S01 E13 The Bodyguard

Pine invites Aurora to his birthday party while Sam decides to secretly tag along in case of any possible attack.

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**The Bodyguard** is the 13th episode of the 1st season in the series.

## Plot synopsis

When Pine Forest invites Aurora Butterfly for his birthday party, Sam decides to secretly tag along in case of any possible attack.

## Overview

The episode opens with Sam answering the doorbell and ridding Pine of the Garden Dwolves guarding the house. Sam explains that it was a safety measure by Star and Marco since the incident with Ally happened. After Pine asks where Rory is, the scene switches to Angie knocking on her bedroom door and saying to her that Pine is downstairs. When she sees Aurora in a bathrobe sitting down on her bed, listening to *"La Calaca Feliz"*, Angie asks why she has a pile of clothes next to her. Aurora replies that she doesn't know what clothes to wear, that all her dresses look the same and she wants something *"different"*.

Meanwhile, Pine asks Sam how the search for his memories is going. He quotes some of what he and Aurora discovered in his hypnosis sessions: *"desert", "white cloak", "ducts", "his name was a gift when he was 8"*, but when he mentions *"a floating mule head"*, Pine bursts out laughing. Then, Angie emerges announcing Aurora, who descends the stairs in her Ball Dress. After she takes a brief glance at Sam, who smiles positively, Aurora becomes apprehensive to see the astonished expression of Pine. She asks him not to laugh, and Pine asks why he would laugh, saying that she looks incredible, and should have a little more self-esteem. Rafael asks if he can make a painting of them, and before Aurora can say that they will be delayed, he finishes, receiving praise from Pine. Sam wished luck to Pine with his dance partner, who had said she was no good at dancing. Pine however laughs, and when he begins to say that she has won 2nd place 3 times in dance machine competitions, Rory pulls him to leave. They then go to the carriage and depart into an interdimensional portal.

On the way to the party, Pine thanks Aurora for the birthday present, *"Sorcery: The Conclave"* cards, but he notices her looking worriedly out the window and calls out to her. Aurora turns and forces a smile saying her grandmother chose her dress. Pine asks if she's okay, and after not convincing her with his statement, the boy says he can take her home if she doesn't feel safe. She says everything is fine and emphasizes that her parents let her go, *"after all, they wouldn't let me go if it wasn't safe"*.

At Diaz House, Sam answers a call from Star and Marco in the mirrorphone of Aurora's room. After they respond to Sam that MHC meetings aren't on Fridays, they ask where Rory is. When Sam asks, *"she didn’t tell you guys?”* they ask, *"told what?"*. He understands what's going on, and when he sees Star and Marco's skeptical look towards him, he responds that Aurora went on a date. The couple reacts by simultaneously shouting *"What?!"*, with Star smiling and Marco worried. After Sam made-up some random details, Star asks him to warn her that they called and wanted to speak to her. *"You're not the only ones who'll want to talk to her,"* Sam says after closing the call and picking up Aurora's dimensional scissors. *"Sam to the rescue"*, he says to himself.

Upon arriving at Forest Watchtower, security chief Mina Lovebery asks to see Rory and Pine's invitations. Rory asks what she is doing here and Mina adds that it's part of her rehab. Mina says that the *"tree-boy and mud niece"* can enter. Aurora crosses the door and is greeted by Pine's parents. After they asked for permission to go after Pine's sister, Rory hears Ponyhead's voice, but after embracing her, Aurora realizes that it's Laufey imitating his twin sister, Lavinia, who then appears laughing and calls her to sit with them. Outside, Sam arrives through a dimensional portal, and upon seeing Aurora through the window, he tries to enter the party, but is blocked by two Forest knights with closed helmets and strange yet familiar voices.

At the party, the Ponyheads tell about the psychopathic tendencies of their families until they enter a discussion about which of the two is less crazy. Pine and Aurora go to the snack table, where they eat oysters, clams and cockles, which Pine says he bought from Katrina's siblings, who couldn't go to the party because of their babysitting job. He says the seafood is good, but it leaves people with bad breath. "Like this?" Aurora says before puffing into Pine's face, who writhes with the stench. *"Keep your mouth away from me,"* he says, making her laugh until suddenly, a huge gift is spread between them. Accompanied by her friends, Rose congratulates Pine and says that she and others have chosen to give him a collective gift. The boy says that she had already helped with the decorations and that it wasn't necessary. Meanwhile, Aurora just listens to the conversation going on until she gets a wink from Gold Stone, making her turn her face in disgust. After Pine goes to see the gift, Rose and the others turned their attention to Aurora. She mocks Aurora's dress, calling it *"a heap of rags"*. Gold stumbles out defending her, saying she looks beautiful and remembers the afternoon they spent together at the Pig-Goats Farm. Alice begins to imitate a passionate dreamy girl, making everyone laugh. Rose says that Aurora was pathetic that day but suddenly gets hit by a stone towards her head. On the side, with a false face of concern, Maple Forest apologizes. *"I was hunting geckos, I guess I got confused"* she says with a smirk. Gold and Spartan begin to laugh, while Dove, Aurora and the others hold back giggles, leaving Rose furious. *"Do you think that’s funny, Mudblood?"* she angerly says to Aurora before leaving, *"Enjoy it while you can"*. Maple happily turns to Rory, until Juniper appears pulling the sling from her hand and leading her to the dressing room. Rory chuckles and Pine returns asking the reason. *"Only your mother would be able to take Maple to put on a dress,"* she replies. Pine says it must be *"almost time*”. With a playful courteous pose, he asks if she will really be his dance partner and calls her *"milady*”. She laughs saying that she can't go back on a promise and tells him not to call her that. *"As milady wishes,*” he answers before they leave.

A hook descends from the skylight and picks up a cupcake on the candy table. On the roof, Sam delightfully eats the cupcake and watches the perimeter with a pair of binoculars. Meanwhile, on the ground, Ally begins to knockout one guard at a time with sleeping dust, hiding them in the bushes. At the party, it's announced the traditional Three Moon Waltz will begin. After Juniper and Oak’s entrances, came Maple and Dipper Firefly’s (to her utter disgust), and finally Pine and Aurora's entrance is announced. Rory sees the Ponyheads smiling at her from one side of the room, and Rose and her friends smiling on the other. *"How do I look?"* Pine asks worriedly, and Aurora replies in a playful tone, *"You'd be better off biting a rose, but you look great"*.

Sam feels like going to the bathroom, but without any nearby, he decides to go to a bush. Ally continues to knockout the guards one-by-one. Seeing the two masked guards at the door, Ally chooses not to knock them out and instead decides to entire the mansion from the roof. Sam is surprised by the lack of security around the area of the mansion, and when he arrives at the bushes, he finds Mina Loveberry unconscious. Desperate, Sam searches around, and through his binoculars, sees Ally on the roof.

Seeing Aurora, Ally readies her weapon and opens one of the windows of the skylight. She notices something strange in the chandelier, and in this distraction, Sam jumps on her, starting a fight on the roof. At this very moment, the Three Moons Waltz begins, interspersing dance scenes with those of Sam and Ally's fight. Whispering, Rose asks *"now?"* and Spartan and Gold tell her to wait until they say *"yes"* since they are experts at this. When they finally say *"yes"* and Rose pushes the button hidden in her hands, Aurora is bathed by a bucket of unicorn blood hidden in the chandelier. *"Of course,"* say the twin Ponyheads while the music stops, and then all the guests (except for the Forests and Ponyheads) begin to laugh at Aurora, who runs away crying.

Back at the rooftop, Ally and Sam’s battle becomes more intense. In a moment, after she sees Aurora running into the nearby woods, she kicks Sam almost knocking him off the roof, but grabs him in time to throw him in a pile of hay to cushion his fall, before going after Aurora. Sam tries to get out of the hay, but is deferred when helped by the two Forest guards who barred him in the doorway. Sam begins to complain that they delayed him, but as soon as they raise their masks, he quiets down.

At the edge of the lake, Aurora is cleaning off the blood with her wand. Pine catches up to her and offers a cloth from Maple to Aurora, but she only asks to go home. Before the boy can respond, Ally attacks them, throwing Pine aside. *"Super Sunf-"* Aurora tries to say, but is disarmed by Ally, who before she can attack her, has her two arms entwined with magic ropes. As she turns around, she sees Sam along with Queen Star and King Marco (with moons on his cheeks) disguised as Forest knights. Ally frees herself with the ophidian steel blades, but is thrown towards a nearby boulder by one of Star's spells. After they surround her and ask her to surrender, Ally uses a smoke bomb and tries to escape, but Sam sees her and gives chase. After the smoke dissipates, Star and Marco wonder where Ally went. Rory comments excitedly about how cool it was to see them fight using magic for the first time, but she soon becomes silent when she sees that they're not at all happy.

In the forest, Ally ends up trapped in a puddle of quicksand. She tries to grab a liana from a nearby tree, but seeing it as a tail of an animal, she gets scared and struggles, sinking even more. She asks for help when she sees Sam approach and he sarcastically says he'll call The Royal Guards for *“help”.*Ally claims she will drown before he returns. Sam doesn't care and when he turns his back, Ally calls him *"Sammy”*. He says he's not falling for her tricks and that she would kill him as soon as he helped her. Ally responds by saying he's not her assigned target. Sam asks why Aurora is and she only responds that it's her job. *"If your job is to murder innocent people, your job is evil,"* he replies furiously. After a moment of silence, Ally raves at herself, calling herself an idiot, and Sam agrees. Ally says she can't do anything right, and Sam agrees. Ally says she should have killed him instead of abandoning him in the forest, and Sam agrees, but soon he turns back and asks what she means. Although he repeats the question several times, Ally keeps silent. As she begins to choke and her head sinks deeper, we see Sam's struggling face watching before the scene cuts off.

Star gives a scolding to Aurora, saying it was a terrible time for her *"teenage rebellions"* to start appearing and asks why she lied. Rory responds that she thought she'd say no, but Star rebutted her by asking how many times Aurora asked her something and she said no, leaving Rory in disgust. Star then hugs her and tells her not to do it again, because if something happens to her, she wouldn't be able to live. Rory asks if she's going to be punished, and her parents have a brief discussion before they decide to cut her allowance. Sam then returns, and reports that Ally has escaped. Star asks Aurora what she was doing out of the party, and Aurora is dismissive as saying she just wanted some fresh air, getting a negative expression from Pine. Marco tells Sam to take Rory back home and asks Pine to take them to Forest Watchtower so they can have a talk with Lady Juniper about the safety of the party. Before going, Aurora holds Pine's sleeve and whispers to him to not let them know what happened. Against his will, Pine says he'll try. Aurora asks Sam how Ally got away. *"Ehh... She was faster and... I lost sight of her,"* he replies before they open a portal to go home.

The episode ends with Ally in a forest, staring at the moon, until she pulls out of her pocket a picture of her and Sam, at age 12, in the garb of the Assassins' Guild.

## Appearances

* Aurora Butterfly
* Sam
* Pine Forest
* Star Butterfly
* Marco Diaz
* Ally