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Episode 56	The Golden Horseshoes (Part 1)	Aired: September 14, 1987
We find Spike and Sweet Stuff wondering where Mimic is and they find her looking rather down and pale. Not even Mimic knows her condition and falls over. They take her to get shelter before Megan and North Star arrive to learn the situation. They get Mimic more comfortable but Megan cannot figure out what's wrong and it's no disease the others have ever had. Sweet Stuff suggests it could be magic-related and that means seeing Mr. Moochick about it. With that, the pegasai, Megan and Spike fly off to see him. They arrive just outside a forest by nightfall but wolves are threatening their survival so they race to Mr. Moochick's house for cover just as Mr. Moochick is doing an experiment. Habbit lets them in but they find there were never any wolves in the first place. It was just a sound file that was meant to drive them away. They explain about Mimic and Habbit finds the book Mr. Moochick is thinking of and Mr. Moochick tells the story of the four golden horseshoes, each with a special power and Mimic is a descendent of the unicorn in the book. Megan doesn't see the connection so Mr. Moochick notes that the golden horseshoes have been drifting further and further apart as time passed, which is why Mimic is getting weaker. They must find the golden horseshooes in Screera and while they do, Mr. Moochick assures he and Habbit will watch Mimic. Before they go, he hands him the box with the wolf sound file in it, hoping they'll find a better use for it. With that, they head off while Mr. Moochick and Habbit eventually go to see Mimic. In the skies above, the group sing a song about the dangers of nighttime travel and their determination to press on. They arrive but don't see any Scree until one of them pops its head out of the ground that is acquainted with North Star already. He takes them to the prize they've recieved but they refuse to part with it. Wind Whistler has an idea and challenges the Scree to a race whereby the winner gets the horseshoe but should Wind Whistler lose, she becomes the Scree's servant indefinitely. The race begins but although it seems like a close race, Wind Whistler ultimately loses just as the crescent had predicted. However, they were cheating so Megan uses the wolf sound file to scare them and take the horseshoe for Mimic's sake. Using the horseshoe's powers, they find out where the 2nd one is but it's not so easy to get as they have to tell a riddle since they have nothing to trade. Megan's classic riddle fails so Paradise brings a more challenging riddle. The leader fails to figure it out so the group are taken to the resting place of the horseshoe. However, there's plenty of junk in the way and they don't see the horseshoe anywhere until Spike helps give it away. When they get the horseshoe, they realize it was keeping the pile stable and it starts to collapse. The group escape and take the leader with them. As a thanks, the leader is giving them direct access to the location of the third horseshoe.