Garble: Come on, Sunset. You can do it!

Sunset Shimmer: Okay, here goes.

[magical chime]

Garble: Ha ha! Ya did it! Growing magic, that's number twenty-five. Twenty-five different types of tricks and counting. And I think this is the best trick so far. Hello, Sunny Flare. What's that? Aw, it's nothin', just my awesome mustache. [laughter]

Sunset Shimmer: Sorry, Romeo. As attractive and enticing as you look, it's just for practice, and it's gotta go.

Garble: Wait! Aw, rats!

Sunset Shimmer: [laughter]

[theme song]

Garble: Twenty-five, Sunset. Twenty-five different kinds of tricks and counting. I thought unicorns were only supposed to have a little magic that matches their special talents!

Sunset Shimmer: True, for ponies whose talents are for things like cooking or singing or math. But what if a unicorn's special talent is magic?

Garble: Like you, Sunset, and you know a ton of magic.

Sunset Shimmer: Oh, Garble, stop. I'm sure there are lots of ponies right here in Ponyville that know just as much magic as me.

Garble: Are you kiddin'? I don't think there's another unicorn in all of Equestria with your kind of ability, Sunset.

Snails: Gangway! Comin' through!

Garble: Augh! Snips, Snails! What's goin' on?

Snails: Wha, haven't you heard?

Garble: Whoa!

Snails: There's a new unicorn in town!

Snips: Yeah! They say that she's got more magical powers and she has the powers of omnipotence than any other unicorn ever!

Sunset Shimmer: Really?

Gaeble: Aw, no way, mate. That honor goes to Sunset here.

Sunset Shimmer: Where is this unicorn?

Snails: Ho, she's in the town square. Come on!

Snips: Yeah! [laughter] Come on! Whooo!

Starlight Glimmer: Come one, come all! Come and witness the amazing magic of the Glorious and Omnipotent Starlight Glimmer!

Audience: Ooh!

Starlight Glimmer: Watch in awe as the Glorious and Omnipotent Starlight Glimmer performs the most spectacular feats of magic ever witnessed by pony eyes!

[fireworks and fanfare]

Sunny Flare: My, my, my! What boasting!

Sugarcoat: Yo-ho-ho. More like Madame Lame-o.

Garble: Come on, nopony's as magical as Sun— Sun— Sun— Oh! [clears throat] Hey, Sunny Flare, I, uh— Mustache!

Sunset Shimmer: There's nothing wrong with being talented, is there?

Sugarcoat: Nothin' at all, matey! Arrgh! The 'cept'n is when someone goes around showin' it off like a school filly with fancy new ribbons.

Sunny Flare: Just because one has the ability to perform lots of magic does not make one better than the rest of us.

Indigo Zap: Especially when ya got me around being better than the rest of us. [laughter] Eh, I mean, yeah, uh, magic shmagic. Boo!

Sugarcoat: Better be walkin' the plank, matey!

[Sugarcoat and Indigo Zap]

Yo-ho-ho-ho-ho!

Row, row, here we go!

'til the Glorious and Omnipotent fool walks away.

Anchors aweigh!

The old salt never arrogantly blabbers.

The Glorious and Omnipotent Starlight Glimmer?

More like The Glorious and Omnipotent landlubber!

Bow! Starboard! Stern! Fore! All aboard!

We have a battle that our lives can't afford!

[Sugarcoat]

Best fer Glorious and Omnipotent thee walk the plank!

Our own boring lives in a broken pirate ship are that frank!

[Indigo Zap]

You better be hidin', The Glorious and Omnipotent Starlight Glimmer.

Ye'll be a shark bait to Davy Jones's Locker!

[ponies laughed at Starlight]

Starlight Glimmer: [disappointment voice] Cease the mockery, neighsayers! The Glorious and Omnipotent Starlight Glimmer will rise to the top! You fools think The Glorious and Omnipotent Starlight Glimmer's presence is a joke? No! I am the Glorious and Omnipotent Starlight Glimmer, hereby to entertain all of you!

[ponies in group: Boo! Better fer ye be goin' to Davy Jones's Locker than rising to the top!]

[Sugarcoat and Indigo Zap with the audiences sans the other Mane Six]

Yo-ho-ho-ho-ho!

Row, row, here we go!

Ye olde arrogant fool like the Glorious and Omnipotent Starlight Glimmer.

She better be goin' to Davy Jones's Locker!

Old salt shall tell the day.

What shall we say?

Happy anniversary to Davy Jones's Locker!

A special place for The Glorious and Omnipotent Starlight Glimmer!

[ponies laughed at her]

Starlight Glimmer: Well, well, well, it seems we have A LOT of neighsayers in the audience. Who is so ignorant as to challenge the magical ability of The Glorious and Omnipotent Starlight Glimmer? Do they not know that they're in the presence of the most magical unicorn in all of Equestria?

Sunny Flare: [raspberry] Just who does she think she is?

Garble: Yeah! Since we all know that Sunset here is—

Sunset Shimmer: Garble! Shhh!

Garble: What? What's wrong?

Sunset Shimmer: You see the way they reacted to Starlight? I don't want anyone thinking I'm a show-off.

[fanfare]

Indigo Zap: So, "Glorious and Omnipotent Starlight Glimmer". What makes you think you're so awesome, anyway?

Starlight Glimmer: Heh, why, only the Glorious and Omnipotent Starlight Glimmer has magic strong enough to vanquish the dreaded ursa major!

[fanfare, fireworks]

Audience: Ahh!

Snips: What?

Snails: No way!

Starlight Glimmer: When all hope was lost, the ponies of Hoofington had no one to turn to, but the Glorious and Omnipotent Starlight Glimmer stepped in, and with her awesome magic, vanquished the ursa major and sent it back to its cave deep within the Everfree Forest!

Snips and Snails: Saw, sweet!

Snips: That settles it.

Snails: Starlight truly is the most talented, the most magical, the most awesome unicorn in Ponyville.

Snips: No, in all of Equestria!

Spike: How do you know? You didn't see it! And besides, Sun— [zip!] Mmph! M-mmph!

Starllight Glimmer: [laughter] It's true, my enthusiastic little admirers. Starlight is most certainly the best in Ponyville.

[crickets]

Audiences: Boo!

Sugarcoat: Er-hem, mate. [laughter] Better for ye to be goin' to Davy Jones's Locker, matey! Me gallant ancestors fought and keelhauled more violent pirates in the roughest seas of Equestria than yer one and only ursa major. Call me crazy, though I work at a cherry farm and I'm in charge of fireworks in every special events, nothing beats my ancestry. "The Glorious and Omnipotent Starlight Glimmer", dead ponies tell no tales. Me best friend Sunny and even Lemon works at Ye Olde Pub and Café fer Olde Salts, pub dedicated to the legacy of me ancestors! We have our own special number fer ye!

[Audiences]

Yo-ho-ho-ho-ho!

Row, row, here we go!

How about ye walk thee plank?

Fer that we could never smell yer stink!

Raise the flag of Jolly Roger!

Dive into Davy Jones's Locker!

Equestria's biggest failure!

Known as the Glorious and Omnipotent Starlight Glimmer!

Believin' in you?

Only if ye go!

Starlight Glimmer: Don't believe the Glorious and Omnipotent Starlight Glimmer? [chuckles] Well then, I hereby challenge you, Ponyvillians. Anything you can do, I can do better. Any takers? Anyone? Hmm? Or is Starlight destined to be the greatest equine who has ever lived!?

[fireworks and fanfare]

Garble: [zip] Please! She's unbearable! Ya gotta show her! Ya just gotta! [cries]

Sunset Shimmer: There's no way I'm going to use my magic now, Garble. Especially since—

Starlight Glimmer: Hmm, how about you?

Sunset Shimmer: [gulps]

[music]

Starlight Glimmer: Well, how about it? Hm? Is there anything you can do that the Glorious and Omnipotent Starlight Glimmer can't?

Sunset Shimmer: I— I—

Starlight Glimmer: Well, little hayseed?

Sugarcoat: Avast ye, the Glorious and Omnipotent Starlight Glimmer. Ah' can't stand fer no more o' this!

Garble: You show her, Pirate Sugarcoat!

Sugarcoat: Shiver me timbers! Can yer magical powers do this?

[pirate music]

[Sugarcoat]

Pirates, all hands on the deck!

Attacking the enemy correctly is perfect!

Time to keelhaul some scurvey dogs!

We have new graves to dig in!

Our own purpose lies herein!

Audience: Whooo! [cheers]

Sugarcoat: Top that, missy.

Starlight Glimmer: Oh ye of little talent. Watch and be amazed at the magic of Starlight!

[snake charmer music]

Sugarcoat: Whoa! Uh!

Audience: [laughter and cheers]

Starlight Glimmer: Once again, the Glorious and Omnipotent Starlight Glimmer prevails.

Indigo Zap: There's no need to go struttin' around and showin' off like that.

Starlight Glimmer: Oh?

Indigo Zap: That's my job!

[electric guitar music]

Indigo Zap: They don't call me "Indigo" and "Zap" for nothin'!

Audience: [cheers]

Starlight Glimmer: When Starlight is through, the only thing they'll call you is loser.

[rapid music]

Indigo Zap: Whoa! Whoa! Whoa-a-a-a! [gulp] I think I'm [gulp] gonna be sick.

Starlight Glimmer: Seems like anypony with a dash of good sense would think twice before tussling with the Glorious Starlight.

[thunder]

Indigo Zap: Ow!

[laughter]

Garble: What we need is another unicorn to challenge her. Someone with some magic of her own.

Indigo Zap: Yeah! A unicorn to show this unicorn who's boss.

Sugarcoat: A real unicorn to unicorn tussle.

Sunset Shimmer: Uh...

Sunny Flare: Enough. Enough, all of you. I take your hint, but Sunny is above such nonsense. Indigo Zap and Sugarcoat may behave like ruffians, but Sunny conducts herself with beauty and grace.

Starlight Glimmer: Ooo, what's the matter? Afraid you'll get a hair out of place in that rat's nest you call a mane?

Sunny Flare: Oh, it. Is. On! You may think you're tough with all of your so-called powers, but there's more to magic than your brutish ways. A unicorn needs to be more than just muscle. A unicorn needs to have style.

Audience: Ooh!

Sunny Flare: A unicorn is not a unicorn without grace and beauty. A unicorn is gorgeous with some décor.

Garble:Sunny won't let Starlight get the best of her! She's strong, she's beautiful, she's—

Audience: [gasps]

Sunny Flare: Quick! I need a mirror! Get me a mirror! What did she do to my hair? I know she did something terrible to my hair!

Sunset Shimmer: Nothing.

Indigo Zap: It's fine.

Sugarcoat: It's gorgeous. Aargh! The souls from Davy Jones's Locker would be impressed by that hairstyle.

Garble: It's green. What?

Sunny Flare: Ugh, no. Green hair! Not green hair! [cries] Disgusting! [cries] Absolutely disgusting!

Golden Harvest: Well, I never!

Garble: Well Sunset, guess it's up to you. Come on, show her what you're made of.

Sunset Shimmer: What do you mean? I'm nothing special.

Garble: Yes, you are! You're better than her!

Sunset Shimmer: I'm not better than anyone.

Starlight Glimmer: Hah! You think you're better than the Glorious and Omnipotent Starlight Glimmer? You think you have more magical talent? Well, come on, show Starlight what you've got. Show us all.

Sunset Shimmer: Who, me? I'm just your run-of-the-mill citizen of Ponyville. No powerful magic here. I, uh... I think I hear my laundry calling. Sorry, gotta go.

Garble: Sunset?

Starlight Glimmer: Ha! Once again, the Glorious and Omnipotent Starlight Glimmer has proven herself to be the most amazing unicorn in all of Equestria. Huh, was there ever any doubt?

Snips: Here's your smoothie you asked for, with extra hay, just how you like it.

Snails: Mmm, hay.

Starlight Glimmer: [sips] Yes?

Snips: Ooo, tell us another story, Glorious and Omnipotent Starlight Glimmer.

Snails: Yeah, tell us about how you vanquished the ursa major.

Starlight Glimmer: Guh! Starlight is far too exhausted from performing feats beyond imagination. Begone with you until morning.

Snails: Oh, of course, Glorious and Omnipotent Starlight Glimmer.

Snips: Anything you say. We are at your beck and call.

Starlight Glimmer: Ah.

Garble: What are you two doin'?

Snips: Just bringin' the Glor an' Omni Tee a—

Garble: The what?

Snips: The Great and Powerful Trixie.

Garble: Sheesh.

Snips: Just bringin' her a smoothie.

Garble: How can you fall for her lameness? She's just a show-off. Unlike Sunset, who—

Snips: The Glorious and Omnipotent Starlight Glimmer vanquished an ursa major. Can your Sunset claim that?

Garble: Oh really? Were you guys actually there?

Snips: Well, eh, uh... no, but—

Garble: But nothin'. The proof is in the pudding.

Snails: [laughs] I like pudding.

Spike: Look, unless an ursa major comes waltzing up the street for Trixie to vanquish, I am not gonna believe a word she says, and neither should you!

Snips: Hm, an ursa walkin' up the street, hey? Snails! You thinkin' what I'm thinkin'?

Snails: Why is it they call it a flea market when they don't really sell fleas?

Snips: Yeah, uh... oh, come on!

Garble: Sunset, would you put down that book and just listen to me?

Sunset Shimmer: Didn't you see how they hated Starlight's bragging, Garble? If I go out there and show off my magic, I run the risk of losing them as friends.

Garble: It's not the same thing, Sunset. You'll be using your magic to stand up for your friends!

Sunset Shimmer: No, Garble, it's exactly the same.

Garble: Come on, Sunset, any one of these tricks, even the teeniest, would be enough to show up Starlight.

Sunset Shimmer: I don't want to be seen as a bragger like Starlight.

[door slam, door open]

Garble: But you're the best!

Sunset Shimmer: Uh. Please, Garble, I said no!

Garble: [sighs] If that's the way you want to be, then fine.

[door slam, door open]

[spooky music and sounds]

Snips: Oh, how we gonna find an ursa major when I can't even see my own hoof in front of my face?

Snails: Hold on. [grunts]

Snips: Oh, heh. That's better.

[growl]

Snails: Yaaaah!

Snips: Yaaaah!

Ursa: [roar]

Snips: [screaming]

Garble: Hey, guys, where ya goin'?

Snails: [breathing hard]

Snips: Can't talk now.

Snails: Got a major problem!

Snips: Yeah, ursa major, to be exact.

[roar]

Garble: Huh?

Ursa: [roar]

Snips and Snails: Starlight!

Garble: Sunsett!

[banging on door]

Snips and Snails: Starlight! [mingled speech]

Starlight Glimmer: Starlight thought she said the Glorious and Omnipotent Starlight Glimmer did not want to be disturbed!

Snips: [nervous laughter] We— We have a— a tiny problem.

Snails: Actually, it's a big one.

Starlight Glimmer: What is so important that you cannot wait until morning to disturb Starlight?

[roar]

Ursa: [roar]

Starlight: [screams]

Snips and Snails: [screams]

Ursa: [roar]

Garble: Sunset! You've gotta come! Quick!

Sunset Shimmer: I already told you, Garble, I don't wanna show up Starlight!

Garble: No, you don't understand, it's—

[roar]

Sunset Shimmer: Uh, is that what I think it is?

Garble: Majorly.

Snips: Glorious and Omnipotent Starlight, you've got to vanquish the ursa.

Snails: Yeah, vanquish so we can watch.

Snips: It took a lot of trouble to get that thing here.

Starlight Glimmer: Wait, you brought this here? [gasp] Are you out of your little pony minds?

Snips: But, you're the Glorious and Omnipotent Starlight.

Snails: Yeah, remember? You defeated an ursa major.

Ursa: [roar]

Starlight Glimmer: Uh, okay. [gulp] Stand back.

[snake charmer music]

Starlight Glimmer Heh. Piece of cake.

[growls, snap]

Snips: Aw, come on, Starlight.

Snails: Stop goofin' around and vanquish it, eh?

Starlight Glimmer: [gasp, gulp]

Snails: Well, that was a dud.

Snips: Yeah, pfft, come on! Where's all the cool explosions and smoke and stuff like earlier? You know.

[crackle]

Starlight Glimmer: Uh-oh.

Ursa: [roar]

Snips, Snails, and Starlight Glimmer: [screams]

Ursa: [roar]

[ponies gasp]

Ursa: [roar]

[crash]

[ponies crying in fear]

Sunset Shimmer: What's going on?

Snips: We brought an ursa to town.

Sunset Shimmee: You what!?!

Snails: Don't worry, the Glorious and Omnipotent Starlight will vanquish it.

Starlight Glimmer: I can't.

Snips and Snails: What!?

Starlight Glimmer: Oh, I can't, I never have. No one can vanquish an ursa major. I just made the whole story up to make me look better.

Snips and Snails: Made it up!?

Ursa: [growl] [roar]

[ponies gasp]

Starlight Glimmer: [gulp]

Ursa: [growl]

Starlight Glimmer: [groans]

[wind]

[music from broken cattails]

Ursa: [growl] [grunt] [guttural sigh]

Garble: Nice use of number sixteen.

[metallic sounds]

[water flowing]

[milking sounds and moos]

Unidentified cow: Golly, dont'cha know?

Garble: That's new.

[metallic clank]

Sunset Shimmer: [groans]

Ursa: [sucking]

[cheering]

Indigo Zap: Unbelievable!

Garble: That was amazing!

Sugarcoat: Corsair John K. Clark to Davy Jones's Locker! We knew you had ability, but not that much!

Sunset Shimmer: I'm sorry. Please, please don't hate me.

Indigo Zap, Sugarcoat, and Sunny Flare: Hate you?

Sunny Flare: Why, whatever do you mean, darling?

Sunset Shimmer: Well, I know how much you all hated Starlight's showing off with her magic tricks, and I just thought--

Indigo Zap: Whoa, whoa, whoa. Magic's got nothing to do with it. Starlight's just a loudmouth. She should be sent to the closest bedlam in all of Equestria.

Sunny Flare: Most unpleasant.

Sugarcoat: All eyepatches and no Jolly Roger bandannas.

Sunset Shimmer: So, you don't mind my magic tricks?

Sugarcoat: Your magic is a part of who you are, matey, and we like who you are. We're proud to have such a powerful, talented unicorn as our friend.

Indigo Zap: And after whuppin' that ursa's hindquarters, we're even prouder.

Sunset Shimmer: You are?

Indigo Zap: Uh-huh.

Sugarcoat: Mm-hmm.

Sunny Flare: Mm-hmm.

Garble: Wow, Sunset, how'd you know what to do with that ursa major?

Sunset Shimmer: That's what I was doing when you came looking for me. I was so intrigued by Starlight's bragging that I was compelled to do a little reading up on them.

Garble: So it is possible to vanquish an ursa major all by yourself?

Sunset Shimmer: That wasn't an ursa major. It was a baby, an ursa minor.

Starlight Glimmer: That was just a baby?

Twilight Sparkle: And it wasn't rampaging. It was just cranky because someone woke it up.

Snips and Snails: Awww...

Garble: Well, if that was an ursa minor, then what's an ursa major like?

Sunset Shimmer: You don't wanna know.

Starlight Glimmer: Huh. You may have vanquished an ursa minor, but you will never have the amazing, show-stopping ability of the Glorious and Omnipotent Starlight Glimmer!

[retreating hoofbeats]

Indigo Zap: Why, that little...

Sunset Shimmer: Just let her go. Maybe someday she'll learn her lesson. Now, about you two.

Snips: Ah [nervous laughter]. Uh, we're sorry that we woke up the ursa minor.

Snails: We just wanted to see some awesome magic.

Snips: Yeah! And the way you vanquished that ursa minor was awesome!

Snails: We deserve whatever punishment you give us.

Sunset Shimmer: For starters, you can clean up this mess. And... What do you think, Garble? Should I give them number twenty five?

Spike: Oh, twenty five! Yes! And I think I deserve it, too.

Snips and Snails: Heah?

Sunset Shimmer: I think you're right.

Snips, Snails, and Garble: Sweet!

Sunset Shimmer: Dear Princess Luna,

I have learned a very valuable lesson about friendship: I was so afraid of being thought of as a show-off that I was hiding a part of who I am. My friends helped me realize that it's okay to be proud of your talents, and there are times when it's appropriate to show them off... Especially when you're standing up for your friends.

Garble: So, you finally admit that you're the most talented unicorn in all of Ponyville?

Sunset Shimmer: Well, yeah, but it's nothing to brag about. So, uh, how did it go with Sunny?

Garble: Eh, she didn't go for the mustache.

Sunset Shimmer: You know, Spike, that mustache has nothing to do with who you really are. Maybe you should just try being yourself.

Garble: Or... Maybe the mustache wasn't enough. Maybe if I had a mustache and a beard?

Sunset Shimmer: Uh, not this again!

Garble: Okay, imagine me with a nice, long, Fu Manchu type beard. Or maybe a goatee. Oh, no, a soul patch right on my chin!

[music]

[credits]