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♪♪

Huh?

[whoosh]

Oh!

♪♪

Did I miss the Teacher of the Month announcement?

You're just in time.

But it's gonna be me.

Yeah, right! I got this one nailed.

And the Friendship School teacher of the month is...

Fluttershy!

Ugh. Again?

Come on!

Oh, my. I don't know how I keep winning.

[click]

Yeah, me neither.

The award is based on the students' vote.

They must really like you!

Congratulations, Fluttershy.

[giggle]

Next item of business.

I've been looking into a new activity

for our friendship classes.

Spike?

Section 147, paragraph 2 states

that teamwork is a key part of friendship.

And section 229, paragraph 9 says outdoor activity

reinforces learning.

Add that together and what do you get?

Ooh ooh!

OK, lemme see 147, 229 carry the two.

Three hundred and eighty-seven?

Mm-mm. A teamwork field trip!

Leading it is a Teacher of the Month type-job,

so I thought I'd ask.

I'm yer pony, Twilight.

Sweet Apple Acres has taught me a thing or two

about workin' together.

Yeah, but being a Wonderbolt's the definition of teamwork.

Heh heh heh, I'm sure you're not sayin' fancy flyin'

makes ya a better choice than me.

Heh heh heh heh, I wouldn't say better,

just a little more qualified.

No offense.

Maybe you can lead the field trip together!

Gah!

Of course!

Who better to model the importance of working as a team?

Um, Rarity, Fluttershy, me, Spike.

This flower pot.

BOTH of you are teamwork experts.

If the students see the two of you teaching together,

they'll learn even more.

I know you've been competitive in the past,

but I'm SURE you'd never let that get in the way of

friendship education!

'A course.

Totally.

[growls]

[laughter]

♪ My little pony, my little pony ♪

♪ Aaaahhh ♪

♪ My little Pony ♪

♪ I used to wonder what friendship could be. ♪

♪ My Little Pony ♪

♪ Until you all shared its magic with me. ♪

♪ Big adventure! ♪ ♪ Tons of fun ♪

♪ A beautiful heart! ♪ ♪ Faithful and strong! ♪

♪ Sharing kindness ♪ ♪ it's an easy feat ♪

♪ And magic makes it all complete! ♪

♪ To have my little pony ♪

♪ Do you know you're all my very best friends? ♪

♪♪

♪♪

I've never been on a field trip before.

Yeah, what's the point of this, exactly?

Getting out of the classroom, duh.

Yak best at field tripping!

[thud]

That's what we're doing?

SO FUN!

[thud]

Heh heh.

Pretty sure the Headmare has something else in mind.

All right, class.

Today you'll learn how important working together is

for building a strong friendship.

Hey y'all!

Ready to get out there and do some learnin'

the Apple family way?

This is basically gonna be the best field trip

in the history of ever.

With me in charge, that is.

Heh heh.

With us in charge.

Meanin' mostly me .

Yeah. Good one.

And what teamwork activity do you two have planned for today?

Canoe-racing. - Shed-building.

No way. We get to do BOTH?

I bet that's exactly what your teachers had in mind.

Why don't you start with shed-building first?

Heh. Don't mind if I do!

Everycreature, follow the leader!

♪♪

I'll check in later to see how it's going.

Remember to work together!

[big inhale]

Now take a good deep breath.

What do ya smell?

Ugh. Yak?

[sniffing]

Mm-hm!

Nope. Try again.

Um...apples?

AND... Anyone? Anyone? No?

The promise of teamwork!

That there's an apple shed.

And this here is what we're gonna use to build it!

Nothin' brings friends together like a little hard work

and honest sweat.

[cackling]

Sweat? Seriously?

That's supposed to be part of friendship?

Not everypony would know that, Rainbow Dash.

Just Teacher of the Month kinda ponies.

Whatever. Let's just get this done

so we can move on to my activity!

♪♪

That's it! Measure twice, and cut once.

Haste makes waste.

Slow and steady.

Emphasis on the slow.

[zoom]

♪♪

[grunts]

Rainbow Dash!

You can't build an apple shed like that!

Oh, yeah? I just did!

[crash]

Whoa! No way!

All: Whoa!

Impressive...

if you can call an apple shed impressive.

Just 'cause it's fast don't mean it's good.

Oh, sorry! Can't hear you.

Too busy practicing my Teacher of the Month pose.

Yeah! Yeah!

Hoo wah!

Don't count your pictures before they're snapped, Rainbow Dash.

Oh, come on!

These students are totally gonna vote

for a teacher who gets things done!

No, they're gonna vote for a teacher

who gets things done right!

Yeah, this isn't awkward at all.

♪♪

[hammering]

♪♪

Applejack: Steady, steady.

Take her nice and slow.

Little to the left.

A hair to the right.

Now a hoofshavin' higher.

Grrrr.

JUST BRING IT DOWN ALREADY!

[shouts]

[smash]

Heh heh.

I'll give ya one guess whose side is still standin.'

Yak side!

[crash]

[sheepish laugh]

[groan]

Um, professors?

I'm a little confused about teamwork now.

That's because you need a different teacher.

Follow me!

Last one to the stream is a rotten apple shed!

[zoom]

[groan]

Who's ready to smash the all- time Equestria speed record

for river canoeing?

Is that even a thing?

First I've heard of it.

We need to get to the finish line before this alarm goes off!

That means you gotta move fast!

[whoosh]

Any questions?

Um. Yona have questions.

No time for 'em! Get in the boat.

♪♪

You really think winnin' some canoin' record

is gonna get you that teacher of the month trophy?

I'm pretty sure every creature's gonna like it a lot better

than pounding nails and cutting wood.

Yak not like water.

Sometimes, when I'm scared to try something new, I whistle.

[whistle]

We got you, Yona.

[panicked shout]

Way I see it, Twilight's gonna give that teachin' trophy

to a TEACHER, not a RACER.

We'll see about that.

[splashing]

Stroke! Stroke! Stroke! Harder!

Put your back into it, newbies!

Stroooke, stroooke, stroooke, slower!

Focus on your paddle technique, y'all!

WHOO HOO!

We're really going now!

So, when do we get to the part when we move?

When everycreature starts listening to me.

The leader of my activity, Applejack.

NOW STROKE!

♪♪

Dig in team!

We can still beat that record!

Stop!

Go!

Which way do we go?

Left!

Right!

Aye-aye, captains!

Wait, what?

Left!

I can see the finish line from here!

If we go left, we'll be headin straight

into the Bite-acuda fish!

Who cares about a few fish?

Uh, professors?

You'll care plenty when they bite ya!

Guys?

Rainbow Dash: We'll just go around them.

ROCK!

[screams]

[crash]

[splashing]

[gasping and coughing]

♪♪

[giggle]

[weak whistle]

[rip]

I LOVE FIELD TRIPS!

I hope you're happy.

Obviously not, because there goes our new speed record!

[choking]

Help!

Yak not swim!

♪ [adventure music] ♪

That's OK.

Your friends can change into creatures that do!

Twilight: How's the canoeing going?

About as good as the apple shed building.

I totally had things under control,

until Applejack messed 'em up.

I did not!

Did too!

Did not!

Yeah. It's been like this all day.

I wouldn't say all day.

Just, 99% of it.

I can't believe this!

You're not teaching teamwork;

you're competing with each other.

I thought you were past that!

We are!

Mostly.

We got carried away with

wantin' to be the Teacher of the Month, is all.

The Teacher of the Month wouldn't care

about being the Teacher of the Month!

I know Fluttershy would be thrilled

to see another pony win.

That's it!

I'm taking over this field trip.

Hold up, Twilight.

Don't count out Rainbow Dash for the award just yet.

You should've seen her fire up those students to build a shed!

No way! You're the one the students listen to.

Besides, you saved us from those pony-eating fish.

Long story.

But Applejack should definitely be teacher of the month.

Hmmm. Maybe you two have learned something after all.

Does that mean you'll give us another chance at the Teacher of

--Field Trip?

Well...

C'mon, Twilight. We get it.

No more arguing.

Right, Applejack?

Right as rain and twice as fresh!

Fine.

But I'm picking the next activity you two lead.

A nature walk.

Nopony could possibly argue over that.

Right?

Right!

See?

We're agreein' already!

♪♪

Well, look at that!

The path splits up ahead.

Left or right?

Here we go again.

Where to, Rainbow Dash?

I was thinking right.

Unless you want to go left.

Because what makes you happy, makes me happy.

Ah, heck, forget about me.

You want to go right, we'll go right.

But teamwork means listening to other ponies, so it's up to you.

Well, aren't you as sweet as sugar apple pie.

But it's up to you.

Grrrr. Follow me.

Yak know best way.

Hey, where y'all goin'?

♪♪

I think we've gone in the same circle five times.

Only because 'SOMEponies' won't make up their minds

about which way to go.

Do you want to keep going in a circle, Applejack?

Up to you, Rainbow Dash. I insist.

No no, I insist.

But I insisted first.

Are we still on a field trip?

Cause this just feels like being lost.

We can still get back to school before dark

if we cross that ravine and stop doubling back.

We knew that.

All part of our plan, right, Applejack?

Yep. All we have to do is build a bridge

across that giant canyon and we're home free!

That is if, if you think a bridge is a good idea.

Only if you want to build a bridge.

STOP!

Listen, we can just fly everyone over and be done.

Nope. There's still plenty of time

to teach y'all a lesson in teamwork.

Cooperation!

Togetherness!

You are so right!

Only as right as you are!

OK! We'll build the bridge. What do we use?

Vines! Branches!

Branches! Vines!

I'm goin' with your idea: vines.

No buts about it.

I'm building with your idea.

Branches. End of story.

♪♪

[noisy yawn and crickets]

♪♪

Why use a branch when you could use a vine!

[grunt]

[snap]

[gasp]

[grunt]

[relieved sigh]

[creaking]

Why didn't I think of branches to begin with?

They're so...

[crack and thud]

...easy to work with.

[gasps]

These here vines are just the thing, Rainbow Dash!

Not to disagree, but these branches are the way to--

[panicked shouts]

HELP!

At least now they're agreeing on something.

I can't get out!

Let me try.

[grunts]

Let me guess.

Bite-acudas?

Mm hm. And they look mighty hungry.

We gotta get our professors out of there!

Anycreature have a plan?

Leave 'em hanging?

What?

I'm kidding.

Kinda.

We need to work fast, and together.

[creaking]

But mainly fast.

[snap]

I hate to admit it, but...

this whole mess is kinda our fault.

Yeah. No trophy is worth getting eaten over.

So whaddya say, ya wanna team up and get ourselves

outta this here pickle barrel?

I thought you'd never ask!

Ahhh!

Don't worry!

I'm just the distraction.

Ocellus?

You nearly scared the cutie marks off us!

[splash]

[screech]

[snap snap]

[snap]

[yells]

Need a lift?

Yak smash!

[grunts]

Welcome back, Professors!

Now that was a rescue!

And y'all did it together!

[cheering]

No big. Those fish weren't even a thing.

[growling]

Wha'!

[giggle]

Oops. Sorry.

[zap]

Ha ha! BEST. FIELD TRIP. EVER!

♪♪

[door opens]

How was the field trip?

What did you all learn?

Yak learn ponies smart!

Yeah! Professors Applejack and Rainbow Dash

were such good teachers.

It was kinda crazy genius.

They showed us what not to do so we'd figure

out what we should do.

Really?

It took us a while to get it.

Especially at the ravine.

It would have been so much easier to just fly home.

But instead, our professors built bridges the wrong way

just to show us how important teamwork is.

Yeah, that was super-dangerous.

Talk about commitment!

We know it's too early to pick the Teacher of the Month.

But we'd like you to consider Rainbow Dash and Applejack.

Thank you for telling me!

I'm so glad to hear your field trip was a success.

I'll make sure to schedule another one right away!

[cheers]

You were actually just competing the entire time, weren't you?

To tell ya the truth?

Yeah.

Well, not all the time.

I agreed with you for the whole nature walk!

Only cause you were anglin' for that Teacher of the Month award.

[groan]

YOU were the one doing the angling.

[arguing continues]