Chapters Party Preparations
Rainbow Dash woke up, surprisingly excited. Pinkie was going to be throwing a party later today. It was going to be AWESOME ! As she stretched, she had thoughts of how the party was going to play out. Of course, Rainbow thought to herself, Pinkie Pie is going to have Pin-The-Tail-On-The-Pony, and cupcakes. Cupcakes, the thought intrigued her. She wanted one. She flew out of her house, making sure to lock the door behind her, and over to Sugarcube Corner.
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Twilight had been up all night, studying. She was looking for her copy of The Magical Foods that she had let Pinkie Pie borrow. She even asked Spike, "Spike, do you remember what I did with the library's copy of The Magical Foods ?"
Spike replied back, "We let Pinkie Pie borrow it for her party, Twilight."
Party, Twilight thought, I forgot about the party! She decided to head out the library's door yelling back at Spike, "Don't forget to close up before the party!" and headed to Sugarcube Corner to retrieve her missing book.
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Rarity was working on a beautiful new dress, designed for Lyra for her wedding. She was also supposed to make Bonbon's and make the wedding decorations. Decorations, Rarity thought, Wasn't I supposed to make decorations for something else, as well? Then, after a while of thinking, she remembered one word. Party. Oh, Wasn't I supposed to deliver the decor for Pinkie Pie's party? Realizing that she had all the decor packed, neatly, she grabbed the box and started out her door, locking the boutique behind her, and trotted to Sugarcube Corner.
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Applejack had just finished bucking one of the famous Apple family's zap apple trees. She had to deliver the needed apples for bobbing for apples. Pinkie Pie, how are you able to create such amazing party ideas? she thought to herself. She sorted through the bucked apples, looking for only the best ones to deliver to Pinkie's party. Big Macintosh just so happened to be walking by her as she worked. "Hey, Big Mac, ya hear 'bout th' party Pinkie's holdin' t'night?" she shouted after him.
He replied with his usual, "Eeyup."
"Are ya goin'?" she asked.
"Nnope," he said, stretching the "n" sound.
"Well, Ah better be aheadin' out. Ah don' wanna be late deliverin' these here apples, sugarcube," she told him, as she head out to Ponyville's "sweet shack."
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"Angel Bunny, don't get too carried away, now," said Fluttershy in her soft voice. Angel was jumping around the little hut, eager for an unnamed something. "Oh, okay, Angel, I'll let you go outside for awhile," and with that, the shy pegasus opened the hut's door. Angel bolted through the door, headed into town. "Angel Bunny, don't go over there!" she quietly shouted. Angel, of course, didn't listen to her. He just continued hopping until he got to Sugarcube Corner.
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Just as Rainbow Dash got to Sugarcube Corner, so did Twilight, Rarity, Applejack, and Fluttershy. At this moment, all of them wore looks of surprise on their faces. As if on cue, Pinkie Pie jumped up behind the surprised group of friends.
"Hey, everypony!" she shouted in her soprano voice. "What can I do ya for, Dashie?" she asked the flying cerulean pegasus, who was heading into the store.
"Oh, uh, hey Pinkie. I just really wanted a cupcake," Rainbow replied, eagerly heading inside for her cupcake.
Pinkie Pie suddenly jumped in front of her. "You can't go in there until the party, silly filly!" Pinkie shouted. At this, Rainbow rolled her eyes and stepped back. Pinkie ran inside and grabbed a cupcake for Dash. "Here ya go, Dashie." Gratefully, Rainbow accepted the cupcake and ate it.
Pinkie turned to Twilight. "Hey, Pinkie," Twilight said, "Can I have that book you borrowed from me back?"
Of course, she replied with her usual, "Okie Dokie Lokie!" she grabbed the book. "The Magical Foods ! Here ya go, Twi!" Feeling satisfied, Twilight took the book and put it in here saddle bag.
Rarity, struggling to get the giant box off her back was panting. "Pinkie, I'm sorry that I was late, but here are the decorations you asked for, specifically for your party," she said. "Now, can I just have somepony help me get this off of my back?"
Rainbow Dash felt nice enough to grab the box and gently put it on the ground, letting out an, "Oof, " and panting once it hit ground. "Wow, Rarity," she said, "what did you have in there?"
"Well, Rainbow Dash," came the reply, "I brought the necessities of a proper Pinkie Party, along with some beautiful decor, if I do say so myself." The white unicorn seemed so proud of herself.
Once the box was on the front steps of the sweet shop, Applejack came forth. "Heya, Pinkie. I brought th' apples ya asked me tah bring," she simply stated, putting the basket of rainbow apples also on the steps of Sugarcube Corner. After setting the basket down, she shrunk back into the group of friends.
"These apples are perfect, AJ!" Pinkie shouted. "And they match one of our friends!"
"Hold yer horses, there, Pinkie! What d' ya mean, match?" Applejack asked.
"Look at Dashie!" Rainbow, wearing a look of surprise and embarrassing on her blushed face, was taken aback.
"P-Pinkie," she stuttered, "I-I don't know about that..." she trailed off.
Pinkie then threw one of the zap apples into the face of her rainbow friend, and everypony looked in horror. "See?" she said, "they match!"
"Ummm..." Dash was still obviously embarrassed, the zap apple not helping instead, she thrust Fluttershy in front of herself.
"HIya, Fluttershy!" Pinkie shouted, just a moment before the mare was about to leave. "What are you doing here!"
"Oh, hi, Pinkie," Fluttershy's voice was a soft whisper. "I, uh, just came by because Angel ran away. He headed over here."
"That's okay, silly filly!" Pinkie shouted in response. "I bet he wanted something to eat! Here, give him this muffin!" And with that, she thrust a blueberry muffin into Fluttershy's full hooves, next to Angel.
"Oh, th-thank you?" was all that the pegasus could mutter as Angel ate the muffin happily.
"Well, everypony, thanks for coming! But I gotta finish decorating!" Pinkie seemed to shout with glee.
"Sure thing, Pinkie," Twilight spoke. "But before we leave, may I ask who else is coming?"
"Sure! There's Matilda, Cranky, Zecora, Ditzy, Lyra, BonBon, Trixie..." Pinkie was interrupted before she could finish.
"Wait," Rainbow shouted, "you invited Trixie? The one who tried to ruin and embarrass us in front of all of Ponyville?"
"Yep! And Big Mac, Shining Armor and Cadence, Vinyl, Tavi, ooh!," continued Pinkie, "and the Cutie Mark Crusaders, and MORE!"
Groaning the ponies left, one by one returning to their homes, dreading the moment in which they once more meet the Great and Powerful Trixie.
At about eight o'clock at night, everypony except for Pinkie, met up at Twilight's library. Everypony which only included four of Twilight's best friends, Applejack, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, and Rarity. They all headed for Pinkie's party together, hoping for the best, yet worrying for the worst.
"TRIXIE! " Rainbow Dash shouted at nopony in particular. "She made me into a Rainbow Tornado!"
"Not to mention that she made my lovely mane green, " Rarity agreed.
"She also hogtied meh an' shoved an apple en mah mouth!" Applejack fumed.
"Girls, girls. Maybe Trixie has changed. Maybe she won't try to "One-Up" me this time. Maybe she really is going to be..." Twilight was cut off when they reached Sugar Cube Corner.
"Hey, guys!" shouted an ecstatic Pinkie. "Come on in! You're just a little late, but the fun has barely started!"
As the five of them walked into the parlor of Sugarcube Corner, the friends looked around. Everything was perfectly placed and all of the ponies were partying and having fun.
"Well, at least she ain't here, yet, " Applejack said. Looking around, she spotted Applebloom by the punch with her friends. "And th' Crusaders are havin, fun."
Looking over to the Crusaders, Rainbow saw Scootaloo, and instantly hid behind Twilight.
"Rainbow," asked Twilight, "what are you doing?"
"Scootaloo is here," the cerulean pony replied. "She gets on my nerves almost as much as Trixie."
Sighing, Twilight let Rainbow hide behind her, not expecting the following to happen. She saw her worst enemy walk in, followed by a griffon. "Trixie," Twilight whispered under her breath. Then, once again to her surprise, Dash stepped out from behind her and quickly fled over to the Crusaders. This was probably due to the fact of where her ex-friend stood behind one of her enemies.
Before Twilight could retreat into her own affairs, Trixie spoke. "Well, is this really the biggest loser in all of Loserville, I mean Ponyville?" Trixie spoke irritably, "Why aren't you studying?"
Blushing, Twilight just stared at the blue unicorn. As always, she was dressed in a star-patterned hat and cloak, boasting about. Believing that she was supposed to say something at that point, Gilda spoke up.
"Well, if it isn't the ragtag team of eggheads," said Gilda. After saying this, Twilight gave her an odd stare, which made Gilda walk away to the punch table, where the Cutie Mark Crusaders were talking to their new companion.
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"Hey, look guys, it's Rainbow Dash!" Scootaloo spoke, her eyes widened in delight as her hero walked towards them.
"Oh, uh, hi there, Scootaloo," Dash said nervously, as she took a seat by the punch bowl. Pouring herself a glass of punch, she awaited a conversation to break out, and finally it did.
"Howdy there, Dash! Ah thought that ya'd usually avoid us, don't ya?" Applebloom asked, clearly surprised that Rainbow had joined them.
"Yeah, well, you guys seemed to need a little excitement," Rainbow continued to speak with a nervous edge in her voice, glancing in Twilight's direction. The friends had mostly dispersed, leaving Twilight alone with Trixie and Gilda.
"What are you looking looking at?" asked Sweetie Belle, catching Dash peeking behind her. Naturally, the three curious fillies looked over to where Gilda was now walking towards them.
"Um, nothing," Rainbow replied, turning her head back to the three fillies. "Anypony want some punch?"
A sudden voice came out from behind them. "I would, but I don't want an egghead like you toughing it," said the griffon, greedily grabbing a glass and pouring the pink punch into it. Drinking it down, she turned to Dash. "So, are you so much of a loser that now you have to hang around little fillies?" She slammed the glass down.
"Well, these fillies are friends," the blue pony replied, "and are you so much of a loser that you had to go and hang out with... With Trixie?"
"Heh, you were never half the pony as she is," Gilda broke out into an argument.
"Because I was always twice the pony she was!" Dash hollered back.
At this point the fillies all decided to leave, starting with Sweetie Belle, Applebloom, and, hesitantly and finally, Scootaloo, who seemed kinda interested in the fight.
"Trixie has more power than you would ever have!" Gilda shouted.
"Ha! Show me proof because, as I'm sure, everypony in Ponyville likes me and nopony likes her ," Rainbow said, gesturing to the magician with her head.
"You won't need any proof soon," Gilda said under her breath.
"I'm sorry. Gilda. What did you just say?" Dash said, seriously not hearing her.
"You heard me?" Gilda questioned, clearly surprised.
"No, I seriously didn't catch that."
"Oh, I, uh. I said that," Gilda thought to make up a quick reply, "Trixie will prove you wrong soon."
Grunting, Dash nodded and walked away from Gilda, not enjoying her company. She trotted off to hang out with Applejack, who was talking to the Crusaders. "Hey, Applejack, hey Crusaders."
"Oh, hiya there, RD," AJ spoke in response to the 'hey'.
"So,sorry to be, um, bothering you. I just wanted to get away from Gilda," Rainbow said.
"Well, that's just a'right, now," Applejack said.
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"Hey, Twilight. There's one more thing I want to tell you before anypony leaves," Trixie stated.
"And waht may that be?" asked Twilight, curious of what her enemy wanted to reveal.
"Well, first, gather your friends around," answered Trixie.
Twilight went around, gathering her friends. Rarity, who was deep in conversation with a couple of handsome stallions. Fluttershy, who was talking to Pinkie Pie over the counter. Twilighlight took Pinkie with her, too. And finally, Rainbow Dash and Applejack, who were talking to the three fillies who called themselves the Cutie Mark Crusaders. She gathered them all around a small table, with Trixie and Gilda.
"Now what did you want to tell us?" Rainbow asked.
"It wasn't something I wanted to tell you, I was going to give you all something, to make up for everything that's happened," Trixie stated.
"WHAT? " the six friends said in unison.
"I bought some world famous cider from Fillydelphia. I thought you guys would like a small barrel, each," she said, handing out barrels about the size of a loaf of bread.
"Thanks, Trixie," Twilight said. "This is very kind of you."
"It wasn't a problem," she stated before throwing a ball of smoke and disappearing out of the party with Gilda.
After she left, Rainbow quietly asked her friends, "I wonder what that was all about."
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Very soon, the six ponies were out of cider, and leaving to go to their own homes. Rainbow Dash, to her cloud home in the sky. Fluttershy, to her hut on the edge of the Everfree forest. Pinkie Pie, to her small house on the edge of Ponyville, closest to the rock farm. Twilight Sparkle, to her library tree house. Rarity, to her beauty salon. Applejack, to Sweet Apple Acres. These ponies left, without any question if something had happened to the cider they drank earlier.
Twilight woke up. She rubbed her eyes and stretched. Waking up for her was hard today, she realized. Maybe it was because of all of that cider. Walking over to the mirror, Twilight stared at her reflection, wide-eyed. "Sp-Spike!" she shouted, waking the baby dragon from his deep slumber.
"What is it now, Twilight," the half-asleep dragon groaned. He didn't open his eyes yet, though.
"L-look at me!" she shouted.
"Are you having another bad hair day?" Spike, finally opening his eyes, looked at her. Then, as he took the sight in, he screamed.
Twilight was now a changeling, a purple one with clear wings and eyes a little darker than her coat. She had no idea what had happened that may have caused this change, but considering the circumstances, she was too stressed to figure it out.
"Spike, I'll need you too find any books about changelings, their history, and their spells," she finally said, rather calmly.
"O-okay, T-Twilight," came the small dragon's response.
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Fluttershy awoke in her small cottage. She had to get ready for the day. With a slight stretch of her wings, she flew over to the mirror and picked up her brush. Not that she ever looked into her mirror. That's when she heard them.
Screams were coming from animals. Her animals. Why were they screaming?
"Angel bunny, why are all of the patients screaming?" she asked the little white bunny, who somehow looked a lot smaller today than he did any day before today. The bunny looked up and fled in fear. Fluttershy thought to herself, Why are all of the animals running? Did I scare them? Do I look scary today? It's probably just my hair... Her thought ended there aas she looked in the mirror. "AH! A-a-a DRAGON!" she yelled out loud due to her fear of adult dragons. She flew away into the sky above Ponyville.
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Finally waking up, Rarity stretched for a bit, before taking one of her daily showers. She will use her favorite shampoo, as always. Then she would move on to her favorite conditioner, it keeps her mane nice and smooth. But before she could use it, she attempted to put it in her hair, but... There was no hair to put it in! Frantically racing to the nearest mirror, she looked at herself. "Oh, no. I'm hideous! G'AHHH!" she started to cry. After sitting on the floor, crying for a few minutes, she finished her shower, using only the Equestrian Woods body wash from Boutique Beyond. Once sh got out, she heard knocking at her bedroom door.
Attempting to sound as pleasant as possible, Rarity spoke to the visitor. "Who is it?" she said.
"Hey, sis, it's just me," came the reply from Sweetie Belle. "So, uh, I kinda heard you scream earlier, and, uh, why did you scream?"
"Oh, Sweetie, I'm hideous!" yelled Rarity, opening up the door. "Just look at me!"
The little pony looked at her sister. "R-rarity? You're a pig!"
Running out the door, Rarity went in search of the one pony who knew how to deal with pigs.
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Pinkie Pie woke up. She walked around her room, looking for absolutely nothing. Whatever would she do on this dull, dull day? She looked around her room. Too bright. Too colorful. Too... Pink. She wondered downstairs, where the cakes were already awake and baking.
"Good morning, Pinkie!" said a peppy Mrs. Cake. "Would you like a cupcake?"
"No, and to you it's Pinkamena Diane Pie," said Pinkie, storming out of the small sugar shop.
Walking down the street, everypony was staring at her. On occasion, she would say something along the lines of, "Watcha looking at," or "Excuse me!" All the ponies started whispering to one another, wondering what had become of there good friend Pinkie Pie. Her hair was straight, she was being unfriendly and rude, and... She was headed to the edge of town, opposite from the Everfree Forest, straight towards... THE ROCK FARM! Pinkie hadn't even visited her family for years, ever since she first brought a smile to their faces. She left to bring joy to the world after that. Now she was heading back. Why?
"It's way too colorful here!" she shouted back to Ponyville. "I'm leaving!" And with that, she wondered to her old home, and started harvesting the rocks in the South Field.
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Rainbow Dash woke up to the sensation that she was falling. And she was. She tried to flap her wings, but she just couldn't. She flapped her arms and legs and... Nothing. She was very close to the ground now and she hit the ground with intense power. Wait, no she didn't. She was caught. By a dragon.
The dragon looked at her, eyes bright with hope, taking in the creature that was Rainbow Dash. "Um, uh, hello," the dragon said, in a familiar voice.
Shrinking back, Dash replied, "Oh, uh, hi?"
The dragon, clearly surprised, looked at her. "Wow," said the dragon, "a talking penguin! This is so exciting!"
Rainbow was confused. "A penguin? Oh, no. I'm a pegasis! The fastest one to come out of Cloudsdale!"
"R-Rainbow Dash?" asked the dragon. "You are a penguin." She pulled out a mirror and showed Dash what she looked like.
"H-how did you know my name? And why am I a penguin!" Dash shouted.
"Don't worry, I'll explain it all to you later," the dragon said, and flew off to the library, still holding the little penguin in her hands.
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Applejack was still sleeping when Rarity came to her. The only problem was that Applejack wasn't there! But, like the other ponies, Applejack was also changed. Once Rarity entered the small house in which the Apples slept, and quietly walked up to the room Applejack slept in. Thankfully, nopony spotted her walking over here. Going to Applejack's bed, she saw a sharp ear poking out of the blankets.
"I'm going to regret this," she said, and crawled to the ponies ear and snorted as loud as she could.
Applejack awoke with a start. "Huh, wha-"
"Applejack I need you're help!"interrupted Rarity. "I'm a pig!"
"Yea, I reckon ya are," said Applejack, clearly tired. She rose from her bed and Rarity screamed. "Wh-what?"
"Applejack, my dear friend, you're a wolf!"
"We better get tah Twi's place," said Applejack,and they ran off towards the library.
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"Now that all of those loser ponies are transformed, I am truly the greatest and most powerful unicorn in all of Equestria!" a muffled laugh came from Trixie after she said those words. "But of course, Gilda, I couldn't have done it without you."
"And since they're changed, am I now the fastest, Trixie?" said Gilda, for this was the only reason she helped.
"Of course you are," Trixie replied, still laughing evilly.
Pinkie walked into her old house, like nothing had ever happened to her or her family. Her sisters, Blinkie Pie and Inkie Pie, were sitting at the kitchen table, playing poker and smoking cigarettes. Only the mare with a slight more color in her fur looked up.
"Pinkie, you actually came back to the farm," Blinkie said to her younger sister.
"My name is not Pinkie," the ~~party~~ creepy pony replied. "Please, if you must call me by my name, please do so properly. I'm Pinkamena, remember?"
Inkie looked at her sister, Blinkie, who looked back. They high hoofed, then one, Blinkie shouted, "We got our sister back!" as the three sisters huddled around the table.
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"Okay, girls" the dark purple changeling with purple eyes and wings said. "I do not know how this could have happened or who has done this, but we'll find a way to reverse this."
"You better, because I can't fly! And I need to fly!" Said a small blue macaroni penguin with rainbow hairs.
An orange wolf with a blonde stripe running down her back also spoke up. "Ah can't work like this! Everypony will see Ah'm a wolf!"
The white pig with purple spots also said something. "How am I supposed to run a beauty service looking like... like... THIS?"
The six-foot pale yellow dragon didn't say a word. All she did was stroke her pink spines softly, listening to the others' yelling. Suddenly, she spoke up in a quiet, innocent voice. "Twilight, can you please just try to get us, uh, out of this? That is, if you don't mind. I'm rather terrified of dragons."
Once she started talking, everypony else went quiet. Twilight thought for a moment, then, with her lavender eyes lighting up, she came up with a plan. Or, maybe, it was just a thought.
"Wait, Fluttershy, you're afraid of dragons?" Fluttershy nodded as Twilight continued to process her thought. "I'm terrified of the Princess not liking me anymore," she trailed off, "Applejack, what is your fear?"
The orange wolf gulped and answered the question. "Ah'm afraid of hurtin' mah friends and mah family."
Thinking deeper, Twilight asked Rarity what her fear was. The hog replied, "Well, of course I'm afraid to get dirty and being swine just makes me sick."
Finally, they all looked at the rainbow penguin. "Rainbow," Twilight started.
"I'm not afraid of anything!" shouted the little creature.
"Are ya sure, Sugarcube? 'Cause I reckon you may be scared of something," Applejack said shortly after.
"Me? Afraid? I don't think so."
"Then fly," said Rarity.
Rainbow hesitated and shook. "Alright!" she shouted. "I'm afraid that I'll ever loose my flying!"
Twilight thought for a moment, and came to a conclusion. "It seems like somepony's trying to make us be scared of our worst fears. And so far, they've succeeded. But what they don't know is that we can play on our fears to make this said pony afraid of us."
"Equestrian, please?" asked Dash.
Twilight sighed, then smiled an evil smile. "In retrospect, we're going to hunt down the pony who did this to us and scare them enough to make them want to change us back." Still smiling she went over to one of her books and started flipping pages. Once again, the quiet dragon in the back spoke up.
"Um, Twilight, do you mind if I interrupt?" Twilight looked at Fluttershy the dragon, rather disappointedly, and nodded. "I'm sorry, but, where's Pinkie Pie?"
Pinkie Pie knew what to do, now. She had gotten like this once before, when her friends abandoned her. All she could think of now were the time that they had laughed at her and made fun of her.
"Inkie, Blinkie, do you know where the machete is?" Pinkie questioned with an oddly smug look on her face.
Inkie replied in her monotone voice, "It's in the closet."
"Thanks," Pinkie replied, obviously to rude to truly mean her apology.
She walked into the closet, grabbing the sword-like knife between her jaws.
"What do ya need that for?" Blinkie questioned, showing Inkie a royal flush, forcing her to hand over the candy she had just won to Blinkie.
"Does it matter ?" Pinkie, no, Pinkamena, questioned with a hint of evil insanity in her voice.
"I guess not," Inkie replied, shuffling the deck of cards between her hooves, then dealing them to Blinkie, as well as herself.
Laughing menacingly, Pinkie Pie turned to the blade sharpener that they used for rock tools, and sharpened the deadly weapon.
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"Pinkie Pie! I knew it was too quiet..." the rainbow penguin trailed off. "How are we gonna find her?"
"We'll look around Ponyville first," Twilight spoke carefully. "She could be anywhere."
"Um, I'll take the sky, if that's okay with you," came a shy voice, commonly known as Fluttershy.
"Fluttershy, I think it would be a good idea taking another po- creature with you," Twilight told the vanilla colored dragon.
"If you're taking someone, it better be me," stated Rainbow Dash, matter of factly.
"O-okay, Rainbow Dash," the tall dragon picked up the two and a half foot penguin. She put Dash on her back.
"Anypony else want to choose someone to go with?" asked the purple changeling.
"If it is okay with you, Applejack and I will take the east side of town near Sweet Apple Acres and the Everfree Forest," complied Rarity. She looked at Applejack to see if she agreed.
"Yeah, sure Ah can go with ya,Rarity," the orange-ish blonde wolf replied to the white boar's comment.
"Okay, I'll take Spike and take the west." She paused and sighed. "And try not to attract too much attention to yourselves."
"Sure thang. Twi," Applejack the wolf said and was about to grab the boar, but she remembered something. "Uh, Twi?"
Twilight nodded as she said, "Yes, Applejack?"
"Uh, when do we meet up?"
Twilight thought for a bit. "We'll meet back here in about an hour to report our findings."
With a chorus of okays, everyone grabbed their partner and left through the same door they had come through. All except Twilight, who was held back by Spike.
"Twilight," he said. "You're a changeling ! Ponies are scared of changelings!"
"Oh, don't worry, Spike. I'll just say that it was a spell gone wrong," the purple changeling gave a nervous chuckle. "After all, how many times does that happen?"
Spike also laughed nervously, for the baby dragon knew that this happens almost every singly day of the week,every week.
Finally, the two non-pony creatures went to the west side of Ponyville, where hopefully nopony would question Twilight's new appearance.
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Rainbow Dash was sitting in the hands of a large, yet shy, dragon. She felt so small , and she did not like it.
"Fluttershy," she said. "Any idea why we changed into what we did? I hate it."
"Oh, Rainbow Dash," replied the pink spiked dragon. "All I know is when I awoke, I saw the most terrifying creature in the mirror." Fluttershy gulped. "A dragon. Me."
Rainbow started to think. But she was soon distracted by the acceleration of the dragon's speed.
"Fluttershy!" she shouted. "Slow down!"
The beast looked around. "Why, I'm going no faster than you usually do when you are flying."
"Darn! I guess this body changed how I feel about flying." Rainbow sat down in the large claws with a loug "hmph."
The winged pair continues flying through the air, though one was carrying the other.
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Applejack, who was sniffing the ground, finally looked up.
"Ah found nothin'," the wolf said to the boar, who also looked up after sniffing the ground.
Rarity sighed. "Neither did I, Applejack. Other than some truffles," Rarity said, disgusted.
"Wai' a sec, I thought ya'll rich folk loved truffles," Applejack told her friend.
"Now that I know where to find them, I hate them! They're disgusting!"
Continuing along their journey, the pair of creatures continued talking and sniffing.
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"SPIKE!" Twilight shouted, waiting for her number one assistant to come. The changeling was waiting so that the two could start their journey to find Pinkie Pie. "SPIKE!"
"I'm coming, Twilight!" the baby dragon called back, running down the library's stairs. By the time he got to the bottom, he was out of breath. "Can," breath, "we go," breath, "now?" and one final breath.
"Sure, Spike," Twilight levitated the small reptile onto her back. "Let's go!"
Twilight opened the library's door, slamming it closed once she galloped out. With Spike on her back, she only ran a little slower than she could, but she didn't want the dragon to fall off her back.
"Hey, Twilight," Spike said and Twilight slowed down, coming to a stop.
"Yes, Spike?"
"Well, now that you're a changeling, can't you fly?" Spike asked.
"And that is why you're my number one assistant," she told Spike with a matter-of-fact tone of voice.
Twilight the changeling jumped.And jumped again, flapping her insect-like wings. She tried and tried again, Spike watching, until they heard a scream.
"AHHHH! CHANGELING!" shouted a pony from the street.
"No! No no no! It's me! Twilight Sparkle!" Twilight tried to calm the pony down, but before she could, there were mobs of random ponies, including the police, around her and Spike.
"LISTEN!" she shouted. Everything went quiet. "I am Twilight Sparkle! My experiment went wrong somewhere, and I ended up as a changeling. I was trying to shape-shift into a mouse." Many ponies looked as if they believed this, but the police stared at her.
"We will let you go this once, but after that, you go in the cage."
"Okay, sir!" she told him and walked with Spike away from the crowd. "That was close."
"It was," came a soft voice, filled with viciousness.
Twilight turned. She saw two blue eyes staring at her from the bushes. Spike decided to run to another bush, just to be safe.
"Uh, hello?" the changeling shouted in the general direction of the bushes. The eyes blinked. Then a soft chuckle was heard.
"Hellooooo, Twilight Sparkle," came an very distinguishable voice. But it didn't sound like the owner's usual hyper and happy voice. It was more like her "friend" was trying to frighten her.
"Pinkie? Pinkie Pie, is that you?" called the changeling named Twilight.
"Nuh-uh-uh!" was spoken by a pink mare with a flat mane coming out of the shadows.
"Phew, Pinkie. You scared me!" Twilight laughed.Then she stopped. Her so-called friend was giving her a stare that said, "I'm being completely and utterly serious". Twilight stared back, clearly surprised at her ex-friend.
"Who's Pinkie?" the creepy Pinkie's "clone" said.
Twilight thought for a moment. How could she tell Pinkie that Pinkie was her? Did that even make sence.
Twilight didn't need to think about it any longer. She gave a muffled cry and then passed out.
Spike silently slid from his hiding place and went back to the library to wait until the meetup time.
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Fluttershy was flying in the air holding the penguin that was Rainbow Dash. The dragon knew that she wouldn't be able to see Pinkie Pie from up here, and she wasn't even sure what Pinkie would look like after her transformation. Then came the sound of death. Or at least a strong military service.
Fluttershy had no idea what was happening. She didn't know that every first Tuesday of the month the Equestrian Air Protection Agency (EAPA) flew by to inspect the safety of the weather machines. Unfortunately, she didn't.
"Fluttershy!" came a far away voice. Well, it wasn't far away. It was the penguin in the dragon's claws. "Land on the ground!"
Fluttershy obeyed. What other choice did she have? She didn't want to die, not yet. "R-Rainbow Dash, how did you know what to do?"
"I'm captain of the Ponyville Flight and Weather team! I know everything that happens in these skies." Fluttershy raised her eyebrow and Dash blushed. "Okay, maybe not everything ."
Laughing, the two friends started to walk away when three pegasi landed in front of them. "Well, well, well. An unmonitored dragon and a-a..." the brown colt spoke, looking closely at Rainbow Dash.
"Dude, we're both pegasi," the penguin said in a matter of fact tone.
"Sure you are. What are your names?"
"You should already know me. I'm the captain of the Ponyville Flight and Weather teams," Rainbow stroked back the rainbow colored feathers sprouting from her cyan head.
The three EAPA agents started laughing, hard. One fell over. "Yeah, yeah. What about the dragon?"
Fluttershy, who had already backed up a few feet, looked up, startled. "That's Fluttershy," Rainbow spoke up for her friend. The three ponies laughed harder, which was almost impossible.
"Gotta problem with us?" Rainbow Dash shouted at the pegasi.
The one who continuously spoke replied with heavy sarcasm. "Oh, no,n-" a muffled yell cut him off.
"TWILIGHT!" Fluttershy the dragon and Rainbow Dash the penguin shouted together, the penguin jumping onto the dragon. Fluttershy ran and flew as quickly as she could in the direction of the scream.
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Applejack and Rarity were, of course, walking past the wolf's home. She knew to keep hidden, out of sight, so as to not disgrace her family. Rarity the boar, like Applejack, walked in the shadows. She had a reputation of fabulosity to uphold. Rarity yawned.
Looking around for her hyper friend was difficult. And boring. She would much rather be in her shop designing her beautiful dresses and suits for ponies to wear. She heard an odd rumble.
"Applejack, be a dear and tell me what that noise is?" the swine asked the wolf.
"Mmmm..." Applejack thought out loud. "Deer sounds delicious right now."
"Ummm, Applejack?" Rarity asked, backing away into the sunlight.
"Yes," the wolf licked her lips, "pig ?"
"You sh-shouldn't be thinking like that," the pig replies, clearly frightened at her now carnivore friend.
"Why not?"
"BECAUSE YOU ARE A PONY, AND PONIES DO NOT EAT," she paused, scrunching her nose. "Meat."
"Ah guess yer right, swine. Ah guess Ah'll settle fer some apples. Want one?"
"No, no, I'm good," the pig replied, still in slight shock that one of her best friends would try to eat her.
"Okay, suit yerself," Applejack said right before climbing the nearest tree and grabbing some apples.
Just as the wolf jumped down, she heard a scream from far away. Rarity had obviously not noticed the scream, but had noticed the change in Applejack's behavior.
"What is it, Applejack?" the white swine asked.
The orange wolf simply replied, "Twilight," as she grabbed Rarity and ran to the opposite side of town.
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Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy landed on the ground where Twilight was taken from.
"Twilight?" shouted Rainbow Dash into the abyss, searching for the missing changeling. The cream dragon was still holding her so she could project her voice more easily.
Surprisingly, the penguin got an answer.
"Rainbow Dash?" yelled a panting Applejack. Okay, so an answer from an orange wolf wasn't expected.
"Applejack, Rarity!" shouted a happy Fluttershy, but not too loudly.
"But where's Twilight?" asked a small white boar, Rarity.
"Oh, don't worry, she's with me," came the same voice that Twilight Sparkle had heard only moments before.
Author's Note
Sorry I took so long on this chapter. I had to come up with stuff for Rarity and Applejack. So I made Applejack go all wolf and almost eat Rarity. Hope you liked this chapter!
Applejack growled in a wolfish manner, "Who's there? Pinkie, is that you?"
"Yeah, Applejack."
The short, chubby little penguin spoke up. "Can you come out so we can make sure that it's you and not a spy?"
"No, sorry. But I got my hoof stuck in between some rocks. Applejack, can you come here to help?"
The wolf smiled. "Sure thing, Sugarcube." She said as she trotted into the bushes. A wolfish scream, or a howl in pai, was shortly heard.
"Applejack!" the remaining three cried together.
"I-I think we should go to my place to hide, i-if that's alright with you two," the tall dragon spoke quietly.
"Hey!" shouted Rainbow Dash the penguin. "I have an idea! Let's hide out in Fluttershy's place!"
The dragon's scales turned red on each side of her muzzle.
The pig, Rarity, decided to concur with the penguin. "I think that is an excellent idea, Rainbow Dash."
"B-but but..." Fluttershy began before the other two decided to leave her behind and start waddling and walking to her home. "What about Twilight?" she whispered to herself. She decided to let the changeling out of her mind and hurried to catch up with the other two.
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Pinkamena lured these two ponies, or rather creatures, without much trouble. Now all she had to do was get them to turn on their friends.
"Hey," she whispered. "Wolf, Changeling, come here." The two sat down next to her in a small cave. The only noise that came was from the whispering and quiet drips of water.
"Pinkie, where were you? Why don't you look different, well, other than your hair? Why didn't you find us earlier?" Twilight couldn't help but ask the ex-party pony.
"Wait," the pink mare said.
"Sugarcube, what happened? Do ya'll know how we got like this? Can ya'll change us back?" Applejack started questioning her as well.
"Wait," Pinkamena whispered again. "I have a plan."
As Pinkamena answered the questions, explained her situation, as well as her plan, the two exotic creatures listened until they fell asleep, late at night.
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In a small wooden cabin sat the oddest variety of creatures. Most were what they were supposed to be, rabbits. birds, and turtles alike. But three of the creatures, the three sitting in chairs and on the one couch, was a dragon, a penguin, and a pig, though they were clearly not what they looked like. These three were ponies and their names, in order, were Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, and Rarity.
The three sat, attempting to create new ideas for how they would find their friends. Find was a bit of an exaggeration. They weren't really lost. They were just taken. By another one of their friends.
The blue macaroni penguin spoke up. "What if Fluttershy swoops up to grab all three of them so that they would be rescued!" She used wing motions to make it seem like a better idea.
"Ummm, Rainbow, I don't think that I-" the pig cut Fluttershy off mid sentence.
"I believe that we should just wait for the next one of us to," Rarity coughed for dramatic effect, "disappear ."
"No!" the smallest one of the group, Rainbow Dash, shouted. "We have to strike first!"
Sitting like a regal little boar, Rarity spoke up once again. "They must simply strike before us so that we find their hideout."
Rainbow Dash once again shouted, "No!"
The "no" was quickly followed by Rarity's, "Yes!"
"No!"
"Yes!"
"No!"
"Yes!"
"No!"
"Ye- Why don't we let Fluttershy decide?" The two looked over at the dragon who had suddenly squealed, trying to hide behind her tail with a light shade pink on her scaly cheeks.
Fluttershy, gradually moving her whip-like tail away from her face, looked at her two friends pleadingly. They stared back, the same as they had been for a while, now. They were stubborn and weren't going to give up anytime soon. Finally, the dragon whispered, "I'll sleep on it." She yawned and curled up on the floor. Rainbow Dash took up very little space on her chair and slept peacefully there. Rarity, to be different, brought a large pillow down from Fluttershy's room, along with a cozy blanket, and fell asleep on the couch previously occupied by a dragon.
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Twilight was alone in a cave, hiding from her worst nightmare. A pony with a flat mane, a knife, and the feel for revenge. Twilight had thought that they were good friends, instead of the pony trying to kill her.
Then she appeared at the mouth of the cave, her pink face, splattered with blood. Her smile was evil, as if she wanted to eat you. Wait, she did.
Twilight had nowhere to run. Pinkamena was closing in on her. She knew she was going to die. She braced herself for the worst, but all that came was a little scratch, dripping blood.
*DRIP*
*DROP*
*DRIP*
*DROP*
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"WILL SOMEPONY TURN THE FAUCET OFF?" yelled the purple changeling, waking from her nightmare.
"Huh," said a wolf, groggily. Then her eyes opened wide. "Where's Pinkie Pie?"
"I don't know..." Twilight trailed off.
The two sat in silence. An awkward one, might I add. Then came a noise. It was the sharpening of a knife. The two went to go investigate.
As they neared the mouth of the came, they could hear somepony singing.
"I'm killing ponies soon. (Yea)
Them other mares don't know what I'll do. (Yea)
I think she's special so I'll kill her soon. (Yea)
So she will soon die at the time of noon.
Take it to the bridge.
Wolf and changeling looked at each other, then tracked down the source of the song. It was none other than Pinkamena Diane Pie.
Putting on an evil grin and urging Twilight to do the same, Applejack asked Pinkamena, "Who we killing?"
Pinkamena, happy to see two new creatures on her side, smirked and put down a picture of a blue unicorn.
"Trixie," Twilight said, her grin growing more evil.
Author's Note
I'm bringing Trixie back.
In case you people do not know the tune I'm using, it's (sadly) Sexy Back by Justin Timberlake. Why did I use it if I hate the song? Because I'M BRINGING TRIXIE BACK!
Until next Chapter!
Fluttershy opened her dragon eyes to see two creatures curled up under each of her wings. Being fine with the fact that her dragon wings comforted the two, she just laid there. Smiling, the large dragon pulled her two best friends closer.
She fell back asleep, forgetting about whose side she was on for the plan.
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Twilight stopped smiling. Why am I excited about this? she thought. I'm a forgiving pony. I shouldn't be thinking this. But she couldn't help but think that finally getting her revenge on Trixie.
"No!" she unintentionally shouted out loud. "I can't do this!"
Applejack eyed the changeling. She understood what she meant. She tried to eat one of her best friends. "Sugercube, Ah.."
"No! No, Applejack. I can't do this!" Twilight shouted rather loudly.
"Twilight, Ah know how ya'll feel." The wolf cleared her throat."Before Ah was taken, Ah tried t' eat," she gulped before continuing, "Rarity."
The changeling looked up at the wolf, her purple, bug-like eyes wide. She seemed scared of her friend, who happened to be more than twice her size. Twilight took a step back, then took another. As she moved her leg behind her for a third step, she turned around and ran back into the cave.
Applejack sighed. She knew that she had scared her magical friend, and she knew that the thoughts she was having couldn't have been real. It was the changeling in her.
Changelings always want to defeat their enemies, especially those who had love. Trixie had a certain area of respect, but... Love? That was just outrageous.
Applejack tore away these thoughts, and lightly padded into the surrounding forest. She was hungry.
"Ah'll jus' look fer some berries," she whispered quietly to herself. She wasn't quite sure if what she was whispering was the truth.
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A little, blue penguin woke up when the sun flashed in her eyes. She was confused, wondering where she was at. It looked familiar, but this wasn't her home. She wasn't on her comfortable cloud bed. She was on a floor. Not a cloud floor, but a floor that was on the ground.
She finally realized where she was. Why am I at Fluttershy's? Rainbow Dash thought to herself. She crawled further under her blanket. But this wasn't a blanket. No, this was a wing. A large wing. A large, scaly wing. It couldn't belong to a pegasus. Rainbow Dash quickly crawled from underneath, tripping over her wings.
Rainbow fell to the ground with a loud thud, waking the owner of the dragon wing up.
It yawned. "Are y-you okay, Rainbow?" the creature asked.
The creature had a familiar voice, but Rainbow had to think for a second before remembering what had happened.
"That's right!" she shouted, awaking a boar who was under the dragon's other wing. "We're animals!" Then she said quietly, while sounding scared, "We're animals."
Fluttershy and Rarity went to comfort the rainbow penguin. The pig gave her a hug, while the dragon sat there, awkwardly tapping the penguin with a claw.
"It will all be fine," the yellow dragon whispered quietly to her best friends.
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Pinkamena had finished sharpening her one knife she received from her sisters. She now just had to wait for her friends. One, the changeling, was sleeping in the cave, ignoring all outside noises. The other, a wolf, was hunting. For food. Who knew what she would find to eat.
Pinkie knew they wouldn't be able to do anything for a few hours. So she grabbed a stick, and started to make a dagger.
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Three friends started to walk to the outskirts of town, to the place where Applejack and Twilight were taken. They knew that whatever they were about to do, it would be dangerous. Who knew what kind of monster took three of their friends?
"I think I smell something!" a white boar shouted to a dragon and a penguin.
"Let's go get it!" the rainbow macaroni penguin answered.
"I'm going to go in," the boar said, turning to her friends. "It might be dangerous and it's..." the pig trailed off, making a face that clearly said I am incredibly disgusted. "Dirty," she said, finishing her previous sentence.
And so the pig ventured out into the deep, dark, and dirty forest. Only to be greeted by an unsuspected voice.
"Howdy, Rarity," Applejack said. The wolf grabbed hold of Rarity.
Rarity screamed, a scream so loud that all of Everfree could hear. Well, at least two "ponies" outside of the Everfree Forest could hear.
As Applejack dragged Rarity back to the cave, you could make out a faint, "Rarity!" from two creatures, who were now left by themselves, to save the day(s).
Author's Note
Sorry this took so long, guys! I've been caught up in schoolwork and whatnot. So, yeah. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this chapter! And, if you have any ideas for the next chapter, I will listen to them. And if you were wondering, I do not write these beforehand. I just log on, and write random junk. Yeah, I'm just cool like that. Anyway, thanks for reading this, and I hope to get the next chapter out, soon! For more contact with me, TasteTheRainbowDash, the author, you can like my page on Facebook at facebook.com/SlenderponyIsBestPony , follow me on twitter @StorytellerRawr , find me on iBrony ibrony.com/tastetherainbowdash or on ponysquare ponysquare.com/slendy321/ . I will try to update this again soon! Thanks again for reading!
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"Scootaloo!" Apple Bloom turned from her podium and looked at the orange filly. "What are ya doin'?"
"I'm beating the ceremonial drums," Scootaloo whispered back to Apple Bloom.
"Ah thought Ah told ya to beat it five times." She sighed. "Twice."
"I thought this would be cooler. I mean, ponies might actually understand this Doctor Who reference." The pegasis smiled.
"Ugh." With that, Apple Bloom turned back to face the audience of two fillies. "The Cutie Mark Crusaders meeting is now in session."
The three fillies applauded. Once again, the leader of this meeting, Apple Bloom, began to speak.
"There is important business that we must discuss. First... Ummm... Ugh," Apple Bloom paused for a moment. After her brief moment of hesitation, she continued, "Ah got no'hing."
The pegasis sighed. "Let's go and try to get cutie marks."
All three fillies wondered out of their tree house, all three fillies were also looking depressed.
"Any ideas for our cutie marks?" the only unicorn of the group asked.
"Eenope," Apple Bloom replied, attempting to sound like her older brother.
"I got nothin'," Scoots said afterwords.
All three fillies sulked off in the direction of Ponyville.
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A scream was heard. Then a loud "RARITY!" rang through the air.
"My sister!" Sweetie Belle shouted. "I know what we're doing today!"
All three fillies looked at each other and screamed, in unison, "Cutie Mark Crusaders... SUPER HEROES!"
They rushed in the direction of the scream. Ponies all around them were shouting and hurrying to get out of their way. Others were staring at the three little fillies running towards a very dangerous place. The Everfree Forest.
As they arrived at the edge of the forest, they saw two creatures oddly placed at the edge of the forest. One a dragon, who was cradling the other creature in its claws.
"What is that thing? And why do both of them look so familiar?" Scootaloo was the one to ask.
The dragon's head turned. Then, it spoke. "Oh! Hello, Crusaders." Now they knew that the voice was familiar.
Sweetie Belle decided to acknowledge the question all three crusaders were thinking. "Fluttershy?" It nodded. "What are you holding?"
The thing in Fluttershy's claws squeaked. "I am not a what !!! I am a who!"
Fluttershy spoke up. "She's just mad because she was turned into a penguin." Fluttershy chuckled.
"Dash?!?" the little orange filly shouted in surprise.
Rainbow turned away, ashamed of being seen like this, scared and flightless, in front of her number one fan and Scootaloo immediately regretted her words, though she was still happy to see her hero.
Then, the unwanted question was asked. "Where's my sister? I thought I heard her scream..." the unicorn spoke rather calmly, for one in her situation.
Fluttershy sighed and pointed in the general direction of inside the Everfree Forest. "In there," she whispered.
The Cutie Mark Crusaders decided to be extra energetic about this. Scootaloo was flying everywhere, or at least attempting to. Sweetie Belle was sprouting fireworks from her horn. And Apple Bloom just jumped up and down. Until she noticed a very fine detail which was missing.
"Where are th' others?" she asked. "Like, Twilight an' all 'em?"
Both Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash shivered, as if a cold breeze was among them.
The three little fillies stood there, confused. Until, that is, until all of them came to the same realization. "They're not here?" the Cutie Mark Crusaders said in unison. "Where are they?"
Then, Apple Bloom asked, "Did the'all change inta weird creature thingies like ya'll?"
"Did they get attacked by things while going out into the," Sweetie Belle shivered, "Everfree Forest?"
"How did you change into these things anyway?" came Scootaloo's question.
Fluttershy answered the first one. "Yes, but they don't even act like our friends anymore. They act like the monsters they've turned into."
Rainbow Dash the penguin answered the second. "This one's just kinda confusing. Rarity did, definitely. Pinkie Pie went in on her own. And we have just about no idea about Applejack. We think she wanted to hide herself from us, but seeing as Twi and Pinkie Pie turned... Kinda evil, we're... um... we're not... uh... we're not quite sure." The fillies showed their flabbergasted and bewildered faces. "But we'll find a way to get them out," the penguin added.
And then there was the last question. The one where they weren't completely sure what had happened. Then, both the dragon known as Fluttershy and the penguin known as Rainbow Dash, answered simultaneously. "I have no idea. Twilight may have found out before she turned all changeling like on us."
Smiling, Fluttershy told the fillies to go get ready for the adventure they were about to have, wondering into the mysterious Everfree Forest and to be back within the course of an hour so that they can save their very best friends.
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Gilda the griffon and Trixie the unicorn cowered in front of Discord. What would he do to them? They were scared that now since he got his revenge, he would kill them off.
"Now, I want you to go back to Ponyville," the god of chaos said. "And I want you to..." He paused for dramatic effect.
"GIVE THEM THIS ANTISERUM BECAUSE THIS IS GETTING REALLY BORING!" he explained.
"Seriously. Or you can just kidnap them and bring them to me. That might be a little more fun... Wait, can you do both?"
The unicorn and griffon sighed and walked away with the antiserum.
Author's Note
Yeah, um... Sorry about the whole "YEAR LONG HIATUS thingy... I have school and a social life... but yeah, hopefully this will make you guys hate me a bit less... Yeah... Sorry... And yes, I watch Doctor Who. Yes, I made a Sherlock reference in the title... Because, you know, who doesn't love random references? Yeah, I'll try to update the next chapter next month. Enjoy!
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What Ever Happened To Bluebelle The Rabbit? (Or In This Case, Rarity The Boar?)
As the unicorn and griffon walked away, Discord chuckled to himself. Antiserum? Who would make a thing? No, in fact he wanted to watch the main six battle it out. The potion he gave to Hilda and Pixie, or whatever their name's were, would actually force the ponies to behave like their chosen creatures. They would be dragged in by hatred, fear, and, he chuckled to himself, chaos.
The god of chaos was excited. The main six wouldn't be friends after today. They would just be animals. Cold blooded and evil animals.
Out loud, he crescendoed, "This is going to be THE BEST DAY EVER! "
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Rarity started to back away from the large, scary, and large wolf. She turned and ran as fast as possible. But not fast enough.
Applejack had easily caught up, she had her long legs to thank for that. And whichever way Rarity thought to escape, failed do to Applejack's athletic canine frame.
Finally, the large wolf started to speak. "Rarity," it said. (It because Rarity wasn't sure whether or not to classify this creature as one of her best friends anymore.) "Ah jus' 'ave some questions."
"What do you want, you large beast, with teeth,and teeth, and largeness, and-and-and scariness and-" Applejack cut her off by laughing.
"Nah, Ah jus' wanted ta know if ya'll 'ave seen any berries 'round here."
Rarity almost choked. "Oh, um well... No, I have not, and why do you want berries?" she inquired.
Applejack replies simply. "Ah'm hungry, Rares. An' Ah' don' wanna eat any meat."
A flood of relief came over Rarity, for she was frightened that Applejack had wanted to eat (and kill ) her. "Well, then," she said. "That's... Good. I'd rather not get eaten." Rarity smiled, showing her little pig teeth.
Applejack smiled back. Rarity shivered, due to seeing Applejack's large canine teeth, which could rip any part of her body away from, well, her body. Applejack realized Rarity's tension and immediately closed her mouth. "Sorry, Rares."
Rarity didn't say anything for a while. The unlikely duo finally found some berries, wild strawberries to be exact, and headed back to the cave. "Whould you happen to know where Twilight and Pinkie Pie are?" she asked.
Applejack nodded, swallowing the berries she had eaten. "Yeah. They're in the cave where Ah've been hiding. Twilight's still kinda normal, but Pinkie?" Applejack shivered. "When we get there, jus' act all evil and what not."
Rarity nodded and followed the towering wolf's lead.
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Gilda the flying eagle lion thing, or griffon, as some prefer it, decided to make a proposal to her blue unicorn companion. "Hey, Trixie," she stated.
"Yes, Gilda?" the not really awe-inspiring magician answered back.
"How 'bout we split up? I could easily snatch a few of 'em up in my claws." The non-pony flexed her clawed finger thingies, also known as talons.
Trixie smiled. "The GREAT AND POWERFUL TRIXIE (cue fireworks) will accept this. I'll try to get them with my magic and bring the to Disc-" Trixie caught herself before she said his name. "That guy (He Who Shall Not Be Named) and them give them the antiserum stuff." She smiled to herself.
Both nodded in agreement as Trixie started a light jog and Gilda took to the skies like the good little evil duo they are.
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As Fluttershy the pretty pink and yellow dragon waited with her cute little flightless rainbow bird, Rainbow Dash, a cute little animal couple walked by. One was an otter with a blueish purpleish scarf (indigo maybe?) who was holding hands or paws or whatever with a cute little hedgehog wearing a cute little sweater (or jumper, as the little hedgehog corrected her). Getting slightly annoyed, Fluttershy turned away to face another couple.
This time, they were ponies, though this wasn't entirely uncommon. One had weird blue and red 3-D movie glasses on and was talking to a pony in which they knew. Her name was Rose. Fluttershy thought for a moment. So the Doctor and Rose finally got together. I knew it. She smiled to herself.
Fluttershy was about to tell this to Rainbow Dash, but of course her attention was elsewhere. The penguin was watching a sword fight between a regal looking unicorn with a golden dragon wearing a crown cutie mark and a much scruffier looking unicorn with a spiral sort of cutie mark that reminded her of magic.
Their thoughts were interrupted by three little fillies known as Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle, and Apple Bloom (or the Cutie Mark Crusaders... Or even the CMC for short ;P).
"Well, guys, are you, umm... uh, ready for this?" Rainbow Dash asked, just a little frightened of what may lye ahead.
All three fillies and the dragon nodded in unison. "Well, let's get moving," Dash said, then added, "And may the odds be ever in our favor."
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Twilight had decided to stay in the cave where no one could find or hurt her. She was happy that she had brought a book with her to read.
A little past halfway finished with said book, Twilight's little bug-eyed eyes started to tear up. "AUGUSTUS, NOOOO!" she wailed as she finished the book. She continuously decided to mutter small references to the book, such as "Maybe 'okay will be our always' and 'Beautiful couple is beautiful.'" At this point, she didn't care if the creepy psychopath heard her.Sure, she had a knife, but what did Twilight care? She could easily fly away and/or change her form. So if Pinkie heard, Twilight would no doubt do absolutely nothing about it.
Or so she thought.
Twilight stopped her thought process just in time to hear soft hoof steps entering the not so secret cave she had just finished reading in. Preparing for attack, Twilight stood up.
Until she realized that it was...
"Rarity?!?"
Author's Note
So, tried to complete this chapter... So here it is. Enjoy. Oh, and enjoy my references... Let's see what I got... Sherlock (As seen in title) Harry Potter, Sherlock (Again, or should I say Johnlock?), Doctor Who, Merlin, Hunger Games, and OH YEAH! Who could ever forget John Green's BEAUTIFUL book, The Fault In Our Stars. (WHY AUGUSTUS! WHY?!?!?) I won't release any further information, for a time-travelling architect known as River Song said this wise word, "SPOILERS!" Goodnight/day/ whatever time it is for you, but right now for me it is 11:50 pm. ENJOY!
Ponyville... Or Scaredyville?
As Fluttershy slowly flew to Twilight's library, she examined the creature in her claws. A small cerulean macaroni penguin, with rainbow feathers sprouting from her head. Of course it would be Rainbow Dash, the dragon thought to herself. She's the only pony known to ponykind to have a rainbow mane. Now Fluttershy was confused. If Dash and herself were changed, wouldn't her friends most likely also be something... Different? Spotting the library, she flew down, knowing she was a dragon small enough to enter.
She knocked on the door. "One moment, please!" came a reply from Twilight.
There was some whispering passed off inside the library, but it was too quiet for Fluttershy to understand. As she was leaning in closer to the door, she heard Spike yell, "Fine!" Fluttershy quickly stood with great posture once again as Spike opened the door. His face lit up in surprise and delight. "A dragon! In Ponyville!"
"Um, Spike," Fluttershy said while Spike continued on his rant.
"I can't believe it! And you're not full sized, either, but you have wings! How did you get your wings?" Spike ranted.
"Spike, I, uh," Fluttershy tried once more to interrupt Spike's rant.
"'Cause I know that dragons get their wing the same way that ponies get their cutie marks, or at least around the same age and-"
Now Fluttershy was getting a little angry. "SPIKE!" she shouted so sternly as to make Rainbow Dash, in her claws, and Spike jump.
"Uh, how do you know my name?" the baby dragon asked the older one.
"Oh, uh, I'm not a dragon," Fluttershy stated. "But I was turned into this fearsome thing. I'm Fluttershy."
"Fluttershy?" Dash and Spike said at the same time.
For the first time, Spike noticed who the dragon was holding. "A-and I'm guessing that you're Rainbow Dash," he said to the penguin.
"Yeah, now can we see Twilight? Can she help?" Rainbow asked the baby dragon.
"She kinda said that-" he trailed off then started to speak very quickly. "She doesn't want to be disturbed because ofwhat she now looks like and she doesn't really like what she looks like and she told me that she did't want anypony to come in and I guess I could let you guys in because you're not ponies but I probably shouldn't because Twilight said not to and now I'm kinda scared of her because she's a-" Spike stopped himself. He ran out of breath due to his quick rant, and looked up. The two non-ponies were staring at him in curiosity.
"She's a what?" Dash questioned.
Spike sighed. "Well, I guess that you can come in." Stepping aside, Spike let the two into the library.
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"Rarity, Ah think that ya should get ontah mah back," Applejack said to the pig, who was cowering in the corner. "Ah'm gonna run over tah Twi's library and see what she can do for us."
Giving a simple nod, Rarity walked downstairs with her friend, trying to keep her distance. As they walked outside, Rarity found a sturdy barrel to help lift her onto Applejack's back.
"Applejack, are you sure about this?" questioned the designer.
"Ah'm as sure as a Ah can be," Applejack replied. The pig slowly crawled onto the back of the wolf. "Hang on tight," said the wolf as she sped off towards Ponyville.
As they passed the orchard that was Sweet Apple Acres, they came across Ponyville. Most ponies hurried inside their homes as they saw the odd pair running towards the library.
"The pig!" Rarity heard one pony say. "We must save the pig!"
Even while laughing hysterically out of fear, Rarity was able to make out the large tree in the center of Ponyville. As Applejack slowed down, the ponies finally understood where the wolf was going.
"It's going to the library! We have to save Twilight and Spike!" Rarity thought that that voice had sounded familiar. Mrs. Cake was standing on the edge of the clearing with her groceries in hoof. She looked shocked as the odd couple soared past her and stopped at the door.
"Should Ah knock?" Applejack asked Rarity once all of the ponies ran away due to fear.
"Yes, please," came Rarity's reply.
Applejack knocked on the door. "Coming!" shouted a male voice from inside the door. Spike did come, and he opened the door for the two friends. "Let me guess," he said flatly, "Applejack and," he trailed off, looking at Rarity, the pig. "R-Rarity, what happened to you?"
"Well, Spikey-Wikey," she replied, "I'M A PIG! This is the worst possible thing, EVER!"
"C-come on in. Twilight was just about to figure out what was going on with her friends," Spike said, "And herself."
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Once she heard the knock, Twilight hid in her room, scared of what her friends might think of her. "Spike!" she called to her assistant. "Do not let anypony in," she whispered.
"Not even your friends?" Spike replied.
"Not even them. I don't want them to see me as a changeling."
"Twilight, if you're a changeling, can't you just turn back into yourself?" Spike asked his friend.
"Oh, right." Twilight stood up and tried to shape shift into herself. She tried for a few seconds and told Spike, "Answer the door, but remember not to let anypony in."
"Fine," Spike said, and went to go answer the back door.
As Twilight continued trying, she heard Spike make conversation with the ponies outside.
After about a minute, she gave up, and attempted to turn into another pony, with no luck. She sighed and thought to herself, I guess I'm stuck as a changeling .
She heard footsteps in the hallway. Not hoofsteps.
"Wait here," Spike told the visitors. He ran up to Twilight. "Twilight, you're not the only one who was changed!" he said. "Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash were, too!"
"Wait," she replied. "They were?" She was cut off from asking more questions by another knock. "Go get it."
Running back down the stairs, Spike headed for the front door. Once again there was some talking, before he finally let them in. And, once again, Spike came back upstairs to Twilight's room. "They want you to help them, Twilight."
Stepping down from her bed, Twilight quietly walked downstairs. Immediately, everypony in the room said her name in unison. Then, they all bombarded her with questions. "Girls," she said, waiting for them to stop talking. "Girls, stop talking." Once again, nopony heard her. "GIRLS!" she shouted. "STOP TALKING!"
Everypony looked at her. "Yes?" they said once again in unison.
Twilight cleared her throat. "Where's Pinkie Pie?" she asked.
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I'm Going to Make the Title of This Chapter Really Long Like the Song Titles of my Favorite Band, Fall Out Boy
An unlikely pair walked out of Sugarcube Corner, laughing.They had done their duty and had fun doing so. Of course, in the morning, the six ponies wouldn't be ponies anymore. They would be their fears.
Fluttershy, who was scared of adult dragons, was herself turned into an adult dragon.
Rarity, a fashionista afraid of a little dirt, was a dirty little boar.
Applejack, afraid of letting her family down, turned into a farm trashing wolf.
Rainbow Dash, the daredevil of the sky, to lose her flight and become a penguin.
Pinkie Pie, afraid of losing her friends, turned into a loner who wanted nothing short of pure insanity.
And Twilight Sparkle. The one who could not upset her dear Princess Celestia, upset her by becoming a wretched creature. A bug-like evil changeling.
Twilight Sparkle didn't even have magic anymore. Now Trixie was the most powerful unicorn in Equestria! And Gilda... She was... Uhm... The fastest flyer in all of Equestria? Is that it?
"They actually fell for it!" A drunken griffon was laughing so hard.
"Yes, Gilda, the Great and Powerful Trixie did do it," she coughed with a glance from the stronger creature. "With the help of her sidekick, the Cruel and Fast Gilda!"
The griffon hiccuped and smiled once again. At least some recognition is better than none! Especially with "the Great and Powerful Trixie" around. "She turned to her unicorn companion a said, " Hey, I wanna see if we shjoulkad tyusjkl wizhjx thge plokasmnhmnbert, Twizkay." And then, the large griffon fell on the blue unicorn's back.
"Drunk griffon," The unicorn muttered under her breath as a magical blue field engulfed the griffon.
"I AM I GRIFFON! GRIFFONS DON'T GET DRUNK!" shouted a very drunk griffon. What Trixie heard was something like "IMGRIIFFFFOONHNIOUBYUIODRUNB>KHJFB!"
With the drunken griffon on her back, Trixie wondered into the Everfree forest where her little campsite was.
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A random appearance of seaweed and other aquatic plants engulfed Equestria, showing nothing. In large letters, three words were written, and then they were spoken out loud by a slow, weary voice. "THE NEXT MORNING..."
Then, it all disappeared.
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Gilda awoke with a start. She had accidentally hit Trixie with her wing. Turning to the unicorn, Gilda said, "Did you just see that?"
The blue mare replied, "See what?"
"That! And did you hear that?"
The mare stared at her companion in confusion. "I have no idea what your griffon mouth, or beak, or whatever, is talking about."
Gilda sighed. "It must be my hangover."
Trixie laughed. "Can I go back to sleep now? The Great and Powerful Trixie does need her beauty sleep. Especially if we need to pay the one who gave us the stuff back today."
"Sleep. Yeah, sure. Why not?" Gilda laid down. "And Trixie? Why don't you say his name?"
"Well, his name might be tabooed or something," the Great and Powerful one replied.
"Then can we call him 'He Who Shall Not Be Named'? It sounds better."
"Fine, Gilda, but now, sleep."
And with that, the two females went back to sleep for their visit to the house of He Who Shall Not Be Named.
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Once again, various aquatic plants filled Equestria. The only difference was that now there was different writing. It said, "THREE HOURS LATER..." The same voice as earlier was heard, speaking those exact words in which were written.
Then, it all disappeared. Again.
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Wings fluttered. Tails twitched. These things added up to the awakening of a grumpy griffon and a sleepy unicorn. Trixie stretched her legs out, then carefully stood up. Only to get knocked down when a wing knocked her off balance.
"Hey!" shouted the blue mare who was struggling to stand back up.
"What?" the griffon yelled back.
"You tripped me!"
"Nu-uh!"
"Yes, you did!"
"Whatever. Let's get to the boss before we kill each other," Gilda said calmly. "I mean 'He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named'," Gilda giggled.
"Ugh, fine. We have to hurry, though. He'll kill us if we're late."
The two ~~ponies~~ ~~creatures~~ ~~things~~ ~~friends~~ acquaintances headed deeper into the Everfree Forest where they will eventually meet up with their boss, or "He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named". (The author of this fabulous story doesn't want to write his name due to the fact that she thinks that it is tabooed. Well, not really. She just wanted a random Harry Potter reference. Continue with your reading.)
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The pair slowly crept deeper and deeper into the dense forest. All was quiet until one started to sing. Very much out of key, may I add.
"Am I more than you bargained for yet?
A griffon stared questionably at the mare next to her.
"What?" asked Trixie. "You don't like Fall Out Colt?"
Gilda just shook her head and continued walking.
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Finally, the two creatures reached their destination. The walked into the clearing, bowing below the shadowed thrown on the opposite edge.
"Hello, girls," came a deep voice. "Have you given the potions to the Elements of Harmony?"
"Yes, sir!" Shouted Gilda, standing with straight posture and a claw to her forehead.
"Good, good. This will be payback for them turning me into stone!" Laughing evilly, "He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named revealed himself. A lion paw and an eagle claw clapped together as Discord laughed evilly into the sky.
Author's Note
Sorry for having this chapter come out a little late. I was busy with school and whatnot. And it is really hard to write the bad guys story... But here it finally is. And yes, Fall Out Boy. Actually, I named this before they came off of hiatus. But, enjoy. And hopefully I'll write another chapter soon! And it will hopefully include three little fillies that everyone loves. Well, Have a nice day/night! :)
