"It's all wrong!" The filly's voice shouted as the scenery changed to a new background.

Positioned at a table so that only her head and front hooves are visible over its edge. Orange earth pony, fading to off-white "sock" markings over red-brown hooves; bright magenta mane/tail/eyebrows, the former pulled back from her face, green eyes named Sunny Starscout. She is moving a Twilight figurine on the table, and an expanse of windows stands behind her through which a clear blue daytime sky can be seen. She stands up from the table to reveal a pair of cardboard wings strapped across her back.

Standing beside her was a pale blue earth pony with fading off-lavender colored "sock" markings over purple hooves, navy blue mane, tail and eyebrows with white, purple and pink streaks. This is Sunny's older sister by a year old. Aurora Crystal Heart.

"The ponies are all supposed to get along, remember?" Aurora said as she was holding the Fluttershy figurine.

The interior of the room with a few playthings laid out near the windows including a bedsheet strung up as a tent. The table is round, set with figurines of the six equine heroes, and two earth pony colts are present as well.

One is Sprout Cloverleaf: red coat, blond mane/tail, off-white socks, red-brown hooves, bright green eyes under dark red brows.

The other is Hitch Trailblazer: tan coat tinged with yellow, short blue-green mane/tail, brown hooves, off-white socks, belly, and "blaze" stripe down the bridge of his nose; golden brown eyes with darker brows.

We can pick out the darker purple streaks in Sunny's mane/tail and the rubber band securing the end of the former. Sprout's voice marks him as the one who commandeered Rarity's role.

"Bo-o-o-ring!" Sprout groaned in annoyance.

"It's like in the olden times when all three pony kinds were friends-" Sunny began as both Hitch and Aurora just watched in amusement.

"Ugh, here we go again." Sprout grumbled.

"-and they never used their magic against each other!" Sunny argued as Sprout pouted.

"You're wrong!" Sprout argued back.

"No, she's not!" Aurora said as Sprout climbed on the table.

"My mom says the pegasi and unicorns tried to eat up all the earth ponies by zapping 'em with lasers and frying 'em to a crisp." Sprout said as he raised the Rarity figurine.

He then drops the toy so that it knocks the Fluttershy figurine over.

"They wouldn't never do that, Sprout." Aurora argued with Sunny

"So the earth ponies kicked their butts in an epic battle, and if they ever try to come back to Maretime Bay, we'll kick their butts again!" Sprout said as he picked up the Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy figurines as Sunny stomped down her fore-hoof on the floor.

"Those are lies! Hitch, tell him!" Sunny argued as she turned to the other colt for support

"Well, uh, that is kinda what our teacher said in history class, but..." Hitch said unhelpfully which got a sigh from Sunny.

"...but, hey, oh, we can play the game your way if you want, Sunny. I don't mind." Hitch said as he gave her a friendly smile.

"Well, I do!" Sprout said as he jumped off the table.

"It's a boring game." He then had an idea and started to knock against the figurine against each other.

"Ooh, let's play Pegasus Barbecue instead!" Sprout suggested.

"Sprout, stop it!" Sunny said as she tried to reach for her figurines.

"Earth Pony Burgers!" Sprout exclaimed.

"I'm going to tell our dad!" Sunny said.

The rambunctious colt's laughter echoes in the air as we reached a different room and slowly pans/zooms out through this space. The far wall is dominated by a framed map of Equestria, on which sketches of the cutie marks of Twilight and all her friends except Applejack have been taped up; other parts of the room are cluttered with books and artifacts.

Sitting at a worktable in the middle of this barely organized chaos is Argyle Starshine, applying paint to an open-sided lamp whose frame is decorated with cutouts shaped as ponies of all three tribes.

Earth pony stallion; pale blue coat over deeper-hued hooves; untidy blue/purple mane/tail shot with thin streaks of white; deep purple eyes framed by half-moon reading glasses; purple eyebrows and sideburns; a thin cord looped around his neck.

The sound of the four foals' argument breaks his concentration; on the start of the next exchange, a platform carrying them descends into this room, a combination kitchen and study, from the level above on cables.

The two colts are engaged in a lively bit of inter-tribal skirmishing. This shot picks out a leather-bound journal book on the table, stuffed with notes and loose pages so that the cover, embossed with the two central stars of Twilight's cutie mark, strains against the clasp holding it shut.

"Horn fight!" Sprout exclaimed.

"You're going to break them!" Sunny pleaded for them to stop.

"Take that, earth pony!" Hitch laughed as Sunny and Aurora turned to their father.

"Dad, tell them that's not what they do!" Sunny pouted helplessly.

He steps out from behind his table, showing that the cord is attached to a wooden pendant bearing a cutout of the two six-pointed stars at the center of Twilight's cutie mark.

"How does that feel?" Hitch questioned as he and Sprout continue to roughhouse the figurines.

"Time to head on home, don't you think, colts?" Argyle suggested patiently as he nods to the door.

"Ugh, fine." Sprout groaned in annoyance as Hitch and Sprout left the figurines alone much to Sunny's relief.

Still "firing spells," he and Hitch head for the door.

"Oh, no! My brains are melting!" Hitch laughed as he and Sprout neared the door before it opened which made Sprout gaped in shock and Hitch smiled brightly.

"Mom?" Sprout gaped in shock.

"Hello, Mrs. Cloverleaf!" Hitch greeted her.

At the end of the greeting, from these two and the new arrival, Phyllis Cloverleaf. Pink earth pony mare; blond mane/tail/eyebrows, the former a carefully styled mound atop her noggin. She wears a single pearl on a thin gold chain at her throat, as well as pink-framed cat's-eye glasses in front of light blue eyes with pale violet shadow as she looked at Sprout disapprovingly.

"How many times have I told you? You cannot just go trotting off without my permission, especially not here." Phyllis scolded her son as he lowered his ears as she said the last part under breath.

"And why is that again, Phyllis?" Argyle asked her as he went to the door with Aurora right behind him.

"Because you are brainwashing their minds with all of your... uh, nonsense." Phyllis argued as Argyle just had a friendly smile.

"It's called research, Phyllis. And, by the way, I leave all the brainwashing in Maretime Bay to you." Argyle said as Aurora giggled.

Sunny joins the gathering at this point, proffering a plate of cupcakes topped with tri-color spires of icing. Each one also has two bits of candy on its sides, placed diametrically opposite.

"Unicorn cupcake?" Argyle offered.

"Freshly baked!" Sunny added cutely.

Sprout was intrigued by the free snack and tried to get one.

"You know, you're an earth pony, Argyle." Phyllis started as she pulled Sprout away from the plate before he could get one.

"You should really start acting like one, at least for their sake." Phyllis said before Aurora and Sunny took a bite of the cupcakes.

This exchange picks out both adults' cutie marks, a yellow star with a rainbow contrail for him, a rising bar graph and trend arrow for her. In addition, her pinkish-red hooves are now visible, as is a gold band around the end of her tail and the fading of her coat to a lighter shade near the hooves.

As for Sunny and Aurora, they waste no time in chomping a mouthful out of one treat, leaving a smear of icing around their lips, and giggles. Cut to a long shot of the residence, a red/white-striped lighthouse on a grassy hilltop that overlooks a placid shoreline as Phyllis and the colts depart along a stone path leading down from the front door.

"Who does he think he is, talking to me like that? That pony is trouble." Phyllis scoff as Sprout trot up to her side.

"Don't worry, Mommy. When I become Sheriff, I'll keep everypony in line." Sprout said with a smile.

He pulls ahead to catch up to Hitch, leaving her alone to her thoughts.

"Hmmm... Sheriff Sprout." The thought made her laugh in delight.

"It does have a certain ring to it." She smiled as she caught up with the two colts.