- Fluttershy: Dear Princess Celestia, sometimes you can feel like what you have to offer is too little to make a difference, but today, I learned that everypony's contribution is important, no matter how small. If you just keep your head high, do your best, and believe in yourself, anything can happen.
- Rainbow Dash: [flying over Ponyville dropping flyers] Calling all pegasus ponies! Meeting tonight!
- Flitter: [reading] Mandatory meeting for all Ponyville pegasi.
- Rainbow Dash: Library, tonight. Be cool, or be mule.
- [to a mule]
- Rainbow Dash: No offense.
- Mule: None taken.
- Film Announcer: Every living thing depends on the life-giving nourishment of rainwater, and it is up to Cloudsdale to provide rain-filled clouds to every corner of Equestria. But how, one pony might ask, does Cloudsdale gather all this extra water? Tornado power! That's right, pegasi-driven tornado power. A team of pegasi combine their wing power to create a jumbo tornado, powerful enough to pull water out of the local reservoir, and funnel it all the way up to Cloudsdale. Remember, pegasi, your jumbo tornado must reach a minimum of eight hundred wing power to lift that water up to Cloudsdale. So, the next time you're wondering "Where does all that extra rainwater come from?", just remem-
- [music and voice suddenly halt, the film projector stops working]
- Spike: Uh... intermission?
- Rainbow Dash: So, are we gonna train hard?
- Pegasi: Yeah!
- Rainbow Dash: Are we gonna be strong?
- Pegasi: Yeah!
- Rainbow Dash: Are we gonna be fast?
- Pegasi: Yeah!
- Rainbow Dash: Record-smashing fast?
- Bulk Biceps: Yeah!
- Rainbow Dash: Who's with me?
- Pegasi: Woohoo!
- [cheering]
- Rainbow Dash: [Fluttershy is faking sick to avoid tornado duty] Fluttershy, what happened to you?
- Fluttershy: Oh, I
- [sniffs]
- Fluttershy: I think I have
- [coughs weakly]
- Fluttershy: the pony pox. I'm sorry, I really, really wanted to come to training day today
- [coughs weakly]
- Fluttershy: but this pony pox has really knocked me for a loop. Achoo.
- [coughs weakly]
- Rainbow Dash: Oh, you poor thing. You know, there's only one cure for pony pox.
- Fluttershy: I know, plenty of bed-
- [Rainbow Dash dumps a bucket of water on her, and the spots of "pony pox" wash off, Fluttershy yelps]
- Rainbow Dash: Cold water! Those pony pox are clearing right up.
- Cloudchaser: What exactly does this machine do?
- Twilight Sparkle: This is an anemometer. It measures your accelerative velocity and translates it into wing power, thus gauging your cumulative H2O anti-gravitational potential. Any other questions?
- Flitter: Yeah.
- [turns to Spike]
- Flitter: What exactly does this machine do?
- Spike: It tells you how fast you're flying and how strong your wings are.
- Pegasi: Ohhhh... Okay... I see...
- Rainbow Dash: [about Fluttershy's wind/flight speed] Um... great job, Fluttershy! You measured, uh, uh... point five.
- Spike: .5? Isn't that like... less than one?
- [Twilight hits him]
- Spike: Ow!
- Fluttershy: [under a tree with her animal friends, a squirrel offers some acorns to Fluttershy] Oh, thank you, but I'm afraid a couple of little acorns won't solve my big flying problem.
- Fluttershy: [a mother duck with two ducklings quacks twice] I tried, but you should've seen those ponies laughing at me...
- Fluttershy: [two birds chirp and pull Fluttershy up by her mane] I know it's important to have confidence in myself...
- Fluttershy: [a badger chatters at her] Yes, yes, I do remember. The river was swelling...
- Fluttershy: [the badger chatters more and pretends to have a heart attack and faint] ... and you were scared...
- Fluttershy: [badger squeaking, looks at Fluttershy angrily] ... yes, I *did* tell you to never give up... and to believe in yourself. You're right, my friends. I shouldn't give up. I *will* get my confidence up and show everypony that I *am* a good flyer! A *great* flyer!
- Spike: [a squirrel chatters at Spike] What did he say?
- Twilight Sparkle: Do I *look* like I speak squirrel?
- Twilight Sparkle: [a Pegasus coughs] Is that you again, Thunderlane? Please, we need to have a germ-free environment.
- Thunderlane: It wasn't me, it was Blossomforth.
- Rainbow Dash: So you won't fly with 10.0 wing power. Every bit counts!
- Fluttershy: How would *you* feel if everypony else was flying with 10.0 wing power and *you* were flying with 2.5?
- Spike: Actually, it was only 2.3, and- ow!
- [Twilight hits him and motions a lip-zipping]
- Rainbow Dash: [Spike shows Rainbow Dash a roll call roster indicating the absence of Thunderlane] Lazy Thunderlane! Where is he? He's been trying to get out of tornado duty the whole time with his fake coughing and all. Rumble, where's your lazy brother?
- Rumble: He's got the feather flu. He's down at Ponyville hospital.
- Spike: But he's not the only one.
- [Spike shows the next page of the roster, with more absent pegasi]
- Twilight Sparkle: [after the pegasi have failed once at making a strong enough tornado] If you break apart again, somepony could get hurt! You should quit, it's not safe!
- Rainbow Dash: No! One more time! I've gotta know we gave it our all! If I'm going down, I'm going down flying!
- Twilight Sparkle: [looking at the anemometer and Fluttershy still too scared to join in] Seven ninety five! We are so close! Fluttershy, they need you up there!
- Fluttershy: I won't make a difference!
- Twilight Sparkle: You *can* make a difference!
- Fluttershy: My measly 2.3 wing power is still too little!
- Spike: It's sticking at seven ninety five! I don't know if they've got any more in 'em!
- Twilight Sparkle: Do it for Equestria! Do it for Rainbow Dash! Do it for yourself!
- Rainbow Dash: [after a successful transfer of water to Cloudsdale by tornado, Fluttershy is still flying in circles after everypony else has stopped; Rainbow Dash stops her with a small cloud] Whoa, girl, take it easy!
- Fluttershy: [slightly dazed] Whuh, what? Did we do it?
- Rainbow Dash: Yeah, we did it! You did it!
- [they give each other a wing version of a "high five"]
- Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy: Ah!
- Flitter: Great job, Fluttershy, that was awesome!
- Cloudchaser: Yeah, we couldn't have done it without you.
- Spitfire: Nice job, Rainbow Dash. You may not have set a new record, but you showed a lot of guts.
- Rainbow Dash: Thanks, but if you wanna talk guts, then you've gotta give it to my number one flyer, Fluttershy! Let's hear it for Fluttershy!
- Pegasi: [chanting] Fluttershy! Fluttershy! Fluttershy can really fly!
- [cheering]
- [repeated line]
- Pegasus foals: Fluttershy, Fluttershy, Fluttershy can hardly fly!