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>>28722140
>The Wind Wooly
After the Cutie Mark Crusaders find a strange egg in the lake near Rarity's/Sweetie Belle's house, they bring it over to Fluttershy to inspect it, wondering why an egg such as that would be in such an odd location as well as expecting her to know what to do with it.

Fluttershy is unable to identify the egg, and suggests that they head to the castle to see if Twilight might have a book about it. As they turn to leave the egg hatches revealing a furry ball with wings and a long tail with a ball at its end. The Crusaders begin contemplating the prospect of keeping the creature as a pet. Fluttershy immediately recognizes it as a Wind Wooly, a creature that was thought to only exist in filly tales.

With the fear that the creature's legendary status would surely cause Twilight to want to study him further, and possibly even contacting Celestia and wanting to take it away. Fluttershy agrees to keep it a secret as long as the Crucaders agree to keep it out of trouble. After a fun day with their new friend, Sweetie Belle agrees to take it home with her. She wakes up the next morning with her room covered his fur. Scootaloo then takes the creature home for the night only to have its tail banging keep her and her parents up awake at night. Apple Bloom agrees to keep it overnight in the barn, she arrives the next morning that it escaped and began eating bushels of apples after apples.

The Crusaders regroup and decide the best course of action is to have Fluttershy teach them how to discipline it. While they are learning the basics of teaching the Wind Wooly how to behave, Applejack comes by looking for Fluttershy's help in figuring out what caused a quarter of her farm's apples to go missing. There she finds out the that the Crusaders have been keeping a potentially dangerous pet hidden from her, and she grounds the Crusaders to Fluttershy's cottage while she goes to Twilight to figure out a way to get rid of this creature

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>>28722350

Applejack goes to Twilight's castle to see if she can figure out how to get rid of the creature. As soon as she opens it, the creature immediately sends Applejack tumbling as it shows that its tail has impressive strength and flexibility. Twilight notices the creature as a Wind Wooly, stating that they're known for being incredibly hard to capture which is why nopony has ever seen one of them, and that she's also read that capturing one would grant the pony a wish. Twilight tries to grab the Wind Wooly with her magic, but everytime she does so the creature is able to smack himself with his tail to cancel the spell.

They chase the Wind Wooly as it makes a mess in Ponyville trying to get away, noticing that it is heading back towards Fluttershy's cottage. as it reaches Fluttershy's cottage AJ and Twilight try to capture him together, with Twilight holding its tail still with her magic and AJ wrapping its body around with another lasso so he can't get away. The Wind Wooly still struggles straining AJ and Twilight as they try to restrain him the Crusaders come out and order him to stop, immediately he listens and stops what he is doing.

The Crusaders lament that they were right in needing to keep the creature, lamenting that AJ doesn't trust them to take the responsibility of raising the creature and that Twilight's desire to research such a rare creature lead her to neglect the fact that the Wind Wooly was their friend. Fluttershy also explains that the Crusaders had been coming to her to learn how to responsibly take care of the creature. Twilight and AJ apologize for their actions, the crusaders celebrate and deem the Wind Wooly the mascot of the Cutie Mark Crusaders

>>28722350
>Scootaloo
>parents

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>>28722350
>>28722378

>adults are jerks
>childs are rights and know how to care a exotic animal

Nice lesson for the childrens, literally the opposite of pic related

>>28722378
> Cutie Mark Crusaders find a strange egg in the lake near Rarity's/Sweetie Belle's house, they bring it over to Fluttershy to inspect it,
I really the beginning. It really wondered where this is going, because it can be a story of finding the mother, but here it isn't. It also sets up a scenario where the CMCs have to be like parents, so the audience can see how well they matured over the course of the show. Very good!
>Sweetie Belle agrees to take it home with her. She wakes up the next morning with her room covered his fur. Scootaloo then takes the creature home for the night only to have its tail banging keep her and her parents up awake at night. Apple Bloom agrees to keep it overnight in the barn, she arrives the next morning that it escaped and began eating bushels of apples after apples.
I think the crusaders should keep the creature at their tree house. AJ can check for the CMCs there, cause she's wondering where AB is the whole day or something like that. I think it saves valuable time, that would otherwise be needed to introduce us to Scootaloo's parents and house and deal with Rarity's reaction.
> The Crusaders regroup and decide the best course of action is to have Fluttershy teach them how to discipline it.
Good call back to the Staremaster episode. Also Fluttershy would keep this a secret, she is always on the animals side, just like in the episode "Bats!".

> makes a mess in Ponyville
I'm a little conflicted about that part. We already had that with the little critters doing that once and they seem similar to Wind Wooly. I think it should only rebel against Twilight and Applejack and then run off to search refuge.

> Fluttershy also explains that the Crusaders had been coming to her to learn how to responsibly take care of the creature. [...] the crusaders celebrate and deem the Wind Wooly the mascot of the Cutie Mark Crusaders
I think Fluttershy should take care of the creature and report back to Twilight, while the CMCs can pet it.

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> Equestrian entrepeneurs

Thoughts or reasoning on this: Flim and Flam's destiny isn't to be some con-ponies, they are inventors! The cutiemarks of the two brothers are apples after all. They just lost their way after being losing against the Apple family. Proof is pic related. They lost their confidence.

So one day the brothers show up at the CMCs because they left the casino. After all they've been jumping jobs all the time. They ask for help, especially applebloom. They feel like they are in a midlife crisis.
The Apple family hears about this, granny smith and AJ have a song about family and tradition while Applebloom wants to do everything to help Flim and Flam fulfill their destiny.
In the end she learned to take pride in her work, just like the rest of the Apple family does.

So AB sneaks out to travel with the brothers, while the brothers tell her about their newest invention and their backstory, The father of the brothers was a rather traditional hard working guy that always came tired after work. His boys tried to make him happy with their ideas, kinda like Applejack did when she was young. However, he wasn't impressed by all their wacky inventions and didn't appreciate the spirit of his kids. They swore they would make him happy and convince him! After they tried to build a machine to help him at work, the machine explodes, he loses his job and kicks Flim and Flam out of the house. And that's why they travel around, to ONE DAY come home successful and rich.

The newest invention doesn't really matter too much, maybe just sprinklers for Apple trees.

End of the story is that the brothers end up in Appleloosa, meet the rest of the Applefamily that has been searching for Applebloom. Applebloom convinces AJ that Flim and Flam have nothing bad in mind and that the invention is great. Flim and Flam make a deal with Braeburn, after AJ gives her word. Because her honest word is really valuable. Then they promise Applebloom to give their old father a visit.

>>28722140
This is a nice idea, OP. But we're disqualified to write for the show. As this season proved, new writers are required not to have watched a single episode of the show ever, and (un)fortunately pretty much all of us have watched more than one hundred episodes. Maybe we could write an interesting episode, but we don't meet Josh Haber's strict requirements.

>>28722797
A nice idea, but they were villains even when they had a legitimate invention. Remember SSCS2000?

>>28722140
So no two parters?

>>28722826
What did they really do in that episode that could be considered villainous?

>>28722890
Perhaps I should restate, because that's the question I was trying to ask with my comment:

Even when they had a legitimate invention with a valid improvement over the existing ways of the Apple Family, they were portrayed as the villains by the episode - as slimy businessmen (ponies?) come to somehow cheat out the good, hard-working Apple Family. The bizarrest thing is that they were somehow supposed to contrast against Applejack's honesty, but I can't actually remember them lying once in the episode.

"X did nothing wrong" is a bit of a meme, but in this case the brothers literally did nothing wrong and a great deal right - yet they were still shown as the episode's villains.

>the power of tears
sunset shimmer uses the power of /mlp/'s tears to make herself canon

>>28722826
>>28722941
I think they were antagonist in their first appearance. They pissed some people off and threatened to undercut the Apple family and drive them out of business, but I can easily brush it off as business strategy. Then they called Granny a chicken to get their competition. And I think they would just force the Apple family to the 75/25 deal they wanted in the first place. In the end they cant run a farm.


>>28722860
If you want to, feel free. I will do twice the reading.

>>28722140
>handling death is kinda grim and little too much
Why tho?
Back in my childhood you regularly saw an episode about death
But i guess faggots are even weaker in todays world

>>28723196
We already had "Tanks for the memories" to tackle loss. I also think that we don't need such an episode, but feel free to make a pitch.

>>28723260
> Hibernation equals death
just kill yourself already

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Bump of creativity

Does someone have a headcanon on Moondancer?

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Outer Starlight Part 1

The episode begins in the Crystal Empire library where Spike is managing ponies who are setting up comic books on shelves. Starlight asks what Spike is doing, to which he explains that Shining Armor put him in charge as the curator for the soon to be comic book wing. Starlight asks why such a thing would be necessary, Spike explains that you might never know what to do if somepony creates an evil duplicate of you, or some mishap with a spell makes your house want to eat you, or you shrink down to the size of an ant, or you get abducted by aliens. Starlight laughs it off as Spike overreacts to one of the mover ponies not realizing following his ridiculously geeky rules for sorting comics.

The four princesses along with Shining Armor and the mane6 are discussing a series of magical surges happening across Equestria. They determined that according to a pattern the being will strike the Crystal Empire next and she wants to capture the being and prevent it from causing any other magical power surges. Our cast splits up or patrols the area around the Crystal Empire hoping to capture the being as soon as they can. Needless to say the being arrives, and immediately the pegasai lose control of their flying, spells unicorn spells start becoming uncontrollable in terms of output, and crystal apples start growing around Applejack. Amidst this chaos, Starlight manages to locate the creature near the outskirts of the town. Starlight manages to pin the creature with her magic, but it opens a portal that when her combined with her magic causes it to become a vacuum that sucks her in.

>>28724220
Starlight finds herself on what appears to be the creature's home which seems to be a flying mettalic object and comes across the creature going over information on a display. She is completely shocked and angry when she spots pictures of her and her friends on the monitor. She then notices one of the beings giant colored wings, and how similar they are to a pegasus, wondering if a pony is behind all of this. One of wings turns and immediately Starlight notices the wings have faces on them. The wing makes an adorable squeak alerting the being that there is an intruder, and showing Starlight that this is indeed not a pony.

Starlight and the alien both freak out, with the alien panicking that he cannot perform any further research since he has been by one of the subjects. AFter a moment to calm down, she notices right away that the alien has two giant wings with ridiculous faces on them. He explains they are bonded wing-shaped comrades (named Lift and Rise) and he himself is named Simon, an aspiring intergalactic explorer hoping to discover and research intelligent life across the universe.

Starlight asks what is going on and the alien explains that he has been across Equestria for several days studying the species to learn all he can in the interest of science and possibly so his race may start a peaceful relationship with the Equestrians

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I would like an episode where Twilight gets her own guards for her castle. I'm not sure how the episode should play out, but it's been twice now that someone just walks into Twi's castle and fucked her shit. There's also the benefit of having the castle not seam so empty and lifeless.

>>28724441
Nope, I want to see Twilight will sale her castle for a auction and upset the three princesses and Twilight explain that she's doesn't want to live in that castle anymore and Princess Celestia will be disappointed and understand that her former student give up her castle for her old home, the Golden Oak Library. And Luna and Cadance understand Twilight's decision.

>>28724501
>t.Faustfag
Even if I agreed with you, you and I both it'll never happen.

>>28724546
Shut up, the castle musts be destroyed and be the end of it in S7 because Hasbro create a pointed middle finger castle and stealing ideas from Disney.

>>28724220
>>28724277
Gonna read it tomorrow. Really gives the two parter feeling already :D :S

>>28724617
>>28724501
We already got Castle Sweet Castle, stop it already.

>>28724645
No, the castle will be blown up with chaos like a Death Star in S7.

>>28724277
Meanwhile back in Equestria, our heroes are worried about the prospect that Starlight might have actually been abducted by an alien. Shining Armor, Fluttershy, Applejack, and Cadance are tasked with trying to keep the Crystal Ponies calm while Sunburst, Pinkie Pie, Twilight and Spike head to the library to figure out a book that might give them any clue on how to get their friend back, Spike immediately goes searching in the comic book section believing that if it really is an alien it's probably going to be extremely difficult to find any help in old history books or guides to Equestria.

Sure enough he finds the answer in a comic book that explains that even after a portal disappears it still likely leaves an energy signature, and if enough magic is blasted at it, they can force it open.

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>>28725956
>Outer Starlight Part 2
On the alien’s ship Starlight Glimmer asks Simon why he was causing all of the magical power surges. Simon looks shocked as he was unaware that he was causing any problems as he was trying to recreate magical energy the ponies were using in Equestria, but however he was unable to create anything using the magic, so he felt that he just needed to generate more energy to compensate, but he over did it. Starlight Glimmer explains that the magic of Equestria is tied to the world and the beings that live there. Starlight explains that he has been causing many problems in Equestria with magical power surges. Realizing the damage he has done, Simon freaks out and tries to immediately set a course back to his home planet with Starlight in tow.

Starlight attempts to use magic Simon, to knock some sense, but accidentally grabs the whole ship. She then struggles to halt the ship in place until Simon agrees to cancel the trip back home. He calms down and sets a course to bring Starlight back down to the surface, and then immediately head back home before any of the ponies decide to take action against him. The Mane Six and Spike come aboard the ship via the portal, almost immediately Twilight attempts to grab Simon with her magic only to send the ship spiraling out of control towards the ground. The crash causes the ship’s engines to shut down and the portal to deactivate.

>>28725992
With our heroes dazed from the crash Simon opens a door and attempts to flee by taking to the skies and having his wings exhale a huge amount of air to simulate a jetpack engine, Simon is almost immediately stopped by Celestia, who keeps him held long enough for her guards to wrap him up and take him away. Starlight tries to explain that Simon is harmless, but no one believes her, thinking that Simon is just trying to appear innocent and scared to gain their trust, but Starlight doesn’t believe he is trying to deceive her. He is taken away and locked up in one of the Crystal Empire dungeons.

At night time Starlight Glimmer manages to free Simon via a remote teleport spell. The two of them manage to escape and get back to his ship. This alerts the guards which in turn alerts her friends. Her friends insist that she is making a mistake and doesn’t know what the alien could be really planning and tries to use the magical energy inside of the ship to generate a force field so he can escape just in time. Once her friends realize how dedicated she is to defending Simon, they back off and apologize.


Simon, grateful that she managed to defend him and that the natives on the planet are capable of trusting him, asks Starlight if she’ll help continue his research on the pony species. She agrees, but asks how she is going to do it, suddenly a bright light emerges from his back and travels over to her. When the light fades, Lift and Rise are now attached to Starlight Glimmer. He offers his goodbye’s to the ponies and hopes to see them again real soon in the future.

>>28725992
>Causes catastrophic magical calamities wherever he goes
>Trying to study ponies and their magic
>"I didn't know what I was causing, honest!"
Is this guy supposed to be blind or just stupid? How is he studying them if he doesn't notice he's a walking catastrophe wherever he goes?

>Kind-of alicorn Starlight
Oh hell no.

>>28726702
Probably more of oblivious since he was busy studying magic to notice, but yeah this is a plothole

And Starlight's change isn't even permanent, it is just her getting a pet.

Based on the recent interview with M.A. Larson, it seems that writing for MLP has become a bloated and bureaucratic process involving the whining, whimsical bitching of everyone above you plus their moms. As he described it, "You propose an outline, and in the early seasons they gave you back a few notes. These days they give you back two pages of notes, and you're still expected to do the script in the same amount of time."

Basically, if you try to write for this show today, you'll do so with a hundred hands up your ass trying to manage you like a puppet, and you'll barely have the creative freedom to do something better than "AJ fixes a steam pipe".

>Sitcom ep about the Canterlot friends from Amending Fences. Twilight segways by writing Moondancer about some obscure research she needs done but doesn't have time for. Dusty old book quest becomes wacky adventure when the three ditzes get involved. Cameos from Lyra and Bonbon.

>Flurry Heart Levels Up
We get the royal family's perspective on crystal empire culture and politics through the lens of Flurry Heart's first magic lessons with Sunburst. Cadence gets some depth and Shining Armor and Sunburst get bro time. Flurry Heart learns a few funny catchphrases and almost collapses the universe.

>Yak Wedding
The M6 are entertained as guests of honor for a royal Yakyakistan wedding, unaware that a translation error has arranged for one of them to be the bride. Fluttershy is my pick because it'd work well with her friends pushing her around to handle it their way while the yaks try to push her into the ceremony.

>Pinkie Burnt Pie
Pinkie rekindles a youthful connection with a pony who is even higher energy than her. While being worn out by having too much fun, Pinky doesn't realize that her old friend is actually an insecure sociopath trying to replace Ponk in the esteemed Princess's circle.

I could do this all night, what's harder is making the titles into puns. That part needs work.

>Rarity ep #45802
Rarity accidentally makes clothes with cursed gems in them. Standard arc of success, suspicion, disaster. The clothes are a success and by the time Rarity realizes they are making ponies evil, the whole thing has gone too far and she tries to cover it up on the eve of the big fashion show or whatever. Spike saves the day by eating all the cursed gems.

>Fluttershy's Choice
Fluttershy takes in an injured animal who must be fed other animals in order to survive. If this could be pulled off without getting too dark, it could be Little Shop of Horrors in pony form. I am giggling just thinking about it.

How about starting with a Days of Futures Past episode that resets the present to the beginning of season 6 so that you can go back and do it right this time?