Sandbar
How do you celebrate Hearth's Warming in Yakyakistan, Yona?
Yaks do not. Our holiday much better. Is called Snilldar Fest. Night before, yaks gather things to smash and put them in big pile. Then in morning, we smash them! In afternoon, we smash them again! In evening—
So it's just about smashing stuff, like all your other holidays.
No! How griffon get that idea?
[sarcastic] That's a great story. And you told it really well.
Sandbar
Yeah. It was a Hearth's Warming miracle.
I can't miss the Three Days of Freedom Celebration!
[sarcastic] How long does that last?
It used to be only one day, but now to commemorate our escape from the Storm King, we're adding two more days of awesome!
Sandbar
Hey, this reminds me of another story! "The Time I Almost Spilled Grape Juice on the White Couch"!
Does it have a depressing ending?
I'm not sure pony stories work that way.
Gallus want Yona braid feathers?
[singing proudly] Hearth's Warming Eve is here once again!
Just consider where you all came from. If Sandbar hadn't sacrificed so much of his time to get you up to speed, who knows how behind you'd be?
Sandbar
That's... not what—
[to Ocellus] I mean, growing up as a love-starved changeling? [to Silverstream] Or hiding underwater from an evil king all those years? Trusting anycreature must be so hard for you. [to Gallus] And griffons never want to be around anycreature, even other griffons. [to Smolder] And dragons are so fierce compared to us. There must be days you can't wait to get away from all us cute ponies. [to Yona, imitating Yona] "Everypony know yaks think yaks are best!" Making friends with any other creature must seem like a step down. It's just so impressive how you keep trying to understand friendship, even though it isn't in your nature.
What a pity. Well, for you. Sweet revenge for me. It seems my little protege's plan worked after all.
Oh, we’ve never met. We’re pen pals. Each letter had so many questions about draining magic.
Well, I was bored. So I simply pointed, uh, my pen pal in the right direction.
Can't you just tell us your pen pal's name? I mean, since we’re stuck here anyway?
Oh, why not? The irony is too perfect. Her name is...
[Cut to Sandbar]
Sandbar
...COZY GLOW! ...I-I-I coulda sworn I saw her come down this way when she left her office.
If Sandbar's turned his back on us, every other pony probably has, too.
Sandbar not turn his back! Sandbar is our friend!
Uh, did you miss the part where he said he didn't want anything to do with us?
Maybe he just said that so one of us could be free to snoop around and figure out what's going on.
[lock unlatches]
Sandbar
I don't know. That sounds too clever for a pony to come up with.
You've ruined everything! Now Twilight and her ridiculous friends can escape from Tartarus!
[The Mane 6 and Spike appear before her, angrily.]
I mean... Yay! All my friends are safe!
You can drop the act, Cozy Glow! Your pen pal Tirek told us all about how he helped you suck up all that magic!
But I still don't understand why?
[growls] Why?! Because friendship is power! You might be the Princess of Friendship, but as headmare of this school, I can collect even more friends than you!
[The students are confused.]
You're the one who doesn't get it, Cozy. Friendship is powerful, but power isn't why you make friends. I'm sorry couldn't teach you that.
You can't let one bad apple make you think you failed.
Sandbar
And we never could've stopped her if we hadn't learned what you taught us about friendship.
Honesty? Loyalty? Generosity? Blah-blah-blah... I can make more friends without using any of them! And if I can't do it here, I'll do it somewhere else!
FSFemale Student
Yeah, I don't think so!
[She is blocked everywhere by the students, Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, and Chancellor Neighsay, then the royal guards who captured her.]