Oracle and Blue Spiral were walking around, with Sea Salt trailing behind them. Spiral bought Oracle a cotton candy, since she and Sea Salt had already had one.
"Try it!" she said. "I'm sure you'll like it!" Oracle took a bite out of it and instantly spat it out.
"Ugh," she groaned. "it's horrible."
"It's O.K.!" squeaked Blue Spiral. "I knew you would say that, just wait.. my fourth wall breaking and that cotton candy will help us soon!" She held out a hoof and waved it. Oracle quickly made a sicky face and stuck her tongue out. Blue Spiral realised the teeny mistake she made and pulled out a marshmallow.
"Eat it!" before Oracle could say a word, her mouth was full of sunset-colored goodness. "Don't ask, it takes a hell of a lot of work to break the fourth wall." They came to the edge of Aquarius and looked over at the sunset.
"Wait.. I'm not a lesbian!" Blue Spiral quickly darted off and just left Sea Salt and Oracle together. Sea Salt sat beside Oracle, blushing.
"Sea Salt..." said Oracle dreamily, staring into the sunset. "...can you really hear? Is it some kind of trick to make sure people don't really talk to you?" Sea Salt dropped her head as if she heard what Oracle was saying.
"S-Sea Salt?"
Sea Salt dropped her head again, then quickly stood up and looked at Oracle.
"I cannot hear you," she said softly. Oracle looked at Sea Salt with a surprised looked. Her voice was like a baby's touch, the splashing of calm waves, silk on a spider's web...
...the touch of a fresh peach.
She didn't want to sound strange, but she muttered six words.
"Your voice..." she whispered. "...is like my mother's..."
Oracle bolted away from the shattered, once peaceful, place of Equestria. Rain dripped down her coat as she neared the border of the kingdom. She sighed and looked down at the dark and gloomy site and walked away. She quickly took off her backpack using her magic and looked inside a book. Quickly browsing through it, she soon shut it and put it back in the bag. She began running some more and then stopped, looking down at a new town. She looked behind her and couldn't resist having a sneak peek inside the village. No, Oracle. She said to herself. You're supposed to be finding a cure to the plague. She rolled her eyes and grabbed her backpack once more, and teleported back to the infested town. She took out a small scanning device to see if there was any recent contact. None. She dropped the machine back into the bag and she started teleporting everywhere, getting worried that there might still be some ponies. Still none. She ran back to the cliff overhanging the new city. She coughed. Oh dear. She thought. W-Was that just me or did I cough? She looked at the little specks of spit of her hoof and made a disgusted face, wiping it on a nearby bush.
Meanwhile, in the new city, two ponies were walking together and came across a Cotton Candy store. They decided to buy one each and gobbled it down in no time.
"Num num!" said Blue Spiral, one of the ponies.
"That was delicious!" Licking her lips and looking around, she pointed to another stall and the duo trotted over to it happily.
Oracle slowly walked into the gates of the huge city. This looks so much like Equestria, except different! She looked around more and realised she was at some sort of carnival. Ugh, I can't stay with a bunch of freaks... She turned around and saw a lot of blue ponies, including the duo consisting of Blue Spiral and a pony who seemed to have lost her voice. Stangely, this pony was not blue like the rest of them.
"Ignore Sea Salt, my deaf cousin. I'm Blue Spiral! Welcome to Aquarius!" cried Blue Spiral. She seemed to be the engergetic one of the bunch. Just as Oracle was about to speak, Spiral cut her off. "Let me guess, there's a plague in your so called 'Equestria' and you're the only pony who volunteers to do the job, you go on a cliff overhanging this joint and you decide to come here. Oh. And you cough on yourself," Blue Spiral smiled manically and twitched her eye a bit.
Dang! Thought Oracle. Here's a new Fourth-Wall breaker.
