MY LITTLE PONY: EQUESTRIA GIRLS—LEGEND OF EVERFREE

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Transcribed by Alan Back (ajback@yahoo.com)

Note:                Each of these snippets except the last is followed by a brief blip of sound and

                a white flash.

(Fade in to Fluttershy standing near the Camp Everfree lakeshore, with Rainbow Dash walking up next to her. This moment is in Act One, shortly before Twilight Sparkle steps on a bad patch of dock planking.)

Fluttershy: It is lovely out here. (A breeze toys with her hair.) The fresh air, the cool breeze… (A bird perches on an extended finger.) …the birds that land on your finger… (She nuzzles it.)

Rainbow: I think that only happens to you.

(A blood-curdling shriek from the o.s. Rarity shatters the calm; zoom out slightly to frame her standing nearby. Nestled in her hair, and making quite a mess of it, is a rather larger avian that has no reservations about squawking out its happiness as she carries on at top volume.)

Rainbow: Or not.

*****

(Twilight and Timber Spruce are talking during the Crystal Ball fundraiser in Act Three.)

Twilight: I’m really glad I met you. (Mild surprise on the tanned face.)

Timber: Uh-oh. (He turns away from the camera.)

Twilight: What?

(When Timber swivels to face her again, he has donned a set of Groucho Marx joke glasses and adopted an exaggerated “Long Island Lockjaw” accent.)

Timber: That sounds like goodbye. And here I was, hoping we’d still be able to hang out.

(She struggles mightily not to laugh at this ridiculous performance, but gives up the fight and uncorks a guffaw.)

Twilight: Oh, you…(He waggles his eyebrows.) …stop it, you have to take it off…I can’t even, I can’t…cut!

*****

(Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie stand at one of the dough-splattered tables in the dining hall, after their cookie-decorating mishap in Act Two. The two shaker cans of sprinkles stand before Pinkie, one missing its lid, but unlike the film scene, the girls are entirely clean.)

Pinkie: I was just tossing sprinkles to Fluttershy, when all of a sudden they glowed!

(She dips a hand into the open can, prompting Fluttershy to turn her head away and throw both arms up over her face. Instead of bringing up a pinch of sugary ordnance, though, the hyperactive girl stops as a thought occurs to her; the timid one relaxes a bit.)

Pinkie: Is “glowed” right? (Hand out.) Glew, glow, glow-glow-glew? (Fluttershy snickers silently and walks off.) “Glew” sounds like it could be right, but I don’t mean “glue” like it’s sticky, I mean “glew” as in the past tense of “glow.” But maybe “glowed” is right, it just sounds wrong, am I right? Glowed? Glowed? Glowed? Glowed? Glew? Glowed?

(Sunset Shimmer crosses to her, eyes brimming with tears from uncontrollable laughter.)

Sunset: (giggling) Pinkie, just tell us what happened!

*****

(Timber helps a life-jacketed Twilight to stand after the dock failure in Act One.)

Timber: I know I’m charming for y—

(He trails off into a string of gibberish and goofy facial expressions—a blown line—that leaves her trying not to laugh.)

*****

(Act Two: Sunset has caught up to Twilight in the woods during the latter’s late-night escape attempt.)

Twilight: How did you know what I was thinking?

(Her loud sniffle and throat-clearing break the tension and prompt Sunset to smirk at her.)

Twilight: Sorry for the snarf. (Embarrassed laugh.)

*****

(Act Three: students work on clearing away the fragments of the dock wrecked by Gloriosa Daisy. She is back to normal and standing with Principal Celestia and Vice-Principal Luna.)

Luna: (chuckling a bit) Why do you think we wanted our staa— (Hiccup.) —whoo! (All laugh at the flub.)

*****

(Act One: during the first night’s campfire, Timber recounts the legend of Gaea Everfree.)

Timber: —and that my great-grandparents were trass-pess— (Silly face.) —trass-passing on her land! (Sheepish expression and exhale.)

*****

(Celestia and Luna stand amid a knot of campers outside the dining hall.)

Celestia: (laughing/whooping, jumping in place) Yes!

(Zoom in to a close-up; it takes her a moment to calm down.)

Celestia: (very embarrassed) So lonely, cheering as one person.

*****

(Act Two: Twilight sits on her bunk in the Sapphire Tent, holding her cell phone and reading Sunset’s text message. Spike is curled up on the mattress and wearing his baseball cap.)

Twilight: It’s Sunset. She says to meet her by the rock worry.

(What follows is a short string of comically unsuccessful attempts to say “rock quarry,” ending with…)

Twilight: Wow! (Spike laughs.)

Spike: (softly, snidely) Rented lips?

Twilight: (very snarky) Oh, funny! You say it. Rock quarry, wock—yeah, say that five times fast.

(Setting the phone down, she tries and fails several times to get the offending words out clearly, with perhaps one decent repetition mixed in among them.)

Twilight: Whoo! That’s a tough one.

(Followed by a quick, silly-sounding round of vocal exercises to limber up the lips and tongue.)

Twilight: Talk about a tongue twister. Rock quarry!

(The bespectacled face scrunches up as Spike just smirks.)

*****

(Applejack stands in the dining hall, shortly after the girls have begun to discover their new powers in Act Two. She has briefly lost her hat from her earlier trip into the lake.)

Applejack: So much for my theory that leavin’ CHS would mean leavin’ any new magic business behind…

(Her last couple of words slow down greatly and trail off into a near-indecipherable mumble.)

Applejack: Sorry. (Clear throat.)

*****

(Outside the boathouse during Act Two. Sunset, having just run into Flash Sentry, stands up holding the stone she picked up under the pretense of hunting for a lost earring.)

Flash: Hey, listen. I’m glad I ran into you.

(And here comes Pinkie’s stoic sister Maud to take the rock from Sunset. She is carrying a box of crackers, which she proceeds to pour over it while walking away—“feeding” it just as she did with her pet rock Boulder in Rainbow Rocks. Instead of the T-shirt and shorts she wore in that appearance, she has donned a dark bluish-gray dress and black belt that match the clothing used by her pony counterpart. Sunset can do nothing but stare at Flash in hopeless confusion and jerk a thumb after the departing Maud as if to say, “Please tell me I didn’t just see that.” His response is a shrug and weak smile; she in turn starts to find the humor in the newcomer’s very odd quirk.)

*****

(During the Crystal Ball, Pinkie sidles up to Sunset.)

Pinkie: (enticingly, extending an arm) You know you want to…

(The yellow-orange girl shrugs resignedly and wraps all ten fingers around the limb. Her eyes flare white and the camera zooms in quickly to an extreme close-up as her telepathy takes hold. The view clears to show both her and Pinkie traipsing through the candy-colored fantasy land that she saw in Pinkie’s mind during Act Two.)

Pinkie: MARSHMALLOWS!!

(Cut to an extreme close-up of Sunset’s face with eyes closed. She opens them and blinks herself back to stunned consciousness; zoom out to frame both girls again. Pinkie pulls her arm away, plucks a marshmallow from her hair, and offers it to the mindreader, whose gears have jammed solid at this vision. Sunset hesitantly takes the treat and boggles as Pinkie backs away, winking and pointing two index-finger guns at her. She glances fearfully down at it, then at the camera as the view “irises out” to black, centered on her face.)