My little short stories- Tales of Dream castle

Chapters

Introduction
Mane Troubles
Evening dreams
The Crazy that is Fizzy
Can I just be left alone?!
Forest from the Trees
A Fool's Act
Like, Whatevar!
Crazy Cure!
Close Encounters of the Fizzy Kind!
Space Cases
Alienated
Wind Whistler; Origins
Princess Rinse 'n Spit
Extremeeeeee Ponies!
The human world: Down on the Farm.
The Human World: Mall Madness
The Human condition
The human World: On Campus
The human World: Test Subject!
Human World: Lemme outta here!

Introduction

Hello everyone, Paradise Oaisishere! Welcome do Dream Valley, the small city-state kingdom in the heart of the Everfree forest! Here, we are far separated from the hustle and bustle of Equestria here, and life within the walls of our pink castle has a rhythm all of it's own. Under the rule of our great monarch, Queen Majesty, we maintain a harmonious life free from Pegasus weather control or alicorns or any other absurdities that are a part of other pony's lives. Though, we do have our share of... odd adventures here!

Within these pages, I shall tell you of these adventures. I will tell you of my Friend Wind Whistler, the highly intelligent blue Pegasus whose whole life revolves around logic. I will speak to you of Gusty, the hot headed white unicorn who loves to pick a fight before even trying to talk her way out of a situation. And I will speak of Shady, our dear depressed earth pony friend, who really ever seems to get out of her despair. All these ponies and more, I shall tell you of in the coming chapters. I truly and sincerely hope you will enjoy these humorous and wonderful tales.

Paradise Oasis

Mane Troubles

Mane troubles

Okay, okay, the whole mess with Cheerilee was our fault, but how were we supposed to know?

It was a quiet Saturday evening and we were all sitting around the Satin Slipper, drinking milkshakes and having a good laugh. Fizzy was serving up root beer floats with a smile and a laugh as always, Wind Whistler was staring at her glass and philosophically arguing wither it was half empty or half full, and Shady was whining about how they were out of chocolate, and she had to drink a vanilla shake instead. it was then that Cheerilee came trotting into the shop... and boy was her mane and tail a mess!

"Whoah, Cheerilee!" Fizzy giggled, nearly tumbling over from laughter. "You look like you got hit by a bug zapper!"

"Gee, Fizz, thanks for noticing!" The teaching mare grumbled, indicating how unhappy she was with the situation. "I can't even get a comb though this tangled mess this morning."

And boy, was she right! That mane looked like a tangled up mass of spaghetti some one had twirled together with a fork, and her tail didn't look much better! I've never seen so many split ends, tangles, and frizzy hairs sticking out of the same pink mane!

"Gee, your mane looks terrible!" Shady cried in despair, trying to hold her tears back. "I really wish we could do something to help!"

"The logical thing for us to do, would be to assist you with your follicle follies." Wind Whistler added, in her usual logical manner. "For such a remedy, I would recommend a visit to the Crimp and Curl hair salon, where most of us go whenever we are in necessity of a style alteration."

"Yeah, that's it!" Fizzy giggled, putting her milkshakes away, and closing up the Satin Slipper early. "Let's take her over to the salon, an give her a makeover, it'll be fun!"

"Indeed, Fizzy! And while we are present at the same time and location, perhaps it would be meritorious to get our manes done at the same time, as well."

"Oh, I guess guess I'll come along," Shady whined, trotting along after the other mares. "But I'm sure I'll be nothing but a burden to the rest of you!"

"Now wait, girls- are you all so sure this is such a good idea?" Cheerilee asked hesitantly. "I-I mean, I could just try to straighten my mane out, myself."

"Awww, com' Cherilee! It won't hurt a bit, we promise!" Fizzy replied innocently, a great big grin upon her face. "Besides, you're gonna need to get a cut sooner or later!"

I could understand her hesitancy, Cheerilee had not gotten her mane done ever since she Arrived in Dream Valley from Equestria. But I think she realized she's have to get it done sooner or later... unless she wanted to look like a brush n' grow pony.

As they dragged her away, this white Pegasus decided to follow along to see what would happen. I really felt sorry for the poor teacher- not only for what her mane looked like, but for what I knew these three goofballs were going to do to her.

....

The three of them led Cheerilee down to the Crimp n' curl Salon, a small structure just outside of Dream Castle's main keep. The yellow building looks like a large yellow vanity covered in bows, satin, and lace. As we all trotted through the door, a white earth mare with a blue mane and pink cutie mark greeted us.

"Ahhhh, bonjuor my little ponies. Velcome to mi salon!" Fifi, the owner of the Crimp 'n Curl, greeted us. "Please, do come in, and let's see what we can do for vou!"

Fifi clapped her hooves together, and her two assistants, Dabble and Scribble, quicly prepare a series of chairs for all of the girls (I declined, of course, only being here to watch this disaster unfold). The three beauty ponies washed, cleaned, and prepared their hair for a cut. Before we knew it, all four of them were seated in front of mirrors, the beauticians ready to go to work on their manes.

"So, Fizzy!" Dabble asked, reading the scissors in her hooves. "What'll it be today?"

"Eh, I'm feelin a little bit crazy today!" The goofy twinkle-eyed mare told her. "Go ahead and give me a mohawk!"

The purple pony with a pink mane nods, and suddenly spun around the ditzy unicorn in a flurry of cuts and snips. Cheerilee's jaw nearly hits the floor when she sees her friend's new do.

"B-but Fizzy!" The teacher pony whimpered, looking on in shock at the single strip of mane the unicorn had left. "You're beautiful mane!"

"Oh, that is no great difficulty, my dear Cheerilee." Wind Whistler added, looking back at her beautician. "My dear Scribble, I would be most appreciative if you gave me a swirl pattern shaved into my head."

The white earth mare with the red mane nodded, and she had the genius pony's mare's mane shaved close to her head.

"Aieee! Wind Whistler, you look even worse!" Cheerilee shrieked. "You call these hairdo's a makeover?!"

"Okay, Shady! What is it vou want?" Fifi asked, looking over at the depressed mare. "Zomething even more radical, S'il te plait"

"Oh, I don't know, whatever I get will look horrible on me!" The mare whimpered sadly, shaking her mane. "Cheerilee, why don't you go first, instead?"

"You know what? If you all are taking such chances with your manes, so will I!" The teacher announced, looking back at the beautician. "Fifi, shave everything off- my tail, my mane, everything!"

"Oui, madam!" The beautician exclaimed, jumping right over to Cheerilee's chair. "Don't vorry, I will make you look tres magnifique!"

Fifi then proceeded to shave the earth mare bald, cutting off every hair follicle on the earth mare's mane and tail. The beautician spun her around to face the mirror, where she now got a good look at her now bald body.

"Wow, what an odd trio we look to be!" Cheerilee sighed sadly, hopping out of the chair. "Oh well, at least we'll all look freakish together until our manes grow back!"

It was at that instant, that Wind Whistler and Fizzy's manes and tails instantly grew back, taking their old shapes again as they both went back to looking the way they had before the cuts. Cheerilee stared at all of them in shock, as the surprised trio of ponies all stared back at her bald head, until fizzy finally spoke up.

"Ummmm, Cheerilee? Don't Equestrian pony manes grow back instantly after they are cut off?" The unicorn asked. "That's what Ponyland pony manes do!"

Cheerilee's eyes go wide, as she reacts in a way only Cheerilee the Equestrian teacher could...

"AIEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" *thud!*

"Oh dear," Wind Whistler said in concern, as I try to hold myself back from insanely laughing. "I do believe she had once again passed out!"

Evening dreams

Evening dreams

"Gusty, there you are!" Wind Whistler exclaimed, trotting out to where the two of us were enjoying the sunset on the castle balcony. "I am pleased to have ascertained your location, so that I may converse and discourse on various topics with you."

"Hey Windy! Paradise an' I were just watching the sun set, why don't ya come and join us?"

"I would be delighted to perform a viewing of our planetary rotation removing the star we orbit from our view." The Pegasus replied with a smile, trotting over to sit down beside us. "Such heavenly motion is always a fascinating phenomena to observe!"

"Ahhh jeez, Windy! Do ya have ta take everything magical outta life with all yer science talk?" My unicorn friend asked in annoyance, glaring at the newest arrival. "Remind me ta never invite ya along ta one of Galaxy's planetarium shows!"

"Oh, come on now, Gusty! Wind Whistler is only expressing her wonder at the evening sky in her own special way." I reply, trying to step in before there is another fight. "She just sees the world differently than we do."

"Paradise is quite correct, although I fail to see how a simple planetary rotation, no matter how awe-inspiring it may be, has anything to so with magic whatsoever."

"Oh Windy Windy Windy," I tell her with a sigh, shaking my head at how she just didn't get it. "Sometimes, I think you're just too smart a mare for your own good."

"Perhaps that is for the best, Paradise." The pony genius agreed. "In any event, has anyone heard how Cheerilee is doing after the other day's... incident?"

"Ugh.... not good, I'm afraid." I told her, flexing my wings sadly. "Fifi was able to give her some clip-on mane and tail extensions to hide her baldness until her mane grows back, but she's still mad at us for what happened the other day."

"I am extremely dismayed by that news, my friend." Wind Whistler sighed, staring up at the already darkening sky. "I had hoped that there would be some way we could make it up to her, but I now believe that idea to be of no avail in our current plight."

"Awww, don't worry, you two! She'll get over it!" Gusty added, before gazing up at the descending red orb in the west. "Anyway, have any of you seen Fizzy today?"

"Yeah, she said she was going busy when I invited her to join us." I explained. "Fizzy told me she wanted to watch that really scary movie Megan had brought over from the human world last week."

"That film?" Wind Whistler asked, raising an eyebrow in concern. "girls, is it really a good idea to let such an immature mare watch such a dark and disturbing piece of cinema this late at night?"

"Fizzy's a big girl, Windy. She can handle it." Gusty snorted matter-of-factly. "Besides, it's time that unicorn did come growin up, anyway!"

...

"And so, we conclude our broadcast of the late late late movie "Curse of the mad scientist'. Be sure to tune in next week, when we will be showing 'the manor on spooky hill!- MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA!"

Fizzy stared blankly at the screen before her, unable to tear her bloodshot, twitching eyes away from what she had just witnessed. Gusty had warned her... they had all warned her... not to watch that scary movie Megan had brought over from the other world. But she had... oh, the terrible mistake the little blue unicorn had made in watching it! Now, she lay there, alone on the couch in Dream Castle's den, watching the hands of the ticking clock that sat atop the television cabinet, waiting for whatever might come out of the dark at her!

Fizzy had no idea how she was going to get to sleep now... what, with the images of the cackling mad scientist in his dimly-lit castle burned into her mind. She could still hear his maniacal laughter, still see the evil gleam in his eye as he and his hunchbacked assistant brought their raging monster to life! She had watched in horror at the creature's violent rampage of destruction though the village below the castle, and it had left the innocent little pony traumatized beyond words!

Oh, how could she possibly get to sleep now, with those horrible images in her head?There was no way she would be able to close her eyes and dream, after all... that... she... had... seen....

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.....

Lighting cracked across the sky outside, splitting the darkness outside the laboratory's windows. On the interior, Tesla coils buzzed and console buttons and monitors blinked on and off, like something on the set of an old black and white horror movie. At the center of the lab, stood a blue Pegasus in a white lab coat, with goggles covering her eyes, as she poured a strange liquid between two test tubes, mixing them carefully.

"Fizzy, get down here this instant!" Dr. Wind Whistler snapped angrily, adjusting her goggles. "I need your help on my latest experiment!"

"Ohhh, yes master!" Fizzy replied, the unicorn hunchback thumping down the steps like an over-sized clod. "Coming master, right away!"

"Today, Fizz-igor, is he day we make history!" The maniacal mare held a beaker full of a green liquid aloft. "For within this very vial, is a concoction that will change Ponyland forever!"

"Ohhhh, please tell me, master! What is it? What is it?" Fizzy asked eagerly, hopping up and down with one half-shut.

"Why, it is a magic formula that will turn all the vegetables in Dream Valley into candy. We shall bring all ponies to their hooves though the power of tooth decay!"

"Oh, such a brilliant plan, my master!" Fizzy giggled hysterically, hopping up and down. "We shall use your captivating cavities to take over all of Ponyland!"

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAA!"

The two ponies threw their heads back, and laughed maniacally as lighting flashed furiously across the darkened sky outside....

Laughing with fiendish glee in her sleep, the blue unicorn rolled off the couch, and crashed loudly on the ground below.

"Owww! Okay, who the heck put that floor there!?"

The Crazy that is Fizzy

The Crazy that is Fizzy

"Don't worry, Gusty!" I exclaimed, flying up high to catch the ball that my unicorn friend had served my way. "I got it! I got it!"

"Oh, yeah? Well, that's what you think, Para-pants!" She teased in a mocking tone. Gusty's horn suddenly lit up, and a strong wind created by her horn suddenly sent the ball flying out of my reach, and far over the net. "Haha! Another point for us!"

"That is most incorrect, Gusty." Wind Whistler sighed, sitting on the sidelines, and serving as our game's referee. "You are quite aware that the rules specifically state that you may not engage the ball with unicorn magic."

"Yeah, yeah, yeah... I know, Windy, I know!" The angry unicorn grumbled at us, rolling her eyes. "It's not like you haven't told us a million times already!"

The three of us were just out in the castle courtyard, enjoying a pleasant game of ponyball, when our dear friend Fizzy came trotting outside, a glazed over look in her twinkling glass eyes. Now, I really didn't think anything looked amiss, so I turned to say hello.

"Hey, Fizzy, glad ta see finally decided ta get up!" Gusty burst in, greeting the unicorn before I had a chance to. "Wanna join in on our game? We could form teams!"

"Remember everybody... team play is fair play!" Our twinkle eyed friend replied, eye twitching. "And it's only fair to play fair... does that seem fair?"

"Fizzy, are you... feeling alright?" I asked her nervously, a little concerned with how odd my friend was acting. "You don't sound too well..."

All's well that end's well! Wanna go take a dip in the well?" A grin spread across the mare's face. "Here, lemme help you!"

"Hey, what the-?" Suddenly, I was encased within a large magical bubble, and hurled across the courtyard towards the open well on the other side. The bubble suddenly popped right over top of the well, sending me tumbling down into the water below.

"AIEEEEEEE!" *SPLASH!*

"Hey Fizzy, why the heck did you throw ol, Paradox there into the water?" Gusty asked in surprise, trying to suppress a smile as she intentionally mispronounced my name. "Sure, I've always kinda thought she was washed up, but still seems kinda harsh."

"Harsh? You have some nerve talkin' about harsh, windbag!" Fizzy sneered, her horn starting to glow again. "Maybe it'd sound better if ya blew it out the other end!"

"Hey why you little-!" Gusty used her magic, assent a mighty blast of wind at Fizzy to knock her off her feet. But the twinkle-eyed mare was undeterred, as she protected herself in a magic bubble of her own making. She then sealed the hot-tempered white unicorn in another bubble, pushing her up in the air to get blown away by her own wind.

"Who-oaahhhh-hhh!" Gusty wailed, as she was sent flying over the castle's outer wall. "Help! Somebody let me outta here!"

"The opposition has been neutralized, Dr. Windenstien!" Fizzy giggled, walking over to Wind Whistler. "Everything is ready for you plans for extreme tooth decay!"

"Fizzy, what in the world are you-" Wind Whistler stopped, her eyes going wide in realization. "Oh no, you've got to be kidding me!"

"Windy, what's going on?" I asked, crawling my way out of the well, my wings too soaked to fly out. "Why the heck is Fizz acting so darn crazy?"

"It's that stupid movie from last night, she thinks she's a character from the monster film!" Windy told me, putting her hoof to her forehead in disgust. "Paradise, she's unicorn sleepwalking again! We've got to snap her out of it!"

"Don't talk to that Pegasus, doctor!" Fizzy exclaimed, Pushing Wind Whistler away with a magic wall. "She's probably a spy sent by the agents of P.O.N.Y.!"

"Uhhhh, you know what, Fizz-igor? You're right! she is a spy!" Windy pointed a hoof at me. "Quick, tackle that mare into the well!"

"Ohhhh, yes master!" Fizzy galloped towards me, plowing into me and sending both of us tumbling back into the well. "Hiyaaaahhhh!"

*SPLASH!*

"Huh? Whuh? Paradise, is that you?" Fizzy asked, speaking in her normal voice again. "Why're we floating in this well? Ohhhh, what a totally weird dream I had!"

"Ugh, Fizzy... I don't even want to talk about it!" I grumbled, as the two of us crawled back out of the well. But it wasn't even a few minutes after we had emerged, that Fizzy found a pissed-off gusty waiting for her at the entrance to the courtyard.

"Oh, hi Gusty...." Fizzy laughed nervously, as the white unicorn with the murderous glare closed in on her. "You don't look... happy... today... heh..."

"GRRAHHHHH!" Gusty roared, her horn and eyes glowing an angry red. "FIZZY, I'M GONNA MURDER YOU!"

"OW! OUCH OOHHH! EEEE! EEEEKK! OWWWIEEEE!"

Both Windy and I watched on with morbid fascination as the angry Gusty gave our ditzy friend her well-deserved reward. We did stop before she went too far though, and everything was soon straightened out in short order. I did learn that Fizzy's bubbles and magic are far stronger in her sleep than when she is awake, however. And needless to say, we are NOT going to be letting dear sweet dizzy Fizzy even slightly near another horror movie for a very, very long time to come!

Can I just be left alone?!

Can I just be left alone?!

Wind Whistler was a pony of many talents and habits. She liked doing many different things; from hanging out with her friends to play a game, to working in her laboratory, to going on whatever hair-brained adventure the ponies of Dream Valley had gotten themselves into this time. But today, Wind Whistler had just gotten a new book in from Hoofkaido- a rather intellectual tome on eastern pony metaphysics, written by that well-renowned philosopher the mareharishi herself. Windy wanted total silence today, so she could study up and be ready for her philosophical debate over the matter with Galaxy next week. So she had taken off for a secluded corner of the castle, where no pony would be able to bother her.

Unfortunately, given her particular group of friends, such seclusion and silence would be a most unlikely scenario.

Fascinating, I cannot believe the Ponyrishi used Starswirl's principle of spell reciprocation to argue her point! Wind Whistler thought to herself, nosed buried in the hardbound book as she lay reclining in the large alclove window on the Castle's second floor. personally, I would've used Twilight Sparkle's theory of-

"Hey Windy!" Fizzy yelled to her friend from the other end of the hall, a great big goofy grin on her face. "Whatcha doooooin?"

"Oh! Salutations, Fizzy." Windy replied, looking up at her friend. "I was just read a book Paradise just got into the castle library, about-"

"Awww, it's too nice a day to sit in here and read!" The blue Twinkle eyed pony giggled, tapping the book in a bubble, and floating it above the Pegasus's head out of her reach. "Why don't you come outside with me, and we'll play some tag!"

"While I do most certainly appreciate the offer, Fizzy, I currently desire to simply read my tome in peace." Windy replied gabbing after the book several time before zipping up to pluck it out of the air. "So if you could please excuse me for a while..."

"Awww, you're to fun!" Fizzy pouted, pushing out her bottom lip before trotting away. Wind Whistler then turned her attention back to her book, but had not even gotten two pages read, before another distraction came galloping in, tears streaming down her face.

"Oh Windy, I'm so glad I found you!" Shady sobbed, trotting up and throwing her tear-soaked hooves around her friend. "Something terrible- no awful!- No, HORRIBLE- has happened!"

"Oh really, Shady?" Wind Whistler grimaced, glad that she was able to keep herself from expressing her emotions at the drop of a hat. "Please, tell me all about this predicament that is obviously causing you so much distress."

"W-well it's a lot of things, really!" The pink earth mare sobbed, wiping her eyes with her hoof. "F-fist, I got up out of bad five minutes late this morning, and that's when I knew something must be wrong today! Then, I gave the bushwoolies ice cream and they got brain freeze- oh, I really hope I didn't make them sick!" The earth mare sat down next to the annoyed Pegasus, whining away at her every little problem. "A-and then, I got a soda out of one of the castle's vending machines, and it was five degrees too cold! Ohhhh, I can't believe I'm such a failure!"

Windy put her book down, and proceeded to listen to her friend's sobbing and wailing. After nearly two hours of Shady being Shady, Wind Whistler was finally able to get the depressed mare calmed down.

"And so Shady, you should not let a few disheartening events throw you into despair." The mare told her, trying to hide her impatience. "You need to find the best in each day, my good Shady, and try to approach the day with a smile."

"I-I guess you're right." The earth mare replied with a sigh, before slowly moving to trot away. "Well, I've stood around here and bothered you enough."

Genuinely concerned about her friend, Wind Whistler started to get up and follow her, but then thinking the better of it sat back down to read her book again. But less than ten minutes later, yet another annoyance soon reared it's ugly head.

"Hey Windy, there ya are!" Gusty bellowed, winking into the room, while levitating a magazine over her head. "I've been lookin' for ya everywhere, ya ain't gonna believe what I found!"

"No, Gusty, tell me..." Wind Whistler asked, putting the book held in her wings down, eye twitching. "What is so terribly and amazingly fascinating that you just had go through all the trouble and seek me out and inform me of it?"

"I was diggin' around through Firefly's private stuff, an' I found this year's copy of playfilly illustrated, wet coat edition!" The unicorn tomboy giggled, levitating the magazine up in front of Windy's face. "You just gotta see some of these stallions! This one you can even see his-"

"First of all, you shouldn't have been scouring through Firefly's private things, even if she a cheap and loose-moraled harlot." Wind Whistler replied, shoving her face deep into her book to hide her deep red blush. "And two, I don't want to see any of that vulgar and demeaning photography, that appeals to the lowest common denominator." Windy fought to keep herself from looking at the magazine again. "Besides, I personally prefer gentlefilly quarterly, which is more high-brow and high class smut that that drivel you are holding."

"Awww, you really are no fun, Windy!" Gusty barked. "Ya really need ta put that dumb book down, and do something else!"

Gusty lowered her head, creating a strong wind with her horn that sent the book flying from Windy's grasp. It was at this point, that Fizzy came chasing Shady back up the steps.

"Aww c'mon, Shady! I'm sorry I made your comb float away in a bubble!" Fizz pleaded, running after her friend as they came to a stop in front of Windy and Gusty. "I'll get it back, I promise!"

"No! I'll look even more terrible with my mane a mess like this!" Shady whimpered. "I can't believe how ugly I look!"

It only took a moment for Gusty to join in the argument, and soon all three were going at it very loudly in what had once been a tranquil and quiet hallway. Finally fed up with all the chicanery, Wind Whistler finally blew her top.

"One day... I just wanted one day away from all the insanity that usually goes on in this castle, and YOU ALL HAD TO RUIN IT FOR ME!" The blue Pegasus snapped, finally getting all of their attention. "I cannot believe that you three couldn't find something to amuse yourselves, even for a few measly hours!"

"Huh?" Fizzy inquired, confused at what had just happened.

"What?" Shady asked, not sure what was happening either.

"Windy, wait!" Gusty started to apologize, realizing they had all gone too far. "We didn't mean ta-"

"Don't bother, you have all done quite enough!" Wind Whistler replied curtly, trotting over and picking up her book, before flying out the window. "I think I'll go spend a few hours in the mastifiecent Forest, maybe I can get some peace and quiet there!"

"The everfree? No, wait Windy!" Fizzy pleaded, running over to the window. "It's too dangerous for a pony to go there alone!"

But the Pegasus was already gone, disappearing into the dark and mysterious forest.

Forest from the Trees

Forest from the Trees

"Windy! Wiiiindy!" Shady called out,shivering from the chilly spring weather. "Ohhhh, Wind Whistler, where are you!?"

The poor frightened earth pony continued to trot along, following the trail deeper and deeper into the forest. All around the frightened mare the trees seemed to close in on the unwanted intruder, who had come to the forest to find her angry friend. Shady was now realizing more and more that this had been a bad idea, however, as the entire forest seemed to be alive and watching her.

"Windy, I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to spoil your book for you!" The pink mare pleaded, hoping her friend was out there, and could hear her. "C'mon, lets get out of here, and go back to Dream Castle where we belong!"

The only response to her query, was the lonely hooting of an owl, and several glowing eyes peering out at her from the darkness.

"AHHHHHHHH!" The terrified Shady yelled, galloping off into the forest. "WINDY, HELP MEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"

...

"Gusty, are you out of your cranial cavity!?" Wind Whistler spat, looking back at the pony trotting beside her. "How could you allow Shady to gallop off into the Mastificent forest all by herself? That location is far too perilous for a mare of her countenance!"

"Well, geez, she kinda took off by herself after ya had that big hissy fit!" The white unicorn grumbled, rolling her eyes at her Pegasus friend. "Besides, she never woulda come here if you hadn't said you were coming here first!"

"It was just something I yelled in a moment of elevated temper, I didn't think any of you would attempt to actually peruse me on my supposed exodus!" The exasperated Wind Whistler replied. "Actually, I expected this sort of thing from Fizzy. Not our depressed and guilt-ridden friend."

"Yeeahhhh, I was kinda keepin' an eye on Fizz for just that reason!" Gusty replied with a nervous laugh. "Didn't expect the scaredy cat ta grow some courage!"

"Unexpected events do tend to occur at unexpected times." Wind Whistler agreed with a sigh. "Now, let us attempt to locate our missing companion, before something malicious befalls her person!"

The two mares had gone into the forest to find their lost friend, worried when they had discovered she was gone, and had failed to return. But they were not the only ones who had come into the forest that day. For also on the prowl were to human witches; residents of the volcano of gloom, which stood at the edge of Dream Valley. The two ugly sisters were up to their usual hobby- causing problems for the little ponies of Ponyland.

"Wow Reeka, I can't believe those ponies were right where Hydia's viewing pool showed us they'd be!" The older and taller sister declared, as the two watched the two mares from behind a bush. "So how are we gonna get em?"

"We gotta be clever, Draggle!" The morbidly obese sister declared, stuffing her face with a real worm pie. "It's gonna take the right spell to capture those ponies!"

As Gusty and Windy looked around through the trees, the two witches flipped through their spell book, until they saw a spell titled 'deep pit with crocodiles' written on it. Looking first at the page, then back at each other with evil glares, the two witches began to chant the words.

"With this curse, that will never fail or miss," The two witches spoke in unison, the book glowing in their hands. "beneath our victim's feet, create an abyss!"

Suddenly... a giant, gaping hole opened in front of the two ponies, with crocodiles jumping and snapping in the pit. Reeka and Draggle stared eagerly, waiting for the pain and screaming. But to their shock, the two mares trotted right over the gap, like it wasn't even there!

"Ya know, Windy? This whole thing with Shady has me feeling really guilty." Gusty admitted, shaking her head. "Kind of like the ground has dropped out from under me."

"Yes, I know exactly what point you are elaborating on." The Pegasus agreed with a sigh. "It makes a pony feel like she is walking over a large percipience with a surface beneath her."

The two ponies trotted onward, leaving the dumbfounded witches behind them. Rushing over to the hole, the surprised witches knelt down, and stared into the pit.

"I don't believe it!" Reeka exclaimed. "They just walked right over it, as if it weren't even there!"

"They should be alligator chow by now!" Draggle agreed, peering down into the abyss. "Why didn't the spell work?"

The witches were so busy gazing down into the water filled pit, that they failed to notice the two ponies sneak up behind them, nod towards each other, then promptly turn around and kick the two doofuses into the hole they themselves had created.

"AIEEEEEEEEEE!"

"ARGAHHHHH!"

"RAAAR!" *CHOMP CHOMP CHOMP*!

"OW! GET YOUR TEETH OFF ME, YOU STUPID GATOR!"

"THAT WAS MY HAND!"

"THAT WAS MY FACE!"

"MAMA-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

"Gee, Windy... I can't believe those two witches didn't figure out we knew they were there!" Gusty said with a chuckle, as they trotted away. "And anyways, I wonder why they their spell didn't work when we walked over the hole?"

"It's actually simplicity itself, my good Gusty. Do you not recall that their incantation specifically stated 'beneath their feet?" Windy looked down at their hooves. "The linguistic nuances of a spell must be spoken at their exact meaning. Proof once again that witches are the most mentally incompetent creatures in all of Ponyland!"

A Fool's Act

Fizzy's easter insantiy! Part one

Fizzy's Easter insanity!- part one

"Hey, Twilight!" The energetic green unicorn exclaimed, popping up next to the surprised pink pony "Watcha dooooin?"

"Oh, Fizzy! I didn't see you there!" Twilight the unicorn exclaimed, nearly dropping the levitated basket she was working on. "Oh, I'm just putting together the Easter baskets for this year's spring festival. The little colts and fillies in the castle are just going to love this!"

As the twinkle-eyed pony looked around, she saw dozens of baskets filled with candy and colored eggs, with ribbons and bows tied on the tops. It was fairly obvious that Twilight had been working really hard on this for a really long period of time.

"Ohhh, Easter! Megan told me about that holiday!" The goofy mare giggled, hopping around enthusiastically. "Can I help? Ohhhh please can I can I can I?"

"Ummm, Fizz, don't you usually spend time with Gusty, Shady, and Wind Whistler?" twilight asked, looking over all of her hard work with the eater baskets with worry. "Why aren't you with those three?"

"Oh, Windy told me something about going to look for something in the Mastificent forest." Fizzy waved a hoof dismissively. "She told me to wait here while they were gone, and to stay out of trouble!"

"Well, okay then, I guess you can help. Just be really careful, okay?" Twilight sighed, levitating a basket and bow over to her. "Now, tie these bows onto the tops of the baskets, and just try to be really careful, okay?"

"Aye Aye, cap'n!" The unicorn ditz exclaimed, saluting with her hoof, Fizzy then went about the task of levitating basket upon basket into the air, tying the many bows onto the tops of the baskets. "Hey, Twi did ya know that rabbits are involved in Easter, too? I heard wind Whistler has a whole buncha rabbits in her lab? Says she giving em' shots so they won't get a bunny disease!"

"That's very interesting, Fizzy." Twilight replied, trying to divide her attention between what she was doing, and the chattering mare. "But I really don't think that's important right-"

"Oh dear, this is sooo boring..." Fizzy grumbled, after several minutes of doing a single task. Turning her head, she noticed a strange, glowing object sitting over near where Twilight was. Recognizing the decoration patterns on the side, the mare's eyes went wide with wonder. "Twilight, is that... the starlight lantern? the magical artifact thingy you use to enter pony's dreams at night?"

"Yes, Fizzy, that's exactly what it is." Twilight replied, not even looking up from levitating piles of candy out of a bag, and into several baskets. "I didn't have time to drop it off in my room, before coming back to work on the baskets."

"Oh, neat! That is so cool!" Dropping her basket in excitement, she rushed over to the lantern, putting her horn against it. "I know how we could make all this more fun, and make it feel more like Easter!"

"Huh? What are you talking about, Fizz-" She finally looked up, her eyes going wide in horror. "No, Fizzy! Don't! Get away from that-"

*POOF!*

There was a flash of light, and Twilight soon found herself on the floor. Opening eyes, she looked up, and saw the counter with the baskets on it seemed much, much higher than it had before. Shaking the blurriness out of her head, Twilgiht took a look at her paws, and-

Wait, her PAWS?!

"Hey Twilight, good to see ya!" A rabbit with Fizzy's colors and twinkle eyes called out from across the room, waving a paw at the pink rabbit. "Isn't this great? Megan told me bunnies deliver the eggs at Easter time, so I though this would be a cool idea! Now we can REALLY have some fun delivering these eggs and candy!"

"Ohhhh ,Fizzy! You, you youuuuuu....!!!" the rabbit started to growl, shaking her paw at the other mare. But then... she thought for a moment. This could easily be undone by using the lantern's power again. The mare- or rather doe, now- considered the matter for a moment, her cotton tail twitching as she pondered the matter. This would make a rather unique Easter treat for the colts and fillies in the castle, actually having Easter bunnies deliver the baskets on Easter...

"All right Fizzy, I think we can turn this situation right side up again!" The pink doe told the green one, as she started to climb up the side of the table. "Here is what we're gonna do..."

....

That day, the ponies of Dream castle, normally used to very odd and weird sights, we're treated to one of the most bizarre oddities they had ever laid eyes upon. Two rabbits, one pink and one green, were seen running hither and yon about the castle, dragging Easter baskets with them, as they went into and out of the various pony's apartments. Many mares and stallions, already used to seeing things like the bushwoolies running about, didn't pay it much notice.

But one little filly... one who particularly didn't like the small furry varmints running around places where civilized ponies lived, was determined to do something about the very, very odd situation. An angry looking earth pony, who was as rotten and stinky as the eggs left at the bottom of the fridge for too long. The most concentrated source of evil in all of Dream Castle, and a brat most ponies wished had been eaten by a manticore the day she was born.

"Ohhh, it's the Easter bunnies!" Baby Lickety Split giggled, rubbing her hooves together with glee. "I'm gonna catch em' and get all the little ponies Easter baskets for myself! eyahahahahahaha!"

Like, Whatevar!

Fizzy's Easter Insanity!- Part two

Fizzy's Easter Insanity!- Part two

"C'mon Fizz!" The pink bunny exclaimed, as the pulled the basket along the floor into the open doorway into a pony's apartment. "Let's get this thing on Baby Bow Tie's dresser before she gets back!"

The two rabbits were moving the basket across the floor together, then hopped up on the chair to the dresser while each holding a side in their paws. Unbenknowst to either of them however, a shady looking character was lurking just outside the doorway.

"Ahhh, there they are!" Baby Lickety Split giggled to herself, holding a box trap and two carrots under her hooves. "I'm sure to catch those two with this, no bunny can resist the pull of a juicy carrot!"

The fiendish foal set up her trap outside the room, placing the two carrots beneath the box, and hiding behind the open door. After successfully placing the basket the pair of does turned to leave the room.

"You know Fizz, I was mad at you for messing with the lantern at first, but this really wasn't such a bad idea!" Twilight exclaimed, as they hopped along the floor. "I actually sort of like being a bunny for a little while... we're small enough to get into places we couldn't as ponies, and we can hop really really high!"

"See, I told you it'd be fun! I really can't wait to getting back to being a pony again though!" The green rabbit then sniffed at the air. "Ohhhh, what's that wonderful thing I smell? It's soooo good....."

"Oh, I think it's those carrots under that box over there. Say, that looks really...." She then noticed her fellow rabbit starting to hop towards the carrot mindlessly. "No, Fizzy! I think it's a trap. But that carrot does look sooo juciy....."

The two does went right up to the carrots and started nibbling, only for Baby Lickety Split to slam the box down onto the two of them, and hop right on top of it to keep the two rabbits trapped inside.

"Aha! Now I gotcha!" The evil little filly grinned, looking down at the crate she was standing on. "Now, I'm gonna make you give me all your Easter baskets, and- huh?"

Lickety suddenly felt the box under her being lifted, and both she and the crate were tossed sideways.

"Whoah-ooooahhh!"

Caught by surprise, the little filly tumbled over and landed headfirst on the floor beneath her.

*BONK!*

"Ouch! Ohhhh, I'll get you two dumb bunnies for that!"

"Whew, that was a close one!" Twilight exclaimed, looking back at the filly who was lying on the floor, shaking her hoof at them. "I should've known Baby Lickety Split would've been the one to try and trap us!"

"And she almost did it, too!" Fizzy exclaimed, as the two does shot away at top speed. "Say, Twilight... why were you and I so overcome by those carrots? Even I knew that was really a trap!"

"Well, I'm afraid we might be staring to become rabbits in mind as well as in body." Twilight explained, shaking her head. "the longer we stay like this, the more rabbit-like we'll become!"

"Then we'd better hurry up and get these deliveries finished!" Fizzy exclaimed, as they ran back to where the baskets were stashed. "I don't wanna go through life with paws and eating carrots!"

....

The two does then took their next basket to be delivered to Firefly's room, but the door was locked. Seeing no immediate way in, the two began to ponder how they were going to make this delivery.

"Hey, look over there!" Fizzy squeaked excitedly, pointing a paw over towards an open air vent. "We could go in that way!"

"Now you're thinking, Fizz!" Twilight nodded, pulling the pink basket with gunny bears and jellybeans along with her. "This should come out right next to Firefly's bed!" The doe wrinkled her nose at the thought. "Though considering Firefly, that's not exactly something to be happy about!"

As the two made their way through the ducts, baby Lickety Split wheeled a large vacuum cleaner up to the open shaft. Pointing the hose down the hole, the filly let an insane giggle escape her lips as she turned the machine on.

"Time to pull you two outta there!" The little brat cackled, pushing the vacuum hose deeper and deeper into the hole. "I'm gonna get my Easter eggs!"

Suddenly, the two does felt something pulling them backward. Grabbing on to the sides of the air duct, with their other two paws holding onto the Easter basket.

"Ohhh Fizzy, hold on! I think something's trying to pull us outta here!" Twilight Wailed, hanging on for dear life. "We gotta do something, or we're done for!"

"Grrr, it's probably baby Lickety again!" Fizzy snapped, picking up on of the eggs out of the basket with her paw, and motioning for Twilight to do likewise. "C'mon, if that pony wants Easter eggs so badly, let's give em' to her!"

After running the vacuum for several minutes, the little filly finally turned it off and looked into the hole.

"You to ready to give up yet?" The bratty little filly called in, peering into the darkness impatiently. "Gimmie my Easter eggs!"

*SPLAT!* *SPLAT!*

Two blue colored eggs went flying backwards, hitting the little filly right in the face. Pulling her head out of the hole, the little filly had the circular yellow yokes comically splattered over her two eyes, looking like some kind of cartoon character from Saturday morning television.

"AHHHHH! I can't see!" The spoiled little filly wailed, galloping down the hallways and bumping into every lamp and nightstand along the way. "Mommy, help me, MOMMMYYYYY!"

"Hah!" How does it feel to have egg all over your face!" Fizzy called out triumphantly, as the two rabbits hurriedly got the basket of eggs into the room. "Maybe you won't be so eager to try and blow us away again, huh?"

"Come on Fizzy, Let's go!" Twilight told her "We need to get back and deliver our last few baskets."

As the two does made for the exit, however, Twilight noticed a lucky rabbit's foot key chain on the floor in front of her.

"Firefly keeps this thing around for good luck?!" The pink rabbit asked in horror, picking the severed limb up of the floor and looking at it. "These ponies really are barbarians sometimes!"

...

The two does finished up delivering the next dozen or so baskets, until only one final chocolate-rabbit filled one remained. Wiping the sweat from their long ears, the two rabbits pushed the basket towards the last un-visited apartment.

"Okay, Lickety... just one more delivery." Twilight gasped, as they tugged the basket along. "Then we can go back to the lantern, and-"

"Mwa-hahahahahaaaaaa!" An evil laugh came down the hallway, causing the two does to dash for cover. Baby Lickety Split came trotting by, a small cage with two male white rabbits from Wind Whistler's laboratory inside, terrified looks of horror upon their faces.

"Well, if I couldn't get what I wanted out of those two funny colored rabbits, I'll just have to borrow some of Wind Whistler's lab rabbits to get my Easter baskets!" The filly glared at the two helpless creatures in the cage. "You two are gonna give me my Easter eggs, or I promise you're gonna regret it!"

The little terror trotted on down the hallway, leaving the two does looking worriedly after her.

"Twilight, that mean pony has those two cute bucks locked in that cage!" Fizzy cried out, covering her eyes with her long ears in fear. "What's she gonna do with them?"

"I dunno, Fizz... I couldn't understand what she was saying." Twilight shook her head, trying not to think about it. "But it's none of our concern, we've got to deliver this last basket, and-"

"Twi, we can't just leave those two hunks her prisoners!" Fizzy wailed, looking down the hall after Lickty marching away with her two helpless, victims. "She could hurt them, or worse!"

"You're right, Fizz! She was after us, and so it's because of us those two hotties- er, I mean, boys- are in trouble now!" Twilight pushed the basket aside, and hopped on down the hallway. "C'mon, we've got some rescuing to do!"

Crazy Cure!

Fizzy's Easter Insanity, part three

Fizzy's Easter Insanity, part three

Baby Lickety Split set the cage with the two frightened bucks down on her dresser, rubbing her hooves together gleefully as she thought of all the wonderful tortures she planned to unleash upon her helpless victims.

"First, I'll slice you and dice you." The little sadist decreed. "Then, I'll chop of your little feet, and give one to each of the luck obsessed mares in the castle, and after that, well see if you're finally ready to give me my Easter baskets!"

"Foul filly, you're too naughty to be getting any Easter eggs, or Easter baskets!" A an angry voice called out. "A mean pony like you deserves a spanking, instead!"

"Wha? Who said that?!" Lickety called out, looking all around the room. Over on the dresser, she saw a little green rabbit with a salad bowl on her head like a soldier's helmet, and waving around a large mixing spoon as if it were some kind of baton or weapon.

"It's you!" Lickety's Split's daughter snorted angrily, glaring at the doe. "And just what do you think you can do to stop me?!"

"This!" She pointed the spoon forward at the filly on the bed in front of her. "Lieutenant Twilight, fire at will!"

"Aye aye, general Fizzy!" A pink doe on the floor agreed, pulling on several ropes she was holding in her paws. "Though I don't really think her name is Will!"

Baby Lickety looked down, only to see seven bottles of shaken up-soda lining the floor in front of her. As Twilight pulled the ropes, the caps all popped off of each bottle, sending seven powerful steams of soda flying at the little filly.

"Ahhh! Ooohhh! Eeeeeeee!" Baby Lickety shrieked, as the bursts of shaken-up soda drove her back. "Why, you little pests!"

"Hurry, Twilight! While she's distracted!" Fizzy called out, pointing her mixing spoon down at the cage. "Free the prisoners!"

The pink doe quickly opened the cage, and the two bucks jumped out, gratefully rubbing noses with Twilight.

"Okay, okay, you two! There's no time for that now!" Twilight told them, blushing a deep red as she pushed them away. "Come on, we have to hurry and get you out of here!"

"None of you bunnies are going anywhere!" The soda-drenched little filly roared, leaping at them angrily. "Not until I get my Easter baskets!"

"Foul villain! Prepare for the second volley!" Fizzy pointed a toy gun at her. "Eat candy, you little brat!"

*RATATATATATATATATATATATAT!* The toy gun shot a nearly endless stream of jelly beans at the filly knocking her back on her flank.

"Owwwieeeeeee! That hurts!" She lay there crying, hit by the barrage of multi-colored candies. "Ohhh, that does it! I'm gonna grind you stupid bunnies up into rabbit stew!"

"Ahh, hurry up, you two!" Fizzy exclaimed, as she jumped down to where Twilight and the two boys were. "C'mon, let's hurry up, and get outta here!"

Grabbing a broom in her hooves, the crazed pony chased the four rabbits out the door, and down the hall, smacking at them with a broom as she knocked tables and chairs over. The four bunnies jumped this way and that, staying just ahead of the fiendish filly's blows.

"Nya Nya, missed us!" Fizzy called out, sticking her tongue out at Baby Lickety. "You're so slow, you couldn't hit a sleeping grundel!"

"Quick you there, in here!" Twilight yelled, pointing a paw into Galaxy's room. "We can hide in here!"

The four rabbits ran into the room, looking around for any possible escape in a hurry. Looking over towards the far wall, they noticed an open cabinet filled with all sorts of delicious-looking leafy green vegetables. Without even thinking, they all dove inside... as baby Lickety Split suddenly slammed the door shut on them.

"Ha! Gotcha! Looks like you're all trapped now!" The little filly gloated rubbing her hooves together greedily. "And I'm not letting any of you out until you agree to give me all the Easter baskets!"

Baby Lickety Split stood in front of the cabinet, holding the door shut for five minutes, then ten minutes, then fifteen. No sound seemed to come out of the closed up cabinet for a really long time, and the fiendish filly began to wondered if that had somehow managed to get out another way.

"Hey, what gives?" The little brat demanded, still holding the door shut with her hooves. "Is this some kind of trick?"

*RUUUMMMMBBBLLLEEEEEEEE!*

Suddenly, the entire cabinet began to shake rumble around, like something big and powerful were trapped inside of it. The little filly pushed her whole weight against the doors, trying to keep them closed.

"H-h-h-e-e-e-y w-w-h-a-a-t-s g-o-o-i-n-g o-o-n?" The shaken up filly asked in terror, looking around desperately.

It was then, that Baby Lickety Split realized two things. First of all, she remembered that the cabinet that she had trapped the four bunnies inside was an magic time-lapse cabinet, enchanted so that time passed at a much, much faster rate on the inside than on the outside. For the Twenty minutes that had passed out here, two months had passed inside the cabinet, where they were all trapped.

The other thing she realized, remembering certain things she had read in a book, was that she had trapped two pairs of boy and girl rabbits inside that cabinet for two months.

"Uh oh...." The little brat whimpered, her ears drooping.

*BOOM!* The doors of the cabinet exploded outward, and a swarm of hundreds of pink and green baby bunnies poured out of the cabinet, knocking baby Lickety Split backwards off of her hooves. The tide of young rabbits swarmed over Baby Lickety, burying her her under their stampede.

"How do ya like that, ya big palooka!" Fizzy screamed, as the swarm of baby bunnies stampeded across the drawbridge, and out of the castle. "Twilight and I knew you were bad at math, so we beat ya by MULTIPLYING!"

"Fizzy come on, we have to finish up and get out of here!" Twilight exclaimed, looking back at the unconscious filly. "She's really not going to be in a good mood when she wakes up!"

Fizzy nodded, and the two does delivered the last of the Easter baskets, then followed the two bucks out of the castle.

"That was a whole lot of fun, Twilight!" Fizzy giggled, as the two hid under a bush. "So what do we do now?"

"Wait here and stay hidden, until our mates dig out a burrow big enough for all of us to live in." Twilight replied with a sigh. "I really don't mind though, I could use a break from all the craziness for awhile."

"Well, I hope we get to go back and work on the Easter baskets next year!" Fizzy Giggled. "Just think of the kind of trouble we could get into then!"

Fizzy's goofy laughter was cut off by the loud SPLAT! Of an Easter egg against the back of her head.

Close Encounters of the Fizzy Kind!

Interlude: What The !?!

Interlude: What The !?!

"Fizzy? What in the world are you doing!?!" Twilight asked, looking down at the mare on the floor. "Is something the matter? Are you all right?"

"Oh, Twilight!" The other unicorn replied with a giggle, looking up at the pink pony standing above her. "Have the boys got our burrow ready yet?"

"Boys? Burrow? Fizzy, what in the world are you talking about?" The pink unicorn asked, shaking her head incredulously. "Fizzy, you've been laying down there on the ground ever since your hoof touched the Starlight Lantern. I don't know what kind of a vision that thing gave you, but you were rolling around on the floor and giggling for the past hour or so!"

"Ohhh, Twilight! It was a wonderful dream!" Fizzy giggled, pawing at the air with her hooves. "We got turned into bunnies, and delivered all the Easter eggs in the castle! And Baby Lickety Split chased us around and tired to catch us like that hunter in the old cartoons!"

"Is that so? Well, while you were having your wonderful bunny dream, I managed to get all of the Easter eggs delivered!" Twilight grumbled, rolling her eyes in annoyance. "It sure would have been nice to have had some help, though!"

"Awww, I'm so sorry you had to do all of that by yourself, Twi! And I'm so sorry we're both still ponies, and the whole thing was just a vision!" The twinkle eyed pony sighed. "But don't worry, I think there was some really good things that'll come out of that dream I just had!"

It was at that moment, that a terrified purple earth filly went galloping down the hall outside, crying and screaming at the top of her lungs.

"Waaahhhhh! Somebody help me!" The small pony wailed, barreling past the entrance the two mares were in. "I don't wanna have a Easter egg! I don't ever wanna see an Easter basket again!" She nearly ran into the wall, as she skittered around the corner. "I'll be good from now on, I promise! Just keep those two crazy bunnies away from me! AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

"Hey wait, that was Baby Lickety Split!" The pink mare yelled in shock, not believing her eyes. "Ummmm, Fizzy.... that whole bunny thing was just a dream, right?" Twilight asked nervously, looking at the other mare. "Something like that is just waaaay too far-fetched and unlikely to be true, am I right?"

"Hey, you're the pony of Dreams, Twilight, you tell me!" Fizzy replied with a giggle, trotting out of the room with a smirk on her face. "But two ponies can both have the same dream, can't they? I don't think baby Lickety Split's brattiness is going to be a problem for Dream Valley anymore!"

"But I... how did... did we actually turn into..." Twilight replied, looking dumbfounded. "Fizzy, I swear you are the most confusing mare I have ever met, even more so than Surprise!"

"Happy Easter, Twilight!" Fizzy replied with a giggle, as she trotted away with one of the last two remaining Easter baskets. "Go eat some of your jellybeans and chocolate eggs, you deserve em'!"

Space Cases

A Fool's Act

A Fool's Act

"Wow, can you believe how big this forest is, Windy?" Gusty asked, looking around at the endless sea of trees that surrounded her and her friend. "Do ya really think we can find Shady out here?"

"I believe it is highly likely, my good Gusty, logic dictates that this is the place that Shady would have come looking for me." The blue Pegasus replied, turning her head to look back at her companion. "However, it would be much easier to do so if were to curtail your pointless elaborations on trivial matters."

"I don't know what ya just said, Windy, but I don't really think ya can use logic ta figure out what Shady's gonna do next." Gusty replied with a chuckle, much to Wind Whistler's annoyance. "That idea's so dumb, it sounds like somethin' Fizz would come up with!"

"You think my ideas are foolish? What about some of your epiphanies?" Her companion scoffed. "Such as the time Fizzy asked for a bedtime story, and you gave her my copy of the Pona sutra?"

"Hey, I sure didn't hear Salty complanin' about that one!" The unicorn replied with a laugh. "But I don't really think ya can compare the stuff I do with Fizzy's goofiness. That mare's as dumb as a bowl of rice krispies... in fact, she's the only unicorn I know who actually talks back to her rice krispies after she pours milk on them!"

"Yes, your actions can be even more foolish and destructive than Fizzy's!" Wind Whistler snapped back, clearly irritated by her friend's words. "And it's worse for you, Gusty, because a unicorn of your age and maturity should know better!"

"Oh yeah? You think I do stuff as dumb as Fizzy?" The hot tampered unicorn asked, walking over to a patch of with some oddly-colored shrubs with blue leaves. "Here, I'll show you I can be even stupider than that bubblehead!"

Before Wind Whistler had a chance to react, Gusty immediately jumped on the weird-looking shrubs, and began scarfing them down. "Om nom nom nom nom nom....... BURRRRPPP!"

"Gusty, no! Don't eat strange shrubs off of the ground that you know nothing about!" She ran over to her friend in a panic. "You have no idea what they could do to you!"

The unicorn mare's eyes suddenly stood straight up, then she began to cough and spit as purple swirls began to appear in her eyes. She immediately collapsed to the ground, her whole body twitching and jerking as she lay there.

"Gusty! Oh no!" The terrified Wind Whistler exclaimed, standing worriedly over her unconscious companion. "Are you in satisfactory condition?"

The white unicorn's eyes slowly opened, and she stared up at her Pegasus friend with a faraway, glazed over look in her eyes.

"Oh, Wind Whistlar... I am, like, so totally happy to see you." The unicorn leaped back to her hooves. "What are we doing in this like, totally dingy old place, it looks so utterly and totally tacky!"

"G-gusty?! What has happened to you?!" Wind Whistler asked in shock. "You sound as if you had been transformed into a complete and utter bimbo!"

"I like, soooooo totally have no Idea what you're talking about, but what-evar!" The two mares suddenly heard a rustling in the leaves, and looked over to see a pink mare with a sunglasses cutie mark step out of the foliage. "Shady, there you are! Ohmygawd, we were, like, so totally worried about you and stuff! I'm soooo happy to see you're, like, okay!"

"Like, totally!" Shady replied, rushing up and hugging her friend tightly. "I am so totally, like, done with this creepy and icky place! I, like, so totally don't remember why I came here, anyway!"

"Egads! Even Shady is beset by this terrible malady!" The now even-more-worried Pegasus exclaimed, looking back and forth between her two friends. "I surmise that the cause of this malady is some external force, no doubt tied to the unusual environ we are currently in." She rubbed her chin thoughtfully with her hoof. "Logic dictates that I ascertain the source of your odd behavior, so that a remedy might be created!"

"We like, should so totally get outta here, and get back ta Dream Castle!" Gusty giggled, rolling her eyes. "I wanna get some new hoof polish, and so totally get my hair done!"

"That would be, like, sooo totally rad!" Shady agreed, staring at her friend and smiling like a goofy ditz. "Then we can, like, get up in front of the castle, and sing karaoke! That was be so totally awesooooome!"

"Hmmmm, these plants Gusty was nibbling on... it appears there were some others that have been nibbled on, as well." Wind Whistler noted, trying to ignore her friend's bubble-headed ramblings. "I hypothesize that Shady must have chewed on these as well, and now has turned into a buxom beach bimbo, much like the unfortunate Gusty." She looked down, and began to tear pieces of the plant out of the ground with her wings. "I must take some samples of this back to the lab, so that I may synthesize an antidote."

But as she collected the samples of the small plant, Wind Whistler glanced up at her two giggling friends. Sure, there were now dim-witted, she realized, but they were also happy; Gusty was no longer grouching like a savage animal, and Shady was no longer afraid of her own shadow.

Thoughts began to turn over and over in the Pegasus genius's head, as she remembered a younger Wind Whistler- a carefree, air headed teenager from before she got the mind boost. Pegasus girl who didn't get mocked for not having any feelings, and who was not distanced from her friends emotionally because of their differences.

As Wind Whistler looked down at the plant in her hoof, she thought about these things very, very carefully....

Alienated

Like, Whatevar!

Like, Whatevar!

"Wind Whistler... i-is that you?" Paradise asked in disbelief. "Girls, what in the world has happened to you?!"

"Awww, knock it off, Paradise! We are so, like, tired of hearing ya whine about nothing!" Windy snorted, as the other two stood behind her and giggled. "Why do ya forget about yer lame-o questions, and totally join us for a hooficure!"

The white Pegasus shook her head in disbelief, only able to stand there and watch as the trio of airheads trotted away from her. She simply couldn't believe her eyes when these three returned from the mastificent forest, complete with bubbly personalities, and enough brains between the three of them to fill a thimble. She could only watch in shock as the ponies she thought she knew act like total goofballs.

"Wow, these main curlers are in waaaaay too tight!" Shady called out, when they were sitting under the dyers at the salon. "I think it's, like cutting off the blood flow to my brain!"

"Awww, don't be so silly, girlfriend!" Gusty replied, chewing on a wad of gum. "We don't, like have any brains ta cut off the oxygen to!"

After Fifi had finished with their manes, they all came trotting out, and Paradise's eyes nearly bulged out of her head. Big and curly 80's, coats died in wild colors, big hoop earrings, and heavy doses of makeup and mascara smothering their faces! The other ponies did a double take as the trio passed by, uncertain if they were even looking at the three mares they knew or not.

"Like, can you believe Nightshade's newest album? So totally rad, man!" Wind Whistler giggled, singing the lyrics in her sweet voice. "I'm good! I'm good! I'm really really good!"

"Jeah, he was so hawt up there on stage!" Gusty agreed, blowing a bubble with the gum she was chewing on. "But can you believe the outfits his backup singers were wearing? Soooo tacky!"

"You know... we could, like, do a sooooo much better job singing up there on stage then those cheap dime store floozies!" Shady interjected, suddenly getting an idea. "It would be sooo amazing being up on stage with a cutie like Nightshade!"

"Hey, isn't he holding a concert at the grand opening of the Ponyville amusement park next week?" Gusty asked, hopping up and down excitedly. "We could, like, so totally get on stage, and show Nightshade who the hottest backup singers in Ponyland are!"

"Girls, no offense.... but you two, like, totally can't hold a candle ta me, when it comes to singing!" The blue Pegasus shook her head.

"Oh, that's like, totally okay! We can just sing will quietly, and let you, like, carry us!" Shady replied. "But we'd better, like, go to Bright Valley, and get our manes and hooves done tomorrow!"

"But Shady, we like, just had makeovers!" Wind Whistler added, looking over their new manes and hairdos. "Why would we, like, need them again so quick?"

"Ewwww, stop thinking, Windy! You're, like, making my head hurt!" Gusty grumbled, putting a hoof on her head. "Leave the thinking to a smart pony, like Fizzy!"

The three mares then trot away, leaving a stupefied Paradise behind them.

"I-I can't believe this! It's like the frazit fiasco all over again!" The white mare moaned sadly, shaking her head. "But this time, everybody's been turned into a bubbly bimbo!"

But when the mare looked to the ground, and noticed a part of a plant with several blue leaves lying on the ground. Paradise realized that it must have fallen out of Wind Whistler's saddle bag, and trotted up to get a closer look at the odd vine.

"Poison Joke!?! Of course! It all makes sense now!" The white Pegasus exclaimed, recognizing the plant from her readings. "They must've come into contact with this stuff in the mastificent forest!"

Covering her wings in a layer of cloth to prevent contact, Paradise scooped the piece of plant material into a small plastic bag, and trotted down the hallway. "I need to find some help, and see if we can get this whole mess straightened out!"

The mare looked desperately around the castle, but could find no trace of Twilight, Galaxy, or Magic Star (not that Paradise was sure the lich mare would want to help, anyway). In her frantic search through all the passageways and corridors, Paradise finally ran across Fizzy, the twinkle-eyed pony who was already a natural bubble-brain, on her own.

"Hey Paradise, what's up?" The blue unicorn giggled, watching the other pony run back and forth in a hurry. "You playing hide and seek or something? Ohhh wait, can I be it?"

"Not now, Fizzy! Three of our friends are under an enchantment!" Paradise exclaimed, holding the bag with the poison joke in her wing. "I need to find one of the castle's smart unicorns to help me!"

But Paradise had not been paying attention to what was going on around her, her head turning in every direction as she looked for help. It was then to her horror, that she looked back and found the bag in her hoof open, and the plant inside gone!

"Mmmmmm, Paradise!" Fizzy proclaimed, happily munching on the blue-leaved plant. "This plant you got tastes really, really good!"

"No, Fizzy don't eat that!" Paradise pleaded, shaking the mare as she swallowed the poison joke. "You'll get so dumb, you'll forget to breath!"

The unicorn mare's head fell back, and her her body began to twitch and shake. She collapsed backward after a few minutes, and her crystal eyes rolled back into her head.

"Fizzy, are you okay?" Paradise asked in a panic, picking her friend up off the castle floor. "Speak to me, please!"

"But of course, my good Paradise!" Fizzy replied, suddenly pulling a pair of glasses out of nowhere. "On what subject, study, or topic would you care to converse?"

"Oh great B'zekre!" Paradise fell back, fainting in shock from what had just come out of Fizzy's mouth.

Wind Whistler; Origins

Paradise's day away

Paradise's day away

It's seven o' clock on a Friday, the time that most of my customers have finished their lattes, and gone home. The streets of Bright Valley become quiet and deserted this time of night, because everpony-er, everybody, I mean- is already wither on their way home, or headed to the graveyard shift at work. My little shop stands among the various old brownstone buildings here in the historic district, and is one of the few still open at this late hour. The Silver Chalice was an old bar from the Ponybition era that I bought and restored into a coffee shop a few years back, and she is my Pride and joy.

My name is Vanilla Mocha, and I'm a unicorn who moved up here to the northern continent from Equestria about five years ago. Mixing up Lattes and Coffees is my specialty, that's why I born with the yellow star that graces my flank. My smaller stature and brown mane and green eyes make me stick out among these bigger and bulkier Ponyland Ponies, but I like to think that gives this mare a charm all her own! I left my home and came up to the confederacy, because I felt that almighty B'zekre was calling me to give this poor, beverage-deprived ponies some hot and delicious refreshment.

As usual for this time of night, I'm behind the old cedar bar, using my unicorn magic to wash out the mugs that sill have a ring of cappuccino or mocha in them. Spread throughout the room are the few regulars I get about this time of night. Night Glider, head of the artisan guilds, is sipping from her steaming hot cup in the center of the room. She likes to come here and unwind after constantly arguing with the town's other guildmasters. Over on the far left is Carmelita, an unusual little woman from the human lands who's staying here in town, while working on some kind of book she's writing. I always find humans interesting, the way they walk on two legs and wear clothes all the time. Yeah, I know most of my regular customers pretty well, and most of my regular customers know me.

So it's quite a surprise to me, when I see an odd looking white Pegasus come trotting into my place, a sullen and faraway look on her face as she drops a few jangles into my jar on the bar, and asked for a hot chocolate with whipped cream. Normally, I'm too shy to talk to any of my new customers, but Bight Valley was a mostly earth Pony town... I just had to find out what this new mare I had never seen before was doing here.

"Excuse me... m'am?" I ask, as I trot over to the forlorn mare's table with her levitated cup of piping hot coca. "You seem kind of... unhappy. is there anything wrong?"

"Anything wrong? Anything Wrong?! You bet by the seven voyages of Sindbad there's something wrong!" The rather angry sounding pony declared, revealing by her literary reference (and the stack of books with her) that she was a librarian mare. "My friends are all acting topsy-turvy, my life's all turned totally upside down, and I really don't know what's what anymore!"

"Oh, I totally understand, we all have days like that." I try to say reassuringly, setting down her drink on the table. "Life can really get mixed up and confused sometimes, and we just have to learn and roll with it."

"Oh yeah? Well, how do I roll with three dear friends of mine getting turned into bimbos by poison joke? Or a goofball being turned into a super genius? It's seems nothing right in Dream Valley anymore!"

Dream Valley? Well, that certainly answers a lot. I've heard that place has a new eldritch abomination attacking them each and every week! Still, this poor mare looks like she's been through more than she's used to normally handling. As she takes a sip from her mug, I decide to try and do something to help this stressed out pony.

"Poison Joke, huh? I've heard of that stuff before." I take a seat beside her, trying to sound reassuring. "I've heard there's a cure that can be mixed up quite easily!"

It's not just the poison joke or the personality mix up! I just-just can't take it anymore!" The frustrated mare told me, flexing her wings in frustration. "There always some crazy things these crazy and stupid friends of minje are getting into! Always starting fights, or making total fools of themselves, or making everyone's lives miserable! Why can't they all try, just once, to ask sane and normal and rational instead of driving the rest of us out of our freakin skulls?!"

"MMybe your friends are just being themselves, maybe they don't see anything annoying or wrong with how they are acting?" I offer, pointing a hoof at her. "Maybe you should just tell them how you feel about how they're making the rest of you feel?"

"Ha! I don't Gusty would even listen to me!" She replied with a bitter laugh. "Fizzy wouldn't even understand what I was talking about, and Windy would try to hard to dissect the deeper meaning of everything I was saying." She buried her hooves in her face, talking to herself. "Oh Paradise, why do you have such bizarre and freakish friends compared to everybody else?"

"Well, 'Paradise', I think you're not giving your friends enough credit!" I reply, defending ponies I've never even met before and knew very little about. "If they really are your friends, I'm sure they would care about your feelings!"

Paradise the Pegasus only nodded, sitting silently for a few moments, before quickly downing the rest of her beverage, tossing a jangle tip onto the table with her wing, and trotting out the door without another word. I really have no way of knowing if my words affected her not.

"Well, that went really well." I say aloud levitating her extra jangle over into the jar with a sigh. "Why do I always seem to give the worst advice to other people?"

"It's not that your advice is bad, Vanilla." Carmelita piped up, looking up from her manuscript with her dark brown eyes. "It's just that some people aren't ready to receive your advice... or really doesn't want to hear it."

"Awww, thanks for the vote of confidence, Carmen. But you're just being nice." I tell her with a sigh, mixing up three cups of mint tea. "But my advice really does stink. Remember the time I suggested a brush 'n grow pony should try a new hairdo, and she got a buzz cut? Her mane tried to strangle me in anger after it grew back!"

"So not all of your advice has turned out for the best." Night Glider continued, taking a sip of her own drink. "That's more than can be said for a lot of non-ponies that live here in ponyland."

"You're both to kind, I'm really glad to have both of you around here." I smile at the two of them, levitating the three mint teas into a bag. "But now, I'm going to have to ask you both to watch this place for a bit? I have to deliver an order down to the docks... a couple of Sea Ponies want their weekly tea."

"No problem, Nilla'." My human friend smiled, tossing her long brown hair with her free hand. "You make your delivery, we'll hold down the fort here!"

I smile at her, and trot out the door. Again, I cannot stress enough how amazing those humans are. I really want to know where Carmelita gets those long and pretty sundresses she's always wearing, and if they make it in pony sizes! Anyway, I trotted my way out of the shop, and down towards the docks. As I hear Bright Valley's clock tower hits the hour, I can't help but wonder if I'll see that Dream Valley mare again. Even though she only stopped into my shop for a few minutes, I get the feeling I'll be running into Paradise and her friends again real soon.....

Princess Rinse 'n Spit

Crazy Cure!

Crazy Cure!

"Are you sure the mixture's gonna work, Fizzy?" Paradise asked, as she handed another beaker full of bubbling liquid to the now-genius unicorn. "If we don't get this right, we might never get our friends back to normal!"

"Calm yourself, my good Paradise!" Fizzy replied reassuringly, adjusting her glasses. "This concoction will bring our friends back to their normal selves, working as a cure to their present malady."

Paradise stared down into the cauldron, as Fizzy poured the finished chemical inside. The potion began to bubble and roil, causing the white Pegasus to jump back in fright.

"I still can't believe you made this gunk up, even with your enhanced intelligence." Paradise told her, taking a step back from the cauldron. "Unicorns aren't exactly known for their potion-making abilities."

"Zigzag made a recipe up for Wind Whistler, before she went on a journey home." The unicorn gestured to a scrap of paper on a nearby table. "One dip in this stuff, and our dear friends shall be returned to their former selves!"

"Well, that'll be good... I'm tried of being kept awake all night by three gossiping goofballs in the room down the hall." Paradise agreed. "But how are we going to get those prissy ponies into this vat of vile? It doesn't exactly look very appealing to me...."

"Yo, Fizzy! What up, girlfriend?" Wind Whistler called out, as she and the other two ponies trotted in to the room. "We like, soooo totally heard you had that bubble bath ready for us, I soooo totally can't wait!"

"Yeah, this is, like, soooo gonna do wonders for our mane and tailor our manes and tails!" Gusty looked into the cauldron, with the bubbling and simmering liquid. "This stuff looks really icky, but I've heard that that, like, soooo totally makes it sooo much better for your coat!"

"Fer shure!" Shady agreed, jumping into the cauldron hooves first. "So what are we waiting for, girls? Let's, like get our selves totally pretty!"

"LIKE, AWESOME!" The other two agreed in unison, as they dove in after her.

Everything seemed to be normal at first, as the three airheads continued to gossip and giggle. But it wasn't long, Paradise noticed, before something odd began to happen between the three ponies.

"Heyyyy.... Shady, get you hoof out of my face!" Gusty growled, narrowing her eyes at the earth mare. "Why don't you stay on your own side of the bath?"

"Huh? Oh, Gusty, I'm so sorry!" The other mare cried out, a look of anguished guilt washing over her face. "I'm such a FAILURE for even being in here!"

"Would you two childish equines stop acting like immature brats?" Wind Whistler asked, scowling at the other two ponies. "You are most certainly causing my irritation levels... to...rise...."

Wind Whistler's eyes suddenly went wide, and she then turned around to stare at Paradise and Fizzy. A look of what Paradise swore was hurt and betrayal seemed to cross her face for a moment, before her usual logical demeanor returned once more.

"Ah, greetings Paradise!" The blue mare greeted her, hopping out of the tub. "I am pleased to see your countenance again, being of my normal mental status once again."

"Windy!" The White Pegasus squeed, hugging the other mare in her wings tightly. "It's so good to have you back!"

"Indeed!" The other Pegasus agreed, nodding. "I am eternally grateful to no longer be trapped in the back of that dim-witted imbecile's mind, watching her put on garish clothing and act utterly ridiculous!" The blue Pegasus snorted angrily. "Oh, how foolish I was to handle that poison joke with my uncovered wings!"

"Hey, get off me, ya stupid head!" Gusty yelled, struggling against Shady in the tub.

"I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm trying!" Shady wailed, trying to push away from the other mare.

The two of them splashed around in the cauldron, before finally knocking the whole vat all over the floor of Windy's laboratory. Both Paradise and Wind Whistler laughed hysterically as the two other soaked mares picked themselves up off the floor.

"Wow, you two are all washed up!" Paradise grinned, as her friends shook the goop out of their manes. "Okay Fizzy, now it's your turn!"

But when the mares turned around, there was no trace of their unicorn friend.

"Uhhhh, Fizzy?" Paradise asked, looking around in a confused manner. "Fizz, are you there?"

"I hypothesize that Fizzy had absconded from her current location." Windy told her, shaking her head. "So that she would not have to endure the personality-restoring effects of the cure."

"But... why in the world would she do that?" The withe Pegasus asked, surprised at her friend's actions.

"Would you wanna go back to being an idiot, after being really really smart?" Gusty asked sarcastically, raising an eyebrow. "I know I wouldn't!"

"Oh no! This is terrible!" Shady added, putting her hooves up to her mouth. "We gotta go and find her!"

"Didn't we start this whole thing with that bubbly airhead missing?" Gusty growled, rolling her eyes in annoyance. "Fine, lets go find the girl before she does something stupid- er, too smart!"

"I can't believe we're saying that about Fizz!" Paradise giggled, shaking her head.

The four ponies raced out of the laboratory, dead set upon finding their missing friend.

Extremeeeeee Ponies!