"Ooooh! It's a bird monster! Everybody panic!" Pinkie Pie shouts after pushing past Twilight and then jumping and running, mimicking fear the best she could. A random pony in the crowd shrugs his shoulders and begins
to panic. Everypony also panics, except for the elements of harmony.
"I'm sure there's a rational explanation for why it's here!" Twilight Sparkle speaks up. The other elements nod in agreement. Except for Pinkie Pie, who is busy panicking. Three fillies, all wearing trademarked capes with a shape of a pony in the middle. The white-coated one yells out something to do with being kind and stuff.

Bert does a berd laugh. Everypony stands still to look at him. Bert spooks them with his spooky scary face.

Everypony panics this time. Except for Twilight who is wondering why this strange creature has a human body. Bert chirps and chirps, spooking the ponies until they realise that it's not attempting to harm anypony.
"It's trying to mind control us!" A young, orange-coated filly wearing a trademarked cape exclaims.

Everypony panics again. Twilight gives up trying to calm down the panicking crowd and goes back inside, head hung low in defeat.
"Why is everypony so... So crazy?" Twilight asks herself before going to bed.

Twiiiiiliiiiight...

"W-what?" The darkly coloured alicorn asks in her dreams. The voice is heard again.

Twiiiiiiiilllllliiiiiiight...

"Who's there?" Twilight Sparkle asks again.

TWILIGHT!

Twilight jumps back in surprise, as she was expecting another soft long mention of her name, and not a brief, loud shout.

"LISTEN TO ME TWILIGHT!" She turns around to see it was Princess Luna, walker of dreams, who was calling her name.
"O-okay..." The alicorn complies, not wanting to anger the princess, because that's just insanity. Seriously? Who would dare anger them? Apart from about five villains or so. And maybe a certain red-coated vampire. And the prince of all Saiyans.

But enough of that, this story is nothing to do with them! *ahem* So, Twilight follows Luna around her dream to a large gate-like object.
"Twilight, do you know what this is? This is a gate. That's it. What's so special about this gate, I hear you ask? Well, it's the gate to the place the gate takes you. It is an ordinary gate." Luna starts to ramble on about gates as Twilight Sparkle backs off, then wakes up.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH!" Twilight screams as she looks at the being lying on top of her.

It was Bert.

God dammit Bert.

"W-what are you doing here!?" She pushes Bert the berd off of her, he squawks then runs away with a bunch of paper in his left hand, and Spike in his right hand. The alicorn notices.

She damn did notice. She REALLY noticed. She curses under her breath and chases Bert in the cold, dark morning, at 2 o' clock.

TO THE CHASE SCENE!

"SQUAAAAAWK! SQUAAAAAWK! (Go away! I'm hungry!)" Bert squawks at Twilight, who is chasing him from behind. The other ponies in their houses start to wake up, way earlier than they should, the alicorn spots all the lights turning on and gets even more angrier as she knows that this stupid berd is disrupting ordinary Ponyville. Twilight Sparkle unfolds her wings and attempts to tackle Bert from above. As we all know, Twilight is NOT good at flying. At all. So, we all know how this will turn out... Greatly!

Twilight lands directly on top of Bert (HUEHUEHUE) and applies a paralysis spell on the berd, then lifts her papers and Spike off of Bert with her magic.

Thus begins... The berdening.

Bert breaks free of the paralysis spell, much to everyone's surprise, and charges at Twilight, then bites her right front leg riiiight down to the bone. That's gotta hurt. Twilight screams and then Bert runs off to the Everfree, really not a great idea.

Spike wakes up and asks where he is. For he had no idea. He had no idea he was in the middle of... THE BERDENING.

Author's Note

THE BERDENING HAS BEGUN

I have planned the end for the story, long before I even began to write it! The end being, uh, well I can't tell you, can I?