planning on finding something to use against her. The purple human decided to try and research this new realm in the library though her inexperience with her limbs and the technology there leaves her humiliated.
While staying at the library, Spike and Twilight discover that their friends’ human counterparts used to be best friends. The next day, the two awaken to the horror that is an embarrassing video of them posted on social media. They also get to meet up with the rest of the… Humane Six.
Being in the same room for a period of time was pretty bad for them and they shortly get into a fight which Twilight broke up, citing that they used to be friends. They claim that they had something ruined by the others through text messages and social media though none of them claim to be responsible, making them realize that they may have been had.
The group later met up with Rainbow Dash to help Applejack reconcile with her. Once done, the blue human offers to help Twilight under the condition that she plays a game of soccer which she loses. Thankfully, Rainbow Dash doesn’t care and decides to help her anyway, already seeing the qualities she needed from the purple human.
The next day, everything goes wrong as Sunset framed Twilight for vandalizing the Fall Formal supplies. Before the purple human could be disqualified, the generic teenage love interest under the name of Flash Sentry who the purple human had bumped into at some point before all this appears to explain how the evidence was forged, allowing Twilight to walk free though she soon realized that the event will be delayed which may cause the portal back to Equestria to be sealed.
Spike and Twilight soon meet up with their friends before explaining the gravity of the situation which they take pretty well. The group go off to clean up the place which allowed Principal Celestia to continue the Fall Formal Event as usual. Once done, they go off to prepare for the party and return on a limousine.
During the event, Sunset was not present, allowing Twilight to win the title of “Princess of Fall Formal” and the crown. Unfortunately, Spike gets kidnapped and brought near the portal which is where the amber human was standing by… with a sledgehammer. The purple human attempted to reason with her which ends with her getting tackled and losing the crown.
Upon wearing the crown, Sunset transformed into a horrifying demonic entity hellbent in ruling over the whole school. She also explains her plan, that being to go to Equestria and take it over with these new powers. Twilight still stood her ground despite all this, her friends standing with her. Their friendship protected them from the amber human’s attacks while also granting them the magic of friendship.
With this new power, they blasted Sunset with a magic beam which transforms her back to normal. Despite all she had done, Twilight still chooses to forgive her, and her friends follow suit in taking the amber human in. With that issue finally finished, the school can finally continue with Fall Formal with the purple human also getting her dance.
In the end, Spike and Twilight had to return though not before embracing the friends they’ve made in this new world. Stepping through the portal, they are greeted by the Equestria they’re familiar with… and their old physical forms. They also came back with the crown, earning the cheers of their friends.
====Season 4====
=====Princess Twilight Sparkle=====
With all the free time that they have, the Mane Six cheer for Twilight as she learns how to fly with her new wings, Rainbow Dash being the one to help her out. Despite this she ends up crashing repeatedly until finally, she decides to just go indoors to view the stain glass window Princess Celestia had commissioned to commemorate the purple alicorn's ascension.
While observing the glass pane, Twilight laments that her friends won't be there for the Summer Sun Celebration as they had been called in by the mayor to help out with Ponyville's own celebration. Applejack steps in to remind her that they'll always be united by the Elements of Harmony, said statement giving her comfort for the time being. With that, the rest of the Mane Six leave Spike and Twilight behind at Canterlot in order to board a train back to Ponyville.
Returning to Canterlot, Twilight meets up with Princess Celestia for a chat before leaving, unaware that it will be the last time she will converse with her mentor for the time-being. Spike greets the purple alicorn on her way out and later, the two realize that Princess Celestia and Luna have disappeared suddenly and worse, the Everfree Forest has invaded Ponyville.
Spike and Twilight rush to Ponyville through the use of the latter’s wings, finding their friends still alive. After some explanations, the Mane Six receive their elements before summoning Discord to make sure that he wasn't responsible for this. The draconequus claims that he is innocent in this with only Fluttershy believing his statements.
Just then, Zecora arrives from Everfree Forest after needing to evacuate though she had managed to save a few artifacts, one of which is a potion with dubious effects which Twilight drinks, allowing her to find out what is happening to the missing princesses.
After a harrowing look into the past brought upon by the potion she drank, Twilight eventually snapped out of it, having been mumbling throughout the whole vision. Unsure of what to do, Zecora suggested that she take another look into the past. Another harrowing vision later, she finds Princess Celestia and Luna explaining the details of the Tree of Harmony, the thing keeping the Everfree Forest at bay. With that in-mind, the purple alicorn leads her friends into the forest to check.
However, the forest always has a surprise ready for them and in this case, it comes in the form of a giant crocodile with rock-like skin. Twilight's friends managed to save her before deciding that at this point, they can't risk losing another princess and so they agree to send her back despite her protests. Upon coming back to Ponyville, Discord points out how messed up what she’s doing is, prompting her and Spike to immediately go back into the forest.
While looking for the rest of the Mane Six, Spike notices that Twilight was being attacked by a number of plants. He quickly rushed to call the other ponies who come back to save the purple alicorn. Twilight figured out during her visions that the Tree of Harmony requires the elements and with some convincing, the Mane Six agrees to give their elements away despite the risks, their friendship being the thing that keeps them together.
This decision proved to be the right one as the vines retracted from the magic, followed by Celestia and Luna returning. A small chest with 6 locks appeared in the middle, its use currently unknown. The group returned to find Discord still there. As he ponders on the possible actions he can commit now that the elements are gone, Fluttershy quickly snaps him out of it.
After hearing about how this problem all began, that being Discord planting plunderseeds at the Tree of Harmony, he reasons that he had thought the Mane Six an important lesson and thankfully, gets away with it. They all later arrive at the Summer Sun celebration where Twilight finally gets to use her wings properly, earning the cheers of the crowd.
=====Castle Mane-ia=====
Failing to find any useful information on the Tree of Harmony’s chest from any library books, Spike and Twilight travel to the old castle. They manage to find the castle’s very own library, earning the purple alicorn’s excitement due to her love of books and information. During their time there, they are also joined by Angel who managed to escape a trap holding Fluttershy and Rarity captive.
Among the information they find, there was some detailing about the various traps in the castle, ones the rest of the Mane Six are suffering from. As the screams of the ponies who had entered the place continue to echo, Twilight eventually snaps out of her studying to check out what's happening. There she finds her friends minus Pinkie Pie all huddled up together in fear. Checking the pony who had playing the organ which triggers the traps, she finds it to be the pink pony herself.
In the end, Twilight suggests that the ponies make a collective journal in order to compile their friendship lessons before leading them out of the castle. Unbeknownst to them, a dark figure with yellow eyes observes them from the shadows. This will be important later
=====Power Ponies=====
On the day before an exploration of the old castle, Spike has decided to stay up late and read comic books, much to Twilight’s dismay. While the Mane Six are revisiting the old castle, the baby dragon’s comic book triggers a spell which sucks them all into the superhero comic. As a bonus, they also get casted as the superheroes of this story with Spike being casted as Hum Drum, a parody of Robin. After their failed encounter with the supervillain, Mane-iac, Spike explains to his friends about how their powers work.
They later approach the lair of Mane-iac where an ambush resulted in them getting apprehended, except Spike who was left behind due to seemingly being harmless. This combined with him getting no powers in this world has been pretty distressing though with his friends in danger, he marched on. During the break-in attempt, the baby dragon got to listen to the supervillain’s evil monologue which fueled his determination, allowing him to successfully takes down the minions and break the Mane Six free.
Mane-iac's attempt at trying to operate her weapon forced her to swat away a firefly, finally triggering Fluttershy's rage which allows her to grow in size. The beam ends up bouncing off her before getting smashed, all while the supervillain falls victim to her own weapon. In the end, the group managed to finish the story and exit the world.
=====Bats!=====
Spike arrives alongside the rest of the Mane Six due to Applejack's fruit bat problem. This was an even bigger issue due to her currently trying to raise a giant apple for a competition. Despite Fluttershy's attempts to convince everyone of the bats' harmlessness, they still go along with the orange pony's attempts at getting rid of them.
After a meeting, Twilight formulates a plan to deal with the bats though they need Fluttershy's help. The fruit bats were gathered up to a single tree where the yellow pegasus stares them to submission, allowing the purple alicorn to safely cast her spell. Said spell removed the fruit-eating desires from the bats, making for a successful attempt at stopping their destruction. However while leaving, Fluttershy starts to suspiciously stare at an apple.
On the next day, the apples are still rotten, prompting Applejack to call her friends back. Finding a bat, they find Twilight's spell to still be functional. With no other option, they decide to perform a stake-out, gathering back at the orchard at night. Somehow they fail to notice Fluttershy's odd craving for the nearby apples until they split up.
Eventually Applejack finds what is possibly the culprit hiding in the darkness before calling in the rest of her friends. Shining a light on the figure, they find it to be no one other than Fluttershy who has morbed become a vampire batpony. As the group attempts to interact with their transformed friend, Twilight realized what had happened, her spell had redirected the fruit-eating desires from the bats to the yellow pegasus.
A few attempts were made to apprehend the transformed Fluttershy, all of which failed until Pinkie Pie points out about her stare, giving her friends an idea. Using Applejack's giant apple, they lure the vampire batpony into a mirror, causing her to use the stare on herself and get knocked out. This allowed Twilight to reverse her spell on Fluttershy, turning her back to normal.
In the end, Applejack agrees to Fluttershy's idea and sections off a specific part of the orchard for the fruit bats. As the Mane Six celebrate their friend's return, they are unaware that she still had some traits of this incident.
=====Rarity Takes Manehattan=====
At the train station, the Mane Six and Spike are ready to join Rarity at her business trip to Manehattan with her offering a few tickets to watch a play for her friends as gratitude for accompanying her. On their way, the white unicorn helps out many of the city denizens though eventually, it starts to rain. Luckily, her generosity pays off as a cab driver decides to repay the favor by giving the group a lift though unfortunately, Rarity ends up leaving behind her dresses.
As she despairs, her generosity pays off again when the hotel bellhop decides to repay the favor by bringing her suitcases containing the dresses to her. With that, she was able to arrive just in time for the fashion show where she ends up meeting an old acquaintance, Suri Polomare. She asks for help from the white unicorn who agrees to do so, even giving a piece of fabric for her.
This backfires when the rival ends up stealing Rarity's design, causing her great despair. The Mane Six and Spike greet her back at the hotel where she confesses about her mistake. Needing a way to be a step ahead of her rival, she decides to use the hotel room as inspiration before asking for help from her friends. This ended up taking a very long time, exhausting them from all the work though they did manage to pull it off, without getting even a thank you from the stressed Rarity.
After Rarity realized her mistake at the fashion show, she quickly tried to find her friends who had already left the hotel. Her panic was misjudged as they simply overslept and were just getting ready to watch the play though they also brought news of the white unicorn's loss. She wasn't particularly messed up by this and instead offers to accompany her friends with watching the play.
They had a great time at the play but as they were about to leave, they're approached by Suri Polomare's assistant, Coco Pommel. She ended up giving the trophy meant for Rarity, explaining that her boss had lied about winning to get the white unicorn to leave. As gratitude, she hires the assistant for another job before going home with a few gifts.
Amongst the gives she got was a glowing rainbow colored spool of thread... This will be important later.
=====Three's a Crowd=====
Spike arrives to the library with that day’s mail which Twilight happily reads, finding that Princess Cadence had agreed to visit which excited her greatly. Fluttershy also arrived shortly after to explain that she had received permission to observe small sapient creatures named Breezies during their travels. The rest of the Mane Six bid their farewells to the yellow pegasus at the train station… which is when Discord arrives.
Thankfully Spike was away when Discord began to perform his shenanigans, allowing the baby dragon to avoid any misery.
=====It Ain't Easy Being Breezy=====
The rest of the Mane Six arrive to listen to Fluttershy's explanation on what to do to ensure a safe arrival of the breezies. Besides a good breeze which Rainbow Dash will be providing, they also need to be cheered on... quietly. Said breezies eventually arrive to town with Spike being unable to get a good view of them. Because of this, he decided to climb a tree which proceeded to break, causing the incident which injured the breezies and forcing the yellow pegasus to take them in
This resulted in the rest of the episode going the way it did.
=====Trade Ya!=====
The Mane Six arrive at Rainbow Falls in order to participate in the Traders Exchange event, a day in which bartering is legalized. Spike in particular is planning to trade off some of his old comic books. He split off from the rest of the ponies and isn’t seen until the end when it’s revealed that he’s the only one who got what he wanted during the event.
=====Inspiration Manifestation=====
After seeing Rarity in despair due to a rejected trade, Spike along with Owlowiscious enter a cave where they find a particular book known as “Inspiration Manifestation”. Believing that it may help with the white unicorn’s problem, the baby dragon takes the book and later gives it to Rarity, much to her delight.
Learning of how the book works, Rarity successfully bends the fabric of reality to her own liking with her magic, mainly to make things more aesthetically pleasing. With these new powers she goes off and fixes the issue she was having before, earning herself and her client great joy. While this is a lot of power for one pony to wield, Spike does not find this suspicious at all.
This turned out to be wrong as the next day, Spike got to witness Rarity beginning to succumb to madness due to all the power she currently wields, She asks the baby dragon to come along and support her as she restructures Ponyville to her liking. As expected, this leads to chaos and destruction, prompting Spike to try and do something about this.
Spike successfully steals the book from Rarity though unfortunately at this point, Rarity has absorbed the powers of the book and no longer needs it. Thankfully due to a clause in the spell’s function, the baby dragon was able to drain her from its power by simply telling the truth about what she has done. In the end, the white unicorn realizes her mistake and apologizes though unfortunately, it takes a bit more effort to fix the mess she has made.
=====Equestria Games=====
Once Spike was done unloading equipment, he is brought by guards and dropped off at Twilight and Princess Cadence’s place, the latter explaining the baby dragon’s new heroic status which grants him the privilege to light the torch at the opening ceremony. He later met up with a show manager who explains his role and how to do it.
Due to anxiety, Spike was unable to light the torch immediately, prompting Twilight to quickly cover up for him through the use of a fire spell. She later meets up with the baby dragon to explain what she had done, leaving him saddened. During a talk with a show manager, Spike got an idea to perform for the masses in order to earn fix his pride. Unfortunately, he did not know the words to the song he was assigned with, earning him more humiliation.
Some time later, Spike has lost all confidence and decided to just disguise himself to avoid anyone recognizing him. This fails however as Twilight managed to easily find and confront him. At this moment, an ice arrow freezes a cloud over the stadium, putting everyone in danger. With this dire situation, Spike was able to regain his confidence to step in and melt down all the ice with his fire, saving everyone in the stadium and earning him the respect of the crowd.
=====Twilight's Kingdom=====
After a dull political event, Twilight was beginning to have feelings of inadequacy due to how seemingly unimportant her actions are as the Princess of Friendship. She confesses these feelings to Spike who does not know how to cheer her up from this. Thankfully, the other princesses step in and were able to successfully do so.
After hearing about Tirek's return, the Mane Six gather up in order to greet Discord after he had been elected to try and stop the evil centaur. His comments prompted Twilight to go back to the old castle in order to see what to do about the chest on the Tree of Harmony while he himself goes off to try and find Tirek.
Eventually Twilight figures out how to open the chest, using the gifts each of her friends got which had an ominous rainbow glow to them. During this time, Discord has managed to encounter Tirek and seemed to be winning. Unfortunately, he was quite good at manipulation and even though Discord’s friendship with Fluttershy is on the line, he still chooses to ally himself with the evil centaur.
The Mane Six later arrive, bringing the artefacts they received in each of their episodes. Said artefacts all form into keys which perfectly fit the locks on the chest in the Tree of Harmony. Unfortunately, they are missing Twilight's key which is conveniently when she gets called in to Canterlot where the rest of the princesses explain the horrid truth, Discord has betrayed them and Tirek is rampaging across Equestria, forcing the princesses to give away their magic to the purple alicorn for safekeeping.
After receiving the magic of the princesses, Twilight goes back to Ponyville while attempting to keep her magic a secret, all while Canterlot is under siege by Tirek and Discord who find the princesses drained of magic. However, they eventually figure out this ruse and quickly arrive to Ponyville, the draconequus putting the Mane Six minus the purple alicorn into a cage.
Once Tirek is done absorbing their magic, he moves on to Discord, betraying him as well in the process. After a tough duel with Twilight, the evil centaur was forced to use her friends as a bargaining chip for the magic which the purple alicorn agrees to. Discord ends up giving her the medallion he got as a sign of friendship with said medallion now glowing with a rainbow tint... This is the last key.
The Mane Six managed to avoid Tirek's attacks long enough to reach the Tree of Harmony and unlock the chest, releasing a rainbow colored blast which grants them great power, strong enough to obliterate the evil centaur and send him back to his previous prison. With that issue finished, they continued to repair the damage that has been done before finally, a giant crystal castle rises from the ground to replace Twilight's destroyed library.
As the powers wear off, Twilight is told by the princesses that said castle belongs to her while she herself learns the role of the Princess of Friendship, to spread the magic of friendship across Equestria. Despite this, she still credits her friends for playing an important role for her and they find 7 thrones inside said castle. A celebration was held for the ponies and a new and exciting era begins...
====My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Rainbow Rocks====
After a harrowing encounter with the Dazzlings, Sunset decided to contact Twilight through a book to the portal currently being closed. This worked out as during a reading session at the castle, the purple alicorn received a book which can transfer anything written from Sunset’s book to it. Seeing the threat, Twilight deduced the Dazzlings to be Sirens and recalled their backstory.
With some discussion with her friends, Twilight figures out a way to manually open the portal. Just like before, she and Spike had to go alone though this time aware what’s on the other side, getting turned into another species was a lot less harrowing. Their human friends are of course ecstatic of the purple human’s return and quickly accepted her to a group hug.
The group decided to catch-up and after learning everything she needed, Twilight figured out a plan to get an upper hand on the Dazzlings. Later they confronted the evil singers though oddly enough, their friendship magic seems to be non-functional for the moment, leading to their humiliation.
Regrouping after that incident, the Humane… Seven discuss their options, coming to a conclusion that they may need to make a counterspell in the form of a song. Twilight was also elevated to the role of lead singer. Unfortunately due to her homeless status in this universe, Pinkie Pie decided to invite the group to a slumber party where after some fun activities, the friends all went to sleep, except Twilight and Sunset.
Later during the event, the Dazzlings and the Rainbooms managed to climb up the ranks though the former’s influence is beginning to spread with the bands beginning to squabble between themselves. This all worsened to the point of Sunset tackling Rainbow Dash due to her almost activating her pony-up form, earning the scorn from the audience.
The Rainboom’s last competitor, the Illusions decided to trap their opponents in a trapdoor, forcing Spike to run off and get help. He comes back to find them already reconciled with each other and now aware of what the Dazzlings are doing. With that, they were able to rejoin the champion and defeat their opponent.
With that victory, Twilight was able to go home and due to this, Sunset was allowed to join the rest of the Humane Seven’s band.
====Season 5====
=====The Cutie Map=====
Checking on the functions of this new castle, the Mane Six find that the desk in the middle of the main room is showing a map. It also has the capability of calling in certain members of the Mane Six via their cutie map and for this occasion, they are called in to a desolate town known as "Our Town". With the ponies off on another harrowing adventure, Spike is left behind, unaware of the horrors they will soon experience.
=====Castle Sweet Castle=====
Despite the particularly hectic day Twilight went through yesterday, Spike still wakes up later than her. With the condition the purple alicorn is in, the Mane Six offer a makeover to the castle while she gets a relaxing day in the spa. The baby dragon was tasked with watching over Twilight, a task he agrees with.
After the Mane Six mess up their makeover of the castle, Spike was asked to stall for time, an endeavor he accepts. Arriving back at the spa, the baby dragon orders a massage for Twilight, leading to him suffering. On their way back, they took a scenic route past the remains of the library they lived at before going to a supply shop.
Once Twilight returned, her friends showed the biggest feature they worked on, a chandelier depicting many important memories of the purple alicorn's life. Twilight was moved by this and was extremely grateful of her friends' efforts. Of course, some of the rooms did get a few modifications from the ponies, much to everyone's amusement.
=====Tanks for the Memories=====
After worrying about Tank's constant sleeping and getting him checked up with Fluttershy and Twilight, Rainbow Dash quickly rushed to get Spike’s advice though as he is a dragon, he is unaware of how tortoises behave. Eventually after some desperation, she comes up with a devious plan to cancel winter.
Unfortunately, said plan ends in disaster, causing a massive snowstorm which brought winter to Ponyville anyway. The Mane Six visit the saddened Rainbow Dash with Fluttershy quickly explaining that Tank will likely not be awake for the winter. Eventually after a lot of crying, the blue pegasus accepts this reality and allows her pet to go hibernate for the winter. Before leaving though, she decides to tell him bedtime story.
=====Make New Friends but Keep Discord=====
During Discord's panic to find someone to bring him along to the gala, he meets up with Spike which is where he learns that Twilight has left early in order to prepare for the gala. This also meant that the baby dragon had to stay behind, allowing him to avoid the misery in this episode.
=====Princess Spike=====
Twilight enjoyed her time organizing the Grand Equestria Pony Summit which also gave her a lot of attention, much to Spike’s dismay. Her time spent organizing the event was exhausting, prompting her to go to sleep with Princess Cadence asking the baby dragon to keep the purple alicorn from being disturbed.
While he did do his job at the start, Spike noticed some delegates approaching Twilight’s room. As the purple alicorn is unavailable, the baby dragon steps in to help out though as a result, more delegates come over with problems of their own. He eventually finishes helping them out and eventually, decides to take on the role as Twilight’s associate.
Despite many warnings from Princess Cadence, Spike began to abuse his newfound power for his own benefit. Eventually, disaster struck and after a series of events, he accidentally destroys an important gemstone statue, much to the anger of the Canterlot denizens. They soon chase the baby dragon down to Twilight’s place where she is met by an angry crowd who believes that she gave all the bad advice Spike gave despite being asleep the whole time.
Seeing the damage Spike has caused, Twilight and Princess Cadence suggested that he should apologize to the ponies, an advice he follows up on. Once he apologized, the group agreed to rebuild the statue. Once it was done however, a pony brings in a flower the baby dragon is allergic to, causing him to sneeze and destroy the statue again.
=====Party Pooped=====
While Pinkie Pie was away trying to get to Yakyakistan, Spike was tasked with entertaining the yaks with a piano show. Unfortunately, they soon realize that it was a mere recording and was offended so much that they decided to declare war. Thankfully the pink pony later arrives and eventually figures out a way to prevent this.
=====Amending Fences=====
During a more relaxing day, Spike decided to remind Twilight of her Canterlot friends who she has forgotten. Wanting to set things right, she decided to go back there to check up on her old friends. At first, the baby dragon and her visited their old home, finding it dilapidated. Then the two meet up with those old friends, Minuette, Lemon Heart, and Twinkleshine who were pretty amicable to their old friend’s return.
Visiting another old friend however yielded completely different results. Said friend is Moon Dancer who has become a recluse and proceeded to shut the door upon seeing who her visitors are, much to their dismay. Twilight later learned that reclusive unicorn became the way she did after the last party she went to.
Twilight eventually managed to invite Moon Dancer to spend time with their friends. Unfortunately due to the reclusive unicorn’s demeanor, spending time with her proved to be a hassle. Despite that however, she ended up leaving first with Twilight quickly stopping her. Moon Dancer explains that she has given up all attempts at friendship which is when the purple alicorn realized, this happened when she didn’t come to her old friend’s last party.
In an attempt to make amends, Twilight invites Pinkie Pie to help out with Minuette going with her. Eventually the party is finished with Moon Dancer lured into it through the use of a trail of books. Unexpectedly, she lashed out at this gesture, explaining how that last party was her first attempt at coming out of her shell, only for her one friend to abandon her.
Still, Twilight apologized for what she did and after some convincing, Moon Dancer agreed to just enjoy this party. In the end, the two got to make amends and the reclusive unicorn received another gift, that being a photograph of her with all her friends.
=====Do Princesses Dream of Magic Sheep?=====
Due to not appearing with the Mane Six in Princess Luna’s dream, Spike was unaffected by the Tantabus. The baby dragon was the one who contacted the moon alicorn who explains the situation. To catch it, the Mane Six proceed to gather up that night for a sleepover as Princess Luna gets ready to hunt it in their dreams. After failing to do so, the Mane Six console Princess Luna though she soon realizes that the Tantabus has escaped again, this time to the dreams of Ponyville's residents.
Twilight suggests to combine the dreams of the ponies into one singular dream, allowing for everyone to gather up and attempt to keep the Tantabus down. Despite this, the creature continues to grow larger, causing Princess Luna to blurt out its origins, that she had created it in order to punish herself for her actions as Nightmare Moon. The ponies quickly rush to console her as well as ask her to forgive herself which once she does so, successfully dispels the Tantabus.
=====Scare Master=====
After taking cover in the castle and talking to Spike, Fluttershy decided to meet up with her friends and finally agrees to join them in the Nightmare Night celebrations, much to their delight. The yellow pegasus was soon brought in to the Carousel Boutique in order to get a costume, settling for a black dress in the end. Later the group engage in some Nightmare Night games in Sugarcube Corner though Fluttershy fails to enjoy any of it.
Twilight suggests that Fluttershy try and do the scaring herself, a suggestion she agrees to. An hour later, her friends arrive to her cottage, only to be disappointed by the lackluster scares. The yellow pegasus is disappointed by this and ends up giving up though Angel manages to help her regain her resolve.
The rest of the Mane Six later visit the Apple family's haunted maze where after some regular scares, they find themselves in a tree tunnel. While exploring the place, a scaled monster began chasing them down until they are cornered by a cliff. To make things worse, Flutterbat appears from the horizon and descends upon the screaming pony... Only to stop and reveal herself to be Fluttershy all along. She also explains that her animal friends had been assisting her in making the additional props truly terrifying.
While her friends cheer her for successfully scaring them, Fluttershy still does not enjoy the act of scaring her friends and decides to go back to her cottage and resume her usual routine. They understand her plight and continue with their night while leaving the yellow pegasus to her own devices, much to her delight.
=====What About Discord?=====
Spike and Twilight spent 3 whole days book sorting and upon exiting the castle, the two discover that the rest of the Mane Six have gained a close bond to Discord. Worse still after inviting them to get an explanation, none of them were capable of giving a clear answer. Then the draconequus decided to tell the purple alicorn that moments of friendship are impossible to recreate, further fuelling her suspicion.
At this point, Twilight decided to approach Zecora and ask for help, receiving a potion which she claimed to be able to remove Discord’s spell. Said potion however had no effect, much to Twilight’s disappointment. In the end, Twilight learns that it's OK to be jealous as long as she admits it and as it turns out, Discord had merely left the purple alicorn behind, thinking she was busy with some problems. Once that's all settled, the friends gather up for a group hug.
=====The Cutie Re-Mark=====
After a lecture, Spike and Twilight went home to find Starlight Glimmer waiting for them with a scroll. Presumably, the purple alicorn has explained to her companion the incident during the events of “The Cutie Map”.
Upon being approached, Starlight vanished though her scroll stayed behind. Touching it dragged Twilight and Spike before throwing them to the past, specifically when Rainbow Dash was about to perform her first sonic rainboom. The heliotrope unicorn was also there and quickly blasted the blue filly out of the sky, preventing that important event from happening.
Spike and Twilight were thrown back into the present, finding it a warring state against King Sombra. The two went back in time, only to be stopped by Starlight once again where she proceeded to prevent Rainbow Dash from doing her sonic rainboom once again. This time, it created a future where Queen Chrysalis has won. The rebellion ended up discovering the baby dragon and the purple alicorn, suspecting them to be changelings.
After meeting up with the rebellion’s leader, the place was attacked by changelings with Queen Chrysalis herself arriving. Spike and Twilight managed to escape again and go back in time, finding Starlight there once again. The heliotrope unicorn succeeded once more and the two end up in a future where Nightmare Moon won. Due to their experience with time travel, the evil alicorn finds interest in them and demands access to this spell.
Luckily, Spike and Twilight managed to escape this and return to the past to once again confront Starlight, each time escaping a grim future as a result of her succeeding. Finally, the purple alicorn managed to snag her opponent and drag her to the future, getting to view a desolate wasteland as a result of this horrid past.
Twilight decided to use this moment to ask Starlight why she did all this, prompting her to show them her backstory. After hearing it, the purple alicorn reached out to her with a heartfelt speech, finally convincing her to stop her attempts. With that issue finished, they all return back to the present, finding it not disastrous this time. The Mane Six soon arrive to confront the heliotrope unicorn though Twilight manages to convince them not to do so.
In the end, they agree to teach Starlight about friendship... and let her go without any consequences despite everything she has done.
====Season 6====
=====The Crystalling=====
Spike arrived a bit later with the invitation to The Crystalling, ceremony, allowing everyone to go. On their way to the Crystal Empire, Starlight confides with the baby dragon about her nervousness at meeting her old friend, Sunburst. Knowing this, Spike later stepped in to assist the heliotrope unicorn when Twilight realized that she’ll be busy with the ceremony.
After getting distracted by a crowd of fans, Spike managed to lead Starlight to Sunburst’s home. The two old friends have an awkward greeting before the orange unicorn closes the door. The baby dragon is a lot more insistent and eventually pushed his companion into the house where she and her old friend continue to act awkwardly around each other.
Eventually, Starlight gives up and drags Spike along with her out of the house. There, the heliotrope unicorn laments her situation before the baby dragon comforted her. Soon they realized what has been happening and after some discussion, Starlight assumed that Sunburst can probably do something about the situation.
Spike and Starlight eventually arrived at Sunburst’s place which is where he finally confessed that he is a dropout. In order to comfort him, the heliotrope unicorn revealed her dark past as well as the situation at hand. The orange unicorn quickly figures out a spell to deal with this, successfully saving the kingdom from ruin.
=====Gauntlet of Fire=====
While mining for gems with Spike, Rarity notices that the baby dragon is glowing. Out of concern, she rushes Spike to meet up with Twilight who was with the alicorn sisters. The sisters explained that the dragon lord is beckoning all dragons to his place for an event which is causing the glow. As the only way to stop it is to answer the call, the white unicorn and purple alicorn agree to follow the baby dragon in his travels.
During the briefing, the dragon lord explained that he plans on retiring and is hosting a competition for the next ruler. This is also where Spike meets Ember, daughter of the dragon lord and learns of Garble’s plan to destroy Equestria once he becomes dragon lord. With this, the baby dragon decided to join the competition to simply make sure Garble doesn’t end up becoming dragon lord.
The first race involved going through a body of water with geysers all over. While swimming through, Spike found a competitor who was knocked down, prompting him to drag them to shore which is where he discovers that it’s Ember herself, joining this tournament in disguise after her father forbade him from joining the competition.
Ember was confused on why she was saved which is when Spike gave a brief explanation on friendship with Rarity and Twilight showing up to help him with it. Hesitantly, the blue dragon accepts their help and later brings the baby dragon on the next race and the next one. However in one of those races, Spike goes off to save the white unicorn, confusing Ember.
Spike explained that this is what friends do, prompting Ember to abandon her partner. Still, his friends help him reach the volcano’s center where the scepter lays, the object that granted victory to the one that claims it first. Unfortunately, Spike was grabbed by Garble and was almost dropped into a pit of rocks until the blue dragon dived in and saved him.
The two managed to beat Garble with Spike being the one who acquired the scepter. With that, he won the title of dragon lord and after punishing Garble, he decided to give the title to Ember, believing her to be capable of ruling the dragon lands well. In the end, the blue dragon earns the respect of her father and subjects and the baby dragon got to go home safely without an enemy to Equestria.
=====Applejack's "Day" Off=====
Wanting to take Applejack for a spa day, Rarity invites Spike and Twilight to deal with her chores while the orange pony and white unicorn take a break. Before going, Applejack gives a list of instructions to the baby dragon and purple alicorn. Unfortunately, said list is excessively complicated and the two fail to make any progress until her friends come back.
Seeing them fail, Applejack gave them a demonstration of each of those steps, realizing how overly complicated they all are. This is after she helped a spa fix a long-time issue which had been slowing down their progress for a while. Her friends realized this and helped her find ways to simplify her chores. In the end, the orange pony got to have an actual spa day with her spare time.
=====Flutter Brutter=====
With her brother now stopping by her cottage, Fluttershy attempted to get him a job. This included a job at the castle of friendship. Twilight had agreed to this and assigned Zephyr with cleaning the throne room. Somehow this ended up with Spike doing the cleaning, leading to the turquoise pegasus getting fired.
=====The Times They Are a Changeling=====
Spike, Starlight, and Twilight arrive to the Crystal Empire, the latter excited to see Flurry Hearth while the former is wearing a disguise due to his fame in the place. Upon exiting the train, they are greeted by a number of Crystal Ponies and later by a number of guards, allowing the group to realize that a changeling has been spotted in the kingdom.
After some security checks, Princess Cadence explains that since the Crystalling Event, the Crystal Empire has been filled with more love than usual, making them a target for the changelings who feed on love.
Spike later finds said changeling, finding him to be a friendly one under the name Thorax. In a last ditch attempt to try and prove his harmlessness, the baby dragon invites him to the palace where he disguises himself as another pony. Unfortunately upon encountering Flurry Heart, the friendly changeling accidentally drops his disguise, revealing himself in front of everyone.
After some struggles, Spike managed to finally get it through the other ponies that changelings are capable of change, using a musical number. This somehow works and with that, Thorax was allowed to walk free and try to spread his less dangerous way of life to others.
=====Dungeons and Discords=====
With Fluttershy going on a trip with her friends, Discord is left with not much to do. Among the places he can visit, Spike and Big Mac are free for the night. The draconequus arrives later, expecting a glamorous party, only to find the two planning a tabletop role play session of “Ogres and Oubliettes”. This is of course extremely disappointing for Discord and he goes along for some time without much success due to his lack of enthusiasm.
After failing to get his companions to play something else, Discord finally decides to just bring them into the world of “Ogres and Oubliettes”. This is of course extremely horrifying and near the end of the game, Spike reveals that he and Big Mac only invited the draconequus out of pity.
Realizing this situation, Discord quickly returned everything back to normal before apologizing for his actions and leaving. Feeling bad for this, Spike and Big Mac call the draconequus back for another session, this time with less peril. In the end, the three become fast friends and enjoyed a fun night of “Ogres and Oubliettes”.
=====Every Little Thing She Does=====
With Starlight having finished her magic lessons, she now had time to deal with some friendship problems. Oddly enough, she decided to deal with them all at once, worrying Spike and Twilight greatly. Still, they have enough faith in the heliotrope unicorn to leave her at the castle with the rest of the Mane Six while they go to a school event.
This faith was misguided as upon coming back, they find the castle in shambles with the rest of the Mane Six mind-controlled and acting in destructive ways while Starlight struggled to control them. Twilight quickly reversed this issue and confronted her student which is where she realized that Starlight wasn’t doing too well with friendship problems and wanted to do it well to avoid disappointing her mentor.
With that in mind, Twilight explained that friendship problems weren’t mere tasks, they were meant to be ways to grow closer to others and cannot be skipped over. Having listened to this, Starlight went off to make amends with the rest of the Mane Six, ending with the group deciding to chill and relax on the castle roof per Rainbow Dash's request.
=====P.P.O.V. (Pony Point of View)=====
Spike and Twilight meet up with Pinkie Pie, Applejack, and Rarity who had been sent on a holiday at Seaward Shoals. The three ponies are in a disheveled state, having experienced some sort of unknown calamity which the purple alicorn asks them about, the baby dragon taking notes. Unfortunately, the three quickly got off and refused to join for a tea party, forcing Spike and Twilight to meet with them separately.
Meeting up with Rarity, she begins to explain the story from her point of view in which for some reason, Applejack was depicted as a stereotypical sailor. Once at sea, the orange pony ends up tossing a tray of food overboard, much to her companions' horror though Twilight notes that this seem out-of-character. Being an unreliable narrator, the white unicorn continues as Pinkie Pie raises a piñata while Applejack drives the ship into a storm.
Despite Rarity's begging, Applejack continues her course to the storm until a wave sweeps in and capsizes the ship. As expected, Twilight is skeptical of this story and is prompted to meet up with Pinkie Pie to make make sure it's accurate. Meeting up with her, she begins to explain the story from her point of view in which for completely legitimate reasons, Rarity was depicted as a glamorous sea captain with a large crew moving her luggage.
Once at sea, the pink pony's tray of candy was replaced with some fancy hors d'oeuvres before throwing it overboard, much to her companions' horror though Twilight notes that this seem out-of-character. Being an unreliable narrator, the pink pony continues and decides to raise a piñata in an attempt to lighten the mood though Rarity seemed unimpressed.
During their cruise, a storm ends up washing over them followed by a wave which capsizes the ship. As expected, Twilight is skeptical of this story and is prompted to meet up with Applejack to make make sure it's accurate. Meeting up with her, she begins to explain the story from her point of view in which for some reason, Pinkie Pie was depicted as maddened fool.
Once at sea, Applejack found herself annoyed by her friends who are enjoying their lunch instead of focusing on the adventure ahead. This continued to get worse as Pinkie Pie begins the usual set of games to unwind and Rarity accidentally uses the ship's only map as a tablecloth. As they fight over the map, the ship is hit by a wave, capsizing it.
Twilight was somehow able to piece together a concrete story despite how biased everyone's story is. She later invites the three ponies to the docks to explain what had happened. As it turns out, cucumbers had a habit of inviting the attention of a sea-monster which was the one responsible for capsizing the ship. Realizing what had happened and hearing the purple alicorn's explanation, the three ponies reconcile and decide to go on another boat-trip.
=====To Where and Back Again=====
After suffering from anxiety from the upcoming Sunset festival, Starlight was soon comforted by the Mane Six with Twilight in particular asking Trixie to help her out. Despite this, the visit still goes wrong, forcing the two to go back to Ponyville where they find everyone acting strangely. They soon discover that Ponyville's denizens have been kidnapped and replaced with changelings, much to their horror.
After the ordeal Starlight, Trixie, Discord, and Thorax went through in the hive, they manage to eventually get to Queen Chrysalis. The heliotrope unicorn in particular managed to convince the good changeling to share his love, allowing him to become reformed and teach the others how to do so, allowing them to destroy the queen's throne.
This also frees the imprisoned denizens who are thankful of their new freedom.
====Season 7====
=====Celestial Advice=====
While Spike and Starlight were conversing, Twilight teleported into the latter’s room to make some measurements for a gift. Once done, she met up with the baby dragon, revealing the gift they’ve been preparing, a wall mirror with various pictures of important moments of friendship. With that done, the two join the rest of the creatures in the party.
After Discord reminded Twilight that Starlight may have grown beyond friendship lessons, Spike joins the purple alicorn as she panics about what to do next. Princess Celestia later arrived to check up on her, finding her a nervous wreck. As Twilight had been sent away, she now must send her student somewhere as well.
Twilight brainstormed some possibilities of where to send Starlight, finding disaster and destruction wherever she was sent to. This is worrying of course and stressed the purple alicorn greatly. Seeing her student in this state, Princess Celestia comforted her with her own experience with sending Twilight away, remarking how similar their circumstances are.
With that speech, Twilight regained her resolve and went back to the party to announce that Starlight has completed her friendship lessons. Despite this however, the heliotrope unicorn still wants to stay, much her mentor’s relief. In the end, Twilight got to show Starlight her gift and promised that she’ll always be by her side.
=====A Flurry of Emotions=====
During a conversation with Nurse Redheart, Twilight is notified of a disease sweeping through a number of foals. Wanting to cheer them up, the purple alicorn planned a variety of gifts and entertainment for them. Just before she and Spike could leave, the two are greeted by Princess Cadence and Shining Armor who appear to be suffering from sleep deprivation.
As it turns out, the couple have been facing issues with raising Flurry Heart and are called in to another event. Despite Twilight’s schedule being packed, she still decides to take the baby alicorn in. She is given a number of baby supplies and a toy before the couple left. As expected, this went horribly wrong and Flurry Heart ended up wrecking havoc wherever she was brought to.
Despite all the trouble Flurry Heart put them through, Spike and Twilight eventually arrive at the hospital. During the storytime session, the baby alicorn throws a tantrum and accidentally loses her toy. In distress, she begins looking for it, going as far as levitating various objects and ponies in the place, endangering everyone there.
Realizing her mistake of neglecting Flurry Heart all this time, Twilight apologized to her and decided to play with her for the rest of the day, much to the baby alicorn’s delight. Eventually Princess Cadence and Shining Armor returned, finding their baby and the purple alicorn getting along with each other.
=====Triple Threat=====
In order to help Ember with various character issues, Spike decided to invite her to Ponyville. Having a monarch of a country coming to visit is certainly a daunting task and due to his role as the ambassador for the dragon kingdom, the baby dragon was responsible for this. Twilight and Starlight decided to comfort him with his decision, only to later realize that Thorax is also coming over at the same day.
While Twilight was giving a tour to Thorax, Spike and Starlight greet Ember though her arrival is quite terrifying for both her and the civilians. Worse still, the dragon monarch ends up in the castle for a banquet, the place where the changeling monarch was currently in. And to top it all off, Spike is summoned by the Cutie Map and is forced to go outside to deal with the friendship problem that is present.
Outside, Spike attempts to help a variety of ponies though none of them appear to be the friendship problem. During that time, he encounters Thorax who is having lunch with Starlight. The heliotrope unicorn later leaves and the changeling monarch starts confessing the problems he is experiencing in his rule, much to the baby dragon’s dismay.
During this conversation, Spike helps out another pony which impresses Thorax though he wasn’t able to stay there long enough as Ember is starting to come nearer, prompting the baby dragon to excuse himself. He later confronts the dragon monarch who was disappointed with Spike’s lack of appearances throughout her day. In their argument, Ember ends up snapping loudly at him, prompting the changeling monarch to check up on them.
The two monarchs almost got into a fight which Spike managed to prevent which allowed him to confess that he had accidentally invited the two of them on the same day and are worried that they wouldn’t get along. This disappointed the two of them with how little faith the baby dragon had for them, prompting them to leave.
Luckily, the two monarchs end up reconciling in the background and later Spike gets the opportunity to make amends with them. With that, their kingdoms bonds are now strengthened, marking the end of the baby dragon’s mission.
=====A Health of Information=====
After being notified of Zecora’s infection, Spike and Twilight help Fluttershy search through the library on anything related to a possible cure. Due to exhaustion, the two fall asleep until the yellow pegasus finds the book she was looking for. They soon learn of the legendary healer Mage Meadowbrook who had managed to cure swamp fever. The baby dragon did not come along with the rest of the group as he had to watch the castle.
=====Once Upon a Zeppelin=====
During a day of paperwork duties, Spike brings in a letter from Twilight’s parents, claiming they’ve won a zeppelin cruise with the whole family. The baby dragon offers to cover for the purple alicorn, allowing her to go along with the holiday. This also allowed him to avoid the exploitation occurring in the place.
=====Shadow Play=====
After an extensive investigation, the rest of the Mane Six are called in to free the Pillars of Equestria which they can do with some artifacts relating to its members. Spike in particular went along with Rainbow Dash to help her retrieve an artefact in the dragon lands. He along with his friends later arrive and use the artifacts to activate a spell, releasing the pillars from their prison... as well as the one they had imprisoned, The Pony of Shadows.
Upon escaping, the Pony of Shadows quickly destroys the place before being blasted with magic and forced to retreat. The pillars decide to ally themselves with the Mane Six in order to try and figure out how to deal with the issue. Unfortunately, the current plan by Star-Swirl involves sacrificing the Elements of Harmony which Twilight is beginning to consider.
With some effort and deduction, the Cutie Map points to a location where the Pony of Shadows is currently in. Star-Swirl continues to be adamant in his plans despite input from others, prompting Starlight to ask for context on the situation. After listening to the backstory of the Pony of Shadows, the heliotrope unicorn became interested in whether or not a peaceful solution is possible though the bearded unicorn continued to be adamant on his views.
Later the group extract the Elements of Harmony before arriving at the location the Pony of Shadows was at. Upon arriving, they are soon dragged into the Well of Shade where they face off against the dark entity. The spell was soon cast, opening a portal to limbo in order to banish their opponent. Twilight soon noticed the Pony of Shadows' true form sticking out, that being a pony named Stygian, and quickly flies in to try and learn more.
After learning about the situation from his point of view, the rest of the ponies soon realized how wrong they were and focused their attempts to instead banish the darkness he was tied to. Their efforts were successful in freeing Stygian with the added benefit of the Elements of Harmony remaining intact due to not being used for banishment.
====My Little Pony: The Movie====
With the first friendship festival underway, Twilight is beginning to get nervous on how it’ll go. After some encouragement from Spike, she goes off to meet the princesses for some extra help which they decline for no reason at all. The purple alicorn and her assistant leave in disappointment before meeting up with the rest of the Mane Six to explain the problems she just went through with the princesses.
Despite this, the rest of the Mane Six still encourages Twilight with a song though moments after they finish, they are attacked by an army belonging to a so-called Storm King. Leading the charge was a unicorn with a broken horn named Tempest Shadow and her hedgehog minion Grubber, the former managing to defeat all the princesses with a petrifying smoke bomb.
Twilight was able to survive this with the help of her friends before fleeing. They all later fell into a river and swept out of Equestria. Having heard of Princess Celestia’s last instructions, the purple alicorn leads her friends to try and find the so-called queen of the hippo, starting out at a shady place known as Klugetown.
There, the denizens attempt to enslave the ponies though they were saved from this predicament by an abyssinian named Capper. He later brings them to his house with plans to sell them to his boss though upon receiving some help from Rarity, he realizes his mistake. Twilight also learns that they are looking for hippogriffs, half-pony half-bird creatures living at a mountain.
Later Capper's boss and Tempest's army arrive at the town though they end up at odds with each other, allowing the Mane Six to escape onto the airship. Unfortunately, said airships are manned by a crew anthropomorphic parrots working for the Storm King. They were almost thrown overboard though lunch time strikes and the ponies are invited to eat with the parrots.
Rainbow Dash managed to convince them to return to their Sky Pirate roots which they agree to though when she performs a sonic rainboom, Tempest quickly realized their location. The Mane Six hid from their pursuers and managed to flee on a makeshift air balloon. Arriving at the mountain however, they find the hippogriff kingdom in ruin. Going back down, they notice a creature in a pond and attempt to pursue it, almost drowning in the process though they were soon rescued by the creature, a seapony by the name of Princess Skystar.
They were soon lead to the leader of the civilization, Queen Novo. After some discussions and explanations, the Mane Six were turned into seaponies using a magic pearl which the queen refuses to relinquish. Later down the line, Pinkie Pie decides to start a party with the seaponies though it was cut short when Twilight is caught attempting to steal the magic pearl, getting her and her friends banished from the kingdom.
Upon arriving back at shore, Twilight's friends confront her for her actions and after a heated exchanged, they end up abandoning her. Conveniently after this happened, Tempest arrived and somehow managed to beat and capture the purple alicorn. Spike was able to escape and warn his friends. As they try to figure out what to do, Capper arrives alongside the parrot pirates and their leader, Captain Celaeno. Princess Skystar also joins in, now a hippogriff.
Capper later arrives at Canterlot posing as a pastry chef with a big cake for congratulations, as well as the ponies. However, it was all a ruse and soon the rest of the crew broke free and attacked the Storm King's army, much to his dismay. He attempts to strike them with a storm though they manage to reach the castle using Pinkie Pie's party cannon. After a reunion with Twilight, they quickly rush to grab the warlord's staff, only for him and the purple alicorn to be sucked into the storm.
Before they could grief, Twilight descends with the staff safely... and so did Storm King. Before he could throw a petrifying bomb, Tempest stops him, causing them both to be petrified and fall off. The purple alicorn quickly saves the unicorn amputee, the warlord falling off and shattering as he has nobody else to save him. With that issue done, the Mane Six use the staff to reverse the petrification on everyone.
In the end, the ponies celebrate the Friendship Festival they've been planning while also celebrating their victory. Tempest and the new additions are also welcomed to the party which ends with Princess Celestia raising the sun.
====Season 8====
=====School Daze=====
With the cleanup finished and Tempest sent to another mission, the Mane Six decide to incorporate the locations they've travelled to into the map for bigger reach. In an attempt to spread the idea of friendship far and wide, Twilight decides to open a friendship school. Spike assists his friend for this endeavor including in consultations with Princess Celestia and the Equestria Education Association (EEA) until the process is finished and the school is opened.
Soon students were brought in with some of them not being ponies. At first the education seemed fun though sticking to the EEA guidelines ruins everything. A particular group of non-pony students called the Young Six decide to ditch class. Despite this, the school continues their Friends and Family Day celebration with the EEA member Chancellor Neighsay. Unfortunately, this celebration was ruined by the Young Six coming back with Ocellus currently in a monstrous form.
To make things worse, Chancellor Neighsay is a bigot and is displeased with the existence of non-ponies in an Equestria School, prompting him to shut down the school and cause the ire of the other kingdoms from this action.
Twilight's friends decide to visit her after the horrendous event, finding her extremely distraught from the event. Starlight later visits and encourages her to fight back against this problem which is enough to restore the purple alicorn's resolve. She later meets up with her friends and plans on re-opening the school, this time with her rules as the Princess of Friendship.
After the kingdom leaders calm down from the return of the students, the School of Friendship is reopened, leading to Chancellor Neighsay coming over and seeing what had happened. Despite arguments from everyone else, the EEA member still believes that this school shouldn't exist though he is no longer allowed to shut it down. In the end, the school functions exactly as it should, to teach the lessons of friendship to anyone willing to attend it.
=====Fake It 'Til You Make It=====
After being alienated by Fluttershy's rude personas, the raccoon employees bring in the rest of the Mane Six minus Rarity to confront the yellow pegasus. Unfortunately, she still continues her act, even going as far as to kick out her friends who later bring in the white unicorn to deal with the situation. She handles the situation much better and manages to snap Fluttershy out of it.
=====Horse Play=====
While thinking of ways to celebrate Princess Celestia’s anniversary, Twilight suggested the idea of setting up a play. Finding out that her mentor loved plays, the purple alicorn decided to star her as the main character in the play despite being extremely inexperienced. Spike is worried of this though Twilight assures him that it’ll go well.
The two meet up with the rest of the Mane Six who were busy preparing the play to tell them about the news. Later the sun alicorn does arrive though soon everyone finds her to be terrible at this. However, the purple alicorn refuses to let her know.
The conditions continue to get worse until finally, an incident involving an unhealthy amount of fireworks finally sends Twilight over the edge, causing her to rant in front of everyone about everything that has gone wrong, including about Princess Celestia, which she overhears.
Later after a conversation with her, the two come up with a plan to save the play. Spike in particular was cast as the narrator. Princess Celestia simply helps off-stage and with props, bringing up the sun itself for a show. In the end, it all goes well.
=====Break Up Break Down=====
While helping Big Mac with a pie, Spike began to grow bored with the process of this. The two agreed to summon Discord who while annoyed at first, agrees to help them out. Learning about why his companions are making this pie, the draconequus is less than impressed. Once the red pony is away, the baby dragon challenges his friend to believe in the splendor of love with the wager being that the loser has to mow the other’s lawn forever.
While taking Discord along to prove his point, Spike notices Big Mac coming back after delivering the pie. They then come across Sugar Belle whom the red pony is attracted to. The group decided to hide and observe the pink unicorn as she talked to her friend. At some point, she mentioned being finished with someone with male pronouns. Big Mac immediately assumes that it’s him and runs off, his friends following along and missing the part of the conversation where Sugar Belle finishes explaining her cousin’s takeover of her bakery which allows her to be in Ponyville for longer.
Spike and Discord do their best to cheer Big Mac up though nothing works. The baby dragon later suggests just hiding from his problems though the draconequus had a more devious idea, break up with Sugar Belle before she can do so to him. The red pony chooses the latter option which has devastating consequences. Thankfully the couple were able to eventually communicate about what had happened and reconcile.
In the end, everyone learns an important lesson and Discord even revealed himself to be responsible for helping Big Mac and Sugar Belle reconcile, revealing that he does believe in love. He and Spike end the episode playing some Ogres & Oubliettes.
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