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Discord but found out Queen Chrysalis has Fluttershy. Nice knowin' ya, Chrysalis.

"THEY'RE Back!!"

—Starlight Blink

Special Guest Star: John de Lancie as Discord
Written by: Josh Haber and Michael Vogel

While moving boxes of books in Twilight'south library, Starlight Glimmer receives an invitation from her former village to take in the Dusk Festival for the town. While Twilight encourages her to go, Starlight is withal haunted past the things she did as the town'due south leader, nervously wondering if the ponies in that location volition concur a grudge. At night, Starlight dreams of the ponies from her village mocking her and insulting her, prompting Princess Luna to step in. While Starlight is relieved that it's all a dream, Luna says that the emotions it represents are real, and she should talk to her friends virtually it. The next morning, Starlight confides in the Mane Six that she's nervous, so they suggest bringing along a friend to aid. To Twilight's thwarting, Starlight chooses to bring Trixie with her, and the two set out.

Once they arrive at the village, the ponies are actually quite happy to come across her. In fact, they begin to ask Starlight numerous questions about how the Sunset Festival should exist run. Overwhelmed, Starlight panics, pushing the ponies away with her magic. Trixie uses her smoke bombs to help give her a jerky exit, with a dejected Starlight saying that she doesn't want to be in charge of annihilation else. Trixie quietly admits that even she makes mistakes, and the best thing to practice in that state of affairs is forget about information technology and move on.

Back in Ponyville, Starlight notices everypony acting strangely, with the Mane Vi all behaving incredibly snidely and rudely, forth with none of them seeming to remember that Starlight headed dorsum to her old hamlet. That dark, another dream has Starlight confronted by her friends, merely she realizes quickly that it's some other dream. All the same, a panicked Princess Luna appears and warns Starlight that changelings accept kidnapped her and the other princesses, and that she needs to get aid. Though frightened, Starlight gets Trixie to spy on the Mane Six in the castle. They utilize a device to communicate with Queen Chrysalis, the changeling leader, who confirms that the princesses have been kidnapped, and fifty-fifty replaced with phonies. The queen also says that since they thought "besides small" in their attempt to claim Canterlot concluding time, they will now conquer all of Equestria.

After slipping out of the castle thanks to a cloaking spell, Starlight suggests going to the Crystal Empire to become help from Princess Cadance. However, Thorax the friendly changeling appears, who confirms that Cadance'southward family has as well been taken. As they despair over who else could possibly help them now with both the Mane Six and the Majestic Family unit the prisoners of the changelings, the nigh-almighty Discord arrives; he is initially quite uncaring about the whole situation, until he hears that Fluttershy has besides been taken, and he transports them to the Changeling Hive. Starlight looks on nervously, unsure of how to keep...

TO Exist CONTINUED

*cue happy credits music*

Continued in "To Where and Back Again – Part 2".

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• All In that location in the Manual: My Piddling Pony (Gameloft) explains how the changelings abducted the Mane Six. One used a imitation nowadays to abduct and replace Little finger Pie, and so threw a political party to lure and capture the rest of them.
• All Upward to You: Starlight is forced to take Trixie, Thorax, and Discord with her to rescue the Royal Family and Mane Six, and salve Equestria.
• Art Development: Starting this episode, Trixie'due south eyes are at present rendered with 2 catchlights like everypony else, rather than a single catchlight in her before appearances.
• Badass in Distress: Some of the near powerful ponies in Equestria were captured by the changelings, and now they demand to exist rescued.
• Be All My Sins Remembered: Starlight nonetheless doesn't believe she deserves to be forgiven for the things she has washed, and specially doesn't desire the responsibleness of being a leader again.

• Beware the Airheaded Ones: Discord is usually goofy and mischievous. When he hears that Fluttershy was taken, he gets deadly serious.
• Big "NO!": Starlight says this when all the requests for for guidance from the ponies of her former hamlet become too much for her.
• Large "WHAT?!": Trixie lets one out when Starlight tells her the changelings are back.
• Cursory Emphasis Imitation: Thorax existence a changeling, he goes beyond simply imitating Twilight'due south mannerisms: he turns into her to repeat the speech communication she made almost him in the Crystal Empire, including mimicking her voice.
• Broad Strokes: The comic series, which has always had an uneasy human relationship with the testify regarding its catechism status, has its biggest castor with the prove's catechism and so far here. Information technology had depicted another encounter with Chrysalis where she was imprisoned, but and so a subsequently issue had her escape and get her power back. None of this is referenced hither, just given that she ended up back where she started, the fans are free to imagine it all happened or not as they prefer. On top of that, the Changeling Kingdom presented in this episode is definitely different from the one in the comics. Given the latter was more a temporary base of operations for Chrysalis and her army, nevertheless, it can be assumed that this Changeling Kingdom is meant to be the changeling species' homeland.
• Brutal Honesty: Rainbow Nuance says Starlight was "...pretty awful" when she was a villain, prompting Applejack to admonish her.
• The Passenger vehicle Came Back:
  • Trixie, Thorax, and Discord all make a return after having an episode earlier in the flavour.
  • Queen Chrysalis and her changeling regular army make an official render after their defeat during the majestic wedding and their timeline during Starlight's revenge endeavour, this time with Chrysalis seeking Revenge by making certain that Equestria's primary defenses in the Royal Family unit and the Mane Six, the ones responsible for her previous defeat, are out of the mode early on so they can't interfere again.
  • The ponies of Our Town brand a return after helping finish Starlight from stealing the Mane Six's cutie marks and their cameo at the terminate of season v.
• Call-Back:
  • The ponies from Our Town invite Starlight to the Sunset Festival, leading to some discussion about her previously leading the village, and how they had forgiven her misdeeds in "The Cutie Re-Mark – Part 2".

    Trixie: There information technology is! The boondocks where you—
    Starlight Blink: Magically stole everypony's cutie marks, replaced them with equal signs, and forced them all to hibernate their natural talents? Yes.
    Trixie: I was going to say "where you came from," merely yours is a more... emotionally traumatic reply.

  • Princess Luna visits the dreams of another pony to give them advice, then uses it subsequently to warn Starlight of the situation with the changelings before she is taken.
  • Princess Luna also mentions to Starlight how the Mane Six have helped her in the past, and points that they have some backstory in mutual.
  • Starlight's friendship with Trixie and Twilight's lingering trepidation over it harken back to "No Second Prances" before in the season.
  • Thorax directly quotes Twilight's speech about her decision to trust him in "The Times They Are a Changeling", even turning into her and using the audio.
• Catapult Nightmare: Starlight Glimmer springs awake from her 2nd dream, screaming "THEY'RE Dorsum!" Considering the especially chilling alarm she just received from Luna in said dream, this is no surprise she'due south having an anguished wake-up.
• The Chains of Commanding: Starlight, subsequently her previous mistakes with leadership, doesn't feel comfortable in a leadership function, every bit her reaction to the ponies of "Our Town" request for her communication on the festival shows.
• Changeling Tale: Taken Up to Eleven with the changelings ponynapping all the Princesses and their friends and loved ones, then feeding on everypony else's love for the replaced ponies and feeding that honey to Queen Chrysalis.
• Character Shilling: The episode starts with Twilight praising Starlight'south evolution and even claiming it's all thanks to Starlight herself. Considering her limited airtime this season and the last we saw of her progress she didn't realize listen-controlling her friends was a bad affair until called out, that's either not saying much or she made an implausible amount of offscreen progress ^note the next flavor premier supports this past having a large pile of Starlight's lesson while only the kickoff iii were shown this flavor, though it might not have been meant to be taken seriously considering but three episodes passed and Starlight's unresolved cocky-doubtfulness over information technology.
• Bewilderment: As is the case with the 2-parters, this episode ends with the changelings having kidnapped several powerful ponies effectually Equestria, including the Mane Half-dozen and the Royal Family, meaning Equestria is virtually defenseless and leaderless now, and leaving Starlight and her team outside the Changeling Hive to rescue everyone, with Starlight scared of what to practice adjacent.
• Comically Missing the Indicate: Twilight is hinting that Starlight should invite her to go with her, but she decides to bring Trixie instead, to the Princess of Friendship's annoyance.
• Commonality Connection: Princess Luna identifies with Starlight, as they both succumbed to the dark sides of their nature in the past, and struggled through redemption.

  Princess Luna: I see much of myself in you lot, Starlight Glimmer, and I can tell you from personal feel that things exercise indeed get better.

• Continuity Nod:
  • Derpy wears the mail compatible she was seen wearing in "Crusaders of the Lost Mark".
  • In the first dream, Party Favor makes the same memetic face he did in "The Cutie Map – Part 2" afterwards he was released from the reconditioning shed.
  • The spell Starlight uses to push the ponies away is the aforementioned one she used in "The Cutie Map – Part 2".
  • The changeling who had replaced Fluttershy is seen performing a Slouch of Villainy on her throne; Starlight pulled a similar pose on the very aforementioned throne in "The Cutie Re-Mark – Part 1".
  • While proving his identity, Discord turns the ground into soap, but as he did in "The Return of Harmony - Part 2".
• Cover Identity Anomaly: The changelings replacing the Mane Six testify varying levels of skill in impersonating them.
  • The worst are the replacements for Rainbow Nuance and Spike, who deed like straight-upwards jerkasses and show none of the traits of the characters they impersonate. They seem to hate their job, though fake Spike has good reason to as he is the Barrel-Monkey of the group.
  • Applejack, Rarity, and Pinkie Pie's replacements make an effort to fake some of the tics of their originals and try to reply politely when Starlight talks to them, but the ruse eventually breaks down. The fake Applejack and Rarity burst out in cheeky laughter when they hear of Starlight'due south genuine and painful friendship problem, while fake Little finger doesn't think Starlight'south proper name and bails quickly on their conversation, whereas the real Pinkie has been repeatedly demonstrated to recall every friend she'south ever met and is extremely talkative.
  • The changeling taking over Princess Twilight's part does the best job, successfully faking her way through a chat with Starlight and hoof-waving away the others' odd behavior. She fifty-fifty offers some confident friendship "advice". The only thing odd about her is the advice itself, in that she tells Starlight to forget her erstwhile friendships and merely find new ones to replace them, whereas the real Twilight Sparkle encourages determination and maintaining friendships even through difficulty.
  • Collectively, none of the changelings recognize Starlight or show any noesis that she's Twilight'southward pupil. Even the fake Twilight never acknowledges her name or position. Queen Chrysalis afterward says she knows exactly who Starlight is and even considered having her replaced, but ultimately deciding that she wasn't worth the trouble (which would explain the lack of a briefing regarding her).
• Darkest Hour: The changelings have returned, and take kidnapped all of the virtually powerful ponies in Equestria, including every member of the Royal Family unit and all of Twilight'due south friends, replacing them with fakes to pave the style for a full-scale invasion in Revenge for the Royal Wedding defeat.
• A Solar day in the Limelight: Notably the showtime two-parter that does not focus on Twilight or the Mane Six.
• Deflector Shields: Trixie freaks out desperately upon coming together with Thorax, forcing Starlight to encase her in a bubble shield that is soundproof. Trixie spends the adjacent few moments floating inside, screaming, panicking and slamming her hooves confronting the barrier to no avail in complete silence.
• Destroy the Abusive Dwelling: When you meet the wide shot of Our Town, it appears the residents have demolished Starlight's old cottage and planted a tree in its place.
• The Drag-Forth: Trixie doesn't experience she's particularly qualified to be taking on the changeling horde and would much rather be somewhere else.
• Dream Walker: Princess Luna, as usual. She appears in Starlight Blink's get-go dream to give her some advice well-nigh how to handle her ache of coming back to Our Town. In the second dream, she use her power to warn Starlight near the changeling attack while struggling to fight off her captors in vain.
• Easily Forgiven: Opposite to her fears and nightmares, the ponies of Our Town don't acquit any grudge against Starlight Glimmer and want her to join in on their celebration. Notwithstanding, being easily forgiven once once more only aggravates Starlight's ache, and she assumes a Troubled Fetal Position before running away.
• Evil Has a Bad Sense of humour: The changelings replacing Applejack and Rarity bursts into laughter when Starlight tells them she fled from the Sunset Festival in Our Town. This lack of empathy is a big hint of their truthful nature.
• Evil Express mirth: Naturally, Queen Chrysalis indulges in megalomaniacal cackling at the end of the communication scene, and her changeling minions follow suit.
• Evil Tower of Ominousness: The Changeling Kingdom Castle is a jagged and gnarled spire fortress surrounded by a wasteland devoid of any found life. Yes, definitely not a very friendly-looking place to visit. Thorax is terrified when he looks upon it, even though he's from at that place.
• Eye Am Watching You: The changeling impersonating Spike, who has been the most hostile of the agglomeration, makes the gesture twice toward Starlight equally she comes back to the Friendship Castle. Non suspicious at all, nope.
• Eye Twitch: Twilight has some when Starlight brings Trixie to "Our Town" instead of her.
• Foreshadowing:
  • Luna struggling to contact Starlight and the group not teleporting straight to the Hive/where Fluttershy is both lead to an important office of the next episode.
  • Thorax'south new wings are too a hint at what'due south coming.
  • Discord tries to direct teleport himself and the other would-be rescuers directly to Fluttershy, but to his confusion they end up outside of the hive instead. The reason for this is explained next episode.
• 4-Temperament Ensemble: The "unlikely heroes" that step up when the Mane 6 are decommissioned. Starlight Blink is melancholic; Trixie is choleric; Discord is sanguine as always; and Thorax is phlegmatic.
• Funny Background Event:
  • When Starlight first sees the impostor Mane Six in the map chamber, the changeling disguised equally Applejack is eating a pear.
  • When Thorax appears to Starlight and Trixie, Starlight is forced to seal her inside a soundproof bubble when she won't stop screaming. She remains there for the rest of the following conversation, pulling hilarious faces.
  • When it's Discord turn to appear, he's knitting a mock-upwards of Affections Bunny for... some reason.
  • When Twilight is telling Starlight that she should bring a friend when she returns to "Our Town", clearly hinting at herself, Spike wears a Disapproving Wait, because he knows that Starlight volition chose Trixie over Twilight without any incertitude. And then nosotros accept the Gilligan Cutting...
• Gagging on Your Words: When Starlight asks Trixie to repeat what she'd before told her to not repeat to anypony, to brand sure she's not a changeling, Trixie'south reply commencement come out every bit unintelligible mumbling between clenched teeth. Simply on Starlight's insistence does she finally admit it was "That even Trixie'southward fabricated mistakes!"
• Gilligan Cut: Twilight is telling Starlight that she should bring a friend when she returns to "Our Town", clearly hinting at herself, and the cutting shows that she's chosen Trixie.
• Gondor Calls for Assist: With the Mane Six, Spike, Shining Armor, and the Princesses captured, Starlight gets the assistance of Discord, Trixie and Thorax. She would like to call for the Crystal Empire merely apparently they were hit first.
• Good Costume Switch: Although not a costume, Thorax has new wings that smoothen like crystal, something that both Starlight, and Thorax himself discover.
• Proficient Wings, Evil Wings: Thorax has new, pigsty-less sparkly wings compared to his old ones, something Starlight noticed correct away.
• Hellish Pupils: Discord's goofy, mismatched pupils narrow into snake-like slits when he hears that Fluttershy was one of the ponies captured past the changelings.
• Heroic BSoD:
  • When the ponies of Our Town bombard Starlight with requests for her guidance, she screams "No!" and pushes them away with her expanding shield spell. Immediately after, she is shown lying on the ground, hooves over her eyes, trembling in ache.
  • Trixie is terrified of the changelings and panics the moment she hears about them. She doesn't even want to be shut to Thorax, despite believing Starlight when she says that he is on their side.
• Hey, You!: These are the fake Pinkie Pie'due south first words to Starlight in one case she returns to Ponyville.
• Hope Spot: Starlight suggests going to go Cadance and Shining's assist, merely Thorax reveals that they were captured already, and Sunburst sent him to get help from Twilight.
• Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Discord describes the trio of Starlight, Trixie and Thorax as "a combination of secondary characters".
• Let's Go Unsafe!: The moment Discord learns that Fluttershy has been captured by the changelings, he instantly drops all pretense of goofing off and becomes mortiferous serious.
• Letting the Air Out of the Band: When Thorax turns into Twilight to echo her spoken communication from "The Times They Are a Changeling", the same solemn music from this scene can also be heard... until Starlight cuts him, at which point the music falters and peters out.
• Let Us Never Speak of This Once again: Not the exact phrase Trixie used, simply this is definitely what she was feeling when she admitted that even she makes mistakes. Naturally, it gets brought upwardly for Trixie'due south Something But They Would Say moment.
• Literary Allusion Title: To The Hobbit, whose full title reads The Hobbit, or There and Dorsum Once again.
• Locked Out of the Loop: Save the Twilight impersonator, none of the Changelings seem to know Starlight exists. Apparently they have non fully followed history since the Royal Wedding. Although the side by side episode reveals that Chrysalis herself is well aware of who Starlight is and considered non the trouble of replacing.
• Lower-Deck Episode: Lampshaded by Discord before the squad sets out on a rescue mission to salvage the Mane Half-dozen and the Royal Family.

  Discord: Well, isn't this quite the combination of secondary characters!

• Mook Lieutenant: The one changeling turned into Twilight Sparkle is ordering effectually the others, and besides seems to be more than intelligent than the boilerplate drone. He's doing a better job impersonating the princess than his goons are doing with their respective roles — it'due south still off, but at least he tries giving believable pretexts to Starlight for the discrepancies. He'southward also the only one seen to talk while in changeling class when Chrysalis contacts them, and nearly sniffs out a hidden Starlight and Trixie.
• Morality Pet: Fluttershy remains this to Discord; he only reacts to the changeling situation when he learns that she was taken.
• Mordor: The Changeling Kingdom is a bleak and barren-looking land surrounding a large spire of dark stone.
• Mythology Gag: Before Starlight wakes her, Trixie is mumbling about peanut butter crackers in her sleep, a snack of which her Equestria Girls self is besides noted to be fond.
• No-Nonsense Nemesis: Queen Chrysalis is back, and wasted no time at all disposing of not only Princess Cadance this time effectually, but Princess Luna, Princess Celestia, Shining Armor, Flurry Eye, and the Mane 6 as well, the just heroes she believes would stand in the way of stopping her program, and to take Revenge on all of them for her previous defeat at their hooves.
• The Nose Knows: The changeling posing every bit Twilight stops for a moment in the castle hallway to sniff around while searching for Starlight and Trixie and follows the trail to where Starlight and Trixie are hiding. Yet, since Starlight has cast an invisibility spell on them the changeling continues searching somewhere else.
• Not Himself: Starlight is dislocated when the Mane Half dozen and Fasten either don't recognize her or otherwise chide or insult her for either reason. It's but a affair of time earlier she realizes they were replaced with Changelings.
• No Sympathy Between Mooks: The changelings are seen mocking one of their own (the Fasten impersonator) for being slapped effectually.
• Not What I Signed Upward For: Trixie has a major freak-out when she and Starlight just barely escape being caught by the changelings and says she can't bargain with "princess-level stuff" because she is only a performer.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: The changelings somehow capturing the Mane Six and all of the Majestic Family in the fourth dimension it took for Starlight and Trixie to travel to Our Town and back.
• Former Shame: Starlight'due south opinion of her deportment in "Our Town", which she now deeply regrets.
• OOC Is Serious Business: The goofy and silly Discord turns on a dime when the others inform him that the changelings accept taken Fluttershy likewise. He becomes utterly pissed .
• Out-of-Character Alarm: Starlight notices this about the "Mane Six" afterward coming abode, eventually discovering they're non her friends after all — they're Changelings in disguise.
• Overly Long Scream: Trixie is somewhat taken aback by Thorax, to the point where Starlight has to trap her in a bubble to stop the noise from giving them away.
• Passive-Aggressive Kombat: Trixie gleefully rubs Starlight inviting her to come to Our Town with her in Twilight'due south face, while smugly "complimenting" the Princess of Friendship on her "wisdom" and emphasizing how she's Starlight'south best friend.
• Plot Hole: Starlight Glimmer's first dream is strangely upwards-to-engagement about the advent of Our Town, including the exact banners used for the Sunset Festival, and the fact that her cottage has been replaced by a tree. This wasn't the instance during her last visit (at the end of "The Cutie Re-Mark – Role 2") and she makes quite clear she hadn't been there back since, and thus she shouldn't take memories of the updated hamlet.
• The Penalisation Is the Crime: Despite being Easily Forgiven past all the ponies around her and wanting to be friends with her, Starlight Glimmer is still too self-captivated to accept information technology and doesn't experience she deserves information technology for all the bad things she did.
• Canaille Bunch of Misfits: Starlight Blink has to relieve Equestria with her own makeshift team of one-time villains and social misfits: Trixie, a blowhard sorcerer with a bad public prototype as a i-fourth dimension evil overlord; Thorax, a friendly changeling who has faced prejudice from the very ponies he wants to get along with; and Discord, a not-quite-reformed prankster of nigh-omnipotent power who only helps when he feels like it.

  Trixie: I can't deal with this! I'm merely a performer! This is... This is princess-level stuff!

• Reality Warper: Discord demonstrates his powers by distorting things when Starlight asks for proof that he's the real Discord.
• Red Optics, Take Warning: Discord's pupils wink an angry red very briefly when he asks, with a growling tone of voice, where they've taken Fluttershy.
• Red Herring: Trixie's line about pretending something bad never happened, immediately followed past a scene where Pinkie Pie tin can't remember Starlight'southward name, may take been an endeavour to fool the audience into thinking that the episode was going the mode of It'southward a Wonderful Plot.
• Revenge: Subsequently her previous defeat regarding the Royal Wedding, Chrysalis attempts to conquer Equestria again, this fourth dimension covertly kidnapping everyone involved in her original defeat, the Mane Six and the Royal Family, so they tin't end her over again.
• Spiral This, I'm Outta Here!: When Starlight has a breakup at her old hamlet, Trixie notices the problem and uses her trademark smoke bomb exit technique to become herself and Starlight out the village.
• Shout-Out:
  • In add-on to the Literary Innuendo Title to The Hobbit, the concept of a rag-tag group of heroes and anti-heroes traveling to a mountain belonging to their articulation nemesis also borrows from The Lord of the Rings, with the Changeling Kingdom being a decent analogue to Mt. Doom.
  • The inflow of Derpy parodies some classic Superman lines:

    Twilight Sparkle: Is it a bird?
    Starlight Glimmer: Is it a parasprite?
    Spike: It's... information technology's... incoming!

  • When Discord makes a demonstration of his Reality Warping, he turns Trixie's wagon into a pumpkin omnibus.
• Slouch of Villainy: The changeling posing as Fluttershy invokes this while sitting on her throne, putting its rear hooves upwards on the map table. Information technology couldn't look less like Fluttershy without abandoning her image entirely.
• Smoke Out:
  • Trixie uses her trademark exit method to become Starlight and herself out of Our Town, and it actually works: Trixie now uses a more powerful bomb so that the smoke stays for longer, both covering the exit much better than before and making the other ponies to cough and shut their eyes for a few moments, and therefore Trixie is already far away when they can finally see once again.
  • Trixie seems unable to Not employ her smoke bombs for drama, which gives us ane funny moment before they reach Our Town.

    Trixie: Not just a promise, a keen and powerful promise! [smoke bombs the area, cue some coughing]

• Something Only They Would Say: Starlight asks something from all three of her allies to confirm they aren't changelings: Trixie reveals a undercover she shared with Starlight earlier in the episode, Thorax recites the speech Twilight made after she accepted him, and Discord shows off his powers.
• So Much for Stealth: Starlight and Trixie manage to spy on the changelings without existence noticed while they are contacting Queen Chrysalis, simply at the end of the magic conference Starlight makes the error of pushing the door to the throne room a little, causing it to creak. The changelings are immediately alerted and hiss menacingly.
• Spiking the Camera: When the Changeling impersonating Twilight tries to explain why Spike was acting and then off today, her eyes look straight at the viewer audience when she says "I call back he missed a repast or something."
• Spoof Aesop: What Trixie has taken abroad from her past misadventures is manifestly that everyone makes mistakes but that the important thing is to move on from them and pretend they never happened. Starlight admits that that's virtually a good lesson...
• Stranger in a Familiar State:
  • Starlight is agape to return to Our Boondocks because she fears she won't be accustomed there anymore.
  • Thorax likewise seems terrified to return to the Changeling Kingdom.
• Talking in Your Sleep: Starlight hears Trixie talking in her slumber about performing for Princess Celestia for peanut butter crackers.
• Teleportation:
  • Starlight Glimmer teleports herself and a panicking Trixie back to her carriage after a close call with the changelings replacing the Mane 6 and Fasten.
  • Every bit shortly as Discord learns that Fluttershy is in danger, he teleports himself, Starlight, Trixie and Thorax straight to her location. Or at least he tries — he doesn't expect a Teleport Interdiction to exist in place, leaving them outside the Changeling Hive.
• Teleport Interdiction: Discord tries to teleport himself, Starlight, Trixie, and Thorax to where Fluttershy is, just instead only brings them to outside the Changeling Hive. Side by side episode shows why. This also explains why Luna simply could not teleport away from her captors while warning Starlight before.
• Tempting Fate: When Discord appears, Starlight has the "nifty thought" to phone call him out and openly question his identity. While at that place was a massive non-lethal Replicant Snatching invasion of Equestria by the changelings going on, it's however a bad thought to challenge a Mad God to prove himself given Discord'southward level of power. After all, if he's an imposter, Starlight, Trixie, and Thorax would be able to handle one changeling, but if it actually is Discord, y'all've simply invited him to mess you upwards in many weird and impossible ways.

  Starlight: How exercise nosotros know you lot are who you say yous are?
  [cue Discord turning the entire mural into something from Willy Wonka's nightmares]

• Too Fast to Stop: Derpy's mail delivery system. She crashes through a window of the Castle.
• Tranquil Fury: Discord gives the impression of being utterly unconcerned with the changeling invasion... until he hears Fluttershy's been captured. And then he drops all pretense of existence bored and demands to know, in a deadly serious tone, where she's been taken.
• Visible Invisibility: Starlight uses an invisibility spell to hide Trixie and herself from the changeling impersonating Twilight and company. The eyes, and the outline of their bodies, are still slightly visible. Information technology's likely for the audition's benefit as the changeling neither sees nor smells anything.
• Song Dissonance: The changelings, in improver to not knowing how the ponies they kidnapped act, don't seem to get the voices right, either. The most obvious 1 is Rainbow Nuance, whose vocalization is noticeably college and less scratchy than is normal for her.
• Volumetric Oral cavity: On seeing Thorax, Trixie starts screaming her head off for a comically long time, which is expressed several times by her wide-open mouth occupying the whole face, complete with a total view of her glottis and tongue twirling like a mad snake.
• Wake Up Fighting: Of a sort. Trixie accidentally sets off several of her magical fireworks while getting out of bed when Starlight wakes her up; luckily, Starlight was exterior Trixie'south railroad vehicle, so doesn't get hitting.
• Weirder Than Usual: Starlight is puzzled by the way the simulated Pinkie is acting, despite reminders that Little finger Pie is e'er weird.

  Starlight Blink: That was... strange...
  Trixie: Isn't she always strange?
  Starlight Glimmer: Yeah, but... not similar that.

• Wham Line: After Starlight has seen all of the Mane Six interim suspiciously for no credible reason, Luna'south appearance in her dream, struggling against her captors, finally gives away the game.

  Princess Luna: The changelings have returned!

• Whole Plot Reference: The plot of this 2-parter seems to be i for the premiere of the series, in which the protagonist is a unicorn who leads a ragtag team to fight an evil strength threatening the land.
• The Worf Effect: The Royal Family and the Mane Half-dozen are put out of committee past the changelings to underscore but how bad the state of affairs is and ratchet upward the pressure on the 2nd-string heroes. We don't see how but it's heavily implied to have something to do with The Reveal of Chrysalis having a Ability Nullifier throne which can block their magic that led to existence kidnapped so easily. Thorax also mentions that a common Changeling tactic is to apply a disguise to lure a target into an ambush, so both were probably used.
• Worldbuilding: The Changeling Kingdom, previously mentioned past Thorax in "The Times They Are a Changeling", finally makes an appearance.
• Would Injure a Child: The changelings have kidnapped both Spike and Flurry Centre, both of whom are only babies to their corresponding races. (To be off-white, it wouldn't have been much improve to exit Flurry Eye behind after abducting her parents.)
• You Are in Command At present: Trixie, Thorax, and even Discord look at Starlight for leadership since all four princesses (1 of which is her teacher) have been kidnapped. It'southward something she definitely doesn't feel comfortable with.

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