Diamond Dazzle: [gulp] Are you sure about this, Mango Dash? I've never even heard of a pony zip lining before.

Mango Dash: Neither have I, but Garble told me it was awesome!

[whooshing noises]

[whirring]

[smoke hissing]

[snap]

[all three scream]

[bonk]

Mango Dash: Whoa!

[honk]

Diamond Dazzle: Oh!

Silver Spoon: Wah!

[crash]

Cutie Mark Crusaders: Ow!

Silver Spoon: See anything?

Diamond Dazzle: Tree sap and pine needles but no cutie mark.

Silver Spoon: Plan B?

Mango Dash: Yeah. You know where we can find a cannon at this hour? It's no use! No matter what we try, we always end up without our cutie marks. And, surprisingly often, covered in tree sap.

Diamond Dazzle: Maybe we should do something less dangerous, like pillow testing or flower sniffing.

Silver Spoon: This town is full of ponies who have their cutie marks. Why don't we ask them how they did it?

Diamond Dazzle: That's a great safe idea.

Mango Dash: Yeah! And we can start with the coolest pony in Ponyville.

Silver Spoon: Sugarcoat!

Silver Spoon: Sunny!

Mango Dash: Come on, guys, I said "cool"! You know who I'm talking about. She's fast. She's tough. She's not afraid of anything!

Silver Spoon and Diamond Dazzle: Lemon Zest?

Mango Dash: No! The greatest flyer ever to come out of Cloudsdale.

Silver Spoon and Diamond Dazzle: Sour Sweet?

Mango Dash: No! It's my big sister Indigo Zap!

Diamond Dazzle and Silver Spoon: Big sister?

Mango Dash: Yes, Diamond and Silver!

Silver Spoon: Oh! Yeah, that makes much more sense.

Diamond Dazzle: Of course!

Mango Dash: Let's do it. Let's find out how my sister Indigo Zap earned her cutie mark!

Silver Spoon and Diamond Dazzle: Yeah!

Diamond Dazzle: Aah! Uuh!

Cutie Mark Crusaders: [groan]

[theme song]

[motor revving]

Mango Dash: [gasp]

[screech]

Sugarcoat: Get back here, you bilge-suckin', thievin' varmints! I be takin' dynamites to blast ye off!

Silver Spoon: Thievin' what now?

[crash]

Sugarcoat: Silver Spoon?

Silver Spoon: Hey sis! How'd you get your cutie mark?

Sugarcoat: I never told you that story?

Mango Dash: Hey! I thought we were gonna ask my sister Indigo.

Silver Spoon: We need all the help we can get.

Mango Dash: Ugh. Fine.

Sugarcoat: Why, shoot. I was just a little filly. Even littler than y'all.

Sugarcoat: [voiceover] I didn't want to spend my life on a muddy old apple farm, owned by my grandpa's great-grandparents. I wanted to live the sophisticated life, like my Aunt Cherry n' Uncle Cherry. So I set out to try my luck in the big city, Manehattan! The most cosmopolitan city in all of Equestria.

Count Caesar: Hey! Outta the way, you rube!

Sugarcoat: [voiceover] I knew I'd find out who I was meant to be in Manehattan.

Young Sugarcoat: Aunt Cherry! Uncle Cherry! Thank y'all so much for lettin' me stay!

Aunt Cherry: "Y'all". [laughs] Isn't she just the living end?

Uncle Cherry: [chuckle] How quaint.

Aunt Cherry: Don't worry. We'll have you acting like a true Manehattanite in no time.

Tall Order: And how are you finding good old Manehattan?

Young Sugarcoat: Oh, it's simply divine.

Aunt Cherry: Very well said, my dear.

Young Sugarcoat: Although, I must admit the city noise took some getting used to. Where I'm from, nights are so quiet, you seldom hear a peep until the roosters wake you.

Dane Tee Dove: The... what?

Tall Order: I say, my dear, what in the world is a "rooster"?

Young Sugarcoat: [voiceover] What's he talking about? What do I say? I don't wanna look like a fool.

Pony: Dinner is served.

Young Sugarcoat: Thank goodness. Being a city pony's hard work. I'm so hungry I could eat a...

Young Sugarcoat: Cock-a-doodle-doo... Oh, I wonder what Granny Cinch and Pokey Pierce are up to. I bet they're cherrypickin' their way through the Red Delicious trees. Oh, what I wouldn't give for just one bite...

Sugarcoat: [voiceover] I never felt so homesick in all my days as I did right then.

[explosion]

Sugarcoat: [voiceover] It was amazin'! A star-shaped rainbow pointin' right back to... home. It was my time on unleashing fireworks at the trail of that star-shaped rainbow! In that moment, it all became clear. I knew right then just who I was supposed to be. That's when this here appeared.

Sugarcoat: I've been happily workin' in the farm ever since.

[bunnies blow raspberry]

Sugarcoat: There they are! Get back here, ya thievin' varmints! All of ye will be keelhauled if ye ne'er come back!

Silver Spoon: Aw. That was such a sweet story!

Mango Dash: Sweet? Try sappy. [mock-gags] Come on! We've got to find my sister Indigo Zap and hear the cool way to get a cutie mark.

[all three scream]

Sour Sweet: All right, little ones. This way. This way. You really should be more careful. Somepony could get hurt. Why are you in such a hurry anyway?

Mango Dash: We're trying to find Indigo Zap, so we can hear how she earned her cutie mark.

Sour Sweet: Oh, that would be interesting. You know, I wouldn't have gotten my cutie mark if it weren't for her.

Mango Dash: Indigo Zap?! Really?!

Sour Sweet: Oh yes. It all started at Summer Flight Camp.

Sour Sweet: [voiceover] You'd never guess, but when I was little I was very shy. And a very weak flyer.

Young Sour Sweet: [yelping]

[engines revving]

Charles Blackjack: Look who we have here, folks! It's the loser Sour Sweet!

Kenneth Blackjack: Gah! The ponyfolks really suck here in Cloudsdale.

Brandon Blackjack: Make way for us, idiot! The Blackjack brothers rule!

Young Sour Sweet: Oh no...

Keith Blackjack: [laughter] Nice going, "Sour Salty"! [clenches hooves]

Charles Blackjack: They oughtta ground you permanently.

Brandon Blackjack: Better to throw ya to the streets of Cloudsdale, dunce!

Charles Blackjack: Like "Sour Dunce", Brandon! [laughs]

Kenneth Blackjack: Listen, brat. You are terrible at flying. It's a cold hard fact.

Christian Blackjack: Ha! The other members of my motorcycle gang can fly better than you, freak! We rule the streets of Cloudsdale, so we will gut you out!

Sour Sweet: [voiceover] It was the most humiliating moment of my life. And then, out of nowhere...

Young Indigo Zap: Leave her alone!

Kenneth Blackjack: [mocking] It's her own pathetic friend, Indigo Zap!

Charles Blackjack: Better be zappin' ye than to be carin' yer nonsense.

Keith Blackjack: Ooh, what are you gonna do, "Indigo Crash"?

Young Indigo Zap: Keep making fun of her and find out!

Brandon Blackjack: You think you're such a big shot? Why don't you prove it? Tough guy!

Kenneth Blackjack: Yeah, show what you really have.

Young Rainbow Dash: Whaddya have in mind?

Christian Blackjack: [mocking] Whaddya have in mind? [normal] Our own business.

Brandon Blackjack: Augh! Arrogant lassock, you just can't win upon us. We are the Blackjack brothers and we will rip your body to shreds with our dangerous motorbikes. As long we rule the streets, you inferior losers will go down. Everypony!

The Blackjack brothers: [together] What are they?

The Blackjack brothers: [together] Losers in Cloudsdale! [engines revving]

Charles Blackjack: So long, suckers!

Young Indigo Zap: See you boys at the finish line! [sighs] The nerve of those losers.

Young Sour Sweet: [yelps] [screams]

Young Sour Sweet: [screaming] Huh?

Sour Sweet: [voiceover] I had never seen such beautiful creatures. Butterflies don't fly as high as my cloud home. And I'd never been near the ground before.

[Young Sour Sweet]

What is this place

Filled with so many wonders?

Casting its spell

That I am now under

Squirrels in the trees

And the cute little bunnies

Birds flying free

And bees with their honey

Hooooonneeeeeeey!

Oooh, what a magical place

And I owe it all to the Pegasus race

If I knew the ground had so much up its sleeve

I'd have come here sooner, and never leave

Yes, I love ev-er-ythiiiiing!

[explosion]

[hysterical animal sounds]

Young Sour Sweet: Shhh. It's okay. You can come out. Everything's okay. There's nothing to be afraid of.

Sour Sweet: [voiceover] Somehow I had the ability to communicate with the animals on a different level.

Mango Dash: Wait, wait, wait. What happened to Indigo Zap? My sister? What about the race?

Sour Sweet: Oh. Well, I wasn't there, so I don't really know what happened.

Mango Dash: Come on, Crusaders. We've gotta find her. Besides, I can't take anymore singing.

Diamond Dazzle: Maybe my sister knows where she is. Bye, Sour Sweet!

Sour Sweet: Bye, girls!

Mango Dash: How did we get roped into this? Oh, we'll never hear Indigo Zap's story.

Sunny Flare: Are you girls still obsessing over your cutie marks?

Diamond Dazzle: Of course! Most of the fillies at school already have theirs.

Sunny Flare: Mmm, I know how you feel. For the longest time I couldn't figure out why I didn't have mine.

[music]

Sunny's teacher: Well done, Sunny. Your costumes are very nice.

Young Sunny Flare: Nice?! They need to be spectacular! And the performance is tomorrow!

Sunny Flare: [voiceover] I tried every trick I could think of, but nothing seemed to work. The costumes just weren't right. And the play opened that night.

Young Sunny: Maybe I'm not meant to be a fashionista after all... Aah! What's going on?!

Sunny Flare: [voiceover] I had no idea where my horn was taking me. But unicorn magic doesn't happen without a reason. I knew this had to do with my love of fashion and maybe even my cutie mark! I knew that this was... My destiny!

Young Sunny Flare: A rock?! That's my destiny?! What is your problem, horn? I followed you all the way out here for a rock?! [groans] Dumb rock! Gah! Kerfuffle is causing all of this nonsense!

Young Kerfuffle: [voiceover] Oh, shut up, Sunny Flare!

[explosion]

Young Sunny Flare: [scream]

[rock cracks]

Young Sunny Flare: Ooh!

[music]

[ponies awing]

Mango Dash: Ugh! These namby-pamby stories aren't getting us any closer to our cutie marks! They're all about finding who you really are and boring stuff like that.

Sunny Flare: Yes, Mango Dash, that's exactly...

Mango Dash: Come on, girls! We need action! We need Indigo Zap!

Sunset Shimmer: As a young filly in Canterlot, I always wanted to go to the Moonlight Harvest Celebration, where Princess Luna raises the moon.

Sunset Shimmer: [voiceover] And I saw the most amazing, most wonderful thing I've ever seen.

[trumpet fanfare]

[ponies awing and cheering]

Sunset Shimmer: [voiceover] I poured myself into learning everything I could about magic.

Young Sunset Shimmer: [grunting] [gasp]

Sunset Shimmer: [voiceover] My parents decided to enroll me in Princess Luna's School for Gifted Unicorns. It was a dream come true! Except for one thing... I had to pass an entrance exam!

Crystal Clear: Well, Miss Shimmer?

Young Sunset Shimmer: [nervous laughter]

Crystal Clear: Well, Miss Shimmer?

Arpeggio: [cough]

Young Sunset Shimmer: [groaning]

Top Marks: [yawn]

Crystal Clear: We don't have all day.

Sunset Shimmer: [voiceover] I knew it was the most important day of my life, that my entire future would be affected by the outcome of this day and I was about to blow it!

Young Sunset Shimmer: I'm sorry I wasted your time.

[explosion]

Young Sunset Shimmer: Aah!

[magic surging]

Princess Luna: Sunset Shimmer.

Young Twilight Sparkle: Oh, I'm so sorry. I didn't mean...

Princess Luna: You have a very special gift. I don't think I've ever come across a unicorn with your raw abilities.

Young Sunset Shimmer: Huh?

Princess Luna: But you need to learn to tame these abilities through focused study.

Young Sunset Shimmer: Huh?!

Princess Luna: Sunset Shimmer, I'd like to make you my own personal protégé here at the school.

Young Sunset Shimmer: Huh?!

Princess Luna: Well?

Young Sunset Shimmer: Yes!

Princess Luna: One other thing, Sunset.

Young Sunset Shimmer: More? My cutie mark! Yesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyes...

Sunset Shimmer: ...yesyesyesyes...

Silver Spoon: Okay, okay. [sighs] Barnacles on a fish stick.

Diamond Dazzle: We're happy for you, Sunset.

Mango Dash: Yeah, thrilled. Let's get out of here while we still can.

Sunset Shimmer: ...yesyes, yeeees!

Cherry Fizzy: Are you okay?

Sunset Shimmer: [giggle] Um... yes.

Mango Dash: Ugh! Why don't we ever smash into Indigo Zap?!

Lemon Zest: You're looking for Indigo Zap? If I was her, I'd be at Zesty Lemonade Corner. Of course, if I was anyone, I'd be at Zesty Lemonade Corner. Hey! I have an idea! Wanna go to Zesty Lemonade Corner?

Diamond Dazzle: Well, we're sort of looking for Indigo Zap, so we can hear how she got her cutie mark.

Lemon Zest: Cutie mark? Come with me and I'll tell you how I got mine!

Mango Dash: [sigh] Why not?

Lemon Zest: All right!

Lemon Zest: [voiceover] My sisters and I were raised on a rock farm outside of Ponyville. We spent our days working the fields. There was no talking. There was no smiling. [sigh] There were only rocks. We were in the south field, preparing to rotate the rocks to the east field when all of a sudden...

[explosion]

[wind whistling]

Lemon Zest: [voiceover] I'd never felt joy like that before! It felt so good I just wanted to keep smiling forever! And I wanted everyone I knew to smile too, but star-shaped rainbows don't come along that often. I wondered, how else could I create some smiles?

[rooster crows]

Jet Set: We better harvest the rocks from the south field. Those rockheads are waitin' for that order. Money's flowin' through the river.

Upper Crust: Lemon Marie Zest! Is that you?

Young Lemon Zest: Mom! I need you and dad and the sisters to come in. Quick!

[music]

Young Lemon Zest: Surprise! You like it? It's called... a party!

[party tweeter]

Young Lemon Zest: Oh. You don't like it. [gasp] You like it! I'm so happy!

Lemon Zest: And that's how Equestria was made!

Mango Dash: Wha... huh?

Silver Spoon: Look! We're here!

Lemon Zest: Maybe on the way home I can tell you the story of how I got my cutie mark. It's a gem!

Diamond Dazzle: Oh, come on. She's just being Lemon Zest.

Mango Dash: Ugh...

Mango Dash: Indigo Zap! Big sister! You're here!

Indigo Zap: [chuckles] I hear you're looking for my cutie mark story.

Mango Dash: [sigh] You have no idea what I've been through today to hear that story.

Sour Sweet: It all happened during the race at Flight Camp...

Indigo Zap: [voiceover] ...where I stood alone against all odds to defend Sour's honor against the most hostile motorcycle gang in Cloudsdale: The Blackjack brothers.

Young Sour Sweet: [yelps]

Indigo Zap: [voiceover] I've never flown like that before! That freedom was unlike anything I've ever felt! The speed, the adrenaline, the wind in my mane... I liked it... a lot!

Young Indigo Zap: Ow!

Keith Blackjack: Ha! Later, Indigo Crash!

The Blackjack brothers: [together] "Crash down and crash-land" is the good slogan for Indigo Crash!

Young Indigo Zap: Hey!

Charles Blackjack: Bye bye! [laughter]

Indigo Zap: [voiceover] Turns out the only thing I liked more than flying fast... was winning!

[explosion]

Indigo Zap: [voiceover] Most people thought that the sonic starboom was just an old mare's tale. But that day... The day I discovered racing... I proved that the legends were true. I made the impossible happen!

[Pegasi cheering]

Indigo Zap: And that, little ones, is how you earn a cutie mark.

Cutie Mark Crusaders: Whooooaaaa...

Sour Sweet: Wait a second. I heard that explosion. And I saw the giant star too. Indigo Zap, if you hadn't scared the animals, I never would have learned I could communicate with them and gotten my cutie mark.

Lemon Zest: I heard that boom! And right afterwards, there was this amazing star-shaped rainbow that taught me to smile.

Sugarcoat: Yo-ho-ho! When I got my cutie mark, I saw a giant star that pointed me home. It was pointin' to my great-grandpa's important legacy of him as a pirate. I bet it was your sonic starboom!

Sour Sweet: There was an explosion I could never explain when I got my cutie mark.

Sunset Shimmer: This is uncanny! If that explosion didn't happen when it did, I would have blown my entrance exam. Indigo Zap, I think you helped me earn my cutie mark too!

Indigo Zap: Whoa!

Lemon Zest: We all owe our cutie marks to you!

Sour Sweet: Do you realize what this means? All of us had a special connection before we even met.

Sunny Flare: We've been BFFs forever and we didn't even know it!

Sugarcoat: Come here, y'all.

Mane Six: AWWW!!!

Sour Sweet: I'm so glad we're friends!

Sunny Flare: I love you, guys!

Silver Spoon and Diamond Dazzle: Awwww...

Mango Dash: Ewwww... Gimme a break. Come on, Crusaders! Maybe we just need to try zip lining again. [sigh]

Sour Sweet: Hey. How about a song?

[cries of approval]

Lemon Zest: Definitely!

Mango Dash: Nooooo!

Sunset Shimmer: Dear Princess Luna,

Today I learned something amazing. Everypony everywhere has a special magical connection with her friends, maybe even before she's met them. If you're feeling lonely and you're still searching for your true friends, just look up in the sky. Who knows? Maybe you and your future best friends are all looking at the same rainbow.

Garble: Gross! When did you get so cheesy?

Sunset Shimmer: Just write it, Garble.

[music]

[credits]