Slumber Wars

Sam and Ben are forced to stay at Aurora's place where she resides for the night due to a thunderstorm. Aurora takes this opportunity to drag them into having a slumber party.

### Director

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**Slumber Wars**is the 24th episode of the 1st season in the series.

## Synopsis

When Hank's favorite TV show gets cancelled, Pony Head becomes a director and tells Aurora's friends and students to make Hank's favorite show once again.

## Plot

### Caught in the rain

The episode opens in a field outside the Golden Oak Library; several Pegasi are seen moving clouds into place to create a downpour. In preparation for this, trees are being pruned to avoid damaging the town. Ben helps out, but her contribution to the cleanup effort involves making topiary out of the loose branches. This puts her at odds with Sam, who insists on taking the branches down. When Ben voices her disapproval of Sam making a mess, rain starts to fall, much to Ben's further displeasure.

Sam suggests that Ben use a bench to shield herself from the rain, but Ben refuses out of an unwillingness to get his hands muddy. As the two argue even more over their situation, the rain and wind pick up speed. Aurora Butterfly, noticing the two caught in the storm, offers them shelter in the library until the storm passes.

### Slumber 101

"'Slumber 101: All You Ever Wanted to Know About Slumber Parties But Were Afraid to Ask'."

—Ben reading Aurora's book

With Aurora is alone for the evening, she sees this as an opportunity to have her very first slumber party. Ben and Sam are far from eager to spend the entire evening in each other's company, but find themselves unable to leave due to the worsening storm. After a brief argument about mud masks, they agree to try and get along so they don't ruin Aurora's first sleepover.

Aurora is oblivious to Sam and Ben's silent bickering, checking off each game in her book as they're played. However, for each game played, the two grew more and more frustrated with each other.

During ghost stories, Ben and Sam suggest stories that allude to why they don't like each other before Aurora tells the legend of The Headless Horse, succeeding in scaring both of her friends. Sam sickens Ben by burping when they make s'mores. And in a game of Truth or Dare, Sam and Ben only dare each other to do humiliating things, such as Sam daring Ben to get his hair wet in the rain and Ben daring Sam to wear a gaudy, ridiculous outfit.

Aurora, now sensing conflict, tries to move things along. Unfortunately, the conflict comes to a head during the next game: a pillow fight, which in no time turns into an all-out pillow war between Ben and Sam. Caught in the middle and bombarded with pillows, Aurora suggests that they call it a night and go to bed.

### Bickering in the bedroom

Sam and Ben's petty arguing continues even when the boys try to go to bed. Exasperated by their constant back and forth, Aurora at last decides to intervene and voices how upset she is that her friends are fighting too much to have any fun, thereby ruining her slumber party. Just as Aurora asks if anything else could possibly go wrong, a nearby tree is hit by lightning and begins to topple towards a neighboring house.

Sam, not heeding a warning from Ben, lassos the falling tree and instead of stabilizing it, sends it crashing through Aurora's bedroom window. Ben focuses on cleaning up the mess of books and Sam tries to push the tree back out of the window while Aurora desperately searches through her slumber party book for a section on dealing with fallen trees in the middle of the bedroom.

When Sam fails at moving the tree out on his own, he eventually apologizes to Ben for criticizing his attention to detail and convinces him to focus on helping with the bigger task instead. He gets Ben to not worry so much about getting his hands dirty. Ben uses his magic to turn the treetop into tiny bush sculptures, clearing the house at the cost of getting dirt all over himself. Sam, at Ben's insistence, proceeds to gently toss the broken tree trunk out of the window.

### Getting along

With the storm, and their differences, finally settled, Sam, Ben, and Aurora are finally able to have fun, rounding out the evening with a game of 20 Questions. Sam and Ben exchange apologies, and in the end, Aurora officially declares the slumber party a success, to her friends' delight.

In a letter to Queen Star, Aurora writes that it's possible to get along with someone very different from you if you embrace each other's differences. She proposes another slumber party the following night, and her proposal is met by two pillows thrown in her face. The episode closes as the sky clears up, revealing a bright sunny day.

## Cast

* Heather Arney as Aurora Butterfly

* Kevin Hart as Sam

* James Adomian as Ben

## Quotes

*Main article: Slumber Wars/Transcript*
**Aurora**: N/A
## Trivia

* Whenever Aurora and Ronnie chases while surviving the sea monster similar to the films from The Meg and Jurassic World.
* The title of the episode is a parody of the SpongeBob SquarePants series Tea at the Treedome.