It was a weatherful and sounding day in Placeland, and it was also Pinkie Pie and Rarity’s turn to have a scene.

“Look at this!” Rarity said, showing the script for the next chapter to Pinkie Pie. “Applejack finally gets her appearance, but we still don’t get any screen time!”

“How could they do that?!” Pinkie said.

“I know. We don’t get anything!”

“Wait, look at this!” Pinkie said. She pointed to a spot on the paper which, incidentally, the artist responsible just filled with wavy lines. “It looks like we get time in this part!”

“Well, yes, but it’s pretty short, don’t you think? Compared to what the other four get....”

“Yeah, but it’s something.”

Rarity looked at the next line of the script. It read “You know what? I’m not going to follow whatever this little piece of paper tells me to do.”.

“You know what?” Rarity said. “I’m not going to follow whatever this little piece of paper tells me to do.” She then crumpled up the paper and stomped it into the ground, just as it had predicted.

“You know, the paper thought you were going to try and rebel against it.”

“It did?” She levitated the paper and uncrumpled it to find that Pinkie was right. She had an annoyed look as she read a line reading “[Rarity makes annoyed face at script]”.

“That ‘little piece of paper’ makes you do whatever it wants,” Pinkie said. “You’ll just have to accept it.”

“Do I... do I even have free will, then?”

“Of course you do, offscreen.” Next Chapter: Chapter 6: Unscripted Estimated time remaining: 18 Hours, 21 Minutes