The Summer Sun Celebration is tomorrow and you've got work to do, but the heat is unbearable. Slipping off to Ponyville's pond to cool down never sounded so good. What could possibly go wrong?
The Crusaders are looking for the perfect gift for Scootaloo. Twilight is testing out a new spell on Rainbow Dash. When Twilight is distracted for a minute, the crusaders whisk Dash away leaving nopony the wiser.
Ponies like balloons for different reasons. Perhaps they keep them afloat while playing in the pool, or liven up a party. Perhaps they have other uses, discussed behind closed doors. For some ponies, a balloon becomes a prison.
Thunderlane wanted to be happy that his little brother finally got himself a special somepony. However, Rumble's some "pony" wasn't really who he expected. For one thing, he was a dragon. Another thing was he was still roughly half Rumble's size.