Something is very, very wrong with Equestria's sugar. Ponies with sugary diets have been sleepwalking, sleepeating, and sleep-staging a Canterlot coup d'etat. It falls to the city's most devoted insomniacs to find out why. (Joelestia)
Vinyl goes to band camp. She meets Octavia, a shy girl. She puts out the effort to get Octavia to talk to her, and a fast friendship forms. After spending a summer together, one of them may be falling in love.
Thunderlane has to stand watch as an experimental lightning storm is being tried out on the weather factory's test range, but would rather be watching the buckball playoffs. Suddenly he sees two pegasi trying to outrun the storm and goes to help out.