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Well, folks...We've been through the two original 20-minutes specials, and the movie. Time to get into the show itself.
"The End of Flutter Valley" is sometimes marketed as "My Little Pony: The Movie 2". Near as I can tell, though, it wasn't a movie - but, rather, the multi-parter TV episode that launched the series' first season, acting as a direct sequel to the movie.
Notable fact: To the best of my knowledge, this is the only case of recurring villains in the franchise. Every other villain in the series, by the end of their first appearance, is either dead, has seen the light, or got WTFpwned so hard they fled and never looked back.

And so, without further ado:

The End of Flutter Valley

We open with... well, with Surprise the pegasus being immature and genki, while a group of ponies (with Spike, of course. Dude appears practically as often as freaking Megan) travel to Flutter Valley. The Flutter Ponies are apparently holding some kind of annual celebration, and since diplomatic relations between them and Paradise Estate are forming, we now have this delegation sent to meet them there.
Quickly, we cut to the witches of Gloom Volcano:
Hydia: "A pox on both your houses, you diminutive equines! Don't think for a single moment that I've forgotten your Smooze-busting humiliation!
Incompetent daughters of mine! Go get that pony delegation!"

Reeka&Draggle: *ambush pony delegation*
Pony delegation: "It's the witches of Gloom Volcano!"
Reeka&Draggle: "Yes! Fear us!"
Pony delegation: *fear them*
Reeka&Draggle: "Wow. Unleashing magical WMDs really does wonders for your cred, huh?"
Reeka&Draggle: *once-in-a-lifetime display of competence*
Reeka&Draggle: *capture the pony delegation*
Draggle: "Wait...We actually won?"
Reeka: "After all those years..."
Draggle: *sob* "I...I promised myself I wouldn't cry..."
Flutter Ponies: *to the rescue!*
Flutter Pones: *Utter Flutter!*
Reeka&Draggle: "Looks like Team Witches' blasting off again!"

Rosedust, Queen of the Flutter Ponies: "Welcome to our traditional ceremony, Paradise Estate delegation. Allow us to show you what it's all about: The Sunstone, an artifact of ancient power. As you all know, all life comes from the Sun. The Sunstone channels that; it is through its awesome might that Flutter Valley is maintained."
Reeka&Draggle, in hiding: "Was maintained, you mean."
Reeka&Draggle: *use magic to start landslide*
Reeka&Draggle: *fail miserably*
Honeysuckle, the flutter pony war hawk: "I say, those witches are too big a threat to tolerate! We need to properly handle them, before they cause some irreversible damage!"
Morning Glory, the flutter pony bleeding heart: "No, no. An eye for an eye, and the world goes blind. We need to look for the best in people, even our enemies!"
Honeysuckle: "Good Lord you're such a hippie. What do you want, a mushroom cloud above Flutter Valley? It's better to take out rogue elements while you still can, rather than let them walk all over you."
Morning Glory: [actual dialogue] "No, Honeysuckle. It's better to just turn the other wing. Fighting isn't necessary!" [/actual dialogue]

Hydia: "The infinite, all things considered, is an interesting subject. Is it a thing of this world, or a mere abstraction? One might be inclined to think it's the latter, since all that appears infinite is, in reality, merely numerous. There isn't an infinity of stars, just lots and lots of billions. Not an infinity of water drops in the ocean, just more than we could count in a lifetime. And yet, if one looks closely, one can find the infinite. Such as, in this instance, your infinite potential for disappointing me!"
Reeka&Draggle: *are, once again, contrite.*
Hydia: "The 20-feet-tall spider can't be relied on. The Smooze can't be relied on. You two wastes of child-bearing definitely can't be relied on. Well! I'm calling upon the only thing around here that has always been consistently reliable!"
Hydia: *Summons her ancestors from their portraits!*
Hydia: *consults ancestors to concoct a plan*
Hydia: "Ancestors, you magnificent bastards, I read your book!
All right, girls, here's the plan:
-Get Bumble, Queen of the Swarm, to steal the Sunstone.
-Without the Sunstone, Flutter Valley will degenerate, withering into a dark and dreadful place.
-To prevent this, the Flutter Ponies will try to take the Sunstone back. Which is when they will get captured by the Swarm.
-Which is when we move in and take over Flutter Valley!"
I find it interesting that Flutter Valley needs the constant maintenance of the Sunstone to keep itself terraformed. I believe this supports my "the natural state of this land is hellish, and the pony niceness is a historical exception" theory.

Soon afterward, in Siberia...er, I mean, in Bumbleland:
Draggle: "Unholy sweet baby Tirac this place is freezing!"
Reeka: "If the bee-people Swarm lives here, it's no wonder they're assholes!"
Draggle: "Nah. They were 'mean and tough' to begin with. That's the reason the flutter ponies exiled them here in the first place!"

So, we meet the bumbles. Giant sentient bees, with detachable darts that they can use as swords, ruled by Queen Bumble, a matriarch reminiscent of the Queen of Hearts with a Russian accent.
Bumble, Queen of the Swarm: "To what purpose have you come to bother Our Imperial Majesty?"
Sting, Officer of the Swarm: *holds dart-sword menacingly*
Reeka&Draggle: "We came to offer you a strategic alliance: Gloom Volcano Witches and Swarm, working together to fuck up everyone else! Your Majesty...surely the Siberian climate isn't optimal for your people, is it?"
Bumble: "You can say that again. I have to import all the flowers I feed on!"
Reeka&Draggle: "Ah, but that could change if you just terraformed the place. Which could be accomplished with the Sunstone."
Bumble: "...thus accomplishing an additional objective: Vengeance upon the flutter ponies who exiled us to this wasteland! Perfect!
...Wait a minute. What's your angle?"
Reeka&Draggle: "We get Flutter Valley!"
Bumble: "Ah...You are aware that, without the Sunstone, that place will be even worse a wasteland than over here, aren't you?"
Reeka&Draggle: "Do we look like farmers to you?"

Meanwhile, the pony delegation tries to get home...
Buttons the unicorn: "Er, Spike, what are you doing?"
Spike: "Looking for witch ambushes. Can't be too careful!"
Cupcake the earth pony: "Overdoing it, don'tcha think? There's nothing here but bushes."
Spike: "This is enemy territory! These are enemy bushes!"
Surprise: "You can stop looking, we've got something else to deal with..."
Indeed, the delegation encounters two small, furry creatures on a bridge...
Bushwoolies: "Oh hey. They're furbobs! They're...cousins of ours. Sort of. Kinda like neanderthals and humans."
Furbob one: "Yup."
Furbob two: "Nope."
Delegation: "Huh. Never heard of you guys. Where do you live?"
Furbob one: "In Kansas!"
Furbob two: "Not in Kansas anymore!"
Delegation: "..."
Yyyyeah. As the bushwoolies explain...You know how the bushwoolie hivemind instinctively agrees with stuff? Furbobs, on the other hand, are compulsive contrarians. Their brain seems to work on reverse psychology.
Furbob one: "No it doesn't!"
Furbob two: "It totally does! Anyway, where we live tends to change a lot. Always moving."
Spike: "Huh? Why?"
Furbob one and two: "Because stonebacks!"
Bushwoolie one: "Oh God. They agreed with each other."
Bushwoolie two: "Must be a sign of The Night That Never Ends."
Spike: "Sooo...what are stonebacks?"
Furbobs: "Oh, they're sort of a race of armadillo terminators. Like the ones busy destroying the bridge we're standing on right now."
Spike: "I knew I should have kept looking for ambushes!"
Stonebacks: *destroy bridge*
Surprise: *flies and makes sure the falls aren't fatal*
Fizzy: *creates huge parachute bubble to save herself, the bushwoolies and the furbobs*
...You know, for all that Fizzy comes across as a ditz some of the time, this is now twice that she's managed to be badass and/or resourceful in a life-or-death situation. I think she's actually kinda smart - just suffering from severe ADD.
Bushwoolies: "So, why are the stonebacks after you?"
Furbob: "Hell if I know. Our racial war's lasted for so long, I don't think anyone remembers how it started."
Gusty: "There isn't enough 'whatever' in the world for me to express how much I care. Can we get moving back to Paradise Estate now? I've had my fill of life-threatening danger for a while."
Baby Cuddles: "Ouchie."
Gusty: "You did not say 'ouchie'."
Baby Cuddles: "...Owie?"
Gusty: "Big freaking improvement. What, did you hurt yourself in the fall?"
Baby Cuddles: "'fraid so. Can't walk."
Gusty: "And no human with a rifle in sight. Lovely."
Furbob: "We could fix her up at our place!"
Gusty: "At this point, I'll take what I can get."

Back in Flutter Valley...
Bumble: "Are you ready?"
Reeka&Draggle: "Ready!"
Bumble: "Commence operation 'Totally Own The Flutter Ponies'!"
Operation "Totally Own The Flutter Ponies" goes without a hitch: The witches create a magical distraction. The Swarm takes the Sunstone. The flutter ponies go in pursuit, leading them to a trap...
Honeysuckle: "Ah, should we really be following the Swarm on their territory?"
Queen Rosedust: "We do not have the luxury of time. Too many hours without the Sunstone could cause irreversible ecological damage to our valley. Besides, worst come to worst, we have the bigger weapon!"
Bumble: "Activate the trap to neutralize their bigger weapon!"
Queen Rosedust: "Fuck."
Swarm: *uses honey to stick up the flutter ponies' gossamer wings, neutralizing their Utter Flutter*
Honeysuckle: "I keep trying to warn you guys, but does anyone listen? Still feel like turning the other wing, Morning Glory?!"
Morning Glory: "Ah...Look, I'm sure there's an explanation for these cruel acts..."
Honeysuckle: "You bet your croup there is. Let me sum it up for you: The Swarm got the Sunstone, the witches got Flutter Valley, and we got f-"
Queen Rosedust: "Does this really strike you two as the time for an ethical debate?!"
Morning Glory: "Good point. You know, I think I managed to dodge most of the organic glue..."
Morning Glory: *attempts escape*

On the way to "Furbobia"...
Bushwoolie: "So, I happen to have this highly unreliable power of making my wishes come true, and..."
Suddenly stonebacks!
BATTLE IS JOINED!
Surprise uses Distraction on stonebacks!
It's not very effective!
Gusty uses unicorn power of Wind Control on stonebacks!
It's not very effective!
Bushwoolie uses Wishing on stonebacks!
It's laughably ineffective! And will never be brought up again!
Buttons uses unicorn power of Telekinesis to drop dozens of apples on stonebacks!
It's reasonably effective!
The delegation manages to escape into Furbobia.

Morning Glory, slowed down by the honey on her wings, is unable to escape the Swarm, lead by Buzzing Ace Pointer. She is brought before Queen Bumble.
Morning Glory: "I throw myself upon the mercy of the Swarm!"
Bumble: "Whatever. Sting! Lock this troublesome one in a cage of her own and guard her personally!"
Sting: "I dunno about that. I mean, I'm honestly kind of getting the impression the Swarm is getting carried away with current operations and..."
Bumble: "Do you want to remain my right hand or not?!"
Sting: "I'm glad you asked! This is a fascinating question which I have been st-"
Bumble: "JUST DO IT!"
While Bumble proceeds to take a nap...The Sunstone, the super-powerful terraforming artifact that harnesses the power of the continuous thermonuclear explosion known as the Sun...has just turned red. I'm certain that this is not in the least ominous nor indicative of incoming doom.

The furbobs get to work on healing Baby Cuddles' leg. They do so with a weird, weird druidic ritual that involves them chanting about harmony in nature.
This from a specie that pathologicaly compelled to disagree with every spoken statement. I'm surprised cognitive dissonance hasn't destroyed them by now.
Ponies: "Thanks for help, furbobs. We gotta head back to Paradise Estate now."
Furbobs: "Actually, we were wondering...Is there any chance you could help us in our war with the stonebacks?"
"Huh? Sure."
Fizzy: "There's kind of a lot of them. Maybe we should get the assistance of the nearby flutter ponies for this?"
Gusty: "Bah! Me, Grimlock, think we have enough power to deal with these armadillos!"
Buttons: "Yyyyeah, no. I'm with Fizzie on this. Flutter Valley it is."

Flutter Valley, for itself, is busy rotting away and reverting to its natural status as a wasteland. The witches watch the process while committing cruelty to animals (namely, using live turtles as balls in a game of cricket).

The Sunstone is getting...hotter. Pointer begins noticing.
Pointer: *examines vegetation near Sunstone*
Pointer: *gets burned when the vegetation is put on fire by mere proximity*
Pointer: "Son of a zerg! The Sun-based artifact is heating up dangerously! What a cataclysmic twist that we had absolutely no way to see coming!"
Pointer: *abruptly wakes Bumble*
Bumble: "Gaaah! What is it?!"
Pointer: "Your Majesty, I am regretful to inform you that our newly acquired power source is about to have a thermonuclear meltdown!"
Bumble: "Spare me your tree-hugging nonsense! Terraformation is one thing; climate change accidentally going haywire is nothing but an unproven theory!"
Pointer: "Actually, the word you're looking for is hypothesis. A theory refers to a hypothesis that has, in fact, been proven beyond reasonable doubt, and..."
Bumbles: *Goes back to sleep*

Morning Glory, imprisoned in her cage: "Sting? I, uh, really need to get outta here. If nothing is done soon, Flutter Valley will be ruined forever!"
Sting: "So is the Transformers franchise whenever anything happens to it. Or so I've heard. Bottom line, suck it up. I have my orders."
Morning Glory: "This might surprise you, but 'I was just obeying orders' is a pretty shitty excuse for evil deeds."
Sting: "Evil schmeevil! I'm a soldier, Morning Glory - my job is based on the precise and rapid application of violence, and I happen to be quite good at it!"
Morning Glory: "Has it never occurred to you that there was a better way to live than giving in to the anger and fury that haunts the Swarm? You have the skies for domain! You could fly with your friends, free and happy, rather than wallow in ancient grudges!"
Sting: "Oh no you didn't..."
Sting: *has flashbacks to his traumatic memories of how he gave up on flying at a young age*
Morning Glory: "...Oh dear. A winged creature, robbed of flight by its own fear? That will not stand!"
Morning Glory: *tricks Sting into opening her cage*
Morning Glory: "Push yourself to the limit, my friend!"
Sting: *does so*
Morning Glory: *teaches Sting how to fly again*
Sting: "I...wow. Thanks, Morning Glory. You're a swell gal."
Morning Glory: "My pleasure, Sting. But now, I must depart; my people need me!"
Sting: *throws Morning Glory back in her cage*
[actual dialogue]
Morning Glory: "I thought we were friends!"
Sting: "I got a job to do, Morning Glory! Keeping you in a cage is it!"
[/actual dialogue]
Ouch. That's gotta sting.
Me: *gets shot by the pun police*

The pony delegation gets back to the decaying Flutter Valley, and quickly notices that the situation is way off.
"What the heck is happening to this place? And where did all the flutter ponies go?"
Hydia, flanked by Reeka and Draggle: "Oh, I believe they are being handled by our dear allies, the Swarm! You, on the other hand, will be handled by us!"
Gusty: "I believe this is the point where I remind you of one crucial fact. We. Little Ponies. Have. Survived. In. Dream Valley. For generations. Which is to say...Are you really expecting to beat us?"
Gusty: *blows Hydia away*
Spike&furbob: *ambush witches with traditional tripwire trick*
Surprise: *kicks Reeka and Draggle's ass*
20-feet tall spider: *shows up and defeats the pony delegation easily anyway*
Hydia: "Bwahahahahaha! The flutter ponies are out of the way, Flutter Valley is about to become my summer residence, and now I have you too, my pretties! This day can't get any better!"

Back in Bumbleland...
Queen Bumble: "Oh my God the Sunstone has set my kingdom on fire! Evacuate!"
Morning Glory: "Ah, Sting? I think this whole place is burning down. Now would be a really good time to let me out so I can rescue my people."
Sting: "I'm...sorry, friend. My loyalty remains with the Swarm, and I must follow it."
Sting: *buzzes off*

Flutter ponies, still stuck in the trap as the flames approach: "HEEEELP! IF ANYONE COULD KEEP US FROM GETTING ROASTED ALIVE, IT WOULD BE HIGHLY APPRECIATED!"

Morning Glory: "I can't believe it. What did I do wrong? I turned the other wing. I was nice. I was compassionate. Why is my kindness being repaid with betrayal?"
Sting: *buzzes back*
Sting: "Er...This is a bit embarassing. It would appear that Bumble has already left."
Morning Glory: "...You mean the Swarm didn't even bother to find you before evacuating?"
Sting: "Looks like it. So I guess I might as well help the one friend I do have." *frees Morning Glory*
Morning Glory: "Thank you. Now..."
Sting: "Now, to save the day!"
Sting: *knocks Sunstone to the ground*
Sunstone: *Melts its way through the ground!*
Fires: *subside*
Sting: "Voilà! Mission accomplished! Bumbleland has been saved!"
Morning Glory: "That's wonderful, Sting, but I gotta ask...Given that we need the Sunstone in order to save Flutter Valley, how exactly are we going to get it back?"
Sting: "...Let me check my notes."
Of course, with the fires out, the Swarm is quick to return.
Queen Bumble: "Sting! Put that flutter pony back in her cage!"
Sting: "Considering that she has shown me greater compassion and kindness, while imprisoned, over a few hours, than the whole lot of you have during my entire life...Allow me to respond with a formal declaration of up yours."
Queen Bumble: "You have truly lost it, you idealistic fool! The flutter ponies are the natural and traditional enemies of the Swarm! You would side with them against your own people?!"
Sting: "I would side with justice against war crimes! But, you're my swarm, and that still counts for something. Abandon this senseless war, and I will resume my long and faithful service to you."
Queen Bumble: "Allow me to respond with a formal declaration of up yours. Pointer! Handle the enemy combatant and the traitor!"
Pointer: "With great pleasure, Your Majesty! I'll be happy to purge our ranks of the flightless coward!"
Sting: *flies*
Pointer: "I did not see that coming.
No matter! Bring it on, Sting - I've been waiting for this!"
*Aerial combat!*
Morning Glory, pacifist: "KICK HIS ASS, STING! BLOOD AND SOULS FOR FLUTTER VALLEY!"
Sting: *wins*
Sting and Morning Glory: *escape*
Flutter ponies: *Escape from the trap..*
Flutter ponies: *...only to be recaptured within 30 seconds by Pointer and the Swarm.*
Flutter ponies: "In retrospect, hovering everywhere on gossamer wings doesn't really build up the leg strength necessary for a good sprint..."

In Flutter Valley, the delegation is stuck in a net, but Fizzy comes up with a plan. Which begins with sticking the furbob in one of her bubbles.
"Yo, 20-feet-tall spider! Want a shiny new toy?"
The 20-feet-tall spider begins using the bubbled furbob as a basketball. That is, until his bubble is burst, and the furbob makes a run for it.
Hydia: "You idiot! How could you let a prisoner escape!" *kicks 20-feet-tall spider*
20-feet-tall spider: *kicks Hydia. For...substantially greater effect.*
Reeka&Draggle: "But Hydia, he is only one neurotic ball of fur. What danger is he to us?"
Furbob: "YOU'LL SEE HOW MUCH, W/BITCHES!" (spoken from a good, safe distance, of course.)

Sting: "You know, it's great being on the side that isn't committing war crimes and causing ecological disasters and all, but I still feel pretty awful about betraying the Swarm like that."
Morning Glory: "The Power of Friendship compels you."
Sting: "I know, I know. But what the hell can we do, anyway? The Swarm is holding the rest of the flutter ponies hostage, the Sunstone is beyond our reach, Flutter Valley is under the witches' control and will be lost forever unless the Sunstone is returned before sunset..."
Morning Glory: "...When you put it that way, the situation does look completely and utterly lost.
Well! In this case, there's only one solution!"
Sting: "Honorable seppuku?"
Morning Glory: "...Only two solutions! And the less painful one is: Get Megan to save the day!"
Sting: "...Who's Megan?"
Morning Glory: "From the way the Little Ponies talk her up, some kind of rainbow-wielding, dragon-fighting, demon-slaying, world-saving alien badass. She's apparently saved them three times by now. We can enter her world by following the rainbow, supposedly."
A trip over the rainbow later...
Sting: "Huh. So, this world beyond the rainbow...Anything to watch out for?"
Morning Glory: "Beats me. At least, this place looks like the 'ranch' the little ponies described. Let's just look for Megan."
Morning Glory and Sting: *find a red bull instead*
Red Bull: *is rather determined to gore them*
Sting: "I'mnotaPepsidrinkerIswearrrrrr!"
Morning Glory: "TURN THE OTHER WING! TURN THE OTHER WING!"
Sting and Morning Glory: "MEGAAAAAAAAN!"
Suddenly!
Enters Megan, Savior of Worlds!
Megan: "Yo, toro! Follow the cape!"
Megan: *corida champion*
Megan: *defeats Red Bull*
Megan: "...So! What's the matter?"
Morning Glory: "TheSwarmcapturedtheflutterponiesandtooktheSunstone *breath* andweneedtheSunstoneorFlutterValley'shistorybysunset!"
Megan: "But of course. Onward, to Dream Valley!"
Morning Glory: "Ah...Us flutter ponies lack the strength of pegasi, Megan. It occurs to me that I'm unable to carry you."
Sting: "D'oh! I mean, likewise."
Megan: "Folks, if we allowed such details to slow us down, we'd never get heroics done!"
Megan: *puts together rudimentary harness Morning Glory and Sting can carry together*
Megan: "Onward! Say, are we going to need a bigger weapon...?"
Well, now that someone competent is in charge, hopefully this entire mess can finally be fixed.

The witches attempt to magically torment their prisoners. The prisoners seem to find said attempts hilarious.
Hydia: "Draaaaaaagle...Care to explain to me why the draft curse I told you to cast on the prisoners affected us instead?"
Draggle: "...Because magic is hard?"
Hydia: "I am deeply sorry you were ever born."

Meanwhile, back to the escaped furbob:
Furbob: "All right! Now, to save the day! I'll go to Furbobia and get some help!
...No, wait. There's stonebacks there. I'll go to Paradise Estate to get some help!
...No wait. I don't have the first clue where it is. I'll! I'll...
...I'll let my genetic inability to make up my mind paralyze me, and start wallowing in self-pity? Maybe?"
Megan: "Hey, you! You looked a bit like a bushwoolie from a distance. What are you? Report!"
Furbob: "Uh, I'm a furbob on a mission to rescue a bunch of little ponies and a baby dragon who are being held prisoners by witches in Flutter Valley..."
Megan: "So we have two tasks on our hands: Save the flutter ponies with their Sunstone, but also the ponies in Flutter Valley. Let's see...Should we start with the nearby Flutter Valley..."
Furbob: *contrarian*  "No! You'll need the help of the Flutter Ponies and their bigger weapon first!"
Morning Glory: "He has a point. First we'll get my brethren and the Sunstone, then we'll go to Flutter Valley!"
Sting: "Makes sense."
Megan: "Then we have consensus. Onward!"
Furbob: "Wait, consensus? Everyone...is agreed? Are you sure it's the right decision?"
Megan: "100%. Come on!"
Furbob: "Is that...Leadership? I've heard myths about it..."

Queen Bumble: "All right, flutter ponies - we need to retrieve that Sunstone from the deep pit it's melted in the ground. We've got a crane, but you are tasked with enlarging the hole!"
Queen Rosedust: "The Susntone is ours by ancient rights! Will you return it, Swarm Queen?"
Queen Bumble: "...Am I on candid camera or something? No, you moron, I won't return it. Your wings are still covered with honey, your bigger weapon is neutralized, I have an entire army, and that means I'm the one holding all the cards here! Now get to work!"
Work begins, but then...
Honeysuckle: "Screw this slave labor! Let my people go!"
Honeysuckle: *hijacks crane*
Honeysuckle: *uses crane to position Queen Bumble above the Sunstone's pit*
Honeysuckle: "Let us all leave with the Sunstone, or I'm dropping you to a fiery death!"
Queen Bumble: *can fly*
Honeysuckle: "Well, it wasn't a perfect plan..."
Queen Bumble: *drops Honeysuckle to a fiery death*
Queen Bumble: "Show's over, flutter ponies. Funeral later, get back to work!"
Little does she realize that in the bushes, someone is watching:
Megan: "All right, here we are. I'll go talk to Bumble."
Furbob: "No! She won't listen!"
Sting: "He's right!"
Furbob: "...I am?"
Sting: "You don't know Bumble. When she's in one of her bitchy phases, there's no use talking to her!"
Morning Glory: "Even so! We have to try to find the good in people, do we not?"
Megan: "Precisely. I mean, it's a risky strategy, but when the opportunity presents itself, one must attempt upper left blue."
Megan: "BUMBLE, QUEEN OF THE SWARM! I come to you on a diplomatic mission!"
Queen Bumble: "Who are you? Actually, what are you? Rarely have I seen such hideous shapes!"
Megan: "Hear me, Swarm Queen! I have come to thee to present requests born of basic decency! That freedom, the right of all sentient beings, be restored for the flutter ponies; that the Sunstone, pillar of ecological stability, be returned to its rightful custodians!"
Queen Bumble: "Candid camera? No? Whatever. Forget it. I'm not abandoning precious resources while I have the upper hand."
Megan: "Alas, Bumble, you do not have the upper hand. While I was giving you this last chance to do the right thing, my forces have been moving into position. You are surrounded; surrender, or pay the consequences!"
Megan: *rolls a natural 20 on her Bluff Check*
Queen Bumble: *hears the wind rustling in the surrounding bushes*
Queen Bumble: *nervous sweat*
Pointer: "LEROY JENKIIIIIIINS!"  *charges, all but knocking Megan into the pit*
Furbob: *pulls Megan to relative safety*
Stinger: "En garde, Pointer!"
Stinger and Pointer: *Duel in the sky!*
Pointer: "You were one of our best, traitor. But there's one thing you never did know."
Sting: "And that would be?"
Pointer: "I am not lower-left-handed!"
Sting: "Crap."  *gets pwned*
Swarm: *captures the heroes*

Draggle, guarding the prisoners until Hydia and Reeka come back: "Holy shit I fail at life. What's the use of a witch who can't cast a single successful spell?"
Gusty, still caught in a net with the others: "You know...us unicorns do have a form of magic. How about we teach you?"
Draggle: "You would?"
Fizzy: "Like, totally! Then you'll be the best witch ever, and Hydia will oh so totally be proud of you and love you like a mom is actually supposed to love her own daughter!"
Spike: "So let us demonstrate, and you better start taking notes!"
Fizzy: "Yeah, don't underestimate the power of pony magic! SHABON SPRAY!"
Fizzy: *disorients Draggle with bubbles*
Draggle: "Uh...OK, that was actually kinda impressive..."
Buttons: "Then watch this: Telekinesis, go!"
Buttons: *lifts Draggle*
Draggle: "Whoa!"
Surprise: "Us pegasi may not have flashy horn-based powers, but I assure you, the physics equations alone wouldn't allow our wings to carry us!"
Buttons: *expertly maneuvers Draggle in the air*
Draggle: "I'm flying! Best day ever!"
Spike: "And that's just a small taste! Let us out and we'll give you the complete lesson!"
Draggle: *is dumb enough to do it*
Gusty: "And let us not forget certain other magical tricks, such as mastery over the air itself!"
Gusty: *makes a sudden gust of wind that drops Draggle into the net*
Surprise: *quickly ties net up*
Fizzy: "And that concludes the lesson! Sorry to leave you all tied up, Draggle!"
Draggle: "Hey! Come back here, you bitchy little ponies!"
Ponies: *Walk away, leaving Draggle to wallow in the misery of having failed her mother yet again.*
Fizzy: "Guys, I'm wondering...Was this really Lawful Good?"
Buttons: "I dunno, Fizzy, but it sure seemed Survival Smart."
Spike: "Right. Now, let's hurry, and maybe we can still save Flutter Valley..."
And then they run into a magical trap!
Hydia: "DENIED!"
Spike: "And thus, yet another escape attempt scene has turned to be totally pointless. Who's writing these episodes, Patrick McGoohan?"

Back in Bumbleland...
Megan: "All right, let's review the situation...The Sunstone is deep within that pit, we're in this cage, and the presumed-dead Honeysuckle just crawled out of the pit uninjured and is getting us out of the cage. Perfect!"
Honeysuckle: "ARISE, MY UNEXPECTED NEW ALLIES! STRIKE AT THE SWARM, STONEBACKS!"
Stonebacks: *Rise out of the pit and attack the Swarm!*
Furbob: "WTF?!"
Honeysuckle: "FYI, the pit is safe. Everyone, make a run for it!"
Flutter ponies: *rush into the pit*
Stonebacks, Sting...: *rush into the pit*
Megan, to the furbob: "Rush into the pit!"
Furbob: "Like hell! It's full of stonebacks! Meesa not wanna die!"
Megan: *has no time for your shit*
Megan: *pulls furbob inside the pit*
Stonebacks and others: *close pit behind them*
Furbob: "AH! STONEBACKS! OH MY GOD I'M DEAD FURBOB WALKING!"
Megan: "You need to lay off the caffeine, racism and paranoia, my furry little friend."
Furbob: "You don't understand! They're our mortal enemies!"  *flips stonebacks the bird*
Stonebacks: *grunt menacingly*
Megan: "Why would you do that?"
Furbob: "We always do that! Usually right before they attack us for absolutely no reason at all and force us to relocate!"
Megan: "...Tell me, have you ever considered that your conflict with the stonebacks might be primarily due to the stonebacks' inability to talk?"
Furbob: "I'm not sure where you're going with this."
Megan: "I have a dream that one day Dream Valley will rise up and live out the true meaning of my homeland's creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all sentient beings are created equal'! I have a dream that my small furry friends and not-so-small armored friends will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by their specie, but by the content of their character! I have a dream that one day at the doorstep of Paradise Estate the sons of former refugees and the sons of former pursuers will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood! This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to Earth with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of Dream Valley into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to be jailed by the Swarm together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be friends one day!"
Furbob: "...I'll talk with the other furbobs about it."
Queen Rosedust: "Let's get back to the more urgent business of saving Flutter Valley, shall we?"
Sting: "Well, we have the Sunstone right here, but it's still undergoing its meltdown. How can we move it when it's lethally hot?"
Queen Rosedust: "Do not forget, my insectoid friend, that we have been its custodians for generations! Now that our wings are free at last, we can use the Utter Flutter to cool it down!"
Megan: "Perfect! Stonebacks, guide us through your network of underground tunnels to Flutter Valley!"

Pointer: "Well, shoot. Looks like we can't follow them underground."
Queen Bumble: "No matter. We know where they're headed.
SWARM! For too long, have we had to contend with this Siberian climate! For too long, have we had to survive in a land without nourishing flowers! I say, NO MORE! The flutter ponies, our ancient foes, think they can starve us here! But we have survived - and today, we shall PREVAIL! Prepare for TOTAL WAR, Swarm - our destination is FLUTTER VALLEY!"

Our heroes emerge from the tunnels once they've put some safe distance between themselves and Bumbleland.
Megan: "All right. Now, we need to reach Flutter Valley, defeat the witches, and reinstall the Sunstone - all before sunset! It's a race against time!"
Furbob: "Good luck! I'll head back to Furbobia to see if I can get help!"
Sting: "And I'll give you a ride!"

Back in Flutter Valley, Hydia is punishing Draggle for the earlier near-fiasco.
Draggle: "Pleeeease! Let me stop! I've learned my lesson! I'll never try to earn your love ever again, I swear!"
Hydia: "ONE! MORE! LAP!"
Gusty: "You know, it's not really Draggle's fault..."
Fizzy: "Yeah! We're the ones who tricked her! There's no need to be so hard on her!"
Hydia: "You keep your disgusting compassion to yourselves!"
Draggle: *notices something*
Draggle: "Oh crap. The flutter ponies are coming! The flutter ponies are coming!"
Hydia: "Now? In my moment of triumph? NEVER! 20-feet-tall spider, go and get them!"
Draggle: "Ah...He kinda failed miserably last time during the Smooze fiasco, remember?"
Hydia: "Ah, right. 20-feet-all spider! Drink this potion that will cancel your former Achilles's heel!"

20-feet-tall spider: *No longer has its Achilles's heel, and pantomimes "YOU SHALL NOT PASS!" at our heroes*
Queen Rosedust: "The sun...It's going to set..."
Honeysuckle: "I'd hate to say 'I told you so', but, if we had made a preemptive strike at the witches like I said, none of this would be happening!"
Queen Rosedust: "Game over man, game over! There's too little time left before Flutter Valley is destroyed, this is the only way in, but we can't get past the 20-feet-tall spider, and the Sunstone's too heavy to carry in flight so we can't pass above him!"
Megan: "Then we'll pass below him! Stonebacks, move to a spot he cannot observe, and get digging!"
The cavalry arrives, in the form of Sting, the ponies who had stayed in Furbobia, the furbobs, and the bushwoolies!
Megan: "Excellent! Bushwoolies, you're subterranean creatures - get digging too! Furbobs - do the same!"
Furbobs: *flip the bird at the stonebacks*
That one furbob from before: "I told them what you told me, but getting used to working with stonebacks might take a while..."
Megan: "No, you're going to get used to it right now, misters! We do not have time for your nonsense, so get right there beside the stonebacks, and get digging!"
Furbobs: "Is that...Leadership? We've heard myths..."
BIG RAPID DIGGING OPERATION!
The ground is made to collapse under the 20-feet-tall spider!
Megan: "Here we are - Flutter Valley! CHARGE!"
Hydia: "No! No! No! No! No! I was so close! I was so fucking cloooooose!"
Reeka&Draggle: *drag her away*
Flutter ponies: *rescue the prisoners*

Queen Rosedust: "Capital! Now, place the Sunstone back in its geomantic manse!"
Queen Bumble: "Fly, my Swarm! Float like a butterfly and sting like a bee! Take the Sunstone!"
Queen Rosedust: "Oh fuck."
Sting: "That's enough, Bumble!"
Pointer: *attacks Sting*
Morning Glory, pacifist: *kicks Pointer into next Tuesday*
Sting: *struggles over Sunstone with Bumble*
Queen Bumble: "Out of my way, Sting! I will have the Sunstone! For far too long have the hateful flutter ponies deprived us of flowers! I'm not going back empty-handed!"
Queen Rosedust: "Hoooooold it! Queen Bumble, I would like to make you an offer!"
Queen Bumble: "Beg your pardon?"
Queen Rosedust: "By the authority vested in me, I hereby grant the Swarm right to full access to the flowers of Flutter Valley!"
Queen Bumble: "Wait, you're serious?"
Queen Rosedust: "It is the most beautiful and fertile area in all of Dream Valley! As long as the Sunstone maintains it, that is."
Queen Bumble: "A...a deal that satisfies both sides? That's possible?"
Sting: "And as a bonus, we'll throw in this slightly-used but highly competent Swarm Officer!"
Queen Bumble: "Deal! All right, Swarm - we've WON! Without bloodshed, which is kinda weird, but we won! Let's head back home!"
Swarm: *departs*
Sunstone: *channels the power of the sun, starting to restore the ecology of Flutter Valley*
Morning Glory: "Ah, Honeysuckle? Concerning what you said earlier...I'm sorry. You were right. Sometimes, violence is the answer. Sometimes, evil just needs a swift kick in the ass."
Honeysuckle: "Maybe. Maybe. But, you did have a point yourself, didn't you? Look at Megan's brokering of the peace treaty between the furbobs and stonebacks. Look at Sting. Heck, look at Bumble! I guess sometimes, the people we think are evil can actually be reasoned with."
Morning Glory: "So...I suppose one ought to turn the other wing when the other side is possibly redeemable..."
Honeysuckle: "...but otherwise, momma said knock you out!"

Suddenly! The sky darkens unnaturally! With insufficient sunlight, the Sunstone cannot restore Flutter Valley!
Hydia: "You thought I was beaten. You thought I was licked. You thought I was finished.
But I am Hydia, Witch of Gloom Volcano! I never give up!"
Reeka: "To bring about much devastation!"
Draggle: "To fill Dream Valley with desolation!"
Reeka: "To oppose the goodness of Truth and Love!"
Draggle: "To disconnect y'all from the Sun above!"
Reeka: "Wherever there's hope in the universe..."
Draggle: "Us witches..."
Hydia: "...are there..."
Witches: "To make everything worse!"
Queen Rosedust: "But of course. Though I would like to remind you of something: We have the bigger weapon! So, like the debate team just said...Momma said knock you out!"
Utter Flutter WTFpwnage FTW.
Reeka: "Take over Flutter Valley, you said."
Draggle: "Get revenge on the flutter ponies, you said."
Hydia: "Shut up! just shut uuuuup!"
Reeka&Draggle: "Mom...You! Are! A! Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!!!!!!"

Megan: "Well! Villains defeated. Disaster averted. Crisis finished. I didn't even need to do all that much. Oh my gosh, I just realized what time it is!"
"Why, what time is it?"
Megan: "PARTY TIME!"

Wellllllll, that was one long ride. The witches have been defeated once more, never to be heard from again; the furbobs and stonebacks are on the way to peace talks; Bumbleland and Flutter Valley have reached diplomatic agreements; the Sunstone preserves Flutter Valley once more.
Everything is now right with the world; our ponies and their friends can now enjoy the peace and...
...
...Bwahahahahahaha! I'm sorry, I can't type that with a straight face. This is Dream Valley. Dream fucking Valley. Peace doesn't last long here. You only get short breaks. Mark my words, it won't be long before the next threat looms on the horizon, threatening a veritable holocaust.

Next up: The Ghost of Paradise Estate!
Hehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe.

Description
Well, folks...We've been through the two original 20-minutes specials, and the movie. Time to get into the show itself.
"The End of Flutter Valley" is sometimes marketed as "My Little Pony: The Movie 2". Near as I can tell, though, it wasn't a movie - but, rather, the multi-parter TV episode that launched the series' first season, acting as a direct sequel to the movie.
Notable fact: To the best of my knowledge, this is the only case of recurring villains in the franchise. Every other villain in the series, by the end of their first appearance, is either dead, has seen the light, or got WTFpwned so hard they fled and never looked back.

And so, without further ado:

The End of Flutter Valley

We open with... well, with Surprise the pegasus being immature and genki, while a group of ponies (with Spike, of course. Dude appears practically as often as freaking Megan) travel to Flutter Valley. The Flutter Ponies are apparently holding some kind of annual celebration, and since diplomatic relations between them and Paradise Estate are forming, we now have this delegation sent to meet them there.
Quickly, we cut to the witches of Gloom Volcano:
Hydia: "A pox on both your houses, you diminutive equines! Don't think for a single moment that I've forgotten your Smooze-busting humiliation!
Incompetent daughters of mine! Go get that pony delegation!"

Reeka&Draggle: *ambush pony delegation*
Pony delegation: "It's the witches of Gloom Volcano!"
Reeka&Draggle: "Yes! Fear us!"
Pony delegation: *fear them*
Reeka&Draggle: "Wow. Unleashing magical WMDs really does wonders for your cred, huh?"
Reeka&Draggle: *once-in-a-lifetime display of competence*
Reeka&Draggle: *capture the pony delegation*
Draggle: "Wait...We actually won?"
Reeka: "After all those years..."
Draggle: *sob* "I...I promised myself I wouldn't cry..."
Flutter Ponies: *to the rescue!*
Flutter Pones: *Utter Flutter!*
Reeka&Draggle: "Looks like Team Witches' blasting off again!"

Rosedust, Queen of the Flutter Ponies: "Welcome to our traditional ceremony, Paradise Estate delegation. Allow us to show you what it's all about: The Sunstone, an artifact of ancient power. As you all know, all life comes from the Sun. The Sunstone channels that; it is through its awesome might that Flutter Valley is maintained."
Reeka&Draggle, in hiding: "Was maintained, you mean."
Reeka&Draggle: *use magic to start landslide*
Reeka&Draggle: *fail miserably*
Honeysuckle, the flutter pony war hawk: "I say, those witches are too big a threat to tolerate! We need to properly handle them, before they cause some irreversible damage!"
Morning Glory, the flutter pony bleeding heart: "No, no. An eye for an eye, and the world goes blind. We need to look for the best in people, even our enemies!"
Honeysuckle: "Good Lord you're such a hippie. What do you want, a mushroom cloud above Flutter Valley? It's better to take out rogue elements while you still can, rather than let them walk all over you."
Morning Glory: [actual dialogue] "No, Honeysuckle. It's better to just turn the other wing. Fighting isn't necessary!" [/actual dialogue]

Hydia: "The infinite, all things considered, is an interesting subject. Is it a thing of this world, or a mere abstraction? One might be inclined to think it's the latter, since all that appears infinite is, in reality, merely numerous. There isn't an infinity of stars, just lots and lots of billions. Not an infinity of water drops in the ocean, just more than we could count in a lifetime. And yet, if one looks closely, one can find the infinite. Such as, in this instance, your infinite potential for disappointing me!"
Reeka&Draggle: *are, once again, contrite.*
Hydia: "The 20-feet-tall spider can't be relied on. The Smooze can't be relied on. You two wastes of child-bearing definitely can't be relied on. Well! I'm calling upon the only thing around here that has always been consistently reliable!"
Hydia: *Summons her ancestors from their portraits!*
Hydia: *consults ancestors to concoct a plan*
Hydia: "Ancestors, you magnificent bastards, I read your book!
All right, girls, here's the plan:
-Get Bumble, Queen of the Swarm, to steal the Sunstone.
-Without the Sunstone, Flutter Valley will degenerate, withering into a dark and dreadful place.
-To prevent this, the Flutter Ponies will try to take the Sunstone back. Which is when they will get captured by the Swarm.
-Which is when we move in and take over Flutter Valley!"
I find it interesting that Flutter Valley needs the constant maintenance of the Sunstone to keep itself terraformed. I believe this supports my "the natural state of this land is hellish, and the pony niceness is a historical exception" theory.

Soon afterward, in Siberia...er, I mean, in Bumbleland:
Draggle: "Unholy sweet baby Tirac this place is freezing!"
Reeka: "If the bee-people Swarm lives here, it's no wonder they're assholes!"
Draggle: "Nah. They were 'mean and tough' to begin with. That's the reason the flutter ponies exiled them here in the first place!"

So, we meet the bumbles. Giant sentient bees, with detachable darts that they can use as swords, ruled by Queen Bumble, a matriarch reminiscent of the Queen of Hearts with a Russian accent.
Bumble, Queen of the Swarm: "To what purpose have you come to bother Our Imperial Majesty?"
Sting, Officer of the Swarm: *holds dart-sword menacingly*
Reeka&Draggle: "We came to offer you a strategic alliance: Gloom Volcano Witches and Swarm, working together to fuck up everyone else! Your Majesty...surely the Siberian climate isn't optimal for your people, is it?"
Bumble: "You can say that again. I have to import all the flowers I feed on!"
Reeka&Draggle: "Ah, but that could change if you just terraformed the place. Which could be accomplished with the Sunstone."
Bumble: "...thus accomplishing an additional objective: Vengeance upon the flutter ponies who exiled us to this wasteland! Perfect!
...Wait a minute. What's your angle?"
Reeka&Draggle: "We get Flutter Valley!"
Bumble: "Ah...You are aware that, without the Sunstone, that place will be even worse a wasteland than over here, aren't you?"
Reeka&Draggle: "Do we look like farmers to you?"

Meanwhile, the pony delegation tries to get home...
Buttons the unicorn: "Er, Spike, what are you doing?"
Spike: "Looking for witch ambushes. Can't be too careful!"
Cupcake the earth pony: "Overdoing it, don'tcha think? There's nothing here but bushes."
Spike: "This is enemy territory! These are enemy bushes!"
Surprise: "You can stop looking, we've got something else to deal with..."
Indeed, the delegation encounters two small, furry creatures on a bridge...
Bushwoolies: "Oh hey. They're furbobs! They're...cousins of ours. Sort of. Kinda like neanderthals and humans."
Furbob one: "Yup."
Furbob two: "Nope."
Delegation: "Huh. Never heard of you guys. Where do you live?"
Furbob one: "In Kansas!"
Furbob two: "Not in Kansas anymore!"
Delegation: "..."
Yyyyeah. As the bushwoolies explain...You know how the bushwoolie hivemind instinctively agrees with stuff? Furbobs, on the other hand, are compulsive contrarians. Their brain seems to work on reverse psychology.
Furbob one: "No it doesn't!"
Furbob two: "It totally does! Anyway, where we live tends to change a lot. Always moving."
Spike: "Huh? Why?"
Furbob one and two: "Because stonebacks!"
Bushwoolie one: "Oh God. They agreed with each other."
Bushwoolie two: "Must be a sign of The Night That Never Ends."
Spike: "Sooo...what are stonebacks?"
Furbobs: "Oh, they're sort of a race of armadillo terminators. Like the ones busy destroying the bridge we're standing on right now."
Spike: "I knew I should have kept looking for ambushes!"
Stonebacks: *destroy bridge*
Surprise: *flies and makes sure the falls aren't fatal*
Fizzy: *creates huge parachute bubble to save herself, the bushwoolies and the furbobs*
...You know, for all that Fizzy comes across as a ditz some of the time, this is now twice that she's managed to be badass and/or resourceful in a life-or-death situation. I think she's actually kinda smart - just suffering from severe ADD.
Bushwoolies: "So, why are the stonebacks after you?"
Furbob: "Hell if I know. Our racial war's lasted for so long, I don't think anyone remembers how it started."
Gusty: "There isn't enough 'whatever' in the world for me to express how much I care. Can we get moving back to Paradise Estate now? I've had my fill of life-threatening danger for a while."
Baby Cuddles: "Ouchie."
Gusty: "You did not say 'ouchie'."
Baby Cuddles: "...Owie?"
Gusty: "Big freaking improvement. What, did you hurt yourself in the fall?"
Baby Cuddles: "'fraid so. Can't walk."
Gusty: "And no human with a rifle in sight. Lovely."
Furbob: "We could fix her up at our place!"
Gusty: "At this point, I'll take what I can get."

Back in Flutter Valley...
Bumble: "Are you ready?"
Reeka&Draggle: "Ready!"
Bumble: "Commence operation 'Totally Own The Flutter Ponies'!"
Operation "Totally Own The Flutter Ponies" goes without a hitch: The witches create a magical distraction. The Swarm takes the Sunstone. The flutter ponies go in pursuit, leading them to a trap...
Honeysuckle: "Ah, should we really be following the Swarm on their territory?"
Queen Rosedust: "We do not have the luxury of time. Too many hours without the Sunstone could cause irreversible ecological damage to our valley. Besides, worst come to worst, we have the bigger weapon!"
Bumble: "Activate the trap to neutralize their bigger weapon!"
Queen Rosedust: "Fuck."
Swarm: *uses honey to stick up the flutter ponies' gossamer wings, neutralizing their Utter Flutter*
Honeysuckle: "I keep trying to warn you guys, but does anyone listen? Still feel like turning the other wing, Morning Glory?!"
Morning Glory: "Ah...Look, I'm sure there's an explanation for these cruel acts..."
Honeysuckle: "You bet your croup there is. Let me sum it up for you: The Swarm got the Sunstone, the witches got Flutter Valley, and we got f-"
Queen Rosedust: "Does this really strike you two as the time for an ethical debate?!"
Morning Glory: "Good point. You know, I think I managed to dodge most of the organic glue..."
Morning Glory: *attempts escape*

On the way to "Furbobia"...
Bushwoolie: "So, I happen to have this highly unreliable power of making my wishes come true, and..."
Suddenly stonebacks!
BATTLE IS JOINED!
Surprise uses Distraction on stonebacks!
It's not very effective!
Gusty uses unicorn power of Wind Control on stonebacks!
It's not very effective!
Bushwoolie uses Wishing on stonebacks!
It's laughably ineffective! And will never be brought up again!
Buttons uses unicorn power of Telekinesis to drop dozens of apples on stonebacks!
It's reasonably effective!
The delegation manages to escape into Furbobia.

Morning Glory, slowed down by the honey on her wings, is unable to escape the Swarm, lead by Buzzing Ace Pointer. She is brought before Queen Bumble.
Morning Glory: "I throw myself upon the mercy of the Swarm!"
Bumble: "Whatever. Sting! Lock this troublesome one in a cage of her own and guard her personally!"
Sting: "I dunno about that. I mean, I'm honestly kind of getting the impression the Swarm is getting carried away with current operations and..."
Bumble: "Do you want to remain my right hand or not?!"
Sting: "I'm glad you asked! This is a fascinating question which I have been st-"
Bumble: "JUST DO IT!"
While Bumble proceeds to take a nap...The Sunstone, the super-powerful terraforming artifact that harnesses the power of the continuous thermonuclear explosion known as the Sun...has just turned red. I'm certain that this is not in the least ominous nor indicative of incoming doom.

The furbobs get to work on healing Baby Cuddles' leg. They do so with a weird, weird druidic ritual that involves them chanting about harmony in nature.
This from a specie that pathologicaly compelled to disagree with every spoken statement. I'm surprised cognitive dissonance hasn't destroyed them by now.
Ponies: "Thanks for help, furbobs. We gotta head back to Paradise Estate now."
Furbobs: "Actually, we were wondering...Is there any chance you could help us in our war with the stonebacks?"
"Huh? Sure."
Fizzy: "There's kind of a lot of them. Maybe we should get the assistance of the nearby flutter ponies for this?"
Gusty: "Bah! Me, Grimlock, think we have enough power to deal with these armadillos!"
Buttons: "Yyyyeah, no. I'm with Fizzie on this. Flutter Valley it is."

Flutter Valley, for itself, is busy rotting away and reverting to its natural status as a wasteland. The witches watch the process while committing cruelty to animals (namely, using live turtles as balls in a game of cricket).

The Sunstone is getting...hotter. Pointer begins noticing.
Pointer: *examines vegetation near Sunstone*
Pointer: *gets burned when the vegetation is put on fire by mere proximity*
Pointer: "Son of a zerg! The Sun-based artifact is heating up dangerously! What a cataclysmic twist that we had absolutely no way to see coming!"
Pointer: *abruptly wakes Bumble*
Bumble: "Gaaah! What is it?!"
Pointer: "Your Majesty, I am regretful to inform you that our newly acquired power source is about to have a thermonuclear meltdown!"
Bumble: "Spare me your tree-hugging nonsense! Terraformation is one thing; climate change accidentally going haywire is nothing but an unproven theory!"
Pointer: "Actually, the word you're looking for is hypothesis. A theory refers to a hypothesis that has, in fact, been proven beyond reasonable doubt, and..."
Bumbles: *Goes back to sleep*

Morning Glory, imprisoned in her cage: "Sting? I, uh, really need to get outta here. If nothing is done soon, Flutter Valley will be ruined forever!"
Sting: "So is the Transformers franchise whenever anything happens to it. Or so I've heard. Bottom line, suck it up. I have my orders."
Morning Glory: "This might surprise you, but 'I was just obeying orders' is a pretty shitty excuse for evil deeds."
Sting: "Evil schmeevil! I'm a soldier, Morning Glory - my job is based on the precise and rapid application of violence, and I happen to be quite good at it!"
Morning Glory: "Has it never occurred to you that there was a better way to live than giving in to the anger and fury that haunts the Swarm? You have the skies for domain! You could fly with your friends, free and happy, rather than wallow in ancient grudges!"
Sting: "Oh no you didn't..."
Sting: *has flashbacks to his traumatic memories of how he gave up on flying at a young age*
Morning Glory: "...Oh dear. A winged creature, robbed of flight by its own fear? That will not stand!"
Morning Glory: *tricks Sting into opening her cage*
Morning Glory: "Push yourself to the limit, my friend!"
Sting: *does so*
Morning Glory: *teaches Sting how to fly again*
Sting: "I...wow. Thanks, Morning Glory. You're a swell gal."
Morning Glory: "My pleasure, Sting. But now, I must depart; my people need me!"
Sting: *throws Morning Glory back in her cage*
[actual dialogue]
Morning Glory: "I thought we were friends!"
Sting: "I got a job to do, Morning Glory! Keeping you in a cage is it!"
[/actual dialogue]
Ouch. That's gotta sting.
Me: *gets shot by the pun police*

The pony delegation gets back to the decaying Flutter Valley, and quickly notices that the situation is way off.
"What the heck is happening to this place? And where did all the flutter ponies go?"
Hydia, flanked by Reeka and Draggle: "Oh, I believe they are being handled by our dear allies, the Swarm! You, on the other hand, will be handled by us!"
Gusty: "I believe this is the point where I remind you of one crucial fact. We. Little Ponies. Have. Survived. In. Dream Valley. For generations. Which is to say...Are you really expecting to beat us?"
Gusty: *blows Hydia away*
Spike&furbob: *ambush witches with traditional tripwire trick*
Surprise: *kicks Reeka and Draggle's ass*
20-feet tall spider: *shows up and defeats the pony delegation easily anyway*
Hydia: "Bwahahahahaha! The flutter ponies are out of the way, Flutter Valley is about to become my summer residence, and now I have you too, my pretties! This day can't get any better!"

Back in Bumbleland...
Queen Bumble: "Oh my God the Sunstone has set my kingdom on fire! Evacuate!"
Morning Glory: "Ah, Sting? I think this whole place is burning down. Now would be a really good time to let me out so I can rescue my people."
Sting: "I'm...sorry, friend. My loyalty remains with the Swarm, and I must follow it."
Sting: *buzzes off*

Flutter ponies, still stuck in the trap as the flames approach: "HEEEELP! IF ANYONE COULD KEEP US FROM GETTING ROASTED ALIVE, IT WOULD BE HIGHLY APPRECIATED!"

Morning Glory: "I can't believe it. What did I do wrong? I turned the other wing. I was nice. I was compassionate. Why is my kindness being repaid with betrayal?"
Sting: *buzzes back*
Sting: "Er...This is a bit embarassing. It would appear that Bumble has already left."
Morning Glory: "...You mean the Swarm didn't even bother to find you before evacuating?"
Sting: "Looks like it. So I guess I might as well help the one friend I do have." *frees Morning Glory*
Morning Glory: "Thank you. Now..."
Sting: "Now, to save the day!"
Sting: *knocks Sunstone to the ground*
Sunstone: *Melts its way through the ground!*
Fires: *subside*
Sting: "Voilà! Mission accomplished! Bumbleland has been saved!"
Morning Glory: "That's wonderful, Sting, but I gotta ask...Given that we need the Sunstone in order to save Flutter Valley, how exactly are we going to get it back?"
Sting: "...Let me check my notes."
Of course, with the fires out, the Swarm is quick to return.
Queen Bumble: "Sting! Put that flutter pony back in her cage!"
Sting: "Considering that she has shown me greater compassion and kindness, while imprisoned, over a few hours, than the whole lot of you have during my entire life...Allow me to respond with a formal declaration of up yours."
Queen Bumble: "You have truly lost it, you idealistic fool! The flutter ponies are the natural and traditional enemies of the Swarm! You would side with them against your own people?!"
Sting: "I would side with justice against war crimes! But, you're my swarm, and that still counts for something. Abandon this senseless war, and I will resume my long and faithful service to you."
Queen Bumble: "Allow me to respond with a formal declaration of up yours. Pointer! Handle the enemy combatant and the traitor!"
Pointer: "With great pleasure, Your Majesty! I'll be happy to purge our ranks of the flightless coward!"
Sting: *flies*
Pointer: "I did not see that coming.
No matter! Bring it on, Sting - I've been waiting for this!"
*Aerial combat!*
Morning Glory, pacifist: "KICK HIS ASS, STING! BLOOD AND SOULS FOR FLUTTER VALLEY!"
Sting: *wins*
Sting and Morning Glory: *escape*
Flutter ponies: *Escape from the trap..*
Flutter ponies: *...only to be recaptured within 30 seconds by Pointer and the Swarm.*
Flutter ponies: "In retrospect, hovering everywhere on gossamer wings doesn't really build up the leg strength necessary for a good sprint..."

In Flutter Valley, the delegation is stuck in a net, but Fizzy comes up with a plan. Which begins with sticking the furbob in one of her bubbles.
"Yo, 20-feet-tall spider! Want a shiny new toy?"
The 20-feet-tall spider begins using the bubbled furbob as a basketball. That is, until his bubble is burst, and the furbob makes a run for it.
Hydia: "You idiot! How could you let a prisoner escape!" *kicks 20-feet-tall spider*
20-feet-tall spider: *kicks Hydia. For...substantially greater effect.*
Reeka&Draggle: "But Hydia, he is only one neurotic ball of fur. What danger is he to us?"
Furbob: "YOU'LL SEE HOW MUCH, W/BITCHES!" (spoken from a good, safe distance, of course.)

Sting: "You know, it's great being on the side that isn't committing war crimes and causing ecological disasters and all, but I still feel pretty awful about betraying the Swarm like that."
Morning Glory: "The Power of Friendship compels you."
Sting: "I know, I know. But what the hell can we do, anyway? The Swarm is holding the rest of the flutter ponies hostage, the Sunstone is beyond our reach, Flutter Valley is under the witches' control and will be lost forever unless the Sunstone is returned before sunset..."
Morning Glory: "...When you put it that way, the situation does look completely and utterly lost.
Well! In this case, there's only one solution!"
Sting: "Honorable seppuku?"
Morning Glory: "...Only two solutions! And the less painful one is: Get Megan to save the day!"
Sting: "...Who's Megan?"
Morning Glory: "From the way the Little Ponies talk her up, some kind of rainbow-wielding, dragon-fighting, demon-slaying, world-saving alien badass. She's apparently saved them three times by now. We can enter her world by following the rainbow, supposedly."
A trip over the rainbow later...
Sting: "Huh. So, this world beyond the rainbow...Anything to watch out for?"
Morning Glory: "Beats me. At least, this place looks like the 'ranch' the little ponies described. Let's just look for Megan."
Morning Glory and Sting: *find a red bull instead*
Red Bull: *is rather determined to gore them*
Sting: "I'mnotaPepsidrinkerIswearrrrrr!"
Morning Glory: "TURN THE OTHER WING! TURN THE OTHER WING!"
Sting and Morning Glory: "MEGAAAAAAAAN!"
Suddenly!
Enters Megan, Savior of Worlds!
Megan: "Yo, toro! Follow the cape!"
Megan: *corida champion*
Megan: *defeats Red Bull*
Megan: "...So! What's the matter?"
Morning Glory: "TheSwarmcapturedtheflutterponiesandtooktheSunstone *breath* andweneedtheSunstoneorFlutterValley'shistorybysunset!"
Megan: "But of course. Onward, to Dream Valley!"
Morning Glory: "Ah...Us flutter ponies lack the strength of pegasi, Megan. It occurs to me that I'm unable to carry you."
Sting: "D'oh! I mean, likewise."
Megan: "Folks, if we allowed such details to slow us down, we'd never get heroics done!"
Megan: *puts together rudimentary harness Morning Glory and Sting can carry together*
Megan: "Onward! Say, are we going to need a bigger weapon...?"
Well, now that someone competent is in charge, hopefully this entire mess can finally be fixed.

The witches attempt to magically torment their prisoners. The prisoners seem to find said attempts hilarious.
Hydia: "Draaaaaaagle...Care to explain to me why the draft curse I told you to cast on the prisoners affected us instead?"
Draggle: "...Because magic is hard?"
Hydia: "I am deeply sorry you were ever born."

Meanwhile, back to the escaped furbob:
Furbob: "All right! Now, to save the day! I'll go to Furbobia and get some help!
...No, wait. There's stonebacks there. I'll go to Paradise Estate to get some help!
...No wait. I don't have the first clue where it is. I'll! I'll...
...I'll let my genetic inability to make up my mind paralyze me, and start wallowing in self-pity? Maybe?"
Megan: "Hey, you! You looked a bit like a bushwoolie from a distance. What are you? Report!"
Furbob: "Uh, I'm a furbob on a mission to rescue a bunch of little ponies and a baby dragon who are being held prisoners by witches in Flutter Valley..."
Megan: "So we have two tasks on our hands: Save the flutter ponies with their Sunstone, but also the ponies in Flutter Valley. Let's see...Should we start with the nearby Flutter Valley..."
Furbob: *contrarian*  "No! You'll need the help of the Flutter Ponies and their bigger weapon first!"
Morning Glory: "He has a point. First we'll get my brethren and the Sunstone, then we'll go to Flutter Valley!"
Sting: "Makes sense."
Megan: "Then we have consensus. Onward!"
Furbob: "Wait, consensus? Everyone...is agreed? Are you sure it's the right decision?"
Megan: "100%. Come on!"
Furbob: "Is that...Leadership? I've heard myths about it..."

Queen Bumble: "All right, flutter ponies - we need to retrieve that Sunstone from the deep pit it's melted in the ground. We've got a crane, but you are tasked with enlarging the hole!"
Queen Rosedust: "The Susntone is ours by ancient rights! Will you return it, Swarm Queen?"
Queen Bumble: "...Am I on candid camera or something? No, you moron, I won't return it. Your wings are still covered with honey, your bigger weapon is neutralized, I have an entire army, and that means I'm the one holding all the cards here! Now get to work!"
Work begins, but then...
Honeysuckle: "Screw this slave labor! Let my people go!"
Honeysuckle: *hijacks crane*
Honeysuckle: *uses crane to position Queen Bumble above the Sunstone's pit*
Honeysuckle: "Let us all leave with the Sunstone, or I'm dropping you to a fiery death!"
Queen Bumble: *can fly*
Honeysuckle: "Well, it wasn't a perfect plan..."
Queen Bumble: *drops Honeysuckle to a fiery death*
Queen Bumble: "Show's over, flutter ponies. Funeral later, get back to work!"
Little does she realize that in the bushes, someone is watching:
Megan: "All right, here we are. I'll go talk to Bumble."
Furbob: "No! She won't listen!"
Sting: "He's right!"
Furbob: "...I am?"
Sting: "You don't know Bumble. When she's in one of her bitchy phases, there's no use talking to her!"
Morning Glory: "Even so! We have to try to find the good in people, do we not?"
Megan: "Precisely. I mean, it's a risky strategy, but when the opportunity presents itself, one must attempt upper left blue."
Megan: "BUMBLE, QUEEN OF THE SWARM! I come to you on a diplomatic mission!"
Queen Bumble: "Who are you? Actually, what are you? Rarely have I seen such hideous shapes!"
Megan: "Hear me, Swarm Queen! I have come to thee to present requests born of basic decency! That freedom, the right of all sentient beings, be restored for the flutter ponies; that the Sunstone, pillar of ecological stability, be returned to its rightful custodians!"
Queen Bumble: "Candid camera? No? Whatever. Forget it. I'm not abandoning precious resources while I have the upper hand."
Megan: "Alas, Bumble, you do not have the upper hand. While I was giving you this last chance to do the right thing, my forces have been moving into position. You are surrounded; surrender, or pay the consequences!"
Megan: *rolls a natural 20 on her Bluff Check*
Queen Bumble: *hears the wind rustling in the surrounding bushes*
Queen Bumble: *nervous sweat*
Pointer: "LEROY JENKIIIIIIINS!"  *charges, all but knocking Megan into the pit*
Furbob: *pulls Megan to relative safety*
Stinger: "En garde, Pointer!"
Stinger and Pointer: *Duel in the sky!*
Pointer: "You were one of our best, traitor. But there's one thing you never did know."
Sting: "And that would be?"
Pointer: "I am not lower-left-handed!"
Sting: "Crap."  *gets pwned*
Swarm: *captures the heroes*

Draggle, guarding the prisoners until Hydia and Reeka come back: "Holy shit I fail at life. What's the use of a witch who can't cast a single successful spell?"
Gusty, still caught in a net with the others: "You know...us unicorns do have a form of magic. How about we teach you?"
Draggle: "You would?"
Fizzy: "Like, totally! Then you'll be the best witch ever, and Hydia will oh so totally be proud of you and love you like a mom is actually supposed to love her own daughter!"
Spike: "So let us demonstrate, and you better start taking notes!"
Fizzy: "Yeah, don't underestimate the power of pony magic! SHABON SPRAY!"
Fizzy: *disorients Draggle with bubbles*
Draggle: "Uh...OK, that was actually kinda impressive..."
Buttons: "Then watch this: Telekinesis, go!"
Buttons: *lifts Draggle*
Draggle: "Whoa!"
Surprise: "Us pegasi may not have flashy horn-based powers, but I assure you, the physics equations alone wouldn't allow our wings to carry us!"
Buttons: *expertly maneuvers Draggle in the air*
Draggle: "I'm flying! Best day ever!"
Spike: "And that's just a small taste! Let us out and we'll give you the complete lesson!"
Draggle: *is dumb enough to do it*
Gusty: "And let us not forget certain other magical tricks, such as mastery over the air itself!"
Gusty: *makes a sudden gust of wind that drops Draggle into the net*
Surprise: *quickly ties net up*
Fizzy: "And that concludes the lesson! Sorry to leave you all tied up, Draggle!"
Draggle: "Hey! Come back here, you bitchy little ponies!"
Ponies: *Walk away, leaving Draggle to wallow in the misery of having failed her mother yet again.*
Fizzy: "Guys, I'm wondering...Was this really Lawful Good?"
Buttons: "I dunno, Fizzy, but it sure seemed Survival Smart."
Spike: "Right. Now, let's hurry, and maybe we can still save Flutter Valley..."
And then they run into a magical trap!
Hydia: "DENIED!"
Spike: "And thus, yet another escape attempt scene has turned to be totally pointless. Who's writing these episodes, Patrick McGoohan?"

Back in Bumbleland...
Megan: "All right, let's review the situation...The Sunstone is deep within that pit, we're in this cage, and the presumed-dead Honeysuckle just crawled out of the pit uninjured and is getting us out of the cage. Perfect!"
Honeysuckle: "ARISE, MY UNEXPECTED NEW ALLIES! STRIKE AT THE SWARM, STONEBACKS!"
Stonebacks: *Rise out of the pit and attack the Swarm!*
Furbob: "WTF?!"
Honeysuckle: "FYI, the pit is safe. Everyone, make a run for it!"
Flutter ponies: *rush into the pit*
Stonebacks, Sting...: *rush into the pit*
Megan, to the furbob: "Rush into the pit!"
Furbob: "Like hell! It's full of stonebacks! Meesa not wanna die!"
Megan: *has no time for your shit*
Megan: *pulls furbob inside the pit*
Stonebacks and others: *close pit behind them*
Furbob: "AH! STONEBACKS! OH MY GOD I'M DEAD FURBOB WALKING!"
Megan: "You need to lay off the caffeine, racism and paranoia, my furry little friend."
Furbob: "You don't understand! They're our mortal enemies!"  *flips stonebacks the bird*
Stonebacks: *grunt menacingly*
Megan: "Why would you do that?"
Furbob: "We always do that! Usually right before they attack us for absolutely no reason at all and force us to relocate!"
Megan: "...Tell me, have you ever considered that your conflict with the stonebacks might be primarily due to the stonebacks' inability to talk?"
Furbob: "I'm not sure where you're going with this."
Megan: "I have a dream that one day Dream Valley will rise up and live out the true meaning of my homeland's creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all sentient beings are created equal'! I have a dream that my small furry friends and not-so-small armored friends will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by their specie, but by the content of their character! I have a dream that one day at the doorstep of Paradise Estate the sons of former refugees and the sons of former pursuers will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood! This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to Earth with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of Dream Valley into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to be jailed by the Swarm together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be friends one day!"
Furbob: "...I'll talk with the other furbobs about it."
Queen Rosedust: "Let's get back to the more urgent business of saving Flutter Valley, shall we?"
Sting: "Well, we have the Sunstone right here, but it's still undergoing its meltdown. How can we move it when it's lethally hot?"
Queen Rosedust: "Do not forget, my insectoid friend, that we have been its custodians for generations! Now that our wings are free at last, we can use the Utter Flutter to cool it down!"
Megan: "Perfect! Stonebacks, guide us through your network of underground tunnels to Flutter Valley!"

Pointer: "Well, shoot. Looks like we can't follow them underground."
Queen Bumble: "No matter. We know where they're headed.
SWARM! For too long, have we had to contend with this Siberian climate! For too long, have we had to survive in a land without nourishing flowers! I say, NO MORE! The flutter ponies, our ancient foes, think they can starve us here! But we have survived - and today, we shall PREVAIL! Prepare for TOTAL WAR, Swarm - our destination is FLUTTER VALLEY!"

Our heroes emerge from the tunnels once they've put some safe distance between themselves and Bumbleland.
Megan: "All right. Now, we need to reach Flutter Valley, defeat the witches, and reinstall the Sunstone - all before sunset! It's a race against time!"
Furbob: "Good luck! I'll head back to Furbobia to see if I can get help!"
Sting: "And I'll give you a ride!"

Back in Flutter Valley, Hydia is punishing Draggle for the earlier near-fiasco.
Draggle: "Pleeeease! Let me stop! I've learned my lesson! I'll never try to earn your love ever again, I swear!"
Hydia: "ONE! MORE! LAP!"
Gusty: "You know, it's not really Draggle's fault..."
Fizzy: "Yeah! We're the ones who tricked her! There's no need to be so hard on her!"
Hydia: "You keep your disgusting compassion to yourselves!"
Draggle: *notices something*
Draggle: "Oh crap. The flutter ponies are coming! The flutter ponies are coming!"
Hydia: "Now? In my moment of triumph? NEVER! 20-feet-tall spider, go and get them!"
Draggle: "Ah...He kinda failed miserably last time during the Smooze fiasco, remember?"
Hydia: "Ah, right. 20-feet-all spider! Drink this potion that will cancel your former Achilles's heel!"

20-feet-tall spider: *No longer has its Achilles's heel, and pantomimes "YOU SHALL NOT PASS!" at our heroes*
Queen Rosedust: "The sun...It's going to set..."
Honeysuckle: "I'd hate to say 'I told you so', but, if we had made a preemptive strike at the witches like I said, none of this would be happening!"
Queen Rosedust: "Game over man, game over! There's too little time left before Flutter Valley is destroyed, this is the only way in, but we can't get past the 20-feet-tall spider, and the Sunstone's too heavy to carry in flight so we can't pass above him!"
Megan: "Then we'll pass below him! Stonebacks, move to a spot he cannot observe, and get digging!"
The cavalry arrives, in the form of Sting, the ponies who had stayed in Furbobia, the furbobs, and the bushwoolies!
Megan: "Excellent! Bushwoolies, you're subterranean creatures - get digging too! Furbobs - do the same!"
Furbobs: *flip the bird at the stonebacks*
That one furbob from before: "I told them what you told me, but getting used to working with stonebacks might take a while..."
Megan: "No, you're going to get used to it right now, misters! We do not have time for your nonsense, so get right there beside the stonebacks, and get digging!"
Furbobs: "Is that...Leadership? We've heard myths..."
BIG RAPID DIGGING OPERATION!
The ground is made to collapse under the 20-feet-tall spider!
Megan: "Here we are - Flutter Valley! CHARGE!"
Hydia: "No! No! No! No! No! I was so close! I was so fucking cloooooose!"
Reeka&Draggle: *drag her away*
Flutter ponies: *rescue the prisoners*

Queen Rosedust: "Capital! Now, place the Sunstone back in its geomantic manse!"
Queen Bumble: "Fly, my Swarm! Float like a butterfly and sting like a bee! Take the Sunstone!"
Queen Rosedust: "Oh fuck."
Sting: "That's enough, Bumble!"
Pointer: *attacks Sting*
Morning Glory, pacifist: *kicks Pointer into next Tuesday*
Sting: *struggles over Sunstone with Bumble*
Queen Bumble: "Out of my way, Sting! I will have the Sunstone! For far too long have the hateful flutter ponies deprived us of flowers! I'm not going back empty-handed!"
Queen Rosedust: "Hoooooold it! Queen Bumble, I would like to make you an offer!"
Queen Bumble: "Beg your pardon?"
Queen Rosedust: "By the authority vested in me, I hereby grant the Swarm right to full access to the flowers of Flutter Valley!"
Queen Bumble: "Wait, you're serious?"
Queen Rosedust: "It is the most beautiful and fertile area in all of Dream Valley! As long as the Sunstone maintains it, that is."
Queen Bumble: "A...a deal that satisfies both sides? That's possible?"
Sting: "And as a bonus, we'll throw in this slightly-used but highly competent Swarm Officer!"
Queen Bumble: "Deal! All right, Swarm - we've WON! Without bloodshed, which is kinda weird, but we won! Let's head back home!"
Swarm: *departs*
Sunstone: *channels the power of the sun, starting to restore the ecology of Flutter Valley*
Morning Glory: "Ah, Honeysuckle? Concerning what you said earlier...I'm sorry. You were right. Sometimes, violence is the answer. Sometimes, evil just needs a swift kick in the ass."
Honeysuckle: "Maybe. Maybe. But, you did have a point yourself, didn't you? Look at Megan's brokering of the peace treaty between the furbobs and stonebacks. Look at Sting. Heck, look at Bumble! I guess sometimes, the people we think are evil can actually be reasoned with."
Morning Glory: "So...I suppose one ought to turn the other wing when the other side is possibly redeemable..."
Honeysuckle: "...but otherwise, momma said knock you out!"

Suddenly! The sky darkens unnaturally! With insufficient sunlight, the Sunstone cannot restore Flutter Valley!
Hydia: "You thought I was beaten. You thought I was licked. You thought I was finished.
But I am Hydia, Witch of Gloom Volcano! I never give up!"
Reeka: "To bring about much devastation!"
Draggle: "To fill Dream Valley with desolation!"
Reeka: "To oppose the goodness of Truth and Love!"
Draggle: "To disconnect y'all from the Sun above!"
Reeka: "Wherever there's hope in the universe..."
Draggle: "Us witches..."
Hydia: "...are there..."
Witches: "To make everything worse!"
Queen Rosedust: "But of course. Though I would like to remind you of something: We have the bigger weapon! So, like the debate team just said...Momma said knock you out!"
Utter Flutter WTFpwnage FTW.
Reeka: "Take over Flutter Valley, you said."
Draggle: "Get revenge on the flutter ponies, you said."
Hydia: "Shut up! just shut uuuuup!"
Reeka&Draggle: "Mom...You! Are! A! Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!!!!!!"

Megan: "Well! Villains defeated. Disaster averted. Crisis finished. I didn't even need to do all that much. Oh my gosh, I just realized what time it is!"
"Why, what time is it?"
Megan: "PARTY TIME!"

Wellllllll, that was one long ride. The witches have been defeated once more, never to be heard from again; the furbobs and stonebacks are on the way to peace talks; Bumbleland and Flutter Valley have reached diplomatic agreements; the Sunstone preserves Flutter Valley once more.
Everything is now right with the world; our ponies and their friends can now enjoy the peace and...
...
...Bwahahahahahaha! I'm sorry, I can't type that with a straight face. This is Dream Valley. Dream fucking Valley. Peace doesn't last long here. You only get short breaks. Mark my words, it won't be long before the next threat looms on the horizon, threatening a veritable holocaust.

Next up: The Ghost of Paradise Estate!
Hehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe.