Sunnytown (episode)

## Source

**Sunnytown** is the fourteenth episode of *Doctor Whooves and Assistant*.

## Cast

* Bladdumborat as Derpy
* Jestre Derama as The Doctor
* PegasusBrill as Tick Tock
* King Xannaduu as Gray Hoof
* Robert J. Harrower as Roneo
* Luna Lockwood as Starlet
* TheClassicnathan as Gladstone
* Mikhayla Messer as Mitta
* SinLigereep as Three Leaf
* LadyAzzura as Ruby

## Crew

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## Synopsis

The TARDIS trio end up in the Everfree Forest again, but this time they find a mysterious little town of ponies that are a bit different from the usual ponies...

## Plot

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The TARDIS' power began to drain, aimlessly landing the Doctor, Tick Tock and Derpy into the Everfree Forest, which contains a rift and occupies vortex energy, allowing the TARDIS to recharge. Due to the rift interfering, the Doctor struggles to determine the time to be either 500 or 3,000 years before Derpy's time. Derpy sees a pony (Ruby) spying on the trio before they immediately flee.

When the trio scours to find the cause, they stumble across Sunnytown, a town of ponies without cutie marks. In order to evade the town's indignation, the trio integrates into their culture by concealing their cutie marks via perception tape. Gray Hoof, the town's celebration planner extraordinaire, greets the trio and invites them to a wedding party. While chatting with some residents gratified by the town, the trio learns that the town's ancestors escaped to the forest to circumvent a "horrible curse," where they've gained the forest's ongoing protection, and that everyone doesn't know what a cutie mark is as they all have no special talent.

Skeptic, with the trio, after being vaguely told about the last party getting ruined, Tick Tock senses the magic of the residents to be "rotten" before Mitta, a melancholy resident, confirms this and claims that they, especially Gray Hoof, aren't as nice as they had behaved. She explains that the town had a "curse" that occurred at the last party and was supposedly lifted before dismissing this.

Three Leaf is assigned to give the trio a tour of the town. The trio asks about the last party's curse, but Three Leaf refuses to clarify its details. When Three Leaf leaves, Tick Tock detects a death curse endangering the ponies from a ceramics building. The trio retrieves the building's key in a well. The pony Derpy saw is in the building, promoting her to think that she's cursed and locked in.

The trio uses the key to enter, discovering equine bones, to their horror. Appearing with the gratified residents, a sadistic Gray Hoof confronts the trio and repudiates cutie marks, misinterpreting them as the actual curse due to the manipulative and fatal symptoms for cutie pox, which they've applied to all cutie marks. Gray Hoof reveals that on the last party, Ruby, a resident, recovered a gemstone, resulting in her cutie mark's development. In order to prevent curse's spread, the town murdered her to set her "free." Targeting those who murdered a fellow pony, the death curse has gotten to all the residents, who've turned into the "undead," creatures with red eyes and decaying bodies.

The trio races to flee from the undead's pursuit, joined by Mitta. Every one of the group, except Derpy, starts to get infected by the curse as their eyes glow red, forcing a callous Doctor to leave Mitta behind. The trio enters the TARDIS as their eyes return to normal color. An "echo" of Ruby soon emerges and reveals that her death occurred when Gray Hoof spread rumors about her for distracting the town from his party. Her death violated the town's vow of peace from the curse of the marks; thus, as decided by the forest, the day of her death will be repeated to them as punishment. As long as the curse is active, Ruby is left to guard the town and disappears.

The Doctor asserts that the punishment isn't harsh enough, making his companions worry for him. As the TARDIS is now idle, the companions privately express their concerns; Tick Tock even deduces that if he was infected, the Doctor had seen something far more traumatic than bloodshed. Derpy gets weary over the subject of Ruby's murder, so Tick Tock carries her to a couch, where they embrace each other's comfort.

## Production

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