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Episode 148	Fluttershy Leans In	Aired: May 6 2017
We find Fluttershy and Angel at their cottage where Angel  is about to perform a rather dangerous-looking stunt. Despite how well things are going so far, Fluttershy remains on edge, hoping Angel remains careful. Unfortunately, the stunt is not a smooth ride as Angel lands on the edge a towering pile of books, causing her and all the books to crash on the floor. Angel comes to and finds her foot is badly hurt, causing her to cry out in pain. It's just as Fluttershy had warned her about earlier and she puts Angel on a cushion then searches for a foot brace in the cabinet. However, the cabinet has no more left, leaving them no choice but to pay a visit to the veterenarian Dr. Fona. They arrive but Fluttershy can't get the door open and doesn't get a response, leaving her to believe Dr. Fona isn't in. Dr. Fona proves otherwise and has to open the door herself, leaving a flood of animals to race outside. Dr. Fona suggests a quick fix as she feels she doesn't have the room to keep Angel overnight.  Nevertheless, Dr. Fona takes Angel inside where Fluttershy learns just how packed the place is as animals run wild. Angel gets a cast and crutches but wants no further bonuses and hops away. Each day adds more animals into the building with most having minor issues.  The bigger issue is that the animals don't want to leave and things aren't any clearer for Dr. Fona. Fluttershy admits being responsible but had no intent on having it go as far as it's gone. To make up for it, Fluttershy brings her friends over in hopes they'll help out.  Luckily, the rest agree and it will help Fluttershy's dream of an animal sanctuary become a reality too. The animals and ponies applaud Fluttershy's explanation and are willing to help put the sanctuary together with a few experts they know. With that, the experts are brought over to Fluttershy's cottage and served food from a snake waiter named Rupert. The opening details are ironed out before Fluttershy unveils her schematic of sorts (though it looks nothing like what she intends to make). The trio of exeprts struggle to understand the link between Fluttershy's dream and the overall design but opt to help anyway, albeit with less confidence.  Hard Hat talks with Fluttershy and isn't fully understanding of Fluttershy's idea so he heads downhill to meet with Daddy Grandeur and Wrangler with blueprints for an animal hospital. The trio agree before Fluttershy meets with Daddy Grandeur. Inside the boutique, Fluttershy doesn't like the curtain designs as she has no intention of having curtains at her sanctuary. This doesn't sit well with Daddy Grandeur as he finds the color combination in the drawing to be rather dull. Fluttershy declines the offer again and Daddy Grandeur agrees to look into Fluttershy's idea. With Wrangler, Fluttershy ends up having no better luck as Wrangler's vision is a cage and not more toward what the animals would use. Applejack agrees with Wrangler but settles with Fluttershy as it's her design, leaving Wrangler still uncertain. Meanwhile, the animal hospital is under construction just as the blueprints show but Fluttershy is in shock to see it and does not share the experts' happiness.  In fact, she expresses her deep anger for their failure to adhere to her requests (and she made it quite clear what she wanted in the drawing while you three just deliberately ignored her and went for blueprints of your own accord so she's quite right to be angry). As a result, Fluttershy sends the experts packing just as Dr. Fona arrives with the animals that were too excited to wait a second more.  Unfortunately, the animals are out of control, finding their way inside the building and the cages, leading to the eventual collapse of the building. That night, the animals are brought back to Dr. Fona's clinic where they sleep relatively comfortably. Dr. Fona is willing to accept Fluttershy's effort but Fluttershy isn't giving up and uses a sloth that had made it all the way there from many miles away as the incentive. The next day, Fluttershy calls back the others to share her new plan of action to rebuild the sanctuary as she intended. However, the ponies have their own ideas so Fluttershy has to shut them up and remind them of her intent. As a bonus, Fluttershy had called in an old friend to help. When he arrives, it's Big Daddy McColt, whom Twilight is excited enough so see and races to him as she and Fluttershy met him on a previous map expedition. With that, work on the actual animal sanctuary gets underway and as Fluttershy and Big Daddy look on, things are going to plan. When the sanctuary is finished, Fluttershy brings in Dr. Fona to see the results. Dr. Fona is delighted and Fluttershy brings the sloth (Fiona as revealed here) to a pillow in a designated tree branch before sharing the details about the sanctuary's bonus perks.