The Crystology Experiment

Daisy daisy, lackadaisy, could have got them, was to lazy.

That's glorious. And relevant.

But I insist on a daisy, call me crazy, but I must go grazing.

That only technically rhymes. I am working on it, now stop distracting me.

Well someone isn't feeling well.

Dangling from a roof tends to do that to a person.

And just a little closer.... got them! Hmmm, not bad.

Do you taste plastic?

Yes, why?

"Haugh, bleh, hap!"

Ahhh. Just don't feel bitter.

I swear I will end you for that.

You can trrryyyy. Regardless we now know two things.

Which would be that ponies as you have dubbed them are on the industrial level of artificial flowers.

And we need to find an alternative food source.

The forest my friend?

Let's.

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The crystal castle that looks suspiciously like a tree:

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"Muahahahahaha! The fool, he left a magical trail!"

"Calm down darling, besides didn't you say something about not being able to track him?"

"Not when his aura is obscured, but he must have been using magic to get away, now we can follow him, and I will figure out his blasphemous non-unicorn magic using ways!"

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Umm, did you feel that?

The shiver that went down our spine?

No the feeling of sudden foreboding.

Nope.

Let's run.

Fine by me.

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Everfree forests:

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Alright then, there must be some form of ingestable organic plant matter around here.

How about those blue flowers?

Why not....

"Nomnomnomnomnom"

Sound effects not  necessary.

Despite the ominous glow of these flowers I find them quite scrumptious.

Obviously hilarious commentary. Although on a related note, is that sudden illumination emenating from us?

It appears so.

Hu. Stealth will be more difficult now.

It should fade in a few hours.

You have no idea.

Neither do you.

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"Well it's faint but at least I'm getting a signal."

"That's great sugarcube, now where is he?"

"He should be in the Everfree forest unless-" Twilight was cut off when a trail of orange and blue light emitted from the forest to her horn. "-abort train of thought. He is definitely in that forest. Although he still might have used an artifact, regardless it should be on his person."

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"Battery charged at 20 percent."

Excellent. Now to more important business.

Although how would a single flower hold that much energy?

I haven't a clue but I will say because magic.

That isn't an answer. Besides that could be important.

More important than the multicolored trail emmiting from our person?

I guess I'll just file it under 'look into later'.

Shall we follow the trail?

Seems reasonable, but be careful.

Obviously. Now what could be causing this?

Maybe some sort of a signal is coming from that flower to somewhere?

Maybe. Or it could be vice versa.

In that case the look out should be doubled.

True, although it would appear as if we are astonishingly close to the link, given the rapid thickening of this light.

Which could be good or catastrophic depending on, pony!

And that ruler is here. Which some sort of tracker. Perfect. I mean really. Could not under any circumstance engineered a more ideal situation.

Backing up.

And now we merely keep a steady distance from...... her......

Aye aye! And lay traps, lots and lots of traps involving cake!

But of course. But we put laxatives in the cake.

Brilliant! Then they will have to go to the bathroom and abandon us! Huzzah!

As atypical, we shall start with a tree branch.....

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"Ow! Hey! No pony bops me on the nose! No pony!"

"What happened Pinkie?"

"The monster bopped her on the nose with a tree branch that rushed out of the woods! No pony does that to my friends!"

"Wait, Dash, NO!" Twilight screamed after her friend, but it was to late as Rainbow Dash had already dissapeared into the surrounding forest. And suddenly there was a splat.

"Rainbow Dash! Are you alright!?" gasped Fluttershy in an uncharacteristiclly loud voice. All she got was a groan in return.

"Oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no." Fluttershy muttered as she rushed after Rainbow Dash. What she found when she reached Rainbow took her quite off guard though. "Why is there a cake here? And did Rainbow Dash, eat some of it?" Indeed poor Rainbow Dash was discovered by her shy friend lying amidst the remains of what appeared to be a large brown green and red cake, complete with a out of place looking garnish, that had a what seemed like a few bites out of it.

Suddenly from out of nowhere a small stick came out of the woods, waking Rainbow Dash as it hit her on the nose with a small 'Boop'.

"Oh that is IT!!!" Rainbow Dash cried as she lept into the woods in the direction the fragment had came from.

Fluttershy stayed behind and took a step towards the cake before tapping it with her hoof and licking it. The small squeak of "Oh my." was all she was able to let loose before a small mushroom coated in a green substance landed on her snout and bounced off with a 'Boop', sending her to sleep with its specific mixture of compounds.

Can we please just do that to all of them?

But this is so much more fun! You can make the next call anyway.

"Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash!" yelled Twilight as she entered the grove. "Oh Celestia, are you ok!"

"Don't worry Twi, she was just knocked unconscious by this super special sleepy mushroom!"

"But Pinkie dear, where is Rainbow Dash?"

"Ah don't know sugar cube but some pony best carry Flutters until she wakes up."

"Why don't you do that Apple Jack? You have always been the, strongest, of the group."

"I suppose you make a fair point Rars. Let's just try to hurry with catching this guy."

With that decided the little quartet travelled after the beam that Twilight was emitting, only for Rarity to stumble into a hole filled with cake.

"Oh help me! Help me! My clothes will be ruined if you don't hurry!" Twilight looked at Apple Jack. Apple Jack looked at Twilight. Pinkie Pie looked at them.

"Well I'm busy with the spell..."

"And I'm carrying Fluttershy."

"And I am helping Rarity out of a hole!" Pinkie joined in, doing as she stated she was.

"Oh thank you darling, with luck I might still be able to scrub out this wretche-" Rarity said worriedly before she was interrupted by a mushroom falling on to her nose with a 'Boop'.

Nice shot.

No one insults the cake of the great shaterino.

"Noooooooooo!!!!!" Pinkie screeched to the sky, holding Rarity's limp body in her arms.

"Applejack, you seem to be the most qualified for this." Twilight quickly quipped.

"No, have you seen how much ice cream she eats? I think only a powerful unicorn could manage that." Apple Jack responded almost as quickly.

"I can carry her!" Pinkie yelled enthusiastically as she hopped on to Rarity and almost instantaneously enveloped her in her mane.

"............ It's just Pinkie Pie, it's just Pinkie pie, it's just Pinkie Pie" Twilight and AJ chanted together before returning to the task at hoof.

"Alright. I'm a good now. So what do you think we should d-" AJ was cut off as a blur of rainbow blasted her over her accompanied by a stream of, "Sorry,notimetoexplainneedtogonowgotragonowbyebyebye."

"Can no pony finish a complete sentence!? Is that it!? Is there just going to be something to interrupt us every time we are about to finish talking like a normal po-" Twiligh halted as she looked up at the towering cake that had entered her field of vision, directly before herself and AJ got ingulfed in sweet delicious descending confectioners sugar enshrined goodness.

"Twi, are you feeling strangely tired all of a sudden?"

"Now that you mention it I do feel a bit-" and Twilight was interrupted yet again, this time by the gentle sway of dreamless sleep.

Slowly a pair of hoof steps drew near to the slumbering trio, slowly a hoof raised and fell over each body, accompanied by the gentle sound of 'Boop, Boop', before being drawn back into the forest.

Now that that is done, where is the Pink one?

Pinkie Pie should be somewhere about, here pinkie pinkie pinkie pinkie.

Well I see no sign of her. No other time has the expression 'no hide nor hair' seemed more appropriate.

She must be somewhere! What if she's gathered the armies to march on us! If a lone one of these can do so much to track us what hope do we have of escaping the armed and undoubtably highly trained and capable forces!

Before I berate you about playing with them she seems to not appear through any sensors so we are nearly most certainly safe from immediate-

"Warning: incoming projectile at-"

"Hyyaaaaa!"  yelled a voice as the owner stuffed a slimy looking mushroom down the ponies throat.

Slowly one pink hoof raised up and then down creating a gentle 'Boop' noise.

"No pony boops my friends" said the voice as they dragged the unconscious figure into its mane. It broke through reality as it entered the basement of a particular castle and dispensed the figure. "No pony."