Dragon Quest

Dragon Quest is the twenty-first episode of the second season of Legends of the Multiverse: Friendship is Universe and the forty-seventh episode overall. In this episode, Olaf and Navi decides to join the Great Dragon Migration to discover his true identity.

Development
The episode is similar to the G1 My Little Pony episode Spike's Search.

The dragons' disrespect towards ponies is a deliberate reflection of the common contempt towards little girls' toys, personified by the ponies.

According to Jim Miller, the main characters learned Spyro's name during the events of this episode.

Prologue
The episode begins with Sheriff Mulan and Rapunzel rapidly digging a hole in the ground. Next, Sally Acorn is shown dragging Spectra Vondergeist to the door of her cottage, with her and Kairi Sparkle urging her to go to the "once in a generation" dragon migration. Spectra is clearly afraid to go, drawing back to her fear of dragons in You've Got a Friend in Need. Sally Acorn says that Spectra owes her for the time she spent with her at the butterfly migration, but she resists by hanging on to her front door frame. Eventually losing her temper with a cry of "NO!!!", she steamrolls over Sally with a paw to the stomach, and gently opens one of her living room windows to exit through with a jump and runs off, much to Kairi's horror. Sally, still lying on the floor, decides to let her off the hook this time.

Observing the Dragon Migration
Kairi, Mulan, Rapunzel, and Sally are then shown in the finished hole, which turns out to be a viewing trench behind some low-lying bushes, wearing camouflage to try and spot dragons. Nene Amano finally arrives, wearing a swanky pink, purple and gold camouflage naming herself the "toast of the trench", and arriving on a red carpet. They then spot the dragons flying above, and a few of them begin to fight with each other. One of them breathes fire in Sally's direction, charring her coat. Olaf and Navi is also present, and begins handing out snacks to his friends. But Sally makes fun about how he isn't like the other dragons. Nene rushes to back up Olaf and Navi from Sally Acorn's insults, but Olaf and Navi still ends up storming off, upset.

Late night research
Olaf and Navi is up late at night wondering what he is and where he is from. Kairi can’t sleep over Olaf and Navi talking and tells him she doesn’t know since he was given to her as an egg and she doesn’t know who found him or where. Spike says that doesn’t give him the answers he needs so Kairi suggests some late night research. Olaf and Navi is surprised and Kairi is confident they will find something.

The next morning, neither Kairi nor Olaf and Navi has found any information on dragons. Kairi says they are apparently too rare and scary for ponies to talk to or study. Olaf and Navi wonders if dragons cry and Kairi wipes his face, as he starts to cry. Olaf pushes her tissue away and says he will discover who he is if it is that last thing he does. Sally and Nene come in and invite Olaf, Navi, and Kairi to breakfast. Twilight agrees but Olaf and Navi opts out and says he wants to get an early start. Nene asks him what he means and Olaf and Navi says he is going on a quest of self-discovery to learn what it means to be a dragon. Olaf and Navi says that only way to do that is to join the Dragon Migration. Kairi, Sally and Nene are shocked at this. As Spike sets off, they mutter to each other that they will follow him.

Meeting the dragons
Olaf and Navi sets out on his journey, which takes him across mountains, rivers and forests. Finally, he arrives in the volcanic area that the dragons have migrated to. Olaf and Navi notices a group of teenage dragons and runs down to them. Unfortunately, he is almost immediately berated by the other dragons, who make fun of his small size and lack of wings. They also accuse him of being "part animal", or a "animal in a dragon costume"; which is ironic, seeing as Nene, Kairi, and Sally are nearby in a dragon costume, having followed Olaf and Navi to the crater.

Olaf and Navi is challenged to a series of games. The first challenge is a burping contest, which Olaf and Navi performs poorly in due to only being able to come up with a small burst of magical fire, from which a scroll from Princess Palutena appears. The scroll is tossed into a lava pool by one of the dragons. The next challenge is a tail-wresting competition. Olaf and Navi first wrestles with the three ponies dressed up as a dragon, and he struggles at this even when the three animals are not putting up any fight. The costumed animals collapse on purpose though, to make it look as if Spike won. However, Olaf and Navi is then put up against a dragon with a giant tail, who catapults him into the side of the crater. The third challenge is dubbed "king of the hoard", a play on the game "king of the hill". Olaf and Navi are sneakily climbs up the hill of gems, and softly nudges off the dragon on top. While celebrating, Olaf loses his balance and falls down the mound of gems. The final challenge is to find out who could make the largest splash by cannonballing into a pool of lava. Although nervous about the dizzying height, Olaf screws up his courage and jumps off the ledge, but lands face down in a painful belly flop and slowly sinks into the lava as the teenagers wince.

Olaf assumes he did poorly. However, one of the teenage dragons, Spyro, astounded by Olaf's ability to withstand the fall, announces that Olaf will be crowned as a dragon, and after being given a noogie in the initiation ceremony, is initiated as a dragon. The dragons then hold a party in which they gorge themselves on gems, after which Olaf mentions that he doesn't want to leave the group.

The egg raid
The group of dragons then decide to go on a phoenix egg raid. Olaf reluctantly agrees to go, and after saying that he'll just wait behind as he can't fly, is picked up by another dragon and flown to the nest. The dragons observe the two adult phoenixes, and tell Olaf and Navi to lure them away. Olaf pelts the nest with a rock, which prompts the phoenixes to fly after him, leaving their eggs unguarded. When the other dragons move in to steal the eggs, they find that they have hatched into baby phoenixes. The baby phoenixes fly around and disorientate the dragons, and then call for help from their parents. The parents fly back to help their babies, and successfully evade the pursuing dragons using magic.

By the time they return to Olaf and Navi, they find he has found an unhatched phoenix egg. They egg on Olaf and Navi to smash the egg on the ground, but he refuses to do so. At this point, Kairi, Nene and Sally show up, and doff their dragon costume. They assert themselves towards the dragons, only to make them laugh. The four then decide to simply run away, and Kairi teleports them away as the dragons gain on them, causing them to crash into a tree. After this, Olaf and Navi tells the three animals that they are more than just his friends, they are his family too, and they share a group hug.

Back in Multiville
Once back in Multiville, Olaf begins writing a letter to Princess Palutena. In this letter, he says that he has learned that "who I am is not the same as what I am". He says that although he was born a dragon, a snowman, a fairy, his animal friends have taught him how to be "kind, loyal and true", and that he is proud to call them his family. Then, the phoenix egg, which Olaf kept, suddenly hatches, and Olaf names the baby phoenix Peewee.

Quotes

 * Kairi Sparkle: C'mon, Spectra, it'll be fun!
 * Spectra Vondergeist: There's nothing fun about dragons! Scary, yes. Fun, no!
 * Kairi Sparkle: But Spectra, the great dragon migration happens only once in a generation. Do you really wanna pass up a chance like that?
 * Spectra Vondergeist: Now that you put it that way, yes!
 * Kairi Sparkle: Aw Spectra, we just don't want you to miss out.
 * Spectra Vondergeist: Miss out on what? Dragons? Big, scaly, fire-breathing dragons?
 * Kairi Sparkle: Well... yeah!
 * Spectra Vondergeist: Thanks, but... no thanks!
 * Sally Acorn: Look, Spectra, I watched that boring butterfly migration with you, so now it's your turn to watch the dragon migration with me! You owe me!
 * Spectra Vondergeist: I said... no!
 * Sally Acorn: Yeaagh! Ugh!
 * Kairi Sparkle: [gasps]
 * Spectra Vondergeist: [high pitched growling] [whimpers]
 * Sally Acorn: Okay, I guess I'll let you off the hook this time.


 * Nene Amano: What do you think? Am I the toast of the trench or what?
 * Sheriff Mulan: [hushed] You'll be toast alright, when the dragons see you parading around in that getup.
 * Kairi Sparkle: [hushed] You look very nice, Nene, but could you maybe look nice down here in the trench with us?
 * Nene Amano: Nice is an understatement. I look fabulous! Who says camouflage has to be drab?


 * Sally Acorn: Pfft, pretty lame move. Is that all they've got?
 * [dragon roaring]
 * Sheriff Mulan: [hushed] What do ya think of that 'move', Sally? Still think they're lame?
 * Sally Acorn: [hushed] Uh, not so much. The word 'fierce' comes to mind.


 * Nene Amano: Yes. You've got something those dreadfully fierce dragons can only dream of.
 * Olaf: [excited] What's that?
 * Nene Amano: The cutest wittle chubby cheeks!
 * Navi: What is a chubby cheeks again?


 * Nene Amano: Oh, isn't he adorable when he waddles off in anger?
 * Olaf: Waddle?! Rrrrrggggh!
 * Navi: [slap Olaf] Enough! Olaf!


 * Olaf: Count me out. I've gotta get an early start!
 * Nene Amano: An early start?
 * Olaf: Yes! I'm going on a quest of self-discovery! I'm going to learn what it means to be a dragon! And the only way I'm gonna do that is to join the Dragon Migration!
 * Kairi Sparkle, Nene Amano and Sally Acorn: What?!?
 * Navi: Uh Oh!


 * Sally Acorn: I still say you're nutty, but hey, I've done lots of nutty things.
 * Nene Amano, Olaf, Navi, and Kairi Sparkle: We know.


 * Nene Amano: Goodbye, Olafey-wikey!
 * Sally Acorn: Go get 'em, big guy!
 * Kairi Sparkle: We have faith in you!
 * Nene Amano: [through her grin] We're following him, right?
 * Kairi Sparkle: [through her grin] Of course.


 * Olaf: Who, me? I'm not part pony! I'm all dragon, see? Raar!
 * Spyro: Or maybe you're a pony in a dragon costume.
 * [dragons laughing]
 * Purple teenage dragon: A animal in a dragon costume...! [laughs]
 * Kairi Sparkle: [deep voice] Aheh... yeah... hilarious.


 * Spyro: Who's this weirdo?
 * Purple teenage dragon: I think he's Toothless's cousin.
 * Toothless: [vocalizes]
 * Spyro: Oh! That would explain it.


 * Teenage dragons: [having witnessed Spike belly-flopping into a pool of lava] Oooh...


 * Kairi Sparkle: [yelps] Sally, stop! We can't fly!
 * Nene Amano: And you're ruining my fabulous costume!


 * Sally Acorn: Nopony's gonna lay a claw on him!
 * Kairi Sparkle: That's right!
 * Nene Amano: Fighting's not really my thing, I'm more into fashion, but I'll rip you to pieces if you touch one scale on his cute little head!
 * [dragons laughing]
 * Spyro: Spike, are these namby-pamby animals your friends?
 * Olaf: Yes, they are. And they're better friends than you could ever be. Now, if you don't back off, you'll see what us animals do when confronted by a huge group of jerky dragons.
 * Spyro: Oh yeah? [snorts] What's that?
 * Olaf: Run away!
 * Navi: Oh My Gosh!


 * Olaf: Phew, that was a close one. Thanks you guys.
 * Kairi Sparkle: Of course. What are friends for?
 * Olaf: You're more than friends. You're my family.
 * Navi: Okay! Thanks!
 * Nene Amano: [squeaks]


 * Olaf: Hey, welcome to the family, Peewee! Stick with me. I've got plenty to teach you about being a animal.