Guardians of Harmony: Heroes of Friendship

**Guardians of Harmony: Heroes of Friendship** (ハーモニーの守護者 〜ヒーロー〜, ***Guardians of Harmony: Heroes of Friendship***?) is the movie that takes place between Season 14 (chronologically Season 3) and Season 15. The events occur two weeks before the latter season begins.

## Synopsis

*Following the fifth defeat of Leucosia and the return of peace to the Multiverse for many centuries, the legendary Guardians of Harmony have long passed into legend, hailed as heroes and protectors of the Multiverse. Amber Witchhazel and her best friend Whitley Daisy are just two ordinary girls who are fascinated by the story of Nanette and her circle of friends. They also come across an Earth Pony named Sunny Starscout and her friends. However, despite the long era of peace, a new kind of evil has arisen, and as veteran Guardian Melody Harmadale says, it's time for the next generation of Muliversal Guardians to arise! But because of the rampant hostility, racism, and discrimination causing creatures to segregate (with Pokémon even being considered dangerous once again), this role is now going to be harder than it was in the past.*

*Our new heroes must now embark on an epic adventure that will include a daring jewel heist, outrageous conspiracy theories, elaborate musical numbers, and the world’s cutest flying Pomeranian. Their adventures will take them to faraway lands and force them to challenge the status quo by facing their fears and making new friends out of old enemies. The world Sunny and Amber have dreamed of their entire lives could finally become a reality as the new Guardians of Harmony fight to prove that even heroes who appear to be little and weak can make a big, everlasting difference. The question is...can the Guardians restore the peace, end the segregation and even get their magic back...?*

## Plot

*This is the lengthened (but not very long) version of the summary. For the full version, see here.*

In the Ponyverse, a young Earth pony named Sunny Starscout is told stories by her father of a legendary Alicorn named Twilight Sparkle, 8 other Ponies, and the other magical Guardians of Harmony, including one named Nanette Daisy, and a Changeling, a Yak, a Hippogriff, a Dragon, and a Griffon. Refusing to believe that the stories are just legends, Sunny tells her father that one day, she will bring everycreature together again and make them her friends. In the Pokéverse, a young girl named Amber Witchhazel is also told the stories of Nanette and her friends by her parents, and she too wants to meet a pony one day and have her own Pokémon.

Years later after becoming an adult mare, Sunny goes out in the middle of the night and sneaks into the Multiverse Embassy by picking the lock when the guards are asleep, entering the Pokéverse in an attempt to make some friends. The next morning, a now 13 year-old Amber cheerfully heads out to take a walk alongside her best friend Whitely Daisy, but due to her "radical" views on friendship and interspecies relations, she has grown up with no friends except for Whitely. Sunny, meanwhile, starts to deliver smoothies, but people scream and run away while calling her (fantasy) racial slurs when they see her. However, she remembers it's time for Phyllis's annual Canterlogic demonstration, and plans to sabotage it like every year. As she heads back to the Embassy, however, she is stopped by the guards and is suddenly spotted by a cyan-haired boy and a brown-haired girl wearing red, who are shocked. When they start screaming that there's a pony in town, everyone starts to scream and run away, but Amber overhears their screaming and rushes to the scene to see what the commotion is about, being shocked and extremely excited to see a pony. Whitely tries to drag her away while the cyan-haired boy claims that the pony is dangerous, though the freckled redhead doesn't listen. She instead befriends Sunny and quickly takes her to her home to hide from Officer Jenny, only to find a Unicorn named Izzy Moonbow waiting for them, having secretly followed Sunny to the Multiverse Embassy.

Sunny and Amber learn from Izzy that Unicorns don't have any magic, and the two of them decide to go with Izzy to Zephyr Heights, the home of the Pegasi, to see if they can help restore the Unicorns' magic and help to reunite creaturekind. The trio dodges Jenny and then flee the Pokéverse. Meanwhile, having noticed that Sunny has gone into the Embassy, Hitch Trailblazer leaves Sprout Cloverleaf in charge while he chases her down. With Hitch gone, Sprout goes on a power-hungry spree, turning the Ponies of Maretime Bay into a hostile mob and has his mother's factory construct a giant war machine to prepare for a possible invasion. However, a teenage Earth Pony named Neopolitan Swirl, who is an apprentice at an ice cream parlor in Maretime Bay, thinks there might be more tasty ice cream beyond the Ponyverse, so she runs after them and just barely dodges the guards.

As Amber, Sunny, and Izzy approach Zephyr Heights, they are caught by guards and taken to meet Queen Haven and her two daughters, Pipp Petals and Zipp Storm. When Sunny starts asking about magic, Haven has them thrown in the dungeon with anti-magic collars despite them not having any magic (also being unaware that Melody Harmadale was thrown in the same dungeon). Zipp secretly visits them there and tells them that the Pegasi too lack magic to fly, and helps them to escape to show them an abandoned airport that has evidence of when Earth Ponies, Unicorns, and other races would travel to Zephyr Heights. After Amber excitingly introduces herself to Melody, Sunny sees a glass window that shows that two crystals – one that is in Queen Haven's crown – may fit together and bring back the magic. The five concoct a plan to steal the crown during a showcase for Pipp that night, but when Hitch also arrives and so does Neopolitan, a series of pratfalls cause the royal family to reveal to the general public their inability to fly as well. Haven is arrested, and Pipp is forced to flee Zephyr Heights with Sunny, Izzy, Amber, Melody and Zipp to find the unicorn crystal in Izzy's home of Bridlewood, with Hitch initially trailing along only to make sure Sunny returns home immediately afterward and Neopolitan tagging along to see if there's an ice cream shop in Bridlewood.

In Bridlewood, Izzy helps disguise the ponies as unicorns before they meet Alphabittle, a tea shop owner that has the unicorn crystal. They also meet a shy black-colored unicorn with a dark blue mane in a ponytail named Stargazer who says she is descended from Twilight Sparkle, but nopony believes her, with Sunny saying that anybody could claim ancestry from such a supposedly mythical figure. However, she says she wants magic back as well so she can prove it and agrees to accompany the group. Sunny challenges Alphabittle to a dance competition and manages to win, but in celebration, loses her disguise. As the group flees with the two crystals, they come across Queen Haven who had escaped herself. Sunny, Amber, and Izzy try to put the two crystals together, but they fail to do anything. Dejected, Sunny returns the crystals and the group begrudgingly sets off again.

The group's next stop is the Changeling Kingdom, and Amber loudly asks a townschangeling why she can't shapeshift, only for the townschangelings to become shocked and angrily swarm her. A young light green teenage Changeling named Mandible attempts to shapeshift and tries telling the others to leave the strangers alone, only to get thrown out for the remark in favor of racial integration and magic and realizes he can't use shapeshifting magic anymore anyways. With the group badly beaten up, Mandible hurries them to safety, but tells Amber to not loudly announce her presence. Expelled from his home, he follows the group, and Whitely and the cyan-haired boy, Blake Porter, catch up with Amber only to see Melody.

At first, Whitely and Blake think that Melody is just a spirit, but when she says she's known as the Last Living Legend, everycreature gets shocked at what she just said. Getting targeted, the group flees, with Whitely and Blake thinking of their 10 year-old siblings Mark Daisy and Kika Porter who were also captured in the past week. The heroes end up entering the Multiverse Embassy and crash into the Starlightian Castle, where Allison Starshine and Sarah Skylatick see them hurt.

Allison reveals that ever since three past Guardians returned to their time period, all Starlightians have no magic, and the other Starlightian friends she made in Season 3 agree. Unfortunately, King Zetwal and Queen Stella think that all non-Starlightians must be excluded, and Sarah freaks out at getting betrayed so badly that she forces the group to flee again (with Allison freeing Kika and Mark as a distraction). Finally having enough, Amber decides to travel back to the Pokéverse. There, the brown-haired girl wearing red shows up and snidely tells the humans where they can get Pokémon. She introduces herself as Phoebe Stickysnow, and as Amber gets extremely excited, the group follows her. Phoebe leads them to a secret building that looks like a daycare inside with multiple water-filled fishtanks and the floor is strewn with toys, but mentions that they cannot tell absolutely anycreature about this.

A bunch of Ninja Dragonets jump out of one tank and almost slam into the heroes, with Whitely remarking she's never seen a Pokémon up close before. A worker at the shelter says they take care of them in secret since they can't survive on their own, but one of the Ninja Dragonets with a red body repeatedly begs Amber to take care of her, with the worker saying that particular one has wanted a home badly. A Minccino, an unnaturally-colored Riolu, a Mantyke, a Pichu, a Bounsweet, and a Froslass also live there, and the humans quickly grab the Pokémon without even asking. Amber, however, is immediately infatuated with a boy with bright fluorescent yellow hair who grabbed the Mantyke. As they run and quickly hide the Pokémon, a dark pink-haired girl named Anabelle notices them, but decides not to out them. Unfortunately, the staff also notice the non-humans not from the Pokéverse, and the group flees as fast as they can.

However, the Officer Jenny from earlier spots them and stops them, ordering them to drop and step away from the Pokémon for their own safety. They refuse, and Amber throws a tantrum, punches Officer Jenny in the face, and tells the red Ninja Dragonet to stab her, which she does. Jenny is horrified and quickly calls for backup to arrest Amber for assault, while the redhead herself is horrified and instantly regrets injuring her, and her friends are equally horrified. Heartbroken, the 13 year-old finally quits and everycreature returns to their homes, Sunny going with Hitch, Blake going with Kika and Whitely going with Mark.

At their houses, Amber and Sunny pack up their childhood toys when Sunny discovers that her lamp contains a third crystal that would line up with the other two. As she races to tell Hitch and the others, they discover that Sprout has turned the entire town of Maretime Bay to his side and is piloting his war machine. Sunny and Hitch race back to her home as Izzy, Pipp, Zipp, Stargazer, Neopolitan, Haven, the Pokéverse humans, Mandible, other races, and Alphabittle arrive. Gathering the other two crystals, Sunny, Izzy, Amber, Blake, Stargazer, and Pipp try to put them together while Hitch, Shawn, Whitely, Melody, Mandible, Anabelle, Neopolitan, and Zipp hold off Sprout's machine. Though Phyllis steps in and tells Sprout to stop his antics, her warning is too late as the machine wrecks Sunny's home and the means to connect the crystals. As the heroes survey the damage, Sunny realizes that despite failing, the species have since come together and gotten over their hostilities, and Melody also realizes what her true goal in life really is: to protect others and prevent harm. With that, the three crystals begin to glow, lift Sunny into the air, and transform her into an Alicorn (even gaining her Guardian of Harmony form alongside her new friends) while restoring magic across the Multiverse. At that moment, the group and Anabelle also earn their Harmony and Cutie Marks, and necklaces appear before them (even though Mandible doesn't have a Mark), making Amber literally squeal in happiness and be the most excited she has ever been (almost knocking Whitely over). Amber and her friends watch as creatures work together to clean up Sprout's mess and bring a new era to the land. As the movie ends, Kyubey finally appears and tells them that they've proven without a doubt that they are the new Multiversal Guardians, and Melody cries in happiness, no longer having to worry about hiding herself from others.

## Major Events

* The past heroes (sans Melody) have been revealed to have long passed into legend.
* The reason why Melody didn't appear in Season 3 is revealed.
* All creatures are revealed to have lost their magic and their Harmony/Cutie Marks.
	+ This might have happened after Mami, Kyoko and Ella returned to the past at the end of Season 3, which may also mean...
* It is revealed that the Multiverse segregated.
* The new Multiversal Guardians (including the ones that didn't come from the past in Season 3) journey alongside Melody to end the segregation.
* Melody realizes what the spirits of her parents really meant when they said that she's no ordinary Guardian: her goal is to protect others and prevent harm.
* Sunny Starscout becomes an Alicorn, and Whitely Daisy gains full control of her own returned magic.
* The Multiverse regains its magic and the segregation ends.
	+ The Pokémon Association and the PIA even get back together, giving back the privileges of people and Pokémon being together.

## Characters

### Guardians of Harmony

* Amber Witchhazel
* Whitely Daisy
* Mark Daisy
* Blake Porter
* Kika Porter
* Phoebe Stickysnow
* Shawn Stonebeach
* Sunny Starscout
* Hitch Trailblazer
* Izzy Moonbow
* Pipp Petals
* Zipp Storm
* Neopolitan Swirl
* Stargazer
* Mandible
* Sarah Skylatick
* Allison Starshine
* Nessie Soundbloom
* Lisa Cooper
* Bridget Angela
* Kyla Whitestream
* Lulu North
* Olivia Martin
* Amanda Nightbloom
* Penelope Hodge
* Shyla Mauveflower
* Heather Flare
* Noel Snowwhite
* Mika Cherry
* Selena Rush
* Christina Citronella
* Henna
* Syrami
* Melody Harmadale

### Mascots

* Kyubey (ending scene)
* Fluzzy (mentioned)
* Muse (mentioned)
* Pone (mentioned)
* Harmony-chan (mentioned)

### Pokémon

* Ninja Dragonet (officially Amber's at the end; Cinnamon)
* Minccino (officially Whitley's at the end; Milly)
* Riolu (officially Blake's at the end; Dean)
* Bounsweet (officially Kika's at the end; Tsana)
* Pichu (officially Mark's at the end; Ruds)
* Froslass (officially Phoebe's at the end; Jill)
* Mantyke (officially Shawn's at the end; Crest)

### Secondary Characters

* Phyllis Cloverleaf
* Queen Haven
* Alphabittle
* Argyle Starshine
* King Zetwal
* Queen Stella
* (Shokusei Shushin)
* Shirley
* Kirurun
* Skyla Brights
* Dally the Cyclops
* Cassy the Bubblebelly
* Ange
* Len
* Emma
* Bubble Bright
* Lucas the Dragon
* Anabelle Moonpath
* Honeycomb

## Songs

There will be at least seven songs played in the film. The composers for It's Alright are not known yet; Glowing Up was composed by Jenna Andrews, Bryan Fryzel and Taylor Upsahl; and the other songs originally made for *My Little Pony: A New Generation* were composed by Alan Schmuckler and Michael Mahler.

* Gonna Be My Day (GoH:HoF cover; sung by Amber Witchhazel)
* I'm Looking Out For You (GoH:Hof cover; sung by Amber Witchhazel, Sunny Starscout and Izzy Moonbow)
* Glowin' Up (sung by Pipp Petals)
* Danger, Danger (sung by Sprout Cloverleaf and an angry mob)
* Fit Right In (sung by Izzy Moonbow)
* It's Alright
* Together

## Trivia

* This movie takes place a week after the events of Season 3. As such...
	+ Allison reveals that three since-deceased Guardians traveled from the past at one point.
	+ Sarah Skylatick and the Starlightians are forced to redo a few problems once more, this time with no magic.
	+ It is revealed that Sarah is actually unable to return to her homeworld until the end of the movie.
* The movie takes a lot of elements from *My Little Pony: A New Generation*, but like other movies (despite the usual artstyle for this series still being used), the way the eyes are colored is more akin to the MLPG4 movie.
* The Multiverse Embassy is locked and guarded, preventing travel between worlds, but Sunny managed to sneak past the guards and pick the lock in the middle of the night to reach the Pokéverse.
* Since Ninja Dragonets can't survive without human care, there are "underground" places that take care of and breed them, and many people secretly have them as pets but have to keep them hidden. Amber even befriends Cinnamon when the heroes find such a place, and the heroes' Pokémon they befriended are nearly taken away by the authorities after they are discovered, but once Pokémon become able to be friends with humans again, they no longer have to stay hidden.
* Sunny’s Alicorn form was already shown in the canon MLPG5 merchandise.
* Surprisingly, there are 8 non-Starlightian humans and 8 Equestrians (7 if not counting the Changeling) in the group, yet the finalized amount of Starlightians exceeds eight.
* Unlike MLP:ANG, humans and ponies don't have their Harmony/Cutie Marks until magic is restored at the end of the movie.

### Easter Eggs

* The transformation near the end of the movie is similar to Twilight Sparkle’s Alicorn transformation, except that Sunny's version is shown onscreen. Unlike the canon version, however, Sunny *does not* get rainbow hair streaks until an unknown episode of Season 15, and her wings and horn are not translucent.
* The past heroes are seen on stained glass windows in their transformed states, though one of the stained glass window depictions is edited in the English dub.
* There are some scenes from previous episodes/movies depicted on stained glass windows:
	+ A purple-haired girl using Shining Star Origin Hurricane.
	+ A boy and his Pikachu becoming friends for the first time.
	+ An angel grabbing the hand of a pink-skinned girl.
	+ A cyborg man rallying his GDI troops.
	+ A blue-haired woman and a cyan-haired man reuniting as Tapu Fini watches on.
	+ A bright green-haired angel saving a Celebi from an elite Team Rocket agent.
	+ A dark blue-wearing and dark blue-haired girl hugging an orange-wearing girl with curly hair after the latter is de-witched.
	+ A blonde girl with buns calming down an injured Cresselia.

* When Mandible gains a cape and an aviator hat and aviator goggles when the heroes become Guardians of Harmony, he says "I look like freaking Ming-Ming!" Ming-Ming is a character from the preschool show *The Wonder Pets* who is a duckling who wears a cape, aviator goggles, and an aviator hat.
* Melody breaks the 4th wall when she says that "it's been so long since [she] transformed!", indicating that the Magic of Friendship disappearing *also* caused her to lose her Guardian form.
* The scene of a young Sunny, Sprout, and Hitch playing with toys of the Guardians of Harmony references several of their personalities and powers, such as Sprout playing with the Homura figure and saying "I'm gonna travel through time and erase all of you!", Sunny picking up the Avvy figure and saying "I won't let that happen, you meanies! Bubble spray attack!" and her picking up the Pinkie Pie figure as well, and Hitch picking up the Serena T. figure and saying "Stop! Let's not fight!"
* It is heavily implied that Melody has been locked in the dungeon in Zephyr Heights for months or even years, as she is already in the dungeon when the heroes are thrown in for trespassing on Pegasus territory.

### Runes

* During the transformation sequence, a frame reads "DESTINY" using the Modern rune style.