What About Twilight?

Chaos was reigning over Ponyville. Ponies were getting badly injured from fights. Even the fillies and colts weren't getting along as per usual. The Mane 5 realized this could have been caused because the elements of harmony were destroyed. This had never happened before in Equestrian history. Even when Nightmare Moon had taken over for a brief period, Princess Celestia was still able to use the elements.

They still had no idea what had come over Twilight. They had never seen her this upset before. Not since she was a unicorn and she was worried about being tardied by the princess. This was way more extreme. They couldn't go back to the castle, it didn't seem safe there. Their instinct was to check up on the Ponyville Civilians.

They made their way to the middle of town where the majority of the fights were playing out. Before any of them could speak, Mayor Mare fell in front of them, badly injured by Derpy. She just flew away from the scene and decided to attack another pony.

"Are ya ok, Mayor?" Applejack asked, trying to help her up to her feet.

"Oh, it's Twilight's friends. Thank goodness. You can end this madness that has taken over the town" The Mayor replied.

"What happened to you, darling?" Rarity asked.

"Well, I was just in the Town Hall, minding my own business. When suddenly, a brick gets hurdled through one of my windows. I get carried out by the mail mare Derpy and get beaten up for no reason whatsoever. And I look around me, and it's happening everywhere"

"Derpy? beating a pony up? That's ridiculous!" Pinkie Pie argued.

"Well it happened"

"You should go to a hospital. Those wounds look really bad" Fluttershy explained.

"I would, but I heard that the nurses and doctors are not much help either"

"Why not?"

"Because they have also been involved in the fights"

"Really? Even the vets?" Fluttershy gasped. "They haven't been cruel to the animals have they?"

"I don't think they would go that far" Rainbow comforted. "If they did, we'll be sure to pound 'em"

"Although, I feel the sudden urge to hurt Derpy myself" The Mayer replied.

"No don't! Violence is never the answer!" Fluttershy argued, stopping the Mayer in her tracks. She calmed down.

"Where's Princess Twilight Sparkle. Maybe she can handle this situation"

The mares fell silent. They knew that this wasn't something that their friend could fix.

"She can't help us" Applejack bluntly replied.

"Why not?" the mayor asked.

"She's the problem"

"How come?"

"She destroyed the elements of harmony. Because she was jealous of us hanging out with Discord"

"Oh my. That is terrible"

"We're planning to get Princess Celestia and Luna to stop Twilight before things get worse" Rarity explained.

"And Discord" Fluttershy added. The other mares looked at her with annoyance. "What?"

"You think that Discord is going to help us? He wasn't much use when he was scared of Twilight" Rainbow argued.

"Not if I talk him out of it. I'm sure he'd be able to stop her with us. We just need to figure out how. You guys remember why she was jealous, right?"

"Because we were hanging out with Discord?"

"More than that. We were laughing at his jokes. The jokes that Twilight didn't understand herself. Maybe if we explain ourselves, how the day out went, she might calm down"

"We can't do that! it's no fun if we explain jokes! That ruins them for the pony telling them! She just had to have been there" Pinkie objected.

"But that's what's making her so furious. She understands why I got along well with Discord, but not the rest of you. She just wants to be in the fun. She wants to be included"

"Fluttershy's right. Remember when she didn't care for friends? If she was still that same Twilight, she wouldn't have made a big deal about it. She'd just be glad she was doing her own thing" Rarity explained.

"So the only way to set things back to normal is to go back in time and stop her from meeting us?" Pinkie asked, once again dressed up in her time travelling gear.

"Pinkie, that is not what I said" Rarity argued. "And that is a terrible idea. If we stopped her from meeting us, Nightmare Moon and all of the other villains wouldn't have been stopped. It would've been much worse"

"Anyway Y'all, we should probably go to the princesses-" Applejack began.

"And Discord!" Fluttershy interrupted.

"And Discord" Applejack sighed. Fluttershy just smiled. "We should figure out what's going on from them and find a way to stop Twilight"

Suddenly, Applejack felt a slight pain in her stomach. She didn't know what was causing it, but she was close to fainting.

"Applejack, are you ok?" Rarity asked, managing to catch her.

"Yeah, I'm fine" She managed to stand back up.

"You don't look well. Did you eat some bad apples before we came here?" Pinkie asked.

"I don't think so. I just had the strangest feeling"

"What was that?" Fluttershy asked.

"I saw myself, dangling from the edge of a cliff. Twilight was there. But instead of helping me up, she let go of me and let me fall"

"Why does that sound familiar?"

"I don't know"

"Enough with this nonsense! We have to go to the princesses stat!" Rainbow Dash panicked.

"Mayor, ya have to get every pony in town to a saf-" Applejack looked around but the mayor was nowhere to be found. "Mayor?"

Then they saw her, finally getting involved in the fights. It's like they were being controlled. Without balance in the land, they didn't know what was going to happen. Applejack began to feel sick to her stomach again. She was close to throwing up when her cutie mark started to fade away too.

"Whoa. AJ, no wonder why you're feeling unwell. Look at your cutie mark" Rainbow Dash explained. Applejack did just that and saw what was happening. She was even struggling to walk so Rainbow volunteered to carry her to the train station.

"Why is this happening to Applejack?" Fluttershy asked.

"Who knows Fluttershy" Pinkie Pie replied. "She probably denies it, but I think it was a bad apple she ate before she got here"

"I don't think so. Did you see her cutie mark? I don't think it's food poisoning maybe it's-"

Fluttershy was interrupted when she began to feel sick too.

"Fluttershy! did you also eat a bad apple?" Pinkie asked as she helped her up.

"I don't think so. I remember I just had a salad before I came over"

"That's weird"

The ponies made their way onto the train. Rainbow and Rarity looked after Applejack and made sure she didn't get motion sickness. Pinkie and Fluttershy just stared at Applejack in concern. Something was happening to her, but they couldn't figure out what it was. But what they did know was that it could've been connected to Twilight's actions.