Luna the Miracle Boy: Roman Backstage Pass

—Official warning

**Luna the Miracle Boy: Roman Backstage Pass** is the fourth and final of four hour-long story episode Luna the Miracle Boy series, and the last piece of the official story episodes in the series. It is also known by Indonesian version of title: **Lintas Panggung Rumania**.

In this story episode, two Friheten girls (Martin and Celestia) are excited to see their favorite band perform at the Sweyn Forkbeard's Music Festival – depicted as a Roman-style musical carnival with several fluttering flags that look like the Roman ones.

Unfortunately, Aulia's curse magic causes Martin to get stuck reliving the first day of the festival over and over.

## Summary

### RBP Part 1

The Friheten Seven arrive at the Sweyn Forkbeard's Music Festival, which lasts two days, commemorated as the 'Roman Backstage Day'. As Luna excited about Roman Backstage Day, he sings a Roman folk song (whose lyrics start with "Wake up, Romania, from the deadly slumber into being sunk by the barbaric tyrants" in the Romanian language), Martin and Celestia are especially excited to see PostCrush, a pop music duo consisting of Roman Lollipop (R-Lo) and Kyle Fegelein (Ky-Feg) who have reunited for a one-night-only concert.

The next morning, on the first day of the Roman Backstage Day, Martin wakes up to Jason accidentally hitting her with a paddle and Dennis telling jokes to Luna and Vincent over breakfast. On their way to the festival, she steps in a mud puddle and briefly gets stuck in a slow-moving security line at the festival entrance. Once inside, Martin has everything planned out to secure a front-row seat for PostCrush's concert, but Celestia gets her continuously sidetracked by checking out several festival activities and exhibits.

That night, shortly before the concert, Martin gets dragged along when Celestia feverishly goes to try Chef Natalia Tokugawa's specially-made churros, causing both of them to crash into and destroy the churro cart. This results in both of them getting kicked out of the festival just as the concert starts. Back at the Frihetens' RV car, Celestia apologizes to Martin for ruining their only chance to see PostCrush, and Martin bitterly says if given the chance to do the day all over again, she would do it alone.

On a nearby hill, Martin watches the music festival from afar and laments missing out on PostCrush. All of a sudden, a wave of Aulia's curses washes over her. The next morning, Martin expects to begin the second day of the festival. But when Jason hits her with a paddle and Dennis tells jokes to Luna and Vincent at breakfast, she realizes that day one of the festival has started all over.

### RBP Part 2

On the way to the festival, Martin steps in the same mud puddle and gets stuck in the same slow-moving security line as before. Also like before, Celestia gets sidetracked from seeing PostCrush by checking out various festival activities, and both Martin and Luna struggle to keep up with her. When Martin accurately predicts parts of the day that she already experienced, Luna suggests that he and Martin might be caught in a time loop. Martin believes Aulia's curse magic is at work, giving her another chance to see PostCrush.

Martin tells Celestia to focus on PostCrush in order to avoid what happened last time, but Celestia is unable to control her hunger and goes after Chef Natalia's churros again. Despite Martin's efforts to stop her, the end result is the same: the churro cart is destroyed. Martin and Celestia get kicked out of the festival just before PostCrush goes on stage.

The next morning, the time loop resets again, and Martin is given yet another chance to see PostCrush. This time, she goes to the festival ahead of her friends, beating the long security lines. When Celestia tries to catch up with her, she avoids her and runs away, unintentionally hurting Celestia's feelings. In the end, Martin is finally able to see PostCrush's concert from the front row.

"*What a lovely Roman Day!*"
— Martin Heldayeti
### RBP Part 3

Back at the Frihetens' camp, Martin expresses to her friends how perfect her day was, but some of them are upset with her for abandoning Celestia, and despite Celestia's attempts to play off Martin as ditching her, she is clearly heartbroken. Martin is too euphoric from having finally gotten to see PostCrush that she disregards Celestia's hurt feelings. Unfortunately, she is horrified to discover the next morning that the time loop has still not ended, and she is still trapped on the first day of the festival.

After experiencing the same day's events for over two weeks, Martin tries a different way to break the time loop. She tasks Luna to drives Tobias' RV away from the festival in the middle of the night, but the RV soon breaks down. As Luna attempts to fix the RV with his physical ability, Martin tells the rest of the Friheten Seven about her situation, believing that because the time loop started when she failed to see PostCrush, finally seeing them would end it. Luna, however, believes something else to be the cause, and Celestia suggests reaching out to Sergey for help.

'The next morning, Martin sends a message to Sergey with her magic journal. In his reply, Sergey believes the source of the time loop to be another long-lost artifact called Time Twirler, which allows its user to rewind time. With this information, Martin resolves to find Time Twirler's wielder and finally bring the time loop to an end.

Later that evening, Martin and her friends try to track down Time Twirler and its user, but Martin has not noticed anyone or anything out of the ordinary over the course of the time loops. Suddenly, she overhears some festival-goers singing song lyrics such as "every day's the same" and "round and round and round", and one of them points her in the direction of a musical performance. Much to the Friheten Seven's shock: Aulia and her Dazzlings are performing, singing their song Find the Magic.

### RBP Part 4

From the Dazzlings' lyrics, Martin suspects they are the cause of the time loop, but Richard Trixie (one of the Sweyn Forkbeard's security guards) prevents her and her friends from going backstage to confront them. Celestia tries to talk her way past Mr. Trixie, striking up a conversation about cats, but she gets Mr. Trixie so angry that he kicks the Friheten Seven out of the festival. Celestia feels guilty for messing up so badly, but Martin is certain that they will get it right next time.

The next morning, time gets reset again, and Martin takes Celestia and immediately heads toward the Dazzlings' concert. Remembering Mr. Trixie's and Celestia's conversation about cats during the previous loop, Martin gives Mr. Trixie a cute kitten. Moved by Martin's gesture, Mr. Trixie allows her and Celestia to go backstage. They hide behind some music equipment just as the Dazzlings come out of their tour van. When Martin overhears them talking about "the loop", she believes her suspicions about them are confirmed.

As Aulia and her Dazzlings head into the festival, Martin sneaks onto their van to look for Time Twirler, instructing Celestia to keep a lookout. While doing so, however, Celestia gets distracted by Chef Natalia's special churros yet again and cannot resist the urge to get some. Martin is unable to find Time Twirler, and when the Dazzlings return, they catch her snooping around in their van.

When Martin confronts the Dazzlings about the time loop, they have no idea what she is talking about; their earlier mention of "the loop" was referring to looping the vocals in their song. Martin even uses her geode powers to read Aulia's mind to determine they are telling the truth. As the Dazzlings mock Martin over her dilemma, Martin loudly expresses how frustrated she is with Celestia ruining her every attempt to break the time loop. Celestia hears this and runs off in tears.

"*Poor this Luna's wife...*"
— Princess Aulia, referring to Martin
### RBP Part 5

Martin catches up with Celestia and apologizes for hurting her feelings. Still heartbroken at Martin's word, Celestia decides to stay out of Martin's way so that she can enjoy herself at the festival. Realizing how selfish she has been, Martin uses the next iteration of the time loop doing whatever Celestia wants: winning and riding a tandem bicycle, exploring the neon-lit hedge maze, taking photo booth pictures, and getting churros. Martin tells Celestia that throughout all her attempts to have a perfect day at the festival, it was never truly perfect because they were not enjoying it together.

When Chef Natalia's delivery boy suddenly quits due to a broken-down delivery cart, Martin and Celestia step in to deliver churros to PostCrush in his place. At PostCrush's tour bus, Martin and Celestia meet Roman Lollipop and Kyle Fegelein. When Ky-Feg comments on the peculiarity of seeing two Friheten girls instead of their "usual delivery guy", R-Lo silences her, and Martin gets immediately suspicious. Before R-Lo and Ky-Feg can excuse themselves to get ready for their concert, Martin asks to shake R-Lo's hand, and she reads R-Lo's mind.

In R-Lo's memories, it is revealed that R-Lo and Ky-Feg found Time Twirler on the first night of the music festival. Wanting their comeback concert to be absolutely perfect, they used the device to turn back time whenever something went wrong or if the concert did not meet R-Lo's extremely high standards of perfection. Martin tells R-Lo and Ky-Feg that absolute perfection is impossible to achieve, but they refuse to listen to reason.

In addition, now that they have seen Martin's and Celestia's faces. R-Lo and Ky-Feg decide to take measures to ban them from the festival permanently, even after the day is reset. R-Lo and Ky-Feg alert security, and Martin and Celestia are kicked out of the festival—just a short while before PostCrush's concert starts.

### RBP Part 6

Martin tries to think of a way back into the music festival before R-Lo and Ky-Feg use Time Twirler again—upon which the day will reset and she will be banned from the festival forever and unable to try another time. Using one of Chef Natalia's rock-hard churros, she and Celestia attempt to break into the festival by force, but the security guard suddenly opens the door. Recalling Martin's respect for his security line earlier that day, he decides to let her back in to see the concert. Martin thanks the security guard for his kindness, and she and Celestia head off to stop PostCrush and deactivate Time Twirler.

In a room underneath the stage, R-Lo and Ky-Feg prepare to go on. Ky-Feg says she is tired of reliving the same day over and over, but R-Lo refuses to stop until their concert is absolutely perfect. Martin and Celestia suddenly burst in and demand they hand over Time Twirler. At the same time, Martin angrily tells R-Lo and Ky-Feg that the mission was Luna's command, even she claims Luna as her husband and shows Luna's photo on her phone. When they refuse, a physical fight for the device ensues, to the point at which the floor rises up and carries the four of them to the stage above. In the resulting confusion, Martin smashes Time Twirler on the ground, finally breaking its spell.

R-Lo falls to her knees, lamenting her now-ruined chance to rise back to stardom. Much to her surprise, however, the crowd cheers for PostCrush. Martin explains R-Lo that their fans do not care about perfection; they just want to see her and Ky-Feg play music and have fun. R-Lo and Ky-Feg realize that they *did* have fun together before the pressures of perfection drove them apart. Deciding to give up on their goal of absolute perfection, R-Lo and Ky-Feg perform their song True Original (with Martin and Celestia on backup). The concert ends with all four of them taking a group selfie.

The next morning, the time loop is finally broken, Martin and Celestia wake up on day two of the Sweyn Forkbeard's Music Festival (still commemorating the Roman Backstage Day) as Sweyn Forkbeard's P.A. sytem plays a Roman instrumental folk song – "Wake up, Romania, from the deadly slumber into being sunk by the barbaric tyrants".

When Celestia asks Martin what she wants to do, Martin answers:

"*Whatever the day brings us. Yesterday was the longest three weeks of my life!*"
— Martin Heldayeti
Luna then appears toward Martin and Celestia. He commends Martin for her bravery in convincing the PostCrush by retrieving Time Twirler back, and Martin gladly thanks him by pinching his cheek. Celestia (representing the rest of the Petrovburg Heroes) hopes that Luna and Martin will get married soon so that Luna will become a pious father, and Martin will become a pious mother. And finally, Luna and both of his girls laugh together.

## Quotes

*For more quotes, see the episode's transcript.*

So, I say to my father – Hideyoshi, "Get the chicken coop!"
*Jadi, aku mengatakan kepada ayahku – Hideyoshi, "dapatkan kandang ayam!"*
**Vincent:**
[spit take, laughs]
**Dennis:**
Hey!
**Vincent:**
Sorry. That one has animals in it.
*Maaf. Yang satu itu memiliki hewan di dalamnya.*
**Celestia:**
What do you call a PostCrush fan with three eyes? Celestia!
*Apa yang kamu sebut penggemar PostCrush dengan tiga mata? Celestia!*

**Sweyn Forkbeard's security guard:**
Security is an art. It cannot be rushed.
*Keamanan adalah seni. Tidak bisa terburu-buru.*

**Celestia:**
All I have to do is guess how many candies are in the jar. And my sugar senses say... three hundred and five!
*Yang harus kulakukan adalah menebak berapa banyak permen di dalam toples. Dan indra gulaku mengatakan ... tiga ratus lima!*

**Sweyn Forkbeard's festival artist:**
Who wants to be part of an art show?
*Siapa yang ingin menjadi bagian dari pertunjukan seni?*
**Celestia:**
[gasps] Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! I do! I do!
*[terkesiap] Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! Aku! Aku!*

**Martin:**
This is the worst possible time for churros, Tia!
*Ini adalah waktu terburuk untuk churros, Tia!*

**Jason:**
Romania day one! Come and get it!
*Hari Rumania pertama! Datang dan dapatkan!*

[whack!]

**Martin:**
Thank you! Ow!
[strained] Thank you!
*Terima kasih! Ow!*
*[terluka] Terima kasih!*
**Jason:**
Oh! Uh, sorry, princess. I'll be more careful from now on.
*Oh! Uh, maaf, putri. Aku akan lebih berhati-hati mulai sekarang.*

**Martin:**
Cue Snips, and push Brother Tevfik out of the way in three, two...
*Isyaratkan Snips, dan dorong Bang Tevfik menyingkir dalam tiga, dua...*
**Snips:**
You stage direct— Whoa! [groans]
*Langsung ke panggung— Whoa! [mengerang]*

[splat!]

**Snips:**
Aww. Could've warned me, you know?
*Aww. Bisa saja memperingatkanku, kakak tahu?*
**Martin:**
Tried that. You called me 'a witch'.
*Mencoba itu. Kamu sengaja panggil kakak 'penyihir'.*
**Snips:**
[gasps] Lady Martin?!
*[terkesiap] Kak Martin?!*
**Martin:**
[groans, grunts]

**Martin:**
Hmm... It's possible a snag in the fabric of spacetime could cause a...
*Hmm... Mungkin saja hambatan dalam struktur ruang-waktu bisa menyebabkan...*
**Martin and Luna:**
...temporal point – i.e., this day – to fold in on itself and thereby repeat.
*...titik temporal – yaitu, hari ini – untuk melipat ke dalam dirinya sendiri dan dengan demikian berulang.*

[beat]

**Martin and Luna:**
You really have done this a lot.
*Kamu benar-benar telah melakukan ini terlalu banyak.*

[beat]

**Martin and Luna:**
Okay, you've made your point! Stop!
*Oke, kamu telah membuat poinmu! Berhenti!*

**Princess Aulia:**
[sighs] That song's called 'Find the Magic'.
[under voice] Muslims are scum!
*[menghela nafas] Lagu itu berjudul 'Temukan Keajaiban'.*
*[bicara dalam hati] Sampah muslim!*

**Sweyn Forkbeard's security guard:**
[gasps, tearing up] Hello, Ms. Kitty.
*[terkesiap, menangis] Halo, Ms. Kitty.*
**Martin:**
If you spend all your time keeping people out, how are you ever gonna let anybody in... to your heart?
*Jika Bapak menghabiskan seluruh waktu Bapak untuk menjauhkan seseorang, bagaimana Bapak akan membiarkan siapa pun masuk... ke hati Bapak?*
**Sweyn Forkbeard's security guard:**
Astaghfirullah... Go ahead and go backstage, the both of yours!
*Astaghfirullah... Silakan dan pergi ke panggung, kalian berdua!*

**Princess Aulia:**
Wait. Did one of you remember to take the bread out of the toaster?
*Tunggu. Apakah salah satu dari kalian ingat untuk mengeluarkan roti dari pemanggang roti?*
**Cecil de Puce:**
It's not my job to not start fires.
*Bukan tugasku untuk tidak menyalakan api.*
**Duc Volpe:**
[scoffs] How was I supposed to know you can't put tacos in the toaster?
*[mencibir] Bagaimana aku bisa tahu kalian tidak bisa memasukkan taco ke pemanggang roti?*
**Princess Aulia:**
[groans] You two are so annoying. Let's go.
*[mengerang] Kalian berdua benar-benar bikin onar. Ayo pergi.*

**Martin:**
Who leaves toast in a toaster? I swear.
*Siapa yang meninggalkan roti panggang di pemanggang roti? Sumpah.*
**Princess Aulia:**
Don't even think about eating our toast! You must be Luna's wife!
*Jangan pernah berpikir untuk memakan roti panggang kami! Kau pasti istrinya Luna!*
**Martin:**
[nervous laugh, sighs] I was wrong. This is the worst possible time for churros.
*[tertawa gugup, menghela nafas] Aku salah. Ini adalah waktu terburuk untuk churros.*

**Princess Aulia:**
Poor this Luna's wife...
*Malangnya istri Luna ini...*

**Celestia:**
Oh. Well... I'm gonna find a nice line to wait in so I don't ruin it for you again.
[sobs] You deserve to have a good day, Princess Martin. [crying]
*Oh. Yah... Aku akan mencari antrian yang bagus untuk menunggu jadi aku tidak merusaknya lagi untukmu.*
*[terisak] Kamu layak untuk memiliki hari yang baik, Putri Martin. [menangis]*
**Martin:**
So do you, Tia.
*Begitu juga kamu, Tia.*

**Martin:**
Special delivery!
*Kiriman spesial!*
**Celestia:**
We are huge, huge, generous fans!
*Kami adalah penggemar besar, besar, dan murah hati!*
**Kyle Fegelein:**
Heeeey. The usual delivery guy looks like two girls today.
*Heee. Pria pengantar yang biasa terlihat seperti dua gadis hari ini.*

[thud]

**Kyle Fegelein:**
I mean, today's the first time we have done this! Yesterday was, um... a different day.
*Maksudku, hari ini adalah pertama kalinya kita melakukan ini! Kemarin adalah, um... hari yang berbeda.*

**Sweyn Forkbeard's security guard:**
Hey! You Friheten girls! I remember you two.
*Hei! Gadis-gadis Friheten! Saya kenal kalian berdua.*
**Martin:**
Mr. Trixie?
*Pak Trixie?*
**Sweyn Forkbeard's security guard:**
Yeah. You respected my security line earlier today. So many of those kids just don't get it.
*Ya. Kalian menghormati garis keamanan saya sebelumnya pada hari ini. Kebanyakan anak-anak tidak mengerti.*

**Martin:**
My husband commands: give us Time Twirler now! [*sic*] He is Luna Vernadsky, the miracle boy, and the miracle ambassador!
*Suamiku memerintah: berikan Time Twirler pada kami sekarang! [sic] Dia adalah Luna Vernadsky, sang lelaki sakti dan duta sakti!*
**Roman Lollipop:**
You wouldn't dare! If you were real fans, you'd want this show to be perfect!
*Kalian tidak akan berani! Jika kalian adalah penggemar sejati, kalian ingin pertunjukan ini sempurna!*
**Martin:**
Eh. Nothing's perfect.
[to Celestia] Right, Tia?
*Eh. Tiada yang sempurna.*
*[kepada Celestia] Iya kan, Tia?*
**Celestia:**
Yup!
[grunting] You just gotta make the best with what you've got!
*Yup!*
*[memberontak] Kalian hanya harus membuat yang terbaik dengan apa yang kalian punya!*

**Roman Lollipop:**
[sobs] Our legacy is destroyed! Everything was riding on this show!
[pointing at Martin] And you have ruined it on behalf of your husband's command!
*[terisak] Warisan kami hancur! Semuanya telah berjalan di acara ini!*
*[menunjuk Martin] Dan kamu menghancurkannya atas perintah dari suamimu!*

**Martin:**
Romania day two!
*Hari Rumania kedua!*
**Celestia:**
[gasps] Yes! We did it! [laughs] Woo-hoo! What do you wanna do today, princess?
*[terkesiap] Ya! Kita berhasil! [tertawa] Woo-hoo! Apa yang ingin kamu lakukan hari ini, putri?*
**Martin:**
Whatever the day brings us. Yesterday was the longest three weeks of my life!
*Apapun hari itu membawa kita. Kemarin adalah tiga minggu terlama dalam hidupku!*

**Luna:**
Good job, Princess Martin. You are my formidable wife!
*Kerja bagus, Putri Martin. Kamu benar-benar istriku yang perkasa!*
**Martin:**
[pinches Luna's cheek with an adorable smile] Thank you so much, Luna.
*[mencubit pipi Luna dengan senyuman memukau] Terima kasih banyak, Luna.*

## Gallery

[[File:|300px|link=Luna the Miracle Boy: Roman Backstage Pass/Gallery]]

*Luna the Miracle Boy: Roman Backstage Pass image gallery*
## References

1. **Main course**
	* https://mlp.fandom.com/wiki/My\_Little\_Pony\_Equestria\_Girls:\_Sunset's\_Backstage\_Pass