Have You Seen This Dragon? is the eighth and final episode in Chapter 2 of My Little Pony: Make Your Mark and the eighth episode overall.
Synopsis[]
First it was Sunny's lantern. Now Sparky is gone! So it's all hooves on deck to find Hitch's baby dragon buddy ASAPP — as soon as pony-possible.
Plot[]
The plot begins in the Maretime Bay sheriff station, as Hitch is awakened by a flash of green light and the sound of Sparky breathing fire. Once he fully awakens, he finds that Sparky is nowhere to be found, and rushes to the Crystal Brighthouse to inform the rest of the Mane 5 about the disappearance.
After a brief and unsuccessful search of the Brighthouse, Zipp asks Hitch to retrace his steps from the moment he woke up, and the latter mentions the flash of light. As Hitch begins expressing his feeling of failure as a father, his friends highlight all of Sparky's favourite places and offer to help search them. Meanwhile, Misty has Sparky in the Brighthouse closet, and is waiting for the chance to escape and deliver the dragon to Opaline.
The Mane 5 split up: Zipp and Pipp search Mane Melody, Sunny and Izzy check the community garden, and Hitch double-checks the sheriff station, but all to no avail. Back at the Brighthouse, Misty finds herself unable to proceed due to Sparky's mischievous nature.
When the Mane 5 regroups in the Brighthouse living room, Zipp notices that Sparky is never without his treasured blanket and deduces correctly that, as he currently does not have it, he has been taken against his will. Everypony doubles their efforts to find Sparky: Zipp searches from the sky using her detective equipment, Sunny and Izzy search from the ground, Pipp sends a social media alert, and Hitch recruits his animal deputies to put up "Missing Dragon" posters.
Unfortunately, their lack of unity and organization causes their efforts to sabotage one another: Izzy's device made of multiple musical instruments draws attention from Pipp's social media post and disrupts Sunny's and Zipp's efforts. Now getting desperate, Hitch dons a mask and a gruff voice to find Sparky and his abductor.
Meanwhile, in the Brighthouse closet, Sparky has set up several traps to prank Misty, such as swinging paint cans, lasers, and silly string cans. After some difficulty getting past the traps, Misty finally grabs ahold of Sparky, though, having grown to like him, she promises to return him to the Mane 5 after getting her Cutie mark.
In the Maretime Bay square, Sunny, Izzy, Zipp, and Pipp are still repeatedly getting in each other's ways. Hitch then appears in his masked vigilante persona, having recruited Zoom Zephyrwing and Thunder Flap as his sidekicks, and goes out of control, knocking things such as tables and chairs over, and accosting and intimidating ponies in the street.
When Sunny realizes how uncoordinated they all are and how much chaos it is causing, she rallies them together, pointing out that the commotion might scare Sparky away. Hitch ceases from his rampage, remembering that Sparky likes music. Pipp then gets a new idea for how to find him. As Misty brings Sparky out of the basement, they hear Pipp and friends singing A Special Tune.
Sparky starts singing along, his voice heard by the Mane 5 due to their unity magic. Misty hides them in the basement, though Sparky still sings along. When Misty concedes defeat, she captures some of his dragonfire in a jar. When the Mane 5 enter, they are all overjoyed, particularly Hitch, who gallops towards the little dragon, getting caught by all the traps he had set up earlier. Misty avoids detection.
With Sparky safe and found, the group watches the sun set together, until Thunder and Zoom appear, having not yet been notified that the search was over. After relieving them of the search, Izzy appears with a retired, broken down tram car, and shares her intentions to fix it up into something awesome.
With the coast clear, Misty returns to Opaline's castle with the jar of a little bit of Sparky's magical dragonfire, which Opaline absorbs, boosting her power a little. However, her power is still quite limited, and she states that she still needs more dragonfire from Sparky in order to power up further so she can rule over Equestria and reveals that Alicorns are immortal. But when Misty brings up Opaline's promise to give her a cutie mark, she angrily berates Misty for her perceived uselessness, refusing to fulfill her promise until she delivers Sparky as command. After all that, Opaline swears to defeat the Mane 5 especially Sunny Starscout. Misty then crawls back to her room in tears and suffers an emotional breakdown due to Opaline's constant abuse towards her.
Characters[]
- Sunny Starscout
- Hitch Trailblazer
- Izzy Moonbow
- Pipp Petals
- Zipp Storm
- Opaline Arcana
- Zoom Zephyrwing
- Misty Brightdawn
- Sparky Sparkeroni
- Seashell
- Thunder Flap
- Toots
- Dahlia (no lines)
- Sweets (no lines)
- Mayflower (no lines)
- Diggy (no lines)
- Sander (no lines)
- Glory (no lines)
- Peach Fizz (no lines)
- Dapple (no lines)
- Rocky Riff (cameo)
- Cloudpuff (pictured)
- Pearl
- Grandma Figgy (mentioned)
- Jazz Hooves (mentioned)
Trivia[]
- The title is a reference to the television series Have You Seen This Man?.
- This is one of the only two episodes in the second chapter to not feature Jazz Hooves.
- This episode confirms that Alicorns are immortal.
- This is the only episode of Make Your Mark Rocky appears in without Jazz.