On Hearth's Warming Eve, Sweetie Belle comes across a lonely Sugar Belle and invites her caroling, where the two Belles confide in one another about life and cutie marks.
Following Twilight Sparkle's explanation of the scientific method, Diamond Tiara says the sonic rainboom is a scientific phenomenon. Scootaloo insists it is magic. The Ponyville schoolhouse is the scene for an unprecedented intellectual dispute.
Cherry Blossom is new to Manehatten, homesick for Dodge Junction, and now she's lost on the way to her first day at school. Luckily for her, there's a tough talking little filly who's willing to take her in hoof.
It looked like the worst summer ever for Silver Spoon. Things only got worse after a canoeing mishap, and she finds herself drawn to a certain unicorn...