
Description:
Talk with Bernard Porter from Spring Breakdown.
(a man comes along......... a middle-aged one with olive skin, dark-brown eyes, and a walrus moustache)
Bernard Porter: Twilight Sparkle. Sunset Shimmer,
Sci-Twi: Huh? How did you know our names?
Bernard Porter: Your friend with the rainbow hair spoke of you two. If you still remember the word. My nephew and his friends told me as well. And I wish to speak to you.
Sci-Twi: RD! Such a rogue!
Sunset Shimmer: She's ruining it for us.
Bernard Porter: Many thought so of you two. Do you think you can hide how you helped Principal Cinch, thus becoming Midnight Sparkle, Twylight? And you, Sunset. Do you think I zero know of your power play with a magic crown?
Sci-Twi: Cinch use me.
Bernard Porter: You mighta resisted; especially by saying 'no'. Someone tried to tempt Rainbow to poison you, Fluttershy, Pinkie, Sunset, and Applejack. She said 'no'.
Sunset Shimmer: Hmmm.
Bernard Porter: And your power play, Sunset. Was it Cinch's idea? Wrong. Yours. You chose to act on darker urges. Rainbow chose virtue. A much wiser one. And why did you think she was lying? Wrong. More possibly, you're lying to yourself because you want to defend your pride. A certain emperor learn the hard way in a famous tale. The Emperor's New Clothes. Phaethon; son of Helios, the Greek sun god. Phaethon who ignored his father's warnings and messed with his chariot; only to ravage much of the world. Those two stories be proof on how arrogance and vanity can lead to trouble.
Sci-Twi: I'm growing older.
Sunset Shimmer; So am I.
Bernard Porter: Precisely. You're changing. Both of you. I know. I went through exactly the same thing at your age. These are the years when a being changes into the one he or she is going to be for the rest of his or her life. Just be cautious who you two change into. Turning a blind eye can cause more harm. And you need to be ready when the danger comes. Remember, with great power comes great responsibility.
Sunset Shimmer: I see..... (annoyed) You think we're naive kids you can con.
Bernard Porter: I zero con. And I know I'm not your father--
Sci-Twi: [annoyed; snaps] Then stop pretending to be!
Sunset Shimmer; Yeah. And which comes is not our problem.
(Bernard Porter sighs with pity)
Bernard Porter: What way does a tree fall?
Sci-Twi: Down obviously.
Sunset Shimmer; Duh.
Bernard Porter: Where it leans. Be cautious.
(he leaves)