February 21, 2015, Gerf Season 2
This week, on My Little Pony…
“Necklace, necklace, necklace, necklace, and… big crown thingy! Come on, everypony, let’s go!”
“But Twilight, aren’t you missing somepony?”
“Nope: we’ve got the liar, the grump, the hoarder, and the brute. That just about covers it.”
“But what about Rainbow Dash?”
“Congratulations, Spike, you’re the new Rainbow Dash. Now let’s go!”

After losing Applejack to compulsive lying, Pinkie Pie to angry paranoia, Rarity to abject greed, Fluttershy to bullydom, and Rainbow Dash to… well, losing Rainbow Dash altogether, Twilight Sparkle stages a last-ditch effort to vanquish Discord using the just-recovered Elements of Harmony. But with the living and breathing embodiments of the Elements so corrupted, the heroic move ends up fizzling out in rather undramatic fashion and Twilight joins the disharmonious group on account of a broken heart. Is friendship dead? Does Discord rule? Does Celestia drool?
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