"Something doesn't quite add up" Discord mentioned.

The pair were back in the white space they started. Their voices echoed through the void.

"What might that be?" Twilight asked.

"I don't actually remember hitting the snake with a golf club, or the snake getting on Rainbow Dash's back"

"But you said earlier that you did"

"No, I was merely commenting on my handsome self"

Twilight sighed.

"OK, going back on topic. What do you think actually happened?"

"I told you. Pinkie Pie was also there and we just simply ran away from the snake"

"I do remember you telling me that" Twilight replied. "Then why was it different?"

"Maybe you caused it to be different"

"Are you sure? Because last time I did it went exactly the same as you remembered"

"I have no idea. Maybe something else is interfering with this recovery. Making the situation more funny that it actually was"

"What could that be?"

Discord froze.

"Could it be the elements of harmony are getting weaker?"

"What? I thought they were destroyed"

"No I mean your friends. Something is happening to your friends!"

"We can't leave now, Discord. I still have to find out why the last joke was so funny!"

"But Fluttershy! Her sickness could be getting worse! I have to go to her!"

Twilight grabbed his claw violently.

"We're not going anywhere until you show me the last joke!" she replied coldly. Discord sighed.

"Fine. We'll see the last joke. But if anything happens to your friends whilst we are away, it is your fault!"

Meanwhile, what Discord had said to Twilight was coming true. The mane 5 were getting worse. They were turning gray and their skin was beginning to crack like rusty sculptures. Their pain was getting worse and worse and becoming more and more of a reality.

"What is happening to them?" Princess Cadence asked.

"It seems like, they're almost turning into stone" Princess Celestia said.

"Turning into Stone?!" Spike questioned, terrified. "But why?"

"Because the elements of harmony were destroyed" Princess Luna replied.

"I'm still confused on what is happening to all of them" Cadence queried. "They seem to be suffering from different things"

"You're right" Luna replied back. She took a deep breath. "Maybe I can figure out what is actually killing them"

"You can do that?" Spike asked.

"I can go into pony's dreams. Since they are unconscious, maybe this also counts"

"Be careful Luna, it might be dangerous" Celestia mentioned, concerned of her sister's well-being.

"I'll be fine sister. You just look after the bearers. I'll be right back"

Princess Luna used her magic to try and go into their minds. First she entered Applejack's. She saw that Twilight had let her plummet to her death. The reason for her constant throwing up was because of the flowers she landed in that were poisonous. Luna couldn't do anything to save her, the dream began to get cracked.

Next, she moved onto Fluttershy's mind. She saw that Twilight had abandoned her in a cave where she was trapped with the manticore. She watched as the delicate yellow pegasus got stung, scraped and devoured by the beast. Her dream was also getting cracked.

She saw Twilight push Pinkie Pie into one of the trees with the scary faces and laughed at her. Pinkie was then swallowed by the tree as it scared her. It scared her so much, that she got a constant heart attack that killed her.

Rarity was dragged into the water by Steven Magnet as Twilight took her tail. Rarity was struggling for air but she was being drowned. Lastly, Rainbow Dash. Luna couldn't bare to watch as Rainbow got repeatedly stabbed in the stomach by the shadowbolts, like a bunch of mobsters. One last crack and the dream itself was turning into stone. Luna was grateful to get out alive.

"Oh thank Celestia you're ok!" Spike commented as Luna came back. "We thought you'd be a goner!"

"No, I'm quite alright Spike. But I have seen what they are imagining and it is quite unsettling"

"What is it?" Princess Cadence asked.

"They have bad alternate ends from when they became the elements of harmony, back when they first met and turned me back into Princess Luna. Applejack was killed by poisonous flowers after falling off a cliff, Fluttershy was killed by a manticore, Pinkie Pie got several heart attacks and starved after being trapped in a tree, Rarity drowned in the lake and Rainbow Dash was stabbed repeatedly. It was quite gruesome"

"Of course" Princess Celestia exclaimed. "because the elements of harmony have been destroyed, it must have reverted back to when they found them and killing them from that moment"

"But what was even more gruesome was that Twilight Sparkle would be the one to kill all of them in their dreams" Luna replied. "Twilight would lie to Applejack that the flowers are not poisonous, then drop her. She would lock Fluttershy in a cave. She would push Pinkie in one of the trees, steal Rarity's tail and abandon Rainbow Dash"

"So Twilight is the corrupted versions of all the elements of harmony?" Celestia asked. Luna nodded.

"And I was lucky to get out. It seemed as though that the dreams themselves were turning into stone"

"Well things have been acting strangely for them too" Spike replied. "They haven't been just turning into stone, but they have also been freezing into the shapes they could be dying in"

"They are turning into sculptures themselves?" Princess Cadence asked.

"Hopefully Discord should find a way to get Twilight back to normal" Luna replied "I'll let him know what's going on".

"So this takes place the day before I finish my 'book-sort-cation'?" Twilight asked Discord

"Yes, I believe this is the orange joke. The one with Rarity and Fluttershy" he replied "But it might be altered a bit because I golf clubbed a snake"

"True. I still wonder why it was different. It made me laugh, but it was different"

They had arrived at Sweet Apple Acres again. This time, Rarity was with Fluttershy helping out Applejack with something.

"Discord didn't have to hit that snake!" Fluttershy complained.

"Fluttershy, darling. It's in the past. Wasn't it attacking Rainbow Dash?" Rarity asked.

"No. Snakes are more afraid of us than we are of them!"

"Oh, well look we're here" she saw Applejack and gave her a wave.

"Don't try anything funny this time" Discord warned Twilight "Let's just see where it goes without your interference"

"What did you need help with darling?" Rarity asked.

"All of these apples need to be collected for a sale we're doing. And I can't do it by myself. The deadline is tomorrow" Applejack replied.

"So why did you get me to help you? Wouldn't Twilight Sparkle have been a better choice?"

"I wouldn't get your hopes up, girls. She's still organizing books" the other discord mentioned, once again magically appearing in front of the mares.

"Ya really have to stop doin' that, Discord" Applejack objected.

"Oh, but it's so much fun! Especially the snake yesterday. It was priceless!"

He got a hurtful glare from Fluttershy.

"I still can't believe you would do something like that" Fluttershy commented.

"Fluttershy, it's just a snake. I can bring it back if you want. Luckily Dashie isn't here. It appears she has a fear of snakes" Discord replied.

"I'll get more buckets. You guys get started on the apples" Applejack said as she went into the barn.

"Well, we'd better get started on these trees then" Rarity commented.

Twilight observed the group hard at work. She was still bored out of her mind.

"What happened? You guys are just hard at work. Where's the joke?"

"This always happens, doesn't it" Discord complained. "Nothing happens until we interfere with it!"

An apple managed to drop out of a nearby tree and hit Twilight on the head. She picked it up and smirked at Discord.

"What are you planning to do?" he asked. Twilight used her magic to turn the apple into an orange. She had been getting way better at the spell. "You wouldn't". Twilight continued to smirk at him until he gave in. "You're the cause of the jokes. Go ahead, Twilight"

She rolled the orange to the other Discord and he noticed it. He started to giggle.

"Discord, what's so funny?" Fluttershy queried.

"I have the best prank ever!" he mentioned.

"Prank?" Rarity and Fluttershy synced.

"It turns out that we both love pranking; Dashie and I. And I just came up with the perfect prank!"

"Oh Discord" Fluttershy face palmed. "You're not going to do anything terrible to the apples are you?"

"I wouldn't even think of it, my dear Fluttershy!" Discord confessed. "Trust me, Applejack over there is going to love it!"

"Where did you get that orange?" Rarity asked.

"The bushes. I don't know how it got there, but that's the idea for my prank!"

He used his magic, clicked his fingers. Suddenly, the apples in the orchard turned into oranges. He cracked up laughing.

"Are you sure Applejack won't mind?" Rarity asked.

"If she does, I can just change them back, easy peasy!"

"OK, y'all. I've got the rest of the buckets if you want t-" Applejack just stared agape at the orchard. All of the apples were now oranges. She was almost speechless. Almost. "Discord!"

"Fine, I'll turn them back. But orange you glad I didn't turn them into pears?"

Fluttershy and Rarity burst out laughing. Applejack just rolled her eyes and convinced him to turn them back to apples. The four of them proceeded to work on the orchard as usual.

Twilight was fortunate enough to crack up laughing as well. The final part of her transformation began. Her cutie mark turned back to normal and so did her eyes. She was back to being good again. Though all of the bad magic was out of her system, she can still remember having it, just like Luna remembered being Nightmare Moon.

"Thank Goodness, Twilight you're back!" Discord squealed as he hugged Twilight.

"I can't believe I was foolish enough to let jealousy corrupt me" she replied. "But is that what really happened with the oranges, or was it different like last time?"

Discord thought about it.

"Yes actually" he replied. "How it really happened was that Rainbow Dash gave me the idea. She saw the orange that you sent. She thought it would be funny"

"But the rest of it, is that still the same?"

"How the actual joke became funny is still the same, just the presentation is sightly different"

Twilight looked sadly at Discord.

"I'm sorry" she said.

"What?"

"I apologize for my behavior, for putting my friend's lives in danger, for destroying the elements of harmony!"

"It's ok Twilight. All that matters is you know how the jokes were so funny"

"Yeah. The peanut butter hoof was funny because I knocked the table with an apple and the peanut butter landed on your feet. The snake was funny because I scared the snake off using my magic, and the orange pun was funny because I turned the apple into an orange. I'm just happy I get those jokes now" Twilight was crying tears of joy "How ridiculous it was when I thought you put my friends under a spell. I was acting so irrational. Can you ever forgive me?"

Discord just smiled at Twilight.

"Of course I do" he replied. "And it's also my fault that you went down that path. I thought it would've been funny if you didn't participate. But I never realized how life threatening that was for you. If only you were still a unicorn and this wouldn't happen"

"Just be sure to invite me next time you have a get-together"

"Yes, I shall"

"My friends" Twilight gasped. "How are they?"

"Oh crap! I almost forgot because you were still corrupted. We need to restore the elements of harmony before your friends turn to stone"

"What?! turned to stone?!"

"I didn't know either until Luna sent me a message. That's apparently how they're going to die"

"I'm satisfied now. Can we go back to the present? I think I might know how I can fix the elements"

"How?"

"The same way I restored the elements and defeated Nightmare Moon"

Author's Note

Here I explain the orange puns. A bit of it was mentioned in the episode but it was my job to extend it. I also found a way that the mane 6 would "find their fates". Being turned to stone seemed like a good idea to symbolize how the elements once looked like in the Season 1 premier.