"[galloping hooves] [galloping hooves]" "Greetings, Tantabus." "I am ready." "Do your worst." "[grunts]" "Princess Luna's turning into Nightmare Moon...again!" "[evil laugh]" "Yeah?" "Well, we've got the cure for that!" "[crashing]" "♪ [dramatic] [whoosh] [evil laugh cut short]" "Wait!" "What is it doing?" "NO!" "It's gone!" "[grunts of pain] [happy squeals] [gasping]" "My dream ended happily?" "That cannot happen!" "♪ My little pony, my little pony ♪" "♪ Aaaahhh" "♪ My little Pony" "♪ I used to wonder what friendship could be. ♪" "♪ My Little Pony" "♪ Until you all shared its magic with me. ♪" "♪ Big adventure!" "♪ Tons of fun" "♪ A beautiful heart!" "♪ Faithful and strong!" "♪" "♪ Sharing kindness ♪ it's an easy feat" "♪ And magic makes it all complete!" "♪" "♪ To have my little pony" "♪ Do you know you're all my very best friends?" "♪" "♪" "Pinkie Pie:" "Ooh!" "This is amazing!" "[noisy yawn]" "Yeah, Rarity, thanks for setting all this up." "A grooming day for our pets really was a great idea." "[cat yowls]" "Oh my!" "Oh I'm sorry!" "I didn't get my normal beauty sleep last night." "[hiss]" "You know, [yawn] I didn't sleep well either." "[agreeing murmurs] [upbeat] I'm totally beat, too!" "All right, Winona, time fer yer brushing'." "[yelp of pain]" "[splash]" "Whoops." "I guess I'm too plumb tuckered out to do this right." "[yawn]" "I even went to bed early last night." "But then I had a really scary nightmare." "All:" "Me too!" "Uh, only, you know, I didn't think mine was THAT scary." "Well, mine sure was." "There was this blue smoke monster and" "I dreamt about a blue smoke thingee too!" "Me too!" "So what?" "Probably just a coincidence." "That's an awfully big coincidence." "Huh." "I wonder why I didn't have that nightmare." "I slept great!" "So then what could have given us all the same nightmare?" "I don't know." "But I do know who might." "Spike, could you send a scroll to Princess Luna?" "Sure." "Dear Princess Luna." "Last night, my friends and I all dreamt of a creature made of blue smoke." "I'm sure you're very busy, but [yawn] when you have the chance, please let me know if you have any idea what it could mean." "Yours, [yawn] Princess Twilight Sparkle." "You can leave out the yawns." "[whoosh]" "Which of you saw the creature of blue smoke in your nightmare?" "Wow!" "That was fast!" "We all did." "Not me!" "Ugh!" "We know!" "So you've encountered the smoke monster, too?" "The Tantubus is a creature of my nightmares!" "It escaped from my slumbers yesterday." "But, how did it get into ours?" "The Tantabus is like a parasite." "My dreams must no longer be enough for it." "Now it seeks others to infect and corrupt." "It must have learned of you six from seeing you in my dream." "Whoa whoa whoa!" "So what you're saying is..." "You dreamt about all of them and not me?" "So Smokey gave us bad dreams." "No biggie." "I saw that the Tantabus had grown more powerful, but I did not realize that power was enough to enable it to escape my dreams." "If its power grows, it could very well find a way to escape into the real world." "It could turn all of Equestria into a living nightmare!" "OK, OK, OK!" "I take it back." "That does sound bad!" "Really bad!" "Twilight:" "We've prepared everything exactly as you requested." "Good." "As you six slumber here, I will pursue the creature into whichever of your dreams it infests." "Ooh!" "It'll be like a princess sleepover!" "Speaking of Princesses, aren't you going to ask Celestia for her help as well?" "There is nothing my sister can do." "She has no power in the realm of sleep." "Only I can move from dream to dream." "I am afraid no pony can help me tonight." "Even us?" "Especially you." "You have all suffered so much because of me." "while I hunt the Tantabus in your dreams." "I know you said no pony can help, but I'm no pony." "I'm going to stay up and watch over you guys just in case." "Oh, thank you, Spike." "One good thing about not sleeping well last night:" "shouldn't be too hard to fall asleep now!" "Are you kidding?" "This is so exciting," "I don't know how I'm ever going to - [snoring]" "Oh my!" "This is simply divine!" "How avant-garde!" "Forget avant-garde." "I should have said, "en-garde!"" "[squeals]" "It is here!" "You were such a pretty little chiffon!" "What kind of monster would do this?" "The Tantabus." "No!" "Please!" "I don't want you to suffer any more because of me." "I will catch it!" "It has jumped into another dream!" "I am sorry, but if I am to stop it," "I must follow it where you cannot." "Go!" "[crash]" "I shall be able to handle things here!" "[gulp]" "I hope." "♪ La la la la!" "[giggle]" "♪ La la la la la!" "I followed the Tantabus here." "Now I need only find" "Sorry!" "Can't help it." "An idea pops into my head and-- [gasp]" "Oooh!" "Cake!" "[splat] [growl]" "Eww!" "Cake!" "[whoosh]" "No!" "Sorry!" "Who wants ice cream?" "Hmmm." "It's so nice to be the pet for once." "[shriek]" "N-n-nice, giant, evil Angel?" "[panicked yelp]" "Whew!" "Oh, thank you, Princess!" "[slam] [chomping]" "Now, this is what I call an incredible dream!" "I can see the Tantabus has already turned your slumbers into a nightmare!" "What are you talking about?" "This is my favorite dream!" "♪ We are such happy flowers!" "♪ We will now sing for hours!" "♪ Aren't we unbearably cute?" "♪ Watch me solo on jazz flute!" "♪ [screams in horror]" "Huh?" "[gasp]" "[gasp]" "Luna!" "[grunts] [shuddering yelps]" "What happened?" "Are you guys OK?" "That...that was terrible!" "I..." "I never want to have that nightmare again!" "[shudder]" "Me either!" "But Luna caught it?" "Didn't she?" "I am so sorry, my friends." "I failed." "It will be back to infect your dreams the next time you sleep." "Oh, no!" "Yeah, I reckon I could live without seeing that thing ever again." "But you will." "Again and again." "Every night." "Until it grows powerful enough to infect the waking world!" "After what I did as Nightmare Moon, the fact that I am once again responsible for harming others is more than I can bear." "It'll be OK." "Everypony makes mistakes." "As long as none of you dreamt about another pony, the Tantabus remains confined to your dreams." "I still have a chance to catch it before it's too late!" "Although after you left, I did happen to dream" "I was eating a giant ice cream cone with all of Ponyville while taking a test we hadn't studied for." "See, what did I tell ya?" "Everypony makes mistakes!" "But that means the Tantabus could be turning every dream in Ponyville into a nightmare!" "Infecting all those dreams gives it more and more power." "Soon it will be able to escape into the real world and infect Equestria with its nightmare plague!" "Then you must let us help you stop it before that happens!" "But how?" "The Tantabus was able to escape Luna when it only had SIX dreams it could get to." "It is true." "With so many dreams to hide in," "I do not know how I can catch it." "Hmmm." "What if everypony in Ponyville were having one dream?" "I can create shared dreams, yes." "But for so many ponies at once?" "I have never done anything like that." "The amount of power it would take..." "Fluttershy:" "Well, it is worth a try." "Isn't it?" "Of course." "I will do anything to end this." "Including accept your help." "I cannot allow the Tantabus to escape into the real world." "All of you must now go back to sleep." "And hope that I can create such a dream... [snoring]" "[whoosh]" "[gasp] Princess Luna did it!" "Big Mac!" "Boy, I'm glad to see something familiar!" "E-yup." "Princess Luna:" "Ponies!" "Princess Luna!" "There is no time for bowing, my friends." "There is something coming!" "Something terrible." "No!" "It is already here!" "[roar] [screams]" "I am so sorry." "I brought this upon you." "But I will end it now!" "[zaps] [roar] [screams]" "Princess!" "What's wrong?" "[straining]" "It is taking all my strength just to hold this massive dream together!" "You will have to stop it!" "I truly wish I did not have to ask this of you." "Then you're in luck." "Yeah!" "We're already on it!" "[frightened squeals]" "Please, I'll pay you anything!" "[roar]" "Ya-wah!" "I got ya!" "[panicked cries] [grunts]" "[grunts] [chomp] [wails]" "Oh, no!" "Big Mac!" "You can do anything in a dream, remember?" "[whinny]" "E-wheeeeeee." "C'mon!" "If that Tantabus thing turns any more of this dream against us, we'll be too busy saving ponies to catch it and it'll grow powerful enough to escape into the real world!" "How are we even gonna know when it's able to escape?" "Oh, I think we'll know." "Hurry, my friends!" "Please!" "We need your help, too!" "Fluttershy's right!" "We've all got to work together to stop it from escaping!" "But how can we help?" "No pony in Ponyville has your magic." "Or your speed." "That's true!" "In Ponyville." "But this here isn't Ponyville!" "It's a dream!" "And not just any." "This is YOUR dream." "Anything you can do in your dreams, you can do now!" "Well, if you're gonna dream, might as well dream big, right?" "He-ya!" "[cheers]" "♪" "It's working!" "But it's not enough." "Then do more!" "This is a dream, remember?" "♪" "I cannot hold this dream together much longer." "Equestria will fall because of me!" "[growl]" "Am I crazy or did it just get even bigger after Luna said that?" "I think it's feeding off your guilt, Princess Luna!" "If that is so, then perhaps that is how it grew strong enough to escape in the first place!" "Say what now?" "I created the Tantabus to give myself the same nightmare every night." "To punish myself for the evil I caused as Nightmare Moon." "But why would you do that?" "To make sure I never forgave myself for how much Equestria suffered because of me." "But it seems I have not learned my lesson, for now I have only made you suffer more!" "[roar]" "But that means you might just be the key to stopping all this!" "Yeah!" "If it gets strong because you feel bad about what you did as Nightmare Moon, then you just gotta stop feeling bad for what you did!" "How can I forgive myself?" "I am no better now than I was then!" "My creation is about to turn the world into a living nightmare!" "But look at what YOU'RE doing!" "Nightmare Moon would have wanted the Tantabus to turn Equestria into a nightmare." "You're doing everything you can to stop it!" "That proves you're not the same pony you were then!" "Everypony who knows you knows that Nightmare Moon is in the past." "We all trust you, Luna." "Do you trust us enough to believe we're right?" "I do!" "[growl] [moan]" "[ding]" "Thank you." "Thank you all!" "[rooster crows] [gasp]" "She sure did!" "Only, I'm not exactly sure WHAT she did." "Luna created the Tantabus to punish herself." "The worse she felt, the more power it had." "But once she finally forgave herself for what Nightmare Moon did..." "Poof!" "Shhh!" "Huh." "Wonder what she's dreaming about now?"