Resume: During rehearsal for the CHS Fall Play, Twilight once again becomes overwhelmed with stress from all the obligations she's promised to fulfill for her friends, like running lines with Flash Sentry and helping Applejack build the stage. Sunset Shimmer encourages Twilight to take a break from the play, and one of her other friends offers to help her get her mind off of it.

In Canterlot High School's gym, we get a close-up of a worried Rarity.

“Mother, I fear I do not share your dreams of coal.” Rarity said in southern drawl.

Cut to just behind her on the second half of this line. She is on the stage of the gym, and Sunset Shimmer sits in the floor seats with a bag of popcorn in easy reach. The mention of coal, and the script on which Sunset is taking notes, indicate that this is a rehearsal for the school play Dazzled. Rarity has evidently landed the role of aspiring dancer Selfie Soot, while Sunset is serving as director. A longer shot of the area puts Twilight Sparkle, Fluttershy, and Naked Rainbow Dash onstage as well; they each have a script in hand, while Rarity does not. Zoom in slowly.

“Instead, my heartbeat calls for me to dance!” Rarity finishes her speech.

She holds her last pose for through a long silence, then clears her throat.

Rarity says faster. “Heartbeat calls for me to dance.” Still nothing; she turns her head to face Twilight. “To dance!”

Zoom in quickly on the bespectacled girl during this last; she starts in surprise, having let her mind wander.

“Oh! Sorry, uh…” Twilight reads. “But, Selfie Soot, my sweet summer child! Without your help, I’ll never mine the mine in time.” She gets worked up, crumpling script. “Or run lines with Flash Sentry in time, or help Applejack build the stage in time—” Cut to a worried Sunset; she continues o.s. “—or practice my monologue in time—” Stand up and set the script aside; back to her. “—or find time for time in time!”

Fluttershy and Naked Rainbow Dash can only stare popeyed as she spirals down into a hyperventilation fit.

“Uh, am I missing a page?” Naked Rainbow leafs through script.

Sunset crosses to Twilight.

“Um, when was the last time you took a break from the play?” Sunset touches her shoulder.

“Take a break! Break a leg! Break a take?” Twilight says frantically.

“I think she’s broken again.” Naked Rainbow whispers to Fluttershy.

This earns her the mother of all dirty looks from the director.

Sunset touches gently at Twilight’s shoulder again. “Breathe, Twilight. You just need something to take your mind off the play a little while.” The other three gather in. “We’re here for you. Right, everyone?”

“Of course!” Naked Rainbow said.

“Let one of us help you take your mind off it.” Fluttershy agrees as Pinkie Pie shoves her head out through the curtains.

“You bet!” Pinkie said.

Snap to a stretch of clear blue daytime sky. A bird sings and wings its way across as the camera tilts down past the treetops to stop on Twilight and Naked Fluttershy; the former, blindfolded, is being guided along a path by the latter’s hands on her shoulders. Both have left their scripts behind and are framed from the knees up. They stop after a few steps, Naked Fluttershy reaching up to undo the knot in the cloth band. Snap to black, which clears to give Twilight’s perspective—the blindfold being removed—of a sunlit clearing. Zoom in slowly as ground-based and airborne animals frolic through the space.

Naked Fluttershy from o.s. “Ta-da! Just what you needed—” Back to them; Twilight has no longer her glasses on. “—an escape to nature.”

She starts ahead, but a squelch from ground level brings her up short as Twilight smiles eagerly ahead at the pastoral tranquility even she's now blinded. A cut to the grass frames Fluttershy’s bare feet that are freshly daubed with the mud she has just stepped in.

“Oh, dear.” Longer shot of both; her rabbit Angel is by her feet, and Twilight wears purple galoshes with pink stars. “I got mud on my feet.”

Zoom in quickly on Twilight, whose nerves suddenly fray.

“Feet? You mean the boots?! That reminds me—” She starts to run off. “—I need to help Rarity design Selfie Soot’s magic boots for the play!” But then Fluttershy stops her.

“Oh, no, no, no.” She gently pushes her down to sit on a log. “Don’t think about that. Think about…this!” Fluttershy scoops up Angel and whispers to him. “Be as cute as you can possibly be.”

The white fuzzball nods and squeaks his acknowledgment, and when Fluttershy lowers him to Twilight’s blind eye level, he lets his own peepers go big and round and shiny.

“Aww, he’s adorable!” Twilight takes/cuddles him.

“It’s why I love nature so much more than big cities.” Fluttershy said.

The peaceful mood goes bye-bye just as abruptly as before, Twilight shooting to her feet and tossing Angel away.

“Shiny City! Applejack is building the city sets while we’re out here lost in the woods!”

A panicked squeak from the yellow naked girl is followed by one hand wrapping around her head.

“Animals, unite!” Fluttershy uses her magic to call animals on her mind.

From behind her comes a miniature thundering herd of them: squirrels, raccoons, skunks, birds, and one bear of considerable size.

“Strips and dazzle her with your tranquility.” She whispers to them.

“Dazzled is the name of the play!” Twilight backs up toward a tree.

The winged wonders perched on the lowest branch chip in with a bit of song right about now, and the squirrels at a higher level sling a crown of flowers and leaves over the side that lands neatly on Twilight’s head, witch makes her dark purple star hair scrunchie falls off of her hair and her hair goes down. She smiles at the offering, and a woodpecker flits in to hammer its beak up and down her back, producing a sigh of total relief—a spot of tension being loosened, and with that, he takes Twilight Sparkle's blue blouse with short sleeves, dark pink vest with a matching bow tie, purple belt with a white buckle, purple skirt with slightly lighter purple stars with her pony counterpart's cutie mark and a lighter purple frill at the hem, sky-blue knee-high socks and purple galoshes with pink stars off of her body, leaving her completely blinded, barefooted and naked with her hair down.

“Oh, yeah. This…this is nice.” She laughs; crumple slowly toward the ground as it lays off. “So relaxing…so calm…so…”

She winds up sitting on the grass, propped up against the bear, and begins snoring quietly as she drifts off to sleep naked.

Fluttershy to animals. “Shhh. Let her naked and take a little nap, everyone. All we need now is some volunteers to keep her warm.” Cut to two skunks; she continues o.s. “Spunky and Plunky, are you up to the task?”

They nod and chitter assent, one adding a thumbs-up for good measure, and scamper across to nestle into Twilight’s lap. She cuddles one black/white-striped tail to her cheek like a pillow, and the view “irises out” to black, centered on her totally contented face.