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Caving In - Part 1 is the first episode of the alternate seventh season of My Little Pony Friendship is Magic and the one hundred forty-third overall. It is the first part of a two-part season premiere.

After the Mane Six, Spike, and Starlight Glimmer all have the same dream about a cave, the eight journey out to find it and discover its secrets.

Production
The name 'Caving In', came from one of the fake 4chan season six leaked names.

This premiere is the chance for each of the Mane Six, Starlight, and Spike to all have important parts in it!

This premiere takes place directly after the season six finale.

Some content in here was taken from the first chapter of my fake season 6 fanfic on Fimfiction.

Summary
The episode begins with Starlight Glimmer walking along side Trixie through Everfree Forest, discussing how they are more respected about they saved Equestria from Queen Chrysalis and the Changelings. Trixie brags about how famous she is now from rescuing Twilight Sparkle and her friends, and the princesses, but Starlight reminds her that she did most of the work. As they were talking, it begins to rain, and they decided to take cover at a nearby cave. It was dark, so Starlight had to use her magic to make a light source, but Trixie suddenly disappears which begins to frighten Starlight. She starts to hear strange noises coming from inside the cave, and then suddenly, Queen Chrysalis pops up on top of her, bragging about how she’ll one day return for revenge, which causes Starlight to scream in fear. Just then, a strange logo glows behind Chrysalis, and then she wakes up in her room, knowing it was just a nightmare.

Twilight and Spike hear her screaming and they run over to her room to try to comfort her. Starlight explains that she had another nightmare about Queen Chrysalis returning for revenge. It is the fifth nightmare she had of her and she’s becoming really paranoid. Twilight comforts her saying that it was just a nightmare, and that she’s not coming back any time soon. She then confesses to Starlight that she had nightmares before of the enemies she made coming back for revenge. Starlight asks if it was her, but Twilight says no, and that she was thinking about Lord Tirek, because unlike Starlight, Tirek was a huge threat. Spike then claims that he never has nightmares, and all he dreams about is gems, ice cream houses, and rescuing Princess Rarity from the evil Garble, or the Diamond Dogs. After Starlight starts to feel better, Twilight and Spike say good-night to her and leave her bedroom.

Starlight falls back asleep and starts to have another nightmare about Queen Chrysalis in the same cave. After seeing that same logo again next to her, she wakes up again startled. Spike wakes up on the floor asking Starlight if she’s okay, but Starlight first questions Spike about why he’s in her room. He tells her that he’s worried about her and wanted to keep her company. After Spike asks her about her dream, she explains to him about how Trixie and her were travelling in a cave, but then Trixie disappears and Queen Chrysalis appears swearing revenge, and then a strange logo appears. Spike then asks what kind of logo it is, Starlight tells him that it’s a triangle-shaped logo with a triangle in the center and two circles on both sides. Spike claims that he saw the same exact logo in his dream inside of a cave where he was rescuing Rarity from King Sombra. Starlight starts to get suspicious over him and herself having a similar dream, and need to talk to somepony about it, and Spike suggests that they should talk to Princess Luna about it.

The next day comes, and Twilight, Starlight, Spike, and the rest of the Mane Six all head over to Canterlot to talk to Princess Luna about the dreams they had. The Mane Six all claim to also have had similar dreams about a cave and a logo. Applejack claims that she was camping with the Apple family, but it starts to rain so they had to take shelter in a cave, and when bats start swarming out, she sees the logo. Fluttershy claims that she had to return her bear Harry back to the wild, so she found a cozy little cave for him when suddenly it begins to rain, so she finds a cave, and sees the logo. Rarity claims that she delivering some dresses to Dodge Junction, but she was afraid that the rain would ruin her dresses and her mane, so she finds a cave, and she sees the logo. Rainbow Dash says that she was wrestling a Manticore out in the rain at Everfree Forest, but the rain didn’t bother her, so she didn’t go into the cave that was nearby, but she did see the logo in the manticore’s eyes after she beat him. Pinkie Pie says that she dreamed about the biggest party ever and everypony was there and there was food, games, and even a chocolate fountain. When Luna asks if there was any cave, rain, or a logo in it, and then Pinkie says that it was raining lemonade, a cave was eating all the pizza, and she saw the logo on the gold chains on a rapper. Spike was about to explain his dream, but Luna already guesses it. Twilight explains that she went inside the dream after it started raining, and she met Lord Tirek, but he wasn’t attacking her. Twilight just looked at his necklace that had the logo on it and that was it. Twilight claims that the logo they all saw was the same logo on the necklace that was Twilight’s key to open the chest over by the Tree of Harmony back when Lord Tirek attacked Equestria.

Princess Celestia overhears the conversation, and tells them that the necklace belonged to Tirek’s brother Scorpan, before Tirek used the necklace to manipulate Discord into working for him. She thinks that if they all saw that logo, it might have something to do with either Tirek or Scorpan. Luna explains that shared dreams like that is very rare unless Luna creates a shared dream, but if all eight of them had dreams about rain, a cave, and the logo, then it must be a message, and they must journey out to find the cave and see what secrets lie within it. Twilight agrees that it must be done, and hopes that it might not have anything to do with Lord Tirek returning. Celestia tells them that she and Luna will double the guards at Tartarus to make sure it doesn’t happen.

Twilight and her friends all leave Canterlot and headed over to the Everfree Forest to look for the cave. After a while goes by, Applejack ends up carrying a tired Fluttershy, and Rarity starts complaining about the sweat that’s ruining her mane, but Pinkie Pie is still full of energy and her friends are confused to how she does it. Applejack then suggests that they should go to Zecora’s to ask for directions, but much to their luck, they find Zecora hiking through the forest looking for exotic new ingredients for creating new potions. Twilight tells her that they are looking for a cave, but Zecora gets confused because there a lot of caves in Everfree. Twilight and her friends have a difficult time explaining about the cave, but they do bring up a few details on what the cave looks like, and that when they dreamt about the cave, it was always raining. Zecora then tells them that the cave is known as Star Swirl’s Den. Twilight then remembers reading about the den; that Star Swirl the Bearded used the cave as a private testing area for his magical experiments. The last time anypony saw him was him walking inside his cave, and he never came back out. Zecora tells Twilight that she has passed that cave from time to time and knows exactly where it is; although, it never rains there. Zecora leads the group over to the cave, and the eight friends get impressed to see the cave of their dreams standing right before them. Zecora tells them to be careful inside the cave, because secrets remain secrets for a reason. After Zecora leaves them, it suddenly starts to rain. The eight friends all run inside the cave, and they all start to get that deja-vu feeling.

They start to explore the cave, but Starlight starts to feel very nervous, thinking that Chrysalis might be in there, but Twilight reminds her that what she had was just a nightmare, and reminds her that Trixie isn’t there with her, so if Trixie isn’t there, then Chrysalis is most likely not either; that helps Starlight feel better, but Fluttershy is still nervous about the darkness. Pinkie begins to play with the echoes in the cave, and that’s when they start to hear squeaking coming from the cave. The squeaking stops, and everypony sighs in relief, but after that sigh, a swarm of bats wake up and start chasing the group through the cave. Applejack suddenly remembers her dream having bats in it, and that starts to worry Starlight again. Rainbow Dash spots an opening up ahead, and they all head inside and closed the door. Getting their bearings, they find out they’re in a library of some sort, and Twilight tells them that they are in Star Swirl’s study, and she starts to have an adorkable moment. She starts to look around the room excitedly observing all of Star Swirl’s belongings. Rarity complains about how damp and dusty the place is, but she brings up the fact that there are so many supplies in there still and wonders why explorers never came in there to take anything. Twilight tells her that there have been explorers in this cave, but they never noticed the door leading into Star Swirl’s study. The explorers claimed that it was just an empty cave.

Pinkie starts to complain after being told not to touch anything, but Twilight ends up touching Star Swirl’s hat and cloak hanging on a rack, and she angrily starts to touch it; however, she accidently touches the rack too hard and tips it over, only for it to reveal a secret passageway. The group heads inside the passageway and finds banners and portraits hanging on the wall of Star Swirl and his accomplishments, which really starts to impress both Twilight and Starlight, and even Rarity, seeing that the place looks divine. After walking, they find a giant door at the end of the room with the Tree of Harmony drawn on it, and the Elements of Harmony surrounding it. After Pinkie continued wanting to touch stuff, she touches the door containing the Tree of Harmony, and a loud voice gets heard by the group, which causes Pinkie to apologize and beg for forgiveness. Twilight asks who that voice is, but the voice first asks the group if they are the new keepers of the Elements of Harmony. Twilight tells him they used to before they had to give them up, and the voice tells them that he’s been expecting them, and has wanted to meet them for a long time, but he had to get rid of the “extra weight”, so a trap door opens and removes Spike and Starlight from the room, which begins to worry the Mane Six. Twilight starts to complain to why he did that, and the voice tells them that only the keepers of the Elements of Harmony can move on further. To be continued...

Credits

 * Tara Strong as Twilight Sparkle
 * Kelly Sheridan as Starlight Glimmer
 * Tabitha St. Germain as Rarity, Princess Luna
 * Andrea Libman as Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy
 * Ashleigh Ball as Applejack, Rainbow Dash
 * Cathy Weseluck as Spike
 * Nicole Oliver as Princess Celestia
 * Brenda Crichlow as Zecora
 * Kathleen Barr as Queen Chrysalis, Trixie
 * Patrick Warburton as The Guardian

Quotes

 * Trixie: Isn’t this great? The Great and Powerful Trixie finally got the respect she deserves! She rescued Twilight and her friends, and the princesses!
 * Starlight Glimmer: Um… you might’ve helped, but Thorax and I did most of the work. Not to mention, ‘’you’’ got captured and ‘’I’’ had to save you.

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 * Starlight Glimmer: This better not be a magic trick, because I don’t like it!


 * Twilight Sparkle: Hey, you’re not the only one who has had nightmares of her worst enemies returning. Not long ago, I used to have nightmares of my enemies coming back for revenge.
 * Starlight Glimmer: Who, me?
 * Twilight Sparkle: No, you weren’t much of a threat. I was actually thinking about Lord Tirek.
 * Starlight Glimmer: Wow… I wasn’t threatening enough?
 * (Twilight glares at her)
 * Starlight Glimmer: Kidding! Kidding!


 * Spike: C’mon, Starlight. You can tell me what’s wrong. I mean after all, there is none other that listens to your problems more than Spike!
 * Starlight Glimmer: Well as long as you don’t tease me about my past again.
 * Spike: Relax, you know I like to push other pony’s buttons! It’s nothing personal.


 * Spike: Hmm, I think I saw that same exact logo in my dream! I was also in a cave, saving Rarity from King Sombra, but as I was fighting him, the logo appeared.
 * Starlight Glimmer: Honestly, Spike, do you ever get tired of having the same exact dream all the time of saving Rarity?
 * Spike: Actually, one time I saved Princess Ember for some reason... oh, and then Rarity right after!


 * Spike: Yeah, and in my dream, I-
 * Princess Luna: I know, you save Rarity from distress all the time. Honestly, Spike, do you ever get tired of having the same dream?
 * Spike: I wish I had a bit every time somepony tells me that.


 * Rainbow Dash: Ugh! How long are we going to be?!
 * Applejack: (grunts) Ah agree! We’ve been walkin’ for hours!
 * Pinkie Pie: I don’t feel tired! Still full of energy!
 * Applejack: Ah don’t know how she does it. But then ah remember, it’s Pinkie Pie.


 * Zecora: But beware the secrets that lie within; otherwise your fate may be stretched thin. Secrets remain that way to prevent doom, much like an ancient pharaoh tomb.


 * Rarity: Oh no! The rain is going to ruin my mane even more!
 * Applejack: Well, at least the sweat is gone, right?


 * Twilight Sparkle: Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! It’s Star Swirl the Bearded glasses! This is his globe! These are his quills and his ink! I can’t believe I’m in the ‘’actual’’ study of Star Swirl the Bearded! I am so exicted!
 * Pinkie Pie: Sheesh! Some ponies get a little too hyper over nothing, don’t they?