- Celestia orders Discord to hunt down a villain who escaped from Tartarus, giving Twilight a chance to open the chest from the Tree of Harmony.
- Twilight Sparkle is invited to The Crystal Empire to take part in a special ceremony, but is saddened that all her role at the event is, is simply to unfurl a banner.
Explaining her trepidations to Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, and Princess Cadence, Twilight claims that she feels that even though she is a Princess now, she has not done anything of worth. Even so Celestia tells her that she will eventually find her role in the world.
Shortly afterwards, Twilight is alerted by the Princesses that a centaur named Tirek has escaped from Tartarus, and is draining the power from various ponies throughout Equestria.
Twilight listens as Celestia tells how Tirek and his brother Scorpan long ago attempted to take over Equestria, but Scorpan changed his mind, and befriended the ponies of olden times. Scorpan was unable to change his brother's mind, and alerted Celestia and Luna to his plans. Scorpan returned to where he came from, while Tirek was captured, and imprisoned in Tartarus.
Twilight is all for confronting Tirek, but Celestia chooses instead to send Discord. Needles to say, Discord revels in being given an important task over Twilight, but mentions how he has found great pleasure in reading over the journal the girls have been keeping (even bookmarking several portions!).
Discord goes off to confront Tirek, but is turned when Tirek offers Discord to share in ruling Equestria once he has regained his powers.
Meanwhile, Twilight and her friends have grown curious about the mystery box that has sprouted from The Tree of Harmony. Still unsure about its 6 keyholes, they once again start combing The Castle of the Two Sisters for more information. It is then that Twilight looks over the bookmarked entries in their journal, and notes that each of the bookmarks corresponds to each of the girls' talents:- Applejack's "honesty" at calling out the Flim-Flam brothers' Tonic as a fake.
- Fltutershy's "kindness" in telling the Breezies they needed to go home for their own sake.
- Rainbow Dash showing her "loyalty" to Ponyville for the Equestria Games
- Rarity showing her "generosity" towards Coco Pommel during her Manehattan trip
- Pinkie for her "laughter" that inspired Cheese Sandwich to become a Super-Duper Party Pony.
The girls then round up each of the items they received from their experiences (a coin, a flower, a medal, a spool of thread, and a rubber chicken), but there doesn't seem to be any way to make them become keys. Pinkie solves the dilemma when she chucks Boneless at the box, and he turns into a key! The girls lay their items on the box, and they also turn into keys. However, they then note that Twilight still does not have one for the 6th slot.
It is then that Twilight is called back to Canterlot, where Celestia reveals that they have learned of Discord's turning, and that he has now helped Tirek gain enough power to steal power from even more ponies!
Celestia explains that Tirek cannot take hers, Luna's, and Cadence's powers, and that in order to keep him from gaining their powers, they must give up their magic!
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