- Hitch Trailblazer: [snoring] Oh, no... The butter's gone... Grandma, don't worry, I-I'll make you a cake...
- [muffled poof]
- Hitch Trailblazer: Wha... W-What are you doing, Sparky? I thought I said no dragonfire without supervision. Huh...
- [clatter]
- Hitch Trailblazer: Oops. Forgot to finish that. I'm surprised you didn't eat it. [gasps] Sparky? Sparky, where are you?! [gasps] Sparky's blankie! Where are you, little buddy?! Up here?! No! In here?! No! Spar... Spar... Sparky, where are you?! [echoing]
- [theme song]
- Hitch Trailblazer: [through megaphone] Sunny!
- [thud]
- Sunny Starscout: Huh?
- Hitch Trailblazer: [through megaphone] Pipp! Zipp!
- Pipp Petals: [groans]
- Zipp Storm: [gasps]
- Hitch Trailblazer: [through megaphone, singing soulfully] Izzyyyyyyy! Wake up!
- Izzy Moonbow: Okay!
- Hitch Trailblazer: Look!
- Izzy Moonbow: Oooh! Love the new glow-up, blankie! That dragon has great style.
- Sunny Starscout: Hitch, what is going on?
- Hitch Trailblazer: I was fast asleep and had this bad feeling that something was wrong! And then, it was! Sparky is missing!
- Zipp Storm: What?!
- Pipp Petals: No!
- Izzy Moonbow: [gasps]
- Sunny Starscout: Missing?! Are you sure?!
- Hitch Trailblazer: Yeah!
- Izzy Moonbow: Maybe he's hiding?
- Hitch Trailblazer: I already looked everywhere in the station, and nothing. So I came straight here. I thought maybe he was with one of you.
- Sunny Starscout: Sorry, Hitch.
- Zipp Storm: First, the lantern, and now Sparky? Why do things keep going missing around here?
- Hitch Trailblazer: I don't know! But we need to find him A.S.A.P.P.! As Soon As Pony-Possible! Look everywhere! Under your beds! Above the clouds! The moon! [through megaphone] Just find that baby dragon!
- [feedback]
- Sunny Starscout: Where are ya?
- Pipp Petals: Come out, Sparky!
- Izzy Moonbow: Sparkeroni!
- Zipp Storm: Hello?
- [door opens]
- Izzy Moonbow: [gasps]
- [rumbling]
- [door closes]
- Izzy Moonbow: Nothing in the closet!
- Hitch Trailblazer: Sparky! Sparky! Sparky!
- Pipp Petals: [whispering] Could Sparky even fit in that box of cereal?
- Zipp Storm: Uh, Hitch? Not trying to backseat-investigate here, but why don't we retrace your steps first? What do you remember seeing when you woke up?
- Hitch Trailblazer: [gasps]
- [muffled poof]
- Hitch Trailblazer: There was this flash of light!
- Zipp Storm: Flash of light? That's unusual.
- Hitch Trailblazer: I know! Ugh. Do you think Sparky's okay?
- Sunny Starscout: Of course. I'm sure he's still just playing hide-and-seek.
- Hitch Trailblazer: I feel like the worst pony-dragon-dad in the world right now.
- Pipp Petals: Really, you're the only pony-dragon-dad in the world, so...
- Hitch Trailblazer: That makes it even worse!
- Zipp Storm: Can you think of any other reason why Sparky would disappear?
- Hitch Trailblazer: What if he was unhappy? Oh, no! What if he decided to run away?! I've always tried my best to take care of my little buddy and make him happy. I keep a watchful eye on him, going above and beyond to make sure he's safe. I protect him the way I protect the all of the ponies and critters in Maretime Bay, as if they were my own family. And now... this.
- Zipp Storm: But look at all these other places Sparky loves. You know, I think Sunny was onto something. He's definitely hiding somewhere familiar.
- Hitch Trailblazer: Sparky does love hide-and-seek. And honestly, he is way too good at it. I can do this! I can find my little guy! Okay! Sheriff Hitch is back on duty! I'm the best pony-dragon-dad in the world!
- Izzy Moonbow: [whispering] The only pony-dragon-dad in the world.
- Hitch Trailblazer: And I can't sit around and mope when there's work to do! You're right! He couldn't have gone far! [grunts]
- [door opens]
- Misty: [sighs] I feel kind of bad for Hitch, but... [inhales] Gave me a little chase all the way here, didn't you?
- Sparky Sparkeroni: [babbling]
- Misty: But now you're caught! Huh?! [evil laughter] ...Ha...
- Sparky Sparkeroni: [laughs]
- Misty: Hey, give me a break. I'm still working on the evil laugh. Okay. So far, my well of junk to hide us worked. Check! Now, all I have to do is sneak you out of the Brighthouse somehow and then bring you to Opaline.
- Sparky Sparkeroni: [purring]
- Misty: Ah! She'll be so proud of me and so powerful, she'll... she'll finally give me my cutie mark! It's all I've ever wanted, Sparky! That's why I have to do this.
- Sparky Sparkeroni: [babbling]
- Misty: You're a really good listener, you know that? I'm usually the quiet, listening one.
- Sparky Sparkeroni: [babbling]
- Misty: Honestly, I don't get what all those ponies are fussing about. You're a total breeze to take care of.
- Sparky Sparkeroni: [growling]
- Misty: [gasps] Right...?
- Sparky Sparkeroni: [growling]
- Hitch Trailblazer: All right, team! We got a job to do! Let's start at Sparky's favorite places – the community garden, Mane Melody...
- Zipp Storm: I've got Mane Melody!
- Pipp Petals: And I'll supervise! There's way too many styling products that could get compromised if Zipp goes digging around. I mean... I know Mane Melody like the back of my hoof! Ugh. I really need a polish from Jazz.
- Sunny Starscout: I'll check the garden!
- Izzy Moonbow: Hmm, I don't know... I think we should just follow our gut feelings on where to go next.
- Zipp Storm: But if we don't create a plan of action, we'll get confused.
- Izzy Moonbow: But if we over-plan, then Sparky could be right under our noses, and we wouldn't even know! Like... [gasps] Is he under my nose right now?! No, he is not. But he could've been! See what I mean?
- Pipp Petals: Ooh, that is a good point.
- Zipp Storm: Is it, though?
- Sunny Starscout: What am I supposed to do? Should I still search the garden?
- [beeping]
- Hitch Trailblazer: Oh, no! It's nearly Sparky's nap-nap time! If Sparky doesn't get his nap-nap, he gets cranky! And if he gets cranky, he gets mischievous! And if he gets mischievous... We need to start the search now!
- Sunny Starscout: Don't forget, ponies! We can do anything if we do it togeth—!
- Hitch Trailblazer: [through megaphone] Split up!
- Zipp Storm: Sparky! Sparky!
- Sunny Starscout: [groans]
- Zipp Storm: Not here.
- Pipp Petals: Oh! [grunts]
- Zipp Storm: Not here.
- Pipp Petals: [groans]
- Zipp Storm: Not here!
- Pipp Petals: [yelps]
- Zipp Storm: What is all this stuff anyway?
- Pipp Petals: [gasps] It's called makeup, Zipp!
- Zipp Storm: Well, the only thing we have to "make up" for is lost time. So hop to it!
- Pipp Petals: Ugh! [grumbling]
- Izzy Moonbow: Sparky! Oh, Sparkeroni Baloney! Little macaroni man! Schnoodley schmoop-face!
- Sunny Starscout: Please be more delicate with the plants! They have feelings, too! I'm so sorry! She doesn't know any better!
- [door opens]
- Hitch Trailblazer: Are you here? No, but guess I found you, Pearl. Here? Nope, that's Sid. Here? Doug the bunny? Good day, sir.
- Misty: [evil laughter] Okay, I just need to get you out of here while the coast is clear.
- Sparky Sparkeroni: [growling]
- Misty: Come with me, little dragon... Whoa! Whoa there!
- [fire roaring]
- Misty: [screams]
- Sparky Sparkeroni: [babbling]
- Misty: Think on your hooves, Misty!
- Sparky Sparkeroni: [babbling]
- Misty: [goofy voice] My name is Mr. Spoon! And I'm—
- [poof!]
- Misty: —Ouch! A prickly cactus! Owww! [goofy voice] And I'm a wobbly shelf named... Shelfie! Take a picture—
- [poof!]
- Misty: Oh!
- [thud]
- Misty: It'll last longer...!
- Sparky Sparkeroni: [babbling]
- Misty: I can do this! I have to! Aah!
- [doors open]
- [squeaking]
- Hitch Trailblazer: Any luck?!
- Zipp Storm: No. Nothing so far.
- Izzy Moonbow: But I did find... a perfectly good, super-old, broken-down tram car that I have big plans for!
- [door closes]
- Misty: Phew!
- Izzy Moonbow: Sooooo there's that.
- Hitch Trailblazer: He ran away, didn't he? I failed myself as a pony-dragon-dad. And worst of all, failed Sparky.
- Zipp Storm: Wait. I think I've connected some dots on a clue. It was under our noses the whole time. Look!
- Izzy Moonbow: I knew it!
- Hitch Trailblazer: Blankeroni? What do you mean?
- Zipp Storm: Notice in these pictures that Sparky is never without his blankie?
- Hitch Trailblazer: What are you saying?
- Zipp Storm: So, if he's not with it, it's not by choice. Somepony has taken Sparky! He's been... dragon-napped!
- Izzy Moonbow: [gasps]
- Hitch Trailblazer: Dragon-napped?!
- Izzy Moonbow: [faints] Oh...!
- Hitch Trailblazer: Nopony dragon-naps my dragon before he's napped! Or after! Or at all! I need all hooves on deck!
- Zipp Storm: I'll scan the sky with Pony-Drone and zero in on anything that looks suspicious!
- Hitch Trailblazer: Good, good. Sparky does tend to leave a mark wherever he goes. Next?
- Sunny Starscout: Izzy and I will be the on-the-ground ponies! I'll use my roller-skates!
- Izzy Moonbow: And I'll use my eyes! To look for stuff! Also, I have magic powers.
- Hitch Trailblazer: Pipp, whatcha got?
- Pipp Petals: I can cover Maretime Bay the best way I know how – a social media blast! The fans have eyes everywhere!
- Hitch Trailblazer: And I will rally my squad of animal deputies! It's go time!
- [beat]
- Hitch Trailblazer: Now, I mean! Go! Please?
- Pipp Petals: I'll start on that post!
- Sunny Starscout: Gotcha!
- Izzy Moonbow: Aye-aye, sheriff!
- Zipp Storm: Oh! Oh, yeah! Okay!
- Sparky Sparkeroni: [snoring]
- Misty: Finally tired you out with that puppet improv show but— [gasps] Hide-and-seek, right? Two can play that game! Here, Sparky-Sparky-Sparky-Sparky!
- [whoosh]
- Misty: I see. So you somehow rigged this whole place with traps in two seconds. Cool, cool. Totally cool. It's not like I'm trying to hunt a genius baby dragon with wild powers or anything.
- [buzzing, clanking]
- Sparky Sparkeroni: [laughing]
- Misty: Oh, I don't like the sound of that.
- [exciting music]
- Zipp Storm: Aha! Dragon prints!
- [beeping]
- Zipp Storm: Huh. But these ones look fresh. Oh, uh, freshly wrong! Sorry!
- Sunny Starscout: Hey! Hey, you guys! Have you seen—
- [zoom!]
- Sunny Starscout: Oh! Whoa-whoa-whoa! Izzy!
- Izzy Moonbow: Whoops! Sorry! I just uni-cycled this dragon lure device. Look!
- [drumming]
- [cymbals crashing]
- [horn honking]
- Izzy Moonbow: Pretty cool, right? Everything a dragon loves in one place!
- [instruments overlapping]
- Pipp Petals: Finally! I've composed the perfect post for Sparky! It tugs at your heart, your mind, your soul! Pippsqueaks, you ready?
- Seashell: Pipp-Pipp-hooray!
- Pipp Petals: Okay! We all post... now!
- [phones chime]
- [beat]
- Pipp Petals: Uh, what's happening? Why aren't we getting any views?
- Seashell: It looks like something else is pulling viewers away from our post.
- [instruments overlapping]
- [hearts popping]
- Pipp Petals: [sighs] That is spectacular. Well, I hope Hitch is gaining ground. He's always so much calmer, steadier, and focused than all of us.
- Hitch Trailblazer: [gasping, grunting, muttering] Print already! Print!
- [printer humming]
- [bird chirps]
- Hitch Trailblazer: Pearl, I'm gonna need you on poster duty!
- Pearl: [barks]
- Hitch Trailblazer: Do you think I made enough?
- Pearl: [pants, barks]
- Hitch Trailblazer: You're right, we need more! Any questions?
- [animals chittering]
- Hitch Trailblazer: Yes, Kurtle, search the cinema! And the old defense factory, Kenneth! Okay, team, let's get out there! Move, move, move! [blows whistle]
- [bird chirps]
- Hitch Trailblazer: I know I'm being a little intense right now!
- [bird chirps]
- Hitch Trailblazer: Yes, and emotional. I'm going through a lot of feelings. If I can't protect Sparky, how am I supposed to protect the whole city of Maretime Bay? How can I protect anypony or anything?
- [bird chirps]
- Hitch Trailblazer: You're right. We can do this. And no doubt my friends are on it.
- [phone rings]
- Sunny Starscout: So, quick update... We are not on it! We keep getting in each other's way, and I hate to break it to you, but this ain't working!
- Hitch Trailblazer: Copy that. No more Mr. Nice Stallion. I'm gonna find that dragon and the pony that took him at any cost!
- [dramatic music]
- Hitch Trailblazer: It's time for... [gravelly] Operation Glitterbomb.
- Pipp Petals: If you've seen... Izzy, the noise? If you've seen Sparky— Ah! Zipp! Fly a little higher! If you've seen a dragon...!
- Misty: Good. They have their hooves full. But I don't have all day. Oh, Sparkyyyy! It's just some fun and games, right? I like fun. I think. I've never really had it. But how hard can it be? I see you... Now... where were we? [grunting]
- [clang]
- [splat!]
- [laser sounds]
- Misty: [grunting]
- [silly string spraying]
- Sparky Sparkeroni: [babbling]
- Misty: Still got it! Whoa!
- [thud]
- [clattering]
- Misty: [spits] And still got my own clumsiness.
- Sparky Sparkeroni: [babbling]
- Misty: [sighs]
- [instruments overlapping]
- Pipp Petals: I said, can you keep the noise down for just a minute, Izzy?!
- Izzy Moonbow: What? I'm confused. Sunny, can you stop skating around me? It's making me dizzy.
- Zipp Storm: Hey, Pipp! Stop that! You're stepping on those marks! They could be dragon prints!
- Pipp Petals: How am I supposed to know?!
- Sunny Starscout: Stop fighting! This isn't helping!
- Hitch Trailblazer: [gravelly] Evil, I'm coming for you!
- Zipp Storm: Uh, Hitch? Zoom? Thunder? What are they doing here?
- Izzy Moonbow: It looks like Hitch is gearing up for... [gravelly] something epic.
- [intense music]
- Zipp Storm: And intense.
- Pipp Petals: And too, too much.
- Hitch Trailblazer: [gravelly] Go! Leave no stone unturned!
- Izzy Moonbow: [gravelly] Told ya.
- Sunny Starscout: We gotta find that dragon and fast!
- Hitch Trailblazer: [gravelly] Culprit, I will find you! And I will make you pay! With litter pickup duty! You'll regret the day you ever crossed Sheriff Hitch Trailblazer!
- Sunny Starscout: This is all wrong. By trying to find Sparky each our own way, we've created more stress and fear. Friends, we need to remain calm and listen to each other. Unified, we can do anything, remember?
- Izzy Moonbow: We have been kind of... [gibberish] ...all over the place.
- Sunny Starscout: Exactly. Each of us may have a different approach, but there's got to be a way for us to get on the same track, right?
- Izzy Moonbow: Hmm, the same track...
- Sunny Starscout: We need a way for us all to search together.
- Zipp Storm: And further.
- Izzy Moonbow: But how?
- Sunny Starscout: I don't know, but first things first, rein Hitch in!
- Toots: No, sheriff, no, I swear! I was just eatin' cookies and chillin'!
- Hitch Trailblazer: With Sparky?!
- Toots: No, with my mother! I love her so much!
- Sunny Starscout: Hitch!
- Hitch Trailblazer: Hey!
- Toots: [crying] Mommy!
- Sunny Starscout: Listen, I know—
- Hitch Trailblazer: [gravelly] You know where Sparky is?!
- Sunny Starscout: No! But all of this commotion isn't helping! It might even scare him off! Now, think. Is there anything we're missing? Anything else Sparky loves?
- Hitch Trailblazer: [sighs] I don't think so. I've thought of everything. And still no sign of him. I'm so worried.
- Zipp Storm: We know.
- Pipp Petals: That's why we're here.
- Izzy Moonbow: To help. And listen.
- Hitch Trailblazer: I just miss his little face. Him stealing my badge, eating snacks, dancing around when he hears music...
- Pipp Petals: Music... We completely forgot about music!
- Rest of Mane 5: Huh?
- Pipp Petals: I know how to find Sparky!
- Misty: [grunts] Finally! I got you! And that means I'll get my cutie mark! [squeals] Once I get it, I promise to bring you back. I've kind of grown to like you. But until then, to Opaline we go!
- Sparky Sparkeroni: [babbling]
- [Pipp Petals]
- You hear that sound?
- Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
- [Sparky Sparkeroni]
- Doo-doo-doo-doo
- Misty: No! Oh, no, no, no!
- [Pipp Petals]
- The melody that's ringing out?
- Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
- [Sparky Sparkeroni]
- Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
- Hitch Trailblazer: That's Sparky's voice! How are you doing this?!
- Pipp Petals: It's the lullaby I wrote for him. A classic call-and-response song.
- Sunny Starscout: Well, it's working, Pipp!
- Zipp Storm: Keep singing it!
- [Pipp Petals]
- You hear that sound?
- Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
- [Sparky Sparkeroni]
- Doo-doo-doo-doo
- Zipp Storm: Everypony, sing along! The cutie mark magic is amplifying the sound!
- [Sunny, Pipp, and Zipp]
- Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
- [Sparky Sparkeroni]
- Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
- Hitch Trailblazer: I can hear him! He's... [gasps] He's at the Crystal Brighthouse!
- [Sunny, Pipp, and Zipp]
- A special tune that keeps you true...
- Misty: La-la-la! Listen to me instead! Oh, so pretty, right?! La-la-la!
- [Sunny, Pipp, and Zipp]
- And sing the song that makes you
- Misty: There we go!
- [Sunny, Pipp, and Zipp]
- Ooh-ooh-ooh
- [fire roaring]
- Misty: Noooooo! [grunts]
- [door opens]
- Hitch Trailblazer: Sparky!
- Misty: [gasps]
- Hitch Trailblazer: Sparky!
- Sparky Sparkeroni: [laughs]
- [clattering, splatting]
- Hitch Trailblazer: [grunting] Whoa! Ow-ow-ow! [slow-motion] Spaaaarkyyyy!
- [crash!]
- Sunny Starscout, Izzy Moonbow, and Pipp Petals: Awww!
- Pipp Petals: Also, ew.
- Hitch Trailblazer: Sparky! You're okay! Never leave my sight again!
- Izzy Moonbow: Love what you've done with the place, Sparky. So unconventional. He's a visionary. A true style icon.
- Sunny Starscout: I'm so glad we found you.
- Hitch Trailblazer: I would've gone to the ends of Equestria to make sure Sparky was safe!
- Izzy Moonbow: Wow, to the ends of Equestria? That sounds tiring.
- Hitch Trailblazer: Thanks for helping me, everypony. I'm sorry if I went a little... overboard.
- Zipp Storm: Maybe just a little.
- Pipp Petals: But we totally understand. Sparky's your best buddy.
- Zipp Storm: And ours, too.
- Hitch Trailblazer: I promise this will never happen again.
- Pipp Petals: You really are the best pony-dragon-dad in the world, you know that?
- Izzy Moonbow: Technically, the only—
- Rest of Mane 5: Izzy!
- Izzy Moonbow: Just kidding! Ooh! I know a super-secret place in town to watch the sunset! Come on!
- Hitch Trailblazer: How does that sound, my little Sparky-Malarkey?
- Sparky Sparkeroni: [babbling]
- Sunny Starscout: So what's this super-secret place?
- Izzy Moonbow: Oh, it's the bridge!
- Rest of Mane 5: [laugh]
- Misty: [sighs]
- Misty: It's not a dragon, but it is dragonfire. It'll have to do.
- [menacing music]
- Opaline: Where is my dragon?
- Misty: I did everything I could to get Spark— I mean, your dragon, but this was all I could get.
- Opaline: It's been hundreds of moons since I've last seen dragonfire. How beautiful it is.
- [dramatic music]
- [fire roaring]
- Opaline: [evil laughter] Yes! Yes! Power! [evil laughter] More! I need more! Then I can finally finish what I started all those moons ago with Twilight Sparkle and gain control over all magic the way Alicorns were meant to! No more of this "unity" and "equality" stuff! The citizens of Equestria should fear and love their immortal rulers! And they will, because soon, I'll give them reason to.
- Misty: And you'll give me a cutie mark?
- Opaline: That measly drop of dragonfire wasn't enough! And YOU won't be enough, Misty! Not until you can prove that you're actually useful and get! That! DRAGON! I'm coming for you, little ponies... Especially you, Sunny Starscout...
- [door creaks]
- Misty: [sighs] For somepony made of fire, I've never met a heart so cold. [sobbing]
- Mane 5: [sighing]
- Hitch Trailblazer: It's so nice just soaking in the serenity and peace of a sunset.
- Zipp Storm: What is that?
- Toots: [screams]
- Hitch Trailblazer: Oh, no! Operation Glitterbomb! I forgot! [whistles] Everypony, the search is off! Operation Glitterbomb is no more! We found him! Sparky is safe!
- Sparky Sparkeroni: [burps]
- [ponies cheer]
- Zoom Zephyrwing: What a relief!
- Thunder Flap: But what about these cool masks?
- Hitch Trailblazer: You can keep the masks.
- Thunder Flap: Yes!
- Kenneth: [chirping]
- Zipp Storm: Nothing can surprise me any more.
- [horn honking]
- Izzy Moonbow: Surprise!
- [brakes screeching]
- Sunny Starscout: Uh... what is that?
- Izzy Moonbow: My brand-new, old, broken-down, good-for-nothing, retired tram car! Great find, huh?!
- [beat]
- Izzy Moonbow: Trust. I got something super-cool up my mane. It's gonna be tram-a-licious! Tram-a-blammo! Tram-tastic!
- Sunny Starscout, Hitch Trailblazer, and Pipp Petals: [laugh]
- Zipp Storm: Hey, and next time we're searching for something, you guys can get around in that.
- Izzy Moonbow: That's just what I was thinking! Friends that stick together can never be separated!
- Mane 5: [laugh]
- Hitch Trailblazer: [gasps] Sparky?! Sparky?
- Sparky Sparkeroni: [babbling] Vroooom!
- Hitch Trailblazer: [laughs] Aww...
- Sunny Starscout: [giggles]
- Mane 5: [laugh]
- [credits]