The Mane Six are introduced to Cadance and Shining Armor's new foal; Twilight gives Starlight a friendship lesson.

Eternal winter makes its way to the Crystal Empire; Starlight struggles to reunite with her old friend.

Rarity and Pinkie Pie are both excited to arrive in Manehattan. While Rarity is planning to spend her day finding the ideal location to open a new boutique, Pinkie Pie is excited to be with her sister, Maud, for their annual Pie Sister Surprise Swap Day. Since Pinkie is convinced her sister is better at giving gifts than her, she's excited she finally found Maud the perfect gift - a rock pouch for her pet rock, Boulder. But the problem is she can't get to the store and buy the pouch without ruining the surprise for Maud. Rarity offers to help by leading a tour of the city that takes them near the store. Once they're close enough, Rarity distracts Maud. Pinkie sneaks away, only to find the pouch store's closed. While trying to find a new gift for Maud, Rarity spots a pony with the rock pouch Pinkie wanted. Pinkie chases him down and finds he's willing to trade his rock pouch for her party cannon. When Pinkie meets up with Rarity at the park before the gift exchange, she admits she ...

With their goal achieved, the Cutie Mark Crusaders, especially Apple Bloom, are at a loss of what to do next with their lives.

Summoned to the Dragon Lands, Spike must compete for the title of Dragon Lord.

Starlight Glimmer excitedly introduces her new friend to Princess Twilight Sparkle, but Twilight is shocked to learn it's Trixie.

After Rainbow Dash achieves her dream of becoming a Wonderbolt, she makes a disastrous first impression and gets saddled with a mortifying nickname.

Starlight Glimmer has a case of the holiday blues, so Twilight tries to help cure her by reading one of her favorite Hearth Warming's Eve stories, A Hearth's Warming Tale.

When Rarity opens her flagship store in Manehattan, a tell-all article threatens to expose how badly her friends almost ruined the Grand Opening.

Rarity struggles to get Applejack to relax at the spa; when Twilight and Spike attempt to take over Applejack's simple farm chores, it turns out to be a more difficult job than they thought.

Fluttershy's brother is freeloading with their parents, Fluttershy attempts to convince her brother to move out, but he moves in with Fluttershy instead, Fluttershy needs to stand up to her brother and help him get over his fear of failure.

Pinkie Pie and Rarity discover a father and daughter struggling to keep their family restaurant open, which is causing tension in their relationship.

While attending a convention, Rainbow Dash meets a pony who hates Daring Do as much as she loves it.

The Cutie Mark Crusaders get the chance to race in the annual Applewood Derby; their teammates Rarity, Applejack, and Rainbow Dash take over the competition.

Rainbow Dash's excessive pranking gets out of hand; the ponies decide to give her a taste of her own medicine.

When Spike travels with Twilight and Starlight back to the Crystal Empire to visit Flurry Heart, they discover the entire empire in a panic due to the reported presence of Changeling spy.

When the Mane 6 leave town, Discord decides to join Spike and Big Mac's top secret guys' night. But much to Discord's dismay, it turns out to be an evening of fantasy role playing.

Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy turn out to be Ponyville's best buckball players; Applejack and Rainbow Dash agree to coach them against Appleoosa.

An enthusiastic young griffin asks the Crusaders to help her get her very own Cutie Mark; the Crusaders encounter a seemingly impossible problem.

The Cutie Map sends Applejack and Fluttershy to Las Pegasus, where they once again run into the Flim Flam brothers.

After missing out on some friendship lessons, Starlight Glimmer tries to impress Twilight Spakrle by tackling some friendship problems at once.

Twilight Sparkle gets different accounts of what happened on a boat trip between Applejack, Rarity and Pinkie Pie.

When Apple Bloom tells a white lie to cover up a mistake, Applejack shares the story of how she came to value honesty.

Twilight Sparkle and Rainbow Dash are called to the Wonderbolt Academy by the Cutie Map to help academy hopefuls Sky Stinger and Vapor Trail with a friendship problem.

When Starlight Glimmer is invited back to her old town for the Annual Sunset Festival, Trixie is brought along with her for support (as the whole idea of Starlight visiting her old town clearly worries her). After a rather overwhelming and unexpected experience, Starlight and Trixie abandon the visit all-together and return back to Ponyville. Although, what's more worrisome is that upon their return, they find that the Mane Six are acting extremely strange and out of character. Starlight, confused and saddened, does not understand why the Mane Six are acting in such an insensitive way. Although, that night, after princess Luna visits Starlight in a dream, it is clear that the problem is far worse than expected leaving only Discord, Trixie, Starlight and Thorax to prevent what is clearly an attack on pony-kind. Written by Fluttershee

Starlight Glimmer, Trixie, Thorax and Discord travel to the Changeling Kingdom to rescue their friends. However upon arriving they discover that Chrysalis has a powerful magical throne that prevents the use of any magic except the changeling kind. To complete their mission, Starlight decides to sneak into the changeling hive and destroy the throne, restoring their abilities. Despite having no magic to assist them, Starlight keeps her disparate collection of heroes together as she figures out ways to use each of their talents to accomplish their goal. Unfortunately, the team gets captured by the changelings one by one until finally Starlight is left to face Chrysalis alone. She tries to convince the Changeling Queen and her minions to stop feeding on the love of others, but Chrysalis won't have it. Things look hopeless until Starlight recognizes that Thorax is the key. She convinces him to freely give love rather than take it, causing him to transform into a new kind of changeling ...