Blazing Scarlet and Cybernetic Violet (episode)/Full Plot

*Characters who share the same first name in English will be referred to by their surnames.*

## Hooray for the Friendship Festival!

The special begins with Radiant using her Magic Wings spell to fly to Canterlot, sneaking into her home to retrieve Megan's Harmony Scarf and pendant, having left it behind when she went to the beach. On her way back to Vaniville, Radiant sees a pair of young fairies crashing into each other while flying, and she saves them from falling. She tells the little fairies that young Creatures need to attend school so that they can get accustomed to magic. Unbeknownst to Radiant, the Unity Crystals start glitching.

Meanwhile, Isabella and Sally are livestreaming a message to Creatures across the Multiverse, in which Isabella invites Creatures from all over to Lumiose to celebrate the annual Friendship Festival. When a bird snatches Sally's phone and flies off, the two girls (as well as Megan and Radiant, having caught up with the two Sekai Heroes) pursue it and end up outside the Williams household, where Lily arrives and accidentally crashes into the garden due to her glitchy magic, much to Yolanda's exasperation.

Alice, a proponent of anti-magic sentiment, believes magic should have never existed, especially considering how unpredictable it can be, and resents everycreature for having magic while Megan does not. After fixing the Williams' garden, the team leaves, and Starscout resolves to show Alice and others who share her negative opinion how wonderful magic is.

## Glitchy magic, missing colors, and important duties

The friends arrive at the Law of Cycles Chamber, and Sally shares with Isabella her plan to fix up an old lantern and allow Radiant to give it to her younger sister as a surprise present. Suddenly, the Unity Crystals activate on their own, revealing a prerecorded message from Angelica, Starscout's big sister. In her message, Angelica explains that magic is now stronger than it has ever been and warns of an evil human who once tried to take over the Multiverse before Angelica stopped him. Unfortunately, the message is corrupted and does not reveal the evil human's name.

Later, everycreature discusses the recent issues with magic and colors: a few Creatures like Megan are somehow unable to use magic, and many of the Multiverse's colors are starting to disappear. Nina then mentions that because of magic recently glitching out, she is unfortunately unable to access her Unity Style, even though her Crystal Star Power transformation can still be accessed if it's needed just fine. Radiant then gets a message from her younger sister's school, and quickly discovers that there was an incident concerning the glitchy magic. Enraged over the possibility that Sunbright may be punished, she teleports away.

Remembering Alice, everycreature becomes determined to show that magic is a good thing, and they decide to use the upcoming Friendship Festival to do so. When Megan ends up calling her mother and mentions the upcoming festival, Alice sees it as an opportunity for Megan to learn festival planning.

## Detective Yolanda is on the case!

As Hitch reports to the sheriff's station to begin his daily policing duties, Zipp enters and asks him if he has seen any strange happenings around town lately, but Hitch says he has not. Afterward, he responds to a disturbance at the beach: an Earth pony accuses a unicorn of deliberately dropping her umbrella on the Earth pony's sand castle, but the unicorn insists it was an accident when her magic suddenly disappeared for a moment.

Zipp observes the commotion from a distance. As she leaves to investigate further, her own flying starts to glitch out, and she sees the Unity Crystals' beam of light over the Brighthouse distorting at the exact same time. She heads to the Brighthouse to examine the Crystals up-close, but nothing seems out of the ordinary. When her friends ask her what she is up to, she tells them she is working on her own Maretime Bay Day surprise so as not to worry them.

Back at the beach, Rella gets overwhelmed when the argument between the Earth ponies and unicorns grows increasingly hostile, and she quickly excuses herself. On her way into Vaniville, Rella discovers a large, strange-looking egg that washed up on the shore. She takes the egg with her back to the chamber and keeps it warm until she can determine where it came from. As she hides the egg, Alice enters to lodge a complaint against the unicorns for supposedly pranking her after an incident where her hooves got stuck to the ground.

## The magical Crystal mystery

At the Law of Cycles Chamber, Sunny and her friends are busy making Friendship Festival treats and writing a new theme song for Friendship Festival. Meanwhile, Yolanda spends hours watching the Unity Crystals for any bizarre behavior. Suddenly, she sees magic flowing into the Crystals from another location; unbeknownst to her, the magic is coming from her joyful friends downstairs. When the magic in the Crystals overflows, green vine-like symbols appear on the surrounding windows.

Yolanda goes downstairs to tell her friends about this, but when they return to the observatory upstairs, the vine-like symbols are gone. Zipp tries to tell her friends that something is wrong with the Unity Crystals, but her friends have not noticed anything strange about their magic. She tries to convince Nina, mentioning the incidents involving her Unity Style, but Nina believes the incidents are simply because she has not yet fully mastered her transformation.

Yolanda's investigation into the magic glitches hits a dead end and hits Sally after, which is complicated further when her older brother, Tommy informs her that he will attending the Friendship Festival. When Sally sees Rella acting sneakily around town, she follows her and discovers the egg she is secretly taking care of, and she agrees to keep her secret.

## Keep the festival magic-free... and colorless?!

Pipp assembles her friends at the Brighthouse and, having noticed how stressed everyone seems lately, suggests a relaxing spa day together at the Mane Melody beauty salon. When Zipp is unable to stop thinking about the Unity Crystals, Pipp and her coworkers Rocky Riff and Jazz Hooves try to get her mind off things by singing Everything is Gonna Be Okay. Unfortunately, this just upsets Zipp further, as she worries that magic might disappear forever and that her friends are not taking it as seriously as she is.

Just then, they hear a commotion outside the salon after a Pegasus named Windy loses control of her flying and crashes on top of some Earth ponies and unicorns. Alice takes advantage of the growing dissent to rouse even more anti-magic sentiment, declaring that magic should be prohibited from the Friendship Festival. As if in response to the building animosity, a thunderstorm starts to form in the sky.

Back at the Law of Cycles Chamber, Yolanda finally determines the cause of the crystal glitches, which she demonstrates twice: first by starting an argument among her friends - with the result being that when Creatures treat each other with coldness and hatred, magic becomes unstable, and then by using an small amount of magic of her own to make the Crystals drift apart- with the result being that when the Crystals are slowly drifted apart from the end of the rainbow, colors begin to disappear. Realizing that what Yolanda was right saying that the Crystals could become unstable all along, everycreature resolves to restore the Creatures' friendships, all the magic, and the colors around the Multiverse and make the Friendship Festival perfect.

## Magical Friendship Link Power! Ready, Go!

On the morning of the Friendship Festival, Sally presents Isabella with the restored lantern, and the festival soon gets underway. Creatures show up to have fun, and the Law of Cycles also arrive, but Alice and her entourage are present to condemn everything in sight and cause friction. Things become even more tense when a young Eevee nicknamed Topaz wins the sand castle-building contest, citing the "unfair advantage" of Pokémon, and a few Changelings denounce Pipp's new Bay Day song, wanting to hear the old song sung by a normal Changeling.

The thunderstorm worsens and magic grows increasingly unstable, with everycreature unable to use magic, Pegasi unable to fly, and Earth Ponies and Yaks getting stuck to the ground by their hooves/feet. Rella quickly races to save the Egg she found. Despite the team's efforts to unite the Creatures, the Unity Crystals fracture, and a slowly expanding black void appears to suck up everything, from which the Earth ponies are unable to run away. Alice and Sunbright then suddenly get sucked into the void, respectively leaving Megan and Radiant distraught.

Nina struggles to transform into her Unity Style, but her friends' support keeps their magic stable. Realizing this, Yolanda and the others transform and the black-haired Cherry rallies the Creatures to help the Earth Ponies and Yaks. Choosing to risk herself over helping the others, Nina dives down into the void to save Alice and Sunbright, successfully turning into her Unity Style in the process. Upon saving Alice and Sunbright, Nina escapes from the void as it closes.

Positive magic flows into the Unity Crystals to the point of overflowing again, and the vine-like symbols reappear, growing all over the Brighthouse and spreading to the town beyond. The Earth ponies discover they now have magic to make plants grow, and Hitch can now communicate with his animal friends. Zipp's friends apologize for not listening to her sooner. Tommy arrives to Sally and asking her if she is okay, and she tells her brother she is not return back to the heroes station once the announcement is applied, she will tells the other members of Sekai heroes visiting Lumiose as an investigator of magic.

## Epilogue

The Egg Rella found on the beach suddenly hatches, and to everycreature's surprise, a baby Spirit Wolf emerges. Alice apologizes for the way she acted and asks for Megan to perform her new Heart of Stone song; and Megan agrees on the condition that her friends and the Law of Cycles sing with her. Sunbright volunteers to join as well, and to Radiant's surprise, she earns her Cutie Mark as a result. Some time later, everycreature is thrilled that Megan and Radiant have decided to be allies to the Law of Cylces, and they look forward to all the magical adventures ahead of them together.

Unbeknownst to the creatures of the Multiverse, the events they went through had been observed via a magical projector by a mysterious human like figure, wearing a black mask, dressed in a black trenchcoat and a long black cape, a dark violet unicorn, a teenager elf and a pink and blue haired girl associate from an undisclosed, dark location. The figure declared that with the brand new kind of magic that spread throughout Multiverse, it was time for them to spreading the darkness and take over Equestria first then the entire Multiverse. He then laughed maniacally, signaling that whatever his intentions were, they would not be righteous. The figure's claim prompts the audience to wait for future episodes to determine what he feels entitled to.