The Cutie Mark Crusaders become apprentice ninjas when a grandmaster visits Ponyville! But why won't Scootaloo invite her martial artist friend over, too? And who is the mysterious Hammer, the Boy In Alicorn Armour?

Pharynx goes monster shopping with Fluttershy. Finding nothing to his liking, a trip to the wilds is in order for some fresh stock.

The day after his coronation, Shining's got a lot of work to get to. And it turns out Crystal ponies are a little weird by modern standards...

The changelings are having a beauty contest, and Ocellus gets roped into it. Will she win, and get the affections of her dearest Scoots in the process?

The CMC are called on another Map mission, this time to the town where Starlight Glimmer learned magic. What they find there is a ghost from the past, and a problem that feels eerily familiar...

When Ocellus says the wrong thing to her new friends, she starts asking questions about her lessons, morality, and magic.

Scootaloo can fly, but a tragic accident reminds her that even flight won't fix all her problems. Also donuts.

The Pillars of Equestria follow their foes into a temple housing an ancient spirit. They are met with... other versions of themselves, and forced to partake in strange challenges with these alternate Pillars.

Cadence gets a remedial lesson on one of the fundamentals of magic. Sadly, it seems she's grown weaker since her graduation.

Discord's mother is coming to visit. Fluttershy offers to help him get through it. Only one problem: Fluttershy will need to pretend to be his match, both romantically and power-wise. Easy, right?

Bastion the changeling has been coping with the changes in his life, as well as he could. But now the legacy of changeling crimes haunt him, and a foreign nation wants to take the boy away.

Following the events with the griffons, Bastion goes off to camp to make some new friends. The friends he makes, however, turn out to be about as complicated as he is.

Chrysalis makes her final move, and launches her attack on Equestria. Little Bastion is her prime target, but what is her goal?

Scootaloo's lost her diary. And the new kid in town might have it. As if she didn't have enough on her plate already...