A Tale of Many Worlds

Sonic ran from corner to corner, still trying to avoid time as it ticked past him, always faster, knowing that if he was late, then he'd get an earful from them. He had three seconds... Scratch that no seconds left, which meant that he was late. Sonic burst through the doors of town hall, and found all were staring at him, he chuckled nervously and ran to the front joining several others that were there. The Mayor cleared her throat and continued the meeting.

"As you are all aware, Ponyville had been under attack much more than normal, this proves that those sour characters are planning something. We need to come up with a plan of defense against them, we have Sonic, XJ9, the Elements of Harmony, and several other heroes, but we may need a bit more firepower, that's why we are requesting that Raynor's Raiders help provide protection beyond the Zerg, and they've requested that we hold a meeting about it, to see if the public would feel comfortable with their presence. We are going to take a majority vote and that will decide what we do." She said, while the votes were being casted.

"All right, now we have a verdict, due to the full vote, Raynor's Raiders will be patrolling the town in order to assist with these threats. The meeting is now over." The Mayor said, which meant that they should begin to leave.

"You almost done? Bill?" Wilfre asked, while Bill worked on something, which Wilfre was curious to see the result of. Bill dumped blue flowers into Ponyville's water supply, he did not touch the plants, mostly because he knew of their obnoxious habit.

"Just give me a little longer. Done." Bill said, and floated away from his handiwork, "Once anything drinks this contaminated water, they'll get something horrible." Bill began to laugh manically, and Wilfre rolled his eyes.

"Didn't you need to get something from Rarity?" Wilfre asked, and Bill's eye widened.

"Oh, you're right... I need to take and unassuming form... I've got just the one..." Bill said, before he began to change shape.

The Mane Six gathered in Twilight's castle, where they had a major problem, Twilight was unable to use her magic, she was covered in blue spots. Pinkie couldn't open her mouth, her tongue was sticking out and it was also covered in blue spots. Rarity was covered in white shaggy fur that covered her eyes and almost all of her. Rainbow Dash flew around the room erratically, unable to control her movements. Applejack had shrunk rapidly and was able to fit in Twilight's hand. Finally Fluttershy stood there, while she looked normal there was something else that was wrong with her. Sonic, Jowee, Jenny, Dipper, Mabel, and Alphonse burst into the room.

"You guys need... Us...?" Sonic said, noticing them all.

"What happened?" Alphonse asked, an Twilight sighed.

"Someone, or something introduced Poison Joke into our water supply. We were sabotaged!" She shouted.

"Spike said something like this happened before, is it the same as last time?" Sonic asked and Twilight nodded.

Pinkie popped in front of the hedgehog's face and attempted to speak.

"Pthb! Pbthu pthub pthu!" She shouted, spraying spit onto his face.

"Ok, next time. Let someone else speak, so Pinkie can't talk... Applejack is the size of a Smurf... Rarity is covered in hair... Rainbow's flying like a maniac... Twilight can't use magic... So what's wrong with Fluttershy?" Dipper asked, and Applejack rolled her eyes.

"Would yah tell em what's wrong with yah?" Applejack asked, her voice having gone higher several pitches, which made Sonic burst into laughter.

"Oh! Please stop talking! You'll kill me with that voice!" Sonic shouted, while Applejack glared at him.

Fluttershy shook her head, and Sonic began to grow concerned.

"Fluttershy? Will you tell me what's wrong?" Sonic asked, and Fluttershy once again shook her head. "Why not? Are you afraid?" Sonic asked, and Fluttershy nodded. "Afraid of what I'll think of you?" Sonic asked and Fluttershy once again nodded. He gave her a weak smile before saying "Flutters, you know that nothing will change the fact that I love you. So will you please tell me?" Fluttershy slowly nodded and began to speak.

"I just don't want to talk about it." She said, her voice had dropped several octaves and Sonic took a step back in shock.

"I wasn't expecting that... No matter, we'll just have to find a cure for you, all of you. You guys up for the challenge?" Sonic asked, turning to face the others, Jenny, Jowee, and Alphonse nodded, but the twins were laughing. Fluttershy let out a low pitched whimper of sadness, and Sonic turned to face them. "You two need to take a look at what you've done. You've made Fluttershy sad, so I am going to distribute a punishment, since your 'Grunkle' made me and Fluttershy your legal guardians until he has a chance to come and take you home. You two are going to do a day of chores for each of them once we fix them up, no objections, no arguments, or I'll let you feed the chickens, and they get a bit nasty this time of year." Sonic said, grinning while the twins stopped and sighed.

"For now we're probably going to need Dipper's new Journal... Right?" Jowee asked, and Sonic nodded.

"Well then, let's go and find something to help them out, standing around here all day won't do anything." Jenny said, while Alphonse opened the door.

"We should plan a bit first, try to find information before we go on!" Alphonse said, with excitement clearly in his voice,  they rushed out leaving the Mane Six standing there in silence. Unaware that they were being watched. Rarity began to think before she remembered something.

"Does this mean that Sonic didn't drink the tea I made last night?" She asked, but this confused Fluttershy.

"Sonic was home with me and our kids all last night, he didn't go anywhere." She said, which raised the question.

"If that wasn't Sonic... Then who was it?"

Wilfre lied on his back, kicking his legs in air while laughing. "You're such and idiot! You drank tea made from you own poisoned water!" Wilfre shouted, before breathing heavily. "Now you can't be called 'the triangle guy' anymore, you'll have to be called 'the square guy'! Wilfre yelled, while a square shaped Bill floated above him with an unamused look.

"Oh shut up, will you?" Bill shouted in anger.