10-Minute Retirement: After losing their athletic edge and cracking under the pressure of winning the big buckball game against Appleloosa, Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy feel they're unfit to play buckball anymore and quit on the train ride there. Braeburn admits he'll have to work hard to beat them in the rematch, but Pinkie and Fluttershy say that the only way to play buckball is to play for fun. Pinkie and Fluttershy take the spots again in the real game, managing to win over Braeburn and his team, giving Ponyville the victory. During practice, with the pressure now gone, Fluttershy and Pinkie suddenly regain the skill they had before, and reveal that playing for fun makes them do far better. Upon finding their friends, Rainbow and Applejack agree to take their place and play in the buckball game after all, if Fluttershy and Pinkie only agree to help them practice one more time. Rainbow and Applejack finally see that the pressure to succeed, while useful for them, won't help Fluttershy or Pinkie. On the train ride, with some more egging on from Rainbow and Applejack, Pinkie and Fluttershy finally snap and admit they don't want to play anymore because the pressure is just too great, running into the luggage car. But at the train station, several ponies have turned out to wish them good luck, stressing Pinkie and Fluttershy even further. While walking away, Fluttershy says that the pressure to succeed is getting to her, but Pinkie assures her that nopony else will be pressuring them, since most of the town hasn't even heard of the game. This causes Pinkie and Fluttershy to mess up as the pressure builds, finally resulting in Applejack calling off the training so they can rest. 
Later that day, Rainbow and Applejack put more and more pressure on Pinkie and Fluttershy during a training session, telling them that all of Ponyville is counting on them to succeed. This makes Rainbow and Applejack give up their spots to Pinkie and Fluttershy for the team, while Snails gets the spot as the team's unicorn after an errant ball flung his way is easily caught in his water buckets. However, despite Applejack and Rainbow's natural athletic talents, they find that Pinkie and Fluttershy are still beating them easily by playing for fun. In this regard, Rainbow and Applejack want Pinkie and Fluttershy to stand in for the other team while they have various unicorns from Ponyville try out for the spot. Later on, Rainbow and Applejack take Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy to a small field, where they explain the rules of the game: an earth pony bucks a ball towards a basket levitated by a unicorn, which the opposing team's pegasus is blocking. Excited, Rainbow immediately offers to help win by joining Applejack's team. Applejack explains that an upcoming game of buckball is going to be played between Ponyville and Appleloosa, and she's training hard in order to beat her cousin Braeburn, who is playing on the other team.
Rainbow Dash finds Applejack practicing her apple bucking at Sweet Apple Acres, aiming the apples at a target.
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