Premises 10/19 
MLP CHRISTMAS SPECIAL 


It is the night of the Winter Solstice and all of Ponyville has gathered 
together to celebrate “Hearth Warming’s Eve”. On this most special of 
all Equestrian holidays, the three kinds of ponies celebrate their unity 
by staying together all night long. Each town gathers together inside 
their Town Hall. They huddle by three large hearths, exchange 
symbolic gifts and put on play reenacting the founding of Equestria. 


This year, Twilight and her five friends all have key roles in the 
performance. As the play gets under way, we transition from the acted 
version of events to the actual events as they unfolded hundreds of 
years ago. (With our stars still in the ‘role’ of these historical figures 
ala “Mickey’s Christmas Carol”.) In the past, Unicorn, Pegasus and 
Farth Pony were divided with each ‘tribe’ suspicious and hostile 
towards the others. They lived apart and ‘traded’ their skill for magic, 
growing plants and controlling weather begrudgingly. Life was hard 
but manageable. 


Until the Great Blizzard descended on the land. The Pegasus had no 
control over this unending winter storm. (Though the Unicorn and 
Earth Ponies suspected otherwise.) It threatened all three tribes and 
each sent out two scouts to look for a new home where the Great 
Blizzard could not reach. 


These six scouts (played by our six friends) discovered a beautiful land 
with lush grasslands and majestic mountains. But as each set of 
scouts discovers the other two sets of scouts, the same bickering and 
suspicions start up again. And the Great Blizzard catches up with 
them as well! As snow overwhelms this new land, the six are forced to 
seek shelter together. On the coldest, longest night of the year, they 
take an emotional journey together. They discover that the source of 
the Great Blizzard has to do with their own intolerance towards each 
other. The accumulated negative energy of the pony tribes has 
attracted a band of Windigos, magical winter spirits that feed off of 
‘cold-hearted’ creatures. The six overcome their own prejudices 
towards each other, melting their hardened hearts. The Windigos 
retreat. And the first Element of Harmony appears-Generosity. 


The next morning dawns glorious and warm and the six scouts set out 
to take the message of unity back to the rest of the ponies. This warm- 
hearted climax is ruined when they are suddenly covered with snow. 
We transition back to the play to discover that a large gust of wind 
has blown open a Town Hall window and blanketed the stage with 


snow. Unicorns and Earth Ponies blame the Pegasus and everypony 
starts to bicker but they are all silenced by a strange howling wind 

that sounds like the Windigos from the story. They quickly make up 
and huddle together by the fires. 


MAGIC DUEL 


The Great and Powerful Trixie returns to Ponyville and publicly 
challenges Twilight to a Magic Duel. Twilight is uninterested until 
Trixie displays some real magical ability and uses it to cause trouble 
for Twilight’s friends and all of Ponyville. Twilight is sure she can best 
the blowhard Trixie easily. She is over confident, in fact, and spends 
no time practicing for the showdown. She loses. Big Time. She tries to 
be a gracious loser but Trixie is anything but a gracious winner. She 
reveals the key to her success: a rare amulet that amplifies a 
unicorn’s magical power. Twilight is familiar with this relic. It may 
enhance a unicorn’s power but it also corrupts its user. She tries to 
explain the danger to Trixie but all her rival wants to do is gloat. She 
challenges Trixie to a rematch with the amulet as the prize. 


Twilight is taking things seriously this time and hits the books hard, 
trying to learn as much new magic as possible before she has to face 
Trixie again. All of her friends do their best to support her and her 
training except for Rainbow Dash. She scoffs at the idea that you train 
for a duel by reading. Twilight doesn’t take RD’s criticism to heart 
since the Pegasus knows absolutely nothing about magic. But 
Rainbow Dash issues a challenge of her own-she bets she can best 
Twilight in a Magic Duel with that same ‘nothing’ she knows about 
magic. The mock duel goes poorly for Twilight. Rainbow Dash is too 
quick to get hit by the sluggish spells she throws at her. Twilight can 
hardly keep track of her opponent, as she has to constantly look back 
at her spell books to cast the new spells she’s just learned. Dash easily 
wins by turning one of Twilight’s spells against her when she’s not 
looking. Twilight expects that she will now have to deal with Rainbow 
Dash’s gloating as well as Trixie’s. 


But her friend wasn’t going for bragging rights. She wanted to 
illustrate a point. Twilight is easily the greater magician, but if she 
wants to wield more power than Trixie she needs to practice what she 
has learned. Twilight puts herself in Rainbow’s hooves and is put 
through a Rocky-esque training program. When the rematch comes, 
Twilight decimates Trixie with her new physical prowess and 
increased power. She thanks RD for teaching her that ‘book learning’ 
is pointless without the ability to put that learning into practice. 


READING RAINBOW 


Rainbow Dash prides herself on being a ‘pony of action’ and hasn’t got 
time for ‘egg head’ activities like reading. But when RD injures herself 
attempting yet another new stunt, she’s got nothing but time on her 
hooves. The others visit her in the hospital and while there, Twilight 
spots one of her favorite fiction adventure series on the book cart. RD 
scoffs at Twi’s reading suggestion but after visiting hours are over 
and the hours alone accumulate, she’s bored enough to give reading a 
try. Soon she is hooked. She devours the first book and by the end of 
the week she has made it through 6 of the 7 books in the adventure 
series. The only time she isn’t reading is when her friends come to 
visit. She plans to finish the series without any of them ever finding 
out about her bookworm secret. 


But Rainbow Dash’s plans go awry when she is released earlier than 
expected and before she can finish the last book! She scours Ponyville 
for another copy but the only one she can find is Twilight’s. Rainbow 
can’t bring herself to swallow her pride and admit the truth. She tries 
to worm the ending of the series out of Twilight instead, but she isn’t 
very slick and Twilight starts to get suspicious. Rainbow abandons 
this tactic and starts to fake injuries to get back into the hospital so 
she can finish her reading in secret. But the doctors don’t buy any of 
her faked accidents. She visits strange ponies in the hospital and tries 
to bribe them to read the story to her. Finally she hides under 
somepony’s bed till lights out and tries to read the ending by 
moonlight. But some delusional pony with a head injury thinks she’s 
an intruder and after being chased all over town by the orderlies, 
Rainbow is cornered and forced to confess the truth. She LOVES TO 
READ! She apologizes to Twilight for making fun of her. She shouldn’t 
knock something before trying it. 


Rather than rubbing it in, Twilight couldn’t be more pleased that her 
friend has discovered the joys of reading. She gladly lends Rainbow 
Dash the last book in the series and has several other titles to 
recommend. Including a very helpful How To on Aerial Acrobatics. As 
the books pile up on Rainbow’s cloud, she rolls her eyes and chuckles 
at her well-meaning friend.