- Young Rarity: Maybe I'm not meant to be a fashionista after all...
- [suddenly, her horn activates itself]
- Young Rarity: What's going on?
- Rarity: [her horn starts dragging her out of the building and across the landscape; voiceover] I had no idea where my horn was taking me. But unicorn magic doesn't happen without a reason. I knew this had to do with my love of fashion and maybe even my cutie mark! I knew that this was... MY DESTINY!
- Young Rarity: [Rarity's horn brings her to a giant rock] A ROCK? *that's* my destiny? What is your problem, horn? I followed you all the way out here for a ROCK?
- [groans]
- Young Rarity: Dumb rock!
- [a rainbow explosion happens in the distance, breaking open the geode to reveal many gems and emeralds inside]
- Young Rarity: Ooh!
- Apple Bloom: This town is full of ponies who have their cutie marks. Why don't we ask them how they did it?
- Sweetie Belle: That's a great *safe* idea.
- Scootaloo: Yeah! And we can start with the coolest pony in Ponyville.
- Apple Bloom: Applejack!
- Sweetie Belle: Rarity!
- Scootaloo: Come on, guys, I said "cool"! You know who I'm talking about. She's fast. She's tough. She's not afraid of anything!
- Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle: Pinkie Pie?
- Scootaloo: No! The greatest flyer ever to come out of Cloudsdale.
- Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle: Fluttershy?
- Scootaloo: No! Rainbow Dash!
- Apple Bloom: Oh! Yeah, that makes much more sense.
- Princess Celestia: You have a very special gift. I don't think I've ever come across a unicorn with your raw abilities.
- Young Twilight Sparkle: Huh?
- Princess Celestia: But you need to learn to tame these abilities through focused study.
- Young Twilight Sparkle: Huh?
- Princess Celestia: Twilight Sparkle, I'd like to make you my own personal protege here at the school.
- Young Twilight Sparkle: HUH?
- Princess Celestia: Well?
- [Twilight looks at her parents, who nod enthusiastically]
- Young Twilight Sparkle: YES!
- Princess Celestia: One other thing, Twilight.
- [Twilight looks at her hindquarters]
- Young Twilight Sparkle: More? My cutie mark!
- [she begins prancing around Princess Celestia in happiness]
- Young Twilight Sparkle: Yesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyes...
- Twilight Sparkle: [present day, Twilight prances around the Cutie Mark Crusaders] ... yesyesyesyes...
- Apple Bloom: Okay, okay.
- Sweetie Belle: We're happy for you, Twilight.
- Scootaloo: Yeah, thrilled. Let's get out of here while we still can.
- Twilight Sparkle: ...yesyes, YEEEES!
- Passerby: Are you okay?
- Twilight Sparkle: [giggle] Um... yes.
- Pinkie Pie: [narrating] My sisters and I were raised on a rock farm outside of Ponyville. We spent our days working the fields. There was no talking. There was no smiling. *sigh* There were only rocks. We were in the south field, preparing to rotate the rocks to the east field when all of a sudden...
- [a large rainbow appears in the sky and makes Pinkie's hair poof out, previously being completely straight]
- Pinkie Pie: I never felt joy like that before. It felt so good I just wanted to keep smiling forever. And I wanted everyone I knew to smile too, but rainbows don't come along that often. I wondered, how else could I create some smiles?
- [young Pinkie dashes off with an idea]
- Pinkie's father: [the next day] We'd better harvest the rocks from the south field.
- Pinkie's mother: Pinkamina Diane Pie! Is that you?
- Young Pinkie Pie: [pops her head out of the doorway of the silo, where loud polka music is coming from] Mom! I need you and Dad and the sisters to come in. Quick!
- [her family walks in]
- Young Pinkie Pie: Surprise! You like it? It's called... a party!
- [her family struggles with their facial expressions for a few seconds]
- Young Pinkie Pie: Oh. You don't like it.
- [they suddenly burst into smiles]
- Young Pinkie Pie: *GASP* You like it! I'm so happy!
- [young Pinkie gets her cutie mark]
- Pinkie Pie: [back on Scootaloo's scooter-pulling-a-wagon] And that's how Equestria was made!
- Scootaloo: Wha... huh?
- Apple Bloom: Look! We're here!
- [Sugarcube Corner]
- Pinkie Pie: Maybe on the way home I can tell you the story of how I got my cutie mark. It's a gem!
- Sweetie Belle: Oh, come on. She's just being Pinkie Pie.
- Scootaloo: Ugh! These namby-pamby stories aren't getting us any closer to our cutie marks! They're all about finding who you really are and boring stuff like that.
- Twilight Sparkle: [dictating to Spike] Dear Princess Celestia: Today I learned something amazing. Everypony everywhere has a special magical connection with her friends, maybe even before she's met them. If you're feeling lonely and you're still searching for your true friends, just look up in the sky. Who knows? Maybe you and your future best friends are all looking at the same rainbow.
- Spike: Gross! When did you get so cheesy?
- Twilight Sparkle: [smiling] Just write it, Spike.
- Scootaloo: [towing Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle in a wagon attached to her scooter] Aw, why don't ever smash into Rainbow Dash?
- Pinkie Pie: [popping out of the back of the wagon wearing a helmet like the other girls] You're looking for Rainbow Dash? If I was her, I'd be at Sugarcube Corner. Of course, if I was anyone, I'd be at Sugarcube Corner. Hey! I have an idea! Wanna go to Sugarcube Corner?
- Fluttershy: [narrating] You'd never guess, but when I was little I was very shy. And a very weak flyer.
- Young Billy Dumbbell: [laughter] Nice going, "Cluttzershy"! They outta ground you permanently.
- Young Hoops: [Billy and Hoops are also young] HA! My baby brother can fly better than you!
- Fluttershy: It was the most humiliating moment of my life. And then, out of nowhere...
- Young Rainbow Dash: Leave her alone!
- Young Hoops: Ooh, what are you gonna do, "Rainbow Crash"?
- Young Rainbow Dash: Keep making fun of her and find out!
- Young Billy Dumbbell: You think you're such a big shot? Why don't you prove it?
- Young Rainbow Dash: Whaddya have in mind?
- [a race]
- Fluttershy: I had never seen such beautiful creatures. Butterflies don't fly as high as my cloud home. And I've never been near the ground before.
- Young Fluttershy: [singing] What is this place/Filled with so many wonders?/Casting its spell/That I am now under? Squirrels in the trees/And the cute little bunnies/Birds flying free/And bees with their honey! Hooneeeeey!
- Young Fluttershy: [tempo picks up] Oooh, what a magical place/And I owe it all to the pegasus race!/If I knew the ground had so much up its sleeve/I'd have come here sooner, and never leave!/Yes, I love everything!
- [holds the last note]
- Applejack: [narrating] I knew I'd find out who I was meant to be in Manehattan.
- Young Applejack: [arriving at her aunt and uncle's home] Aunt Orange! Uncle Orange! Thank y'all so much for lettin' me stay!
- Aunt Orange: "Y'all". Ahahaha... Isn't she just the living end?
- Uncle Orange: [chuckle] How quaint.
- Aunt Orange: Don't worry. We'll have you acting like a true Manehattanite in no time.
- Gentlestallion: [at a lunch with many other ponies later that day] And how are you finding good old Manehattan?
- Young Applejack: [with a cultured accent] Oh, it's simply divine.
- Aunt Orange: Very well said, my dear.
- Young Applejack: [keeping her accent] Although, I must admit the city noise took some getting used to. Where I'm from, nights are so quiet you seldom hear a peep until the roosters wake you.
- Gentlemare: The... what?
- Gentlestallion: I say, my dear, what in the world is a "rooster"?
- Young Applejack: [thinking to herself] What's he talking about? What do I say? I don't wanna look like a fool.
- Fluttershy: [after Rainbow Dash finishes her story] Wait a second. I heard that explosion. And I saw the rainbow too. Rainbow Dash, if you hadn't scared the animals, I never would have learned I could communicate with them and gotten my cutie mark.
- Pinkie Pie: I heard that boom! And right afterwards, there was this amazing rainbow that taught me to smile.
- Applejack: When I got my cutie mark, I saw a rainbow that pointed me home. I bet it was your sonic rainboom!
- Rarity: There was an explosion I could never explain when I got my cutie mark.
- Twilight Sparkle: This is uncanny! If that explosion didn't happen when it did, I would have blown my entrance exam. Rainbow Dash, I think you helped me earn my cutie mark too!
- Rainbow Dash: [Pinkie tackles her] Whoa!
- Pinkie Pie: We *all* owe our cutie marks to you!
- Fluttershy: Do you realize what this means? All of us had a special connection before we even met.
- Rarity: We've been BFFs forever and we didn't even know it!
- Applejack: Come here, y'all.
- [the Mane Six come together for a warm group hug]
- Fluttershy: I'm so glad we're friends!
- Pinkie Pie: I love you guys!
- Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle: Awwww...
- Scootaloo: Ewwww... Gimme a break. Come on, Crusaders! Maybe we just need to try zip lining again.
- [Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle pull her into a group hug of their own]