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'''Twilight Sparkle:''' Of course. }}
Spike follows the dragon migration, crossing snowy peaks and deep dark forests to find the dragons roosting in the caldera of a volcano. Twilight, Rainbow Dash, and Rarity (in a hastily-constructed dragon costume) arrive shortly thereafter. The only dragons who deign to notice Spike are a group of adolescents, who immediately set to teasing Spike for not having wings and for being raised by ponies. They challenge him to prove his worth as a dragon through a belching contest, tail wrestling (which Spike wins because his opponent was the costumed ponies), King of the Hoard, and finally a lava cannonball contest. Spike does a belly-flop instead of a cannonball, but the older dragons are sufficiently impressed to declare him an official "rookie dragon". Then they take him along to raid a phoenix nest.
As the rookie, Spike's task is to distract the phoenix parents while the other dragons steal the eggs. Prompted by the other dragons, he provokes the phoenixes into giving chase, leading them away from the nest. But the phoenix chicks, already hatched, fly circles around the adolescent dragons. Their cries attract the phoenix parents, who return and drive the invaders away. Only Spike has any success in the raid; finding a single unhatched egg on the ground.
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* [[Anticlimax]]: Fluttershy tackles Rainbow Dash, stomps on her stomach, and makes a run for her back window to get away from joining the others to watch the Great Dragon Migration. She looks ready to smash through it, but instead she gets there, pauses, carefully opens the windows, and then jumps out.
* [[Appropriated Appellation]]: [[Played With]]. One of the dragons insults Spike, saying he looks more like a "Peewee." {{spoiler|Spike gives the baby phoenix that name.}}
* [[Artistic License: Biology]]: One of the tubbier dragon teens has a [[Exposed Animal Bellybutton|belly button]]. Despite the fact that dragons are born from eggs and naturally would lack this. It was likely done for [[Rule of Funny]], as there's something abnormal about heftier characters lacking this feature.
* [[Asskicking Equals Authority]]: Garble, the red teenage dragon who seems to be the leader of them, seems to also be the strongest of the group, as shown when he [[Curb Stomp Battle|beats all the other ones easily]] in the King of the Horde game.
* [[Baby Talk]]: Rarity's insistence on referring to Spike as "Spikey-Wikey" and talking about his cuteness and chubby cheeks only makes his distress worse.
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** [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1 E22 A Bird in The Hoof|Phoenixes are seen again.]] And still seem to be mischievous and powerful [[Troll|tricksters]], apparently from the moment they hatch..
** Spike still has that blanket from Applejack in the "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2 E10 Secret of My Excess|Secret of My Excess]]".
** Spike's immunity to fire damage was already explained during "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1 E5 Griffon the Brush Off|Griffon the Brush Off]]".
** Among the adult dragons, one can spot the red one from "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1 E7 Dragon Shy|Dragonshy]]" and the green one from "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1 E24 Owls Well That Ends Well|Owl's Well That Ends Well]]"... or at least dragons that ''look'' like them.
* [[The Cameo]]:
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** Or maybe she's been [[Shown Their Work|Shown Her Work]], having based the costume on a real dragon variety (that could still fit three ponies ''and'' which had ''eight legs'').
* [[Convection, Schmonvection]]: All that lava and fire sitting right next to everyone and no one gets burned. Not even the ponies.
** Justified for the dragons, who are established as being extremely resistant to heat. As for the ponies…[[Hand Wave|Maybe Twilight cast a spell that protected them from the heat?]]
* [[Cool Pet]]: {{spoiler|Peewee the phoenix. Spike gets a pet that will live as long as he does.}}
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: Spike joining the teenage dragons is very much like a child falling in with the wrong crowd.
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** Justified. The teen dragons seem to have a "don't know; don't care" attitude to anything not directly affecting them. Plus, if ponies consider dragons too dangerous to even ''approach'' most of the time, dragons probably have inflated egos in regards to ponies, plus they probably don't know too much about the ponies' political system.
** Played for laughs in [http://niban-destikim.deviantart.com/art/The-Namby-Pamby-princess-291325254 this fan comic].
* [[Egg MacGuffin]]: An egg falls out from a phoenix nest and is separated from its parents. Spike decides to adopt it because it reminded him of his own origin.
* [[Evil Albino]]: One of the teen dragons has white scales and pink eyes.
* [[Fantastic Light Source]]: The father phoenix uses his fire powers to shine a bright aura in the teen dragons' faces.
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Dragons don't think much of ponies. Heck, they even call ''Princess Celestia'' a "namby pamby pony princess".
** May be [[Justified Trope|justified]] when you remember that ponies are prey animals and dragons are apex predators.
* [[Feather Fingers]]: Rainbow Dash's wings twitch almost like the fingers on a hand after Fluttershy runs over her.
* [[Fish Out of Water]]: Compared to his usual [[Only Sane Man]] role in Ponyville, Spike understandably acts like a kid with the dragons.
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* [[High Dive Hijinks]]: The cannonball-into-lava contest. Spike manages to finally impress the dragon boys with a fail that ends up as a major belly flop. Even the other dragons wince in sympathy.
* [[If You're So Evil Eat This Kitten|If You're Such A Dragon, Smash This Egg]]: The teenage dragons demand that Spike smash the phoenix egg in order to prove that he really belongs with them.
* [[Innocently Insensitive]]: This time it's Rarity, who despite ''knowing'' about Spike's crush on her, insists on talking to and about him in [[Baby Talk]], seemingly unaware it's upsetting him this time rather than something he tolerates as a term of endearment. As it is, she's too old for him, and might just find the crush adorable.
* [[Jerkass]]: The whole gang of teen dragons.
** [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: Although she mocks Spike for being a lame dragon, [[Dude, Where's My Respect?|which was probably one of the reasons he wanted to leave in the first place]], Rainbow Dash clearly shows concern for him when he announces that he'll be joining the other dragons on the Great Dragon Migration and follows Twilight and Rarity.
* [[Jerk Jock]]: The teenage dragons, ''especially'' Garble.
* [[Know When to Fold'Em]]:
** The ponies know better than to even ''try'' the Lava Cannonball.
** Taking on a group of teenage dragons that outmass them and have the same numbers (four on four) is dangerous enough that running away ''is'' a reasonable option, even for [[Magic Knight|Twilight Sparkle]] and [[Action Girl|Rainbow Dash]], especially since they were intruding in ''dragon'' territory, with the adults not far away. Besides, they'd already gotten Spike back, so there was nothing to gain by fighting even if they won.
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* [[Manly Tears]]: Played with. Spike is upset to tears about not knowing anything about his dragon heritage, and then wipes them away because he has the idea dragons are too tough to cry.
* [[Mono-Gender Monsters]]: Despite the number of dragons that show up, there's not one apparent female, with the possible exception of Crackle. (Then again, do those teenage dragons seem like the sort to attract girls?).
* [[Mood Motif]]: The Strings of Suspense when Spike {{spoiler|hovers on going through with the bigger dragons' insistence that he smash the phoenix egg he rescued}}.
* [[Mundane Utility]]: Spike's tail, which has been shown strong enough to [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1 E19 A Dog and Pony Show|dig up gems from the ground in the past]], can't even move the limp "tail" of the ponyies' dragon disguise.
* [[Mythology Gag]]: ''[[My Little Pony and Friends]]'' had an episode, "Spike's Search", about ''their'' baby dragon named Spike trying to get in touch with his own kind. Even the plots are basically the same, Spike leaving the ponies to try living among his own kind, only to discover that dragons are immense jerks and realizing he really belongs among the ponies, which have become his "real" family.
* [[Name's the Same]]: To the [[Video Game]] ''[[Dragon Quest]]''. There's no battling slime though.
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* [[Nigh Invulnerable]]: Spike is praised for suffering no damage after belly-flopping into lava from a cliff. The other dragons fly into a tree with enough force to punch through it and make it fall (falling face-first with the whole weight of the tree) twice, and aren't even bruised. Which might explain why Twilight decided to run from them despite being ready to fight Cerberus [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2 E20 Its About Time|in the previous episode]]. This isn't actually new information, as it's been stated before that dragons have very tough scales.
* [[No Name Given]]: The teenage dragons aren't named in the show, though the red one at least has a name [[All There in the Script|in the script]] (Garble).
* [[Non
** The other teen dragons also qualify to various degrees, especially compared to Spike's teen form in "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2 E10 Secret of My Excess|Secret of My Excess]]".
* [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping]]: Andrea Libman slips from her Pinkie voice into her Fluttershy voice when the former says "Ahoy, maties! Dragons, ho!"
* [[Outside Inside Slur]]: Because Spike has lived with ponies all his life, the teen dragons initially insist that while he's a dragon on the outside, he's actually a pony on the inside. {{spoiler|[[Insult Backfire|Spike later takes it as a point of pride]], seeing that the adolescent dragons are complete jerks.}}
* [[Paper-Thin Disguise]]: Rarity, Twilight, and Rainbow follow Spike dressed in a laughably slapdash dragon costume. [[Rule of Funny|It actually works]], mainly because there's a dragon named Crackle [[Non
* [[A Real Man Is a Killer|A Real Dragon Is A Killer]]: Part of the point of {{spoiler|the nest raid, and it is made very explicit when they urge Spike to smash the egg.}}
* [[Ridiculously Cute Critter]]: Phoenix chicks!
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