Dress No More

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**Dress No More** is the second short film from the Wonderful Memories mini-series based around the Ninja and the Mane Six in the future timeline, taking place sometime after the series finale of *LEGO Ninjago & My Little Pony: Masters of Friendship*.

In this short, Yona was hired to be an employee at Carousel Boutique, so Rarity suggests some ways for an art of the dress, when reminiscing about her past moments of generosity while making the dress for Twilight Sparkle's princess coronation.

## Plot

Set between the events of "Awakenings" and Twilight Sparkle's coronation in "The Fate of Lloyd", the episode begins with Rarity expecting Twilight's arrival at Carousel Boutique for another fitting for her coronation dress, with Yona and Nya in charge. Starlight Glimmer, Spike, Lloyd and P.I.X.A.L. enter and explain to Rarity that they are putting together a magical scrapbook to surprise Twilight with at her coronation. Needing memories to fill the book with, they tell Rarity to get Twilight to reminisce about old times.

When Twilight arrives for her dress fitting, Starlight, Spike and P.I.X.A.L hide while Rarity and Nya lets her in. As Twilight, Lloyd, Nya and Rarity start talking, Twilight recalls times in the past where Rarity demonstrated great generosity, such as cutting off her tail to replace Steven Magnet's moustache and inviting her friends with her to Manehattan for Fashion Week. Twilight's reminiscing about these moments starts to fill the scrapbook with memories. Lloyd also remembers Nya wearing a dress for a date with Jay at Mega Monster Amusement Park.

Rarity, however, recalls times when she was not so generous, like forcing her friends to make dresses (causing them to miss Hinny of the Hills), taking over the construction of Sweetie Belle's Applewood Derby cart, and losing her generosity entirely in Discord's labyrinth. As Twilight and Rarity continue to reminisce, Starlight Glimmer accidentally makes noise while hiding. When Twilight gets suspicious, Rarity tells her that Smoky's family is assisting her in the boutique.

Nya also never feels much of her anger due to her failure, such as being a Water Ninja, she is unable to reverse the flow until she did, fighting against Dogshank, the Yin-Yang Promise that Jay also wanted her to be his Yang and attempting to control frozen water in the Never-Realm. She also thought that being a Samurai X got replaced with another one, but it was actually P.I.X.A.L., who is also Zane's love interest.

Rarity and Nya start going on about how much of an inspiration Lloyd and Twilight are to ponies and people, and Twilight recalls times when Rarity inspired her, such as building a fashion empire from the ground up. Lloyd mentions Nya that she is working with her brother to retrieve the final Time Blade in the Boiling Sea. She also mentions how much Spike appreciates Rarity, including when he sacrificed a jewel she gave him in order to save her from the Diamond Dogs and went to great lengths to get her a present for Hearth's Warming. Lloyd also recounts Nya that even though Jay enables to save Nya from being possessed by Dilara and died due to her wounds, Jay wished that everything could this happened will erased, bringing her back to normal.

When Starlight, Spike and P.I.X.A.L. nearly give themselves away again, Rarity and Nya assures Twilight and Lloyd that everything is fine. She checks in with the two, who tell her they still need a few more memories for the scrapbook. Rarity rejoins Twilight and believes her talent for fashion is all she has to offer to Equestria. Nya also have the believe with fashion, as well as technology and and machinery upgrades, never wanting to give up for saving Ninjago. Twilight disagrees, recalling the times when Rarity played detective to absolve Rainbow Dash of a crime, played an epic rock guitar solo, and briefly saved Twilight from Queen Chrysalis, Cozy Glow, and Tirek. Lloyd also disagrees, recalling how Nya able to rescue the Ninja from Chen with her kabuki disguise, fighting against Chen with Kai, unlocking her True Potential to drown the Preeminent, unlocking her ability to do Airjitzu and escape from the monsters, reuniting Jay after their memories erased, helping the Ninja to stop the resurrection of the Overlord and accepting Jay to be his Yang.

With Starlight, Spike and P.I.X.A.L's signal, Rarity wraps up Twilight's dress fitting. When Twilight is surprised that the fitting was so quick and worries that Rarity will finish the dress in time for the coronation, Rarity reveals that she already finished the dress weeks in advance and was fitting Twilight for a backup dress just in case. Having enjoyed their time reminiscing on their friendship, Twilight, Lloyd, Nya and Rarity hug, allowing Starlight and Spike to sneak out of the boutique.

## Cast

* Applejack - Ashleigh Ball
* Cole - Kirby Morrow
* Dogshank - Nicole Oliver
* Fluttershy - Andrea Libman
* Jay - Michael Adamthwaite
* Kai - Vincent Tong
* Lloyd Garmadon - Sam Vincent
* Nadakhan - Scott McNeil
* Nya - Kelly Metzger
* P.I.X.A.L. - Jennifer Hayward
* Rarity - Tabitha St. Germain (Kazumi Evans as her singing voice)
* Sorla - Patty Drake
* Spike - Cathy Weseluck
* Starlight Glimmer - Kelly Sheridan
* Steven Magnet - Lee Tockar
* Twilight Sparkle - Tara Strong
* Yona - Katrina Salisbury
* Zane - Brent Miller

## Locations Visited

* Equestria
	+ Ponyville
		- Carousel Boutique

## Trivia

* **Narrator**: Rarity
* This short is based on My Little Pony: Friendship is Forever clip show, *A-Dressing Memories*, now with Yona added.
* Racer Seven makes a cameo in this short, despite only appearing in the spin-off series.
* Clips from "Queen of Shadows", "Once Bitten, Twice Shy", "A Dog and Pony Show", "The Rise of the Great Devourer", "Rarity Takes Manehattan", "Pinkie Pride", "Stiix Sweet Stiix", "Crusaders of the Lost Mark", "Curseworld - Part II", "On a Wish and a Prayer", "My Dinner with Nadakhan", "To Where and Back Again: Operation Land Ho!", "To Where and Back Again: The Way Back", "A Time of Traitors", "Pause and Effect", "Out of the Fire and Into the Boiling Sea", "Dread on Arrival", "The Beginning of the End: The Darkness Comes", "She's All Yak!", "A Ninja is Born", "The Ending of the End: The Fall", "The Ending of the End: Endings", "Sun and Lava", "Under Siege", "How to Grow a Flower", "The Never-Ending Snowflakes" and the anime version of the Mechanic's flashback in "The Absolute Worst" are used in this episode.
* This short was paired with the Pony Life short "Let's Dance!" on 9GO Australia airing.

## Errors

* There is an animation mishap during "The Never-Ending Snowflakes", when snow covers most of Nya's hair.