As Megan, the ponies and the bushwoolies head down a tunnel to find an exit, they come across the raptorians gloating about having turned all of Ponyland to glass. Fearing for their friends, they head in the direction the raptorians arrived from to find Porcina's mirror room, where her scrying mirror shows them their home and fellows turned to unmoving glass. Shady and Molly arrive and show themselves, and Shady explains that she came for failing to be there to help her friends when they were taken away, but Heart Throb and Gusty assure her that they don't blame her for anything. Shady then explains her plan for dealing with the villains: it's bushwooly shedding season, and since pony and bushwooly look an awful lot like each other they could weave a counterfeit cloak to replace Porcina's with.
The party sneaks into Porcina's bedroom and, after Gusty almost gives them away with a sneeze, set about the delicate process of taking the cloak from the sleeping sorceress and replacing it. Gusty sneezes again, blowing out the torch, and when it's lighted again the heroes cannot tell which cloak is which. As the raptorians are coming back, they cannot spare the time to examine them and so Megan simply has to snatch one at random, hope for the rest, and bolt into hiding with the rest. The raptorians tell Porcina that their prisoners have escaped and that she needs to find and vitrify them, and Porcina starts growing angry at them giving her orders, but before the confrontation can devolve further Gusty sneezes a third time and gives them away.With the intruders revealed, Porcina goes to turn them to glass. The heroes can only brace themselves and hope they grabbed the right cloak, but they don't need to find out. Porcina realizes that while turning people to glass with miles of distance comfortably between you and your targets are one thing, she simply can't bring herself to kill living, breathing beings in cold blood when they're right in front of her. The raptorians, who have no such qualms, take the cloak from her and attempt to turn the heroes to glass only to find out that they do indeed have the fake. They seize the real cloak that Megan is holding and, after a brief tug-o-war, tear the cloak in two. A magical bolt is released from it, which bounces around the room before hitting the raptorians and turning them to glass.
Porcina, having realized the harm caused by her actions, makes peace with the ponies. After repairing her cloak, she comes with them to Ponyland and willingly turns its inhabitants back to their true selves. She then gives her cloak to the bushwoolies, who quickly unweave it to nothing, and accepts their offer to come live with them, departing with her new companions as she and her former foes wave goodbye to one another.
This episode contains examples of:
- Brought Down to Normal: With the destruction of her cloak, Porcina loses her magic powers and becomes just another creature. She admits it's probably better this way.
- Chekhov's Gun: Buswhoolie shedding season, which was mentioned offhand two episodes back as a way for Molly and Shady to track the others, proves crucial to solving the conflict by providing a way for the heroes to make a convincing fake cloak.
- Heel Realization: When about to turn Megan and the ponies to glass, Porcina is struck by the fact that her actions, which she never really considered in depth before, have been condemning innocent beings to death for the sake of her vanity, and that it's simply not her right to make such decisions.
- Ill-Timed Sneeze: Gusty discovers an allergy to pigs at the worst possible time. Her first sneeze is interrupted before it can wake Porcina, but the second blows out Megan's torch and leaves the characters unable to guess which cloak is real and which is fake and the third gives them away to the raptorians.
- Karmic Death: The raptorians die the same death they casually condemned others to, and are turned into the same substance they coveted.
- A Million Is a Statistic: This is ultimately what causes Porcina to abandon her plans. It's one thing for her to turn people to glass by the dozen when they're just images in a mirror and many miles away from her. As she finds out, though, when her targets are undeniably living, breathing, scared creatures right in front of her eyes, she simply can't bring herself to decide that they must die.
- Plot Allergy: Gusty is, of all things, allergic to pigs. Given that their main foe right now is a pig and that constant sneezing makes stealth a touch difficult, this proves to be somewhat of a problem.
- Shout-Out: As the raptorians celebrate their approaching victory and takeover of a vitrified Ponyland, they run around in circles while shouting "there's no place like home, there's no place like home!"
