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♪

(train chugging)

This just got real.

(excited chatter)

♪

We're almost there so I've got a few things to say.

First off, who here besides me thinks this is the best

Equestria games delegation in ponyville history?

(cheers)

(grunting roar)

And no matter what your sport is,

Because we've all got a genuine shot at ponyville gold!

(cheers)

With the possible exception of bulk biceps,

I mean, we're good and all, but we're up against the wonderbolts

In the aerial relay, so gold's kind of a stretch.

Let's not kid ourselves.

Don't feel bad, rainbow dash.

We have absolutely no shot at winning gold, either!

Uh, that's because you're carrying the flag for ponyville

In the opening ceremony.

Winners or not, we still have the chance to be awesome!

That's the spirit.

Winners or not, we all still have the chance to be awesome!

(cheers)

But uh, let's still try to win

Lots and lots of stuff too, ok?

♪ (military snare drum)

♪ my little pony, my little pony ♪

♪ aaaaahhh!

♪ my little pony

♪ I used to wonder what friendship could be ♪

♪ my little pony

♪ until you all shared its magic with me ♪

♪ big adventure

♪ a beautiful heart

♪ and magic makes it all complete ♪

♪ my little ponies

♪ do you know you're all my very best friends? ♪

♪

♪

(squealing brakes)

(hiss)

(grunts)

Phew! It's all in there, gang.

Leave it to spike, champion gear carrier,

For all your gear-carrying needs.

And the ponyville flag? You sure?

And what about the flagpole?

In with the portable ramp.

Whoa! (crash)

Give it a rest, applebloom.

Spike: Aw she's just nervous, that's all.

Whenever I'm afraid I'll forget something and I start to panic,

I have a simple trick: I count to ten,

And by the time I'm done, I've calmed myself enough

To get the job done right every time.

Easy peasy cider squeezy.

(galloping hooves)

Spike: Hey!

Put me down!

What's going on?

(galloping)

(thud)

Spike! Are you all right?

A thousand pardons, o great and honorable spike

The brave and glorious.

Huh? Who the what now?

Thanks for bringing spike to us.

We'll have our hoofponies go back for your bags.

Can they hang back a sec and tell me what's going on first?

(munch)

(gulp)

So the ponies here think I'm some kind of hero, huh?

More of the green ones, please.

I like the green ones.

In time to save this entire empire from destruction.

You are known throughout my empire

As great and honorable spike the brave and glorious.

Isn't that awesome?

You're a big shot here, spike.

See that?

That's you!

Hello, gorgeous.

This is why we all hope you'd do us the honor

Of lighting the torch at the opening ceremony.

In the history of the equestria games to do so.

And bonus: I can do it with my fire breath.

(whoosh)

(sizzle)

(giggle)

(roaring crowd)

♪ (ceremonial theme)

Places for the procession, everypony.

Two minutes!

♪

(crowd cheers)

♪

(giggling)

(upper class british accent) and you're quite certain

You also understand exactly what you're supposed to do?

I stand where you tell me until you give me the signal.

And then I walk over and light the torch.

Mm. Couldn't be simpler.

(roaring cheer)

(frightened whimper)

Mr. The dragon? Are you coming?

Honestly.

Would somepony help him walk?

Now please welcome the delegation from ponyville!

Ponyville forever! Yay!

Awesome!

Yeah!

(cheers)

Whoo hoo!

♪ (trumpet fanfare)

(stomp stomp)

♪

This is the signal.

(stomp stomp)

I'm giving you the signal now.

Mr. The dragon!

(big inhale)

(cough)

Come on, spike.

Calm yourself.

One, two, three, thousand, fourteen thousand,

Twenty thousand, thirty thousand!

What's wrong?

(squeak)

Tell me this isn't happening.

(chattering)

Equestria, we have a problem.

♪

Mr. The dragon, would you light the torch already?

I don't know what it is, but I just don't have the stuff today.

Did you bring a match?

You're a fire-breathing dragon.

Then some cough drops, maybe?

Never mind.

I'll keep trying.

(thud)

Somepony go down and help him!

(click click)

Light! Light!

(grunt)

(grunts)

(whoosh)

(roaring cheer)

♪ (trumpet fanfare)

Phew!

How did you do that?

I'm...Not sure.

Ah well, better late than never.

Let the games begin!

(crowd roars)

♪ (trumpet fanfare)

Oh! There are our little superstars!

Made me sit up proud like a cornstalk in August.

Ya done good, squirt.

Twilight: You three really were wonderful.

But does anypony know what was going on with spike?

He sure seemed to be havin' a tough time of it out there.

He put things right in time, though.

Actually, it was me.

I didn't want him to be embarrassed,

So I cast a secret spell to light it for him.

Oh dear. Have you told him?

No, but he might have figured it out on his own.

You gotta tell him just in case.

I know. I'm just afraid of how he'll take it.

I know what pride he takes in a job well done.

Psst. Here he comes now.

Act casual.

'sup.

Spike! Is everything ok?

I guess. I don't know!

The weirdest thing happened down there.

Yeah, about that. I--

I mean, there I was, trying to light the torch,

With all of equestria watching,

And feeling like the hugest failure ever.

And then the thing just lit. It was amazing!

Oh! Phew! I was afraid you'd be upset.

Upset? Are you kidding? Why would I be upset to discover

I can light fire with my mind?

Look! It's the great and honorable spike

The brave and glorious!

Can we get your autograph?

Sure!

How you saved our empire last time you were here

Was really amazing.

Aw. You know what else is amazing?

Watch this!

(distant birds chirping)

(straining grunt)

Don't worry. Once it bursts into flames through brainpower,

I'll sign another one for you. Promise.

(grunts)

(groan)

(softly) spike, may I have a word with you a moment?

Better be careful with that. Might burst into flames later.

Delayed reaction.

Hey twi, what is it?

Hold on, hold on! Give me a second.

If I can set fire to stuff with my mind,

Mindreading must be just around the corner,

And I predict that you are about to ask me

To set fire to something with my mind!

No. Because you can't.

Oh really? So how do you explain what happened down there

I did it, spike. I cast a spell to do it for you.

... In front of thousands and thousands...

I'm sorry, spike.

I just couldn't stand to see you stuck like that.

You understand, don't you?

I, uh...I need to be alone right now.

Spike?

O great and honorable spike the brave and glorious.

Can I get your autograph?

Sorry. You should probably ask somebody special instead.

(cheering)

♪

Our next event: The aerial relay!

That's dash and fluttershy!

Oh no, we can't be late for that!

Miss, step right over here.

Unicorns will no longer be admitted

Without a disabling spell.

And make sure you don't even try casting a spell

Or we'll know it.

Hmph!

(clang)

If ponyville medals here we'll have 8 medals so far,

Putting us tied for the lead with cloudsdale.

Unless cloudsdale medals here, too.

Ms. Harshwhinny, I know you're really busy but--

What is it?

Maybe there's something else I can do for the games, you know,

Something really worthy of the crystal empire's admiration?

What are you talking about?

You lit the torch for the whole thing!

Well, actually, that wasn't really--

That wasn't "worthy" enough for you?

Next thing you know, you'll be asking to put on a rock concert!

Agh! Celebrities.

Wait. That's it!

(whoosh)

(whoosh)

(roar)

Second place!

We got silver!

Congratulations to all our medalists.

And now, the anthem of--

And I shall do the honor of singing!

(cheers)

Spike? What are you doing?

You know how they always just play the music?

Well, I know all the words to our anthem

And will sing them for you now, loud and proud,

To the enjoyment of all!

(cheers and applause)

And now, um, the cloudsdale anthem, as sung by spike.

Wait, the cloudsdale anthem?

They only play the anthem for the winners, spike.

The wonderbolts are from cloudsdale!

But I don't know the words to the cloudsdale anthem.

Sing for us, o great and honorable spike

The brave and glorious!

Ahem!

♪

♪ oh we're the wonderbolts!

♪ and we're from cloudsdale which is a part of equestria ♪

♪ that we like best and we're proud and we're fast ♪

♪ and we like it because it really has nice trees ♪

♪ and we love the town because it's so cool, ♪

♪ and we like to fly really fast ♪

♪ uh, I kind of wish this was over cause it isn't yet... ♪

♪ over.... Now...Oh...

♪ and we're super-fast!

♪ and we're clear from cloudsdale ♪

♪ we like it there because it's really nice ♪

♪ and the trees are cool,

♪ and I hope this is over now,

♪ and it keeps going on la la la... ♪

♪ and we really love the town

♪ so I wish that this song was over now ♪

♪ over now...

♪ over now

(baby crying)

Pinkie pie from afar: Nailed it!

Spike, you coming?

Nah, I got this stuff to pack up.

But you've been moping in here for almost the entire games.

And tonight's the closing ceremony.

Which means we leave tomorrow. Ergo the packing.

And so the games conclude as they always do

With the ice archery finals.

Ice archers, take your places!

(cheers)

Too bad ponyville doesn't have any ice archers competing.

We don't have anyone to root for.

Ponyville has 37 medals and cloudsdale 36,

So looks like we'll be medal champs of the games anyway!

But cloudsdale has two ice archery finalists

If they both place, cloudsdale wins the medal count.

So you're saying it all comes down to this one event?

Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh!

Twilight! Come take this extra seat next to me

And freak out over the medal count.

Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh!

Actually I was looking for spike.

Have you seen him?

He wouldn't come.

We tried to talk him into it.

But he wouldn't listen.

You can have his extra seat, though.

Uh...Twi?

Twilight: Spike? You here?

Uh, yeah. I'm super busy.

Look at all this packing left to do.

No more hiding out. You're coming with me.

Now.

Ok, fine. I'll come. Can I at least wear these?

♪

Those aren't your average arrows.

They freeze whatever part of the target they hit.

Whoever encases their entire target in ice first wins.

Keep your eye on number 7 from cloudsdale.

He's the favorite.

♪

Honestly spike, I don't see why you're being

So hard on yourself.

I let everypony down. Twice!

You never let anypony down

So you have no idea what that's like.

Are you kidding? I've totally let ponies down.

The torch got lit; the aerial relay teams got their medals.

No harm no foul.

Can we at least watch from inside there?

I'm not sure I'm ready to face crowds in the stands just yet.

(crackling)

(gasps)

(panicked screams)

No!

Steer it towards the field!

Away from the crowds!

Somepony cut the disabling spell!

There isn't time!

Dash! Fluttershy! Move!

(crackling and hiss)

(roaring cheer)

That was awesome!

I just wanted to thank you personally

For saving those ponies, and the games,

O great and honorable spike the brave and glorious.

You must be very proud.

I guess.

All: You guess?

I just saw what needed to be done and reacted.

It just so happens I can breathe fire.

If any of you could do that, you'd have done the same.

Forgive me for being blunt, spike,

But you're not makin' a lick of sense.

It's just how I feel.

Wait a second. I think I get it.

You keep saying you let everypony down.

But we all keep saying you didn't.

You know who was disappointed in you, spike? You.

And only you can make it right with you again.

What would that take, spike?

I don't know. Can you turn back time?

Cause I'd sure like a do-over on that opening ceremony.

We can't turn back time.

But would you do me the great honor

Of lighting fireworks in my place

At the closing ceremonies tonight?

You've saved the crystal empire. Twice.

I think you can light some fireworks.

I guess I have to at least give it a shot.

(happy chatter)

(cheering)

Ponyville won the medal count!

And only by one medal.

Hmm. Wonder which medal that was?

Bam!

How's it feel to have opened the best equestria games

In ponyville history, squirt?

Probably as good as it feels to close them.

Ok, it's time.

Spike: You know, it's kinda weird;

No matter how many times others tell you you're great,

All the praise in the world means nothing

If you don't feel it inside.

Sometimes, to feel good about yourself,

That way, when the time comes to let your greatness fly,

You'll be able to light up the whole sky.

♪ my little pony

♪ my little pony

♪ my little pony

♪ friends