"Well Twilight or, Princess Twilight Sparkle, what will be your first decree now that not only do you rule over Ponyville, but also do it all from a crystal tree shadowing over the town?" Discord asks inside the sovereign crystal meeting room of Twilight's new castle.
"It doesn't shadow over the town... but, I'm still not sure. Everything's fine until the next villain comes around. I guess we can just go to more parades and wave until then." Twilight says slumped back in her crystal throne.
"Come on sugarcube there's plenty of things a great team of friends like us could do to improve on Ponyville!" Hovering above her throne on the other side of the crystal chamber Rainbow questions "Oh yeah, like what?"
"Uh..." Rarity chimes in "I think your first decree should be to redesign this room. I like crystals and all but some of these walls seem to be more like diamonds in the rough!"
Rarity continues on when a few ideas seem to pop into her head. "And I know just what to do with this place, I'll just add some more tapestries, file down some of the crystals randomly sticking out of the floor, chip away some designs into the pillars (we'll probably have to hire somepony for that), add more lights..."
As Rarity trails off turning and twisting in her chair trying to get a better look at the window behind her Pinkie Pie exclaims "Oooh! I've got the perfect idea! How about... we end world hunger."
"How would we do that?" Twilight wonders. "Well first we'd take all the apples from Sweet Apple Acres... and make the world's biggest pie! And then, feed it to all the hungry little zebras I keep hearing about in the paper. Actually I'm not to sure where zebras even come from? And is all the apples in Sweet Apple Acres REALLY enough to feed all those skinny zebras?"
"I don't know, but that is a good idea! Let's figure out a way to feed the zebras!" Twilight straightens up in her chair and gets ready to get started when Discord asks "Are you sure there isn't something smaller you could do in the meantime?"
"Like maybe, you and 'Our' friends could try to spread the magic of friendship throughout Ponyville and so on?" Twilight perks up further at the thought "That's a good idea too! Well, I am definitely going to play my part as a princess now!"
Twilight hops up from her slumped position and announces to everypony "Alright I've got a plan! Me and Discord will stay here and work on the starving zebras situation..." Discord lets out an annoyed sigh from the thought of this. "And the rest of you are all in charge of finding ponies in town that need help learning the lessons of friendship. I suppose we can all start now because its early..." Rainbow interjects "Wait a minute, where would we even start?"
"You can all start with anypony you know that doesn't seem to truly understand the lessons of friendship." Pinkie jumps after hearing this and shouts "I'm on it!" as she bursts out the door.
"You can count on us Twi." AppleJack affirms as her, Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy start to leave the room. "Rarity, aren't you coming?"
"Yes, but I mean... there are crystals protruding out of places that crystal should never Ever protrude. And I've seen more crystal tripping hazards than one could even count on my way in here." Twilight blankly looks at Rarity as she asks "Do you want to stay and spruce up the place?"
"Please?" Rarity pleads, pouting her bottom lip and blinking her sad blue eyes. After a long pause Twilight finally caves in, "Fine." As most ponies do in Rarity's pouting gaze.
"Oh thank you! Your castle will be rivaling Celestia's in grandioseness in no time!" Rarity then prances off to brainstorm ideas in another room where she isn't to be distracted.
While walking to the exit through the long crystal halls and spiraling staircases littered throughout Twilight's castle, Fluttershy admits to her friends "I don't like this plan."
"Why not?" asks Rainbow from above. "Well, I do like it, its just that... I don't know anypony that has friendship troubles. The only ponies I ever really talk to are all of you."
"Well why don'tcha ask around , I'm sure there's somepony in town that's having friend problems. Like my neighbors, I've been hearing talk that the've got a relative that has terrible luck with make'n friends. I figure I'd go over an ask 'em if they'd like my help." AppleJack states.
"I've got the perfect stallion to work with!" Rainbow declares in a challenging way towards AppleJack. "Oh yeah, how so?"
"Well, not only did he have an abusive foalhood but he can't keep a friend for more than a week because of... anger issues, or something?" Fluttershy is shocked by this news, "Oh my, that sounds terrible!"
"Yeah, but I'm up to the challenge. I'll teach him the lessons of friendship, even if I have to buck the lessons into him!"
"Rainbow Dash, No!" Fluttershy quietly yells out as Rainbow giggles like a scheming little school filly.
They both finally make it to the exit and walk out into the embrace of the cool air and bright sun that covers Equestria in the morning. They all say goodbye and go their seperate ways. AppleJack trots towards the farm, Rainbow Dash flies off and over a hill in the distance and Fluttershy nervously walks down the dirt path to Ponyville.
"Ooh. I don't like this idea... not one bit." Fluttershy thinks to herself. "At least it's bright and sunny out and... aw, the mocking birds must be back in town. And with new stories to tell!" The singing of her bird friends and wonderful fragrances of flowers calms her down and takes her mind off of talking to strange ponies for most of the trip.
But the market is especially busy today, and Fluttershy... is shy.