Shining watches heartbroken when Buck asks Cadance to the dance. Shining and his friends try to win Cadance over with a rock song, and then try to sabotage Buck during the championship polo match, but both plans backfire. Shining during school is a nerd who is stricken by Cadance's beauty and kindness and, with his other nerdy friends, vows to ask her to the upcoming dance before the top school's athlete Buck Withers can. Neigh Anything: Shining Armor and Princess Cadance relate the story of how they meet as high-school students at Canterlot Academy to Twilight Sparkle and her friends. However, in the concluding photos, the gazebo is repaired by Big Mac with the help of Lugnut and the Crusaders. Big Mac returns to the farm to find the gazebo in ruins from another errant launch from the Crusaders' launcher. Big Mac eventually finds the store owner, who reports that Apple Bloom had taken all the nails on the farm for their launcher, and gives him the nails he needs as well as a promise for delivery of lumber the next day. Although Big Mac is flustered at having wasted the day, Zecora reminds him to think of the happy memories he had from the events. Big Mac returns to the fair to locate the hardware store owner, Lugnut, continuing to be waylaid by the other activities of the fair. He is waylaid by several of Ponyville's citizens as he goes through the Summer Wrap-Up fair, only to find that the hardware store is in ruins from the antics of the Cutie Mark Crusaders trying to build their own fireworks launcher.

Zen and the Art of Gazebo Repair: Big McIntosh embarks to the hardware store for nails to repair the farm's gazebo. My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic - Volume 3 Luna and the moon creatures thank the ponies for their help before leaving, while Rarity is thankful for her friends' support. They turn this and their thoughts of Rarity to Nightmare Rarity, and finally dispel the evil spirit. Using the power of their friendship, the friends revert the corrupted nightmare creatures into docile moon creatures. Luna and the other citizens of Ponyville defend themselves against Nightmare Rarity, giving enough time for Twilight, Spike, and the others to arrive. Spike manages to elude Nightmare Rarity as she departs for Ponyville with her forces, and rescues the others. Twilight urges Luna to return to Ponyville to prepare the citizens there. The friends are overwhelmed by the nightmare forces and locked up. When they arrive, they find that Rarity has been transformed into the nightmare forces' new queen, Nightmare Rarity, after being convinced that her friends care little for her. Accompanied by Luna and Spike, the five friends venture into the forces' domain to rescue Rarity. The others learn from Princess Luna that Rarity has been taken by the same forces that transformed her into the evil Nightmare Moon to serve as their queen. During the night, Rarity is abducted by a dark miasma. Twilight Sparkle and her friends have been suffering from nightmares for a week, and decide to hold a slumber party together to figure out what is going on. My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic - Volume 2 Twilight and the freed ponies are rejoined outside by Princess Celestia and Spike, who have been battling a horde of giant cockatrices in Canterlot. Twilight opts to save her friends and, empowered as the comet flies overhead, defeats Chrysalis and her minions with a powerful burst of magic, and traps them in her castle. Chrysalis decides to make Twilight her pupil instead of absorbing her magic, threatening to kill her friends if she does not accept. The six overlook the fight and reach Chrysalis, who traps Twilight's friends with the fillies. En route, Chrysalis uses her changelings to cause rifts between the six and separate them.

Unable to contact Princess Celestia, Twilight worries that the deadline coincides with the passing of the Secretariat Comet, which will amplify her magic. Chrysalis challenges the six friends to save the fillies in three days time. Twilight and her friends discover that changelings have captured and replaced the citizens of Ponyville, and are able to rescue all of them except the Cutie Mark Crusaders, whom Chrysalis has imprisoned in her kingdom. The Changeling Queen Chrysalis plans to exact revenge on Twilight Sparkle for her defeat by absorbing her magic. My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic - Volume 1 This is a list of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic issues.

See also: My Little Pony (IDW Publishing) § Friendship Is Magic (November 2012–October 2021)

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