I woke to see the bed empty next to me, for some strange reason I felt disappointed. I pushed myself to my hooves and sighed, I didn’t really want to deal with today but I knew I had to.

I heard a pair of hooves gallop up the stairs, I stared at Applejack who was smiling at me, she asked mockingly “So your finally up, I wonder how you ever make it to Wonderbolt training sessions with the way you sleep in?”

I gasped in mock horror “Oh you wound me dear Applejack.” We both burst into laughter.

Applejack said after we both recovered from laughter “We should go and see Twilight before she becomes engrossed in a research project.”

I snickered “Using your big words now A.J.”

Applejack snarled “You know Ah learned some things from my uncle and Aunt Orange you know.”

I said “I know, I was just joking now let’s get this over with.” We arrived at Twilight’s Castle.

I knocked on the door, I heard a familiar voice call “I’m coming, Twilight’s busy with Starlight practising magic.”Me and Applejack groaned as we heard the bitterness oozing from those last few words. I glared at the unicorn mare with the broken horn.

Applejack said “Tempest, we have a problem and only Twilight can help, could you please get her for me?”

Tempest said looking away from the pair “I will, thanks Applejack for trying to accept me.” Applejack nudged me and I shook my head, I did not trust that mare and nopony would make me. We watched as Tempest left the room, to get Twilight

Applejack scowled “Rainbow Dash, she is trying her best, it’s been 3 months and you haven’t shown her the inch of respect.”

I snarled “You don’t remember what she did to us?”

Applejack shouted “Rainbow Danger Dash, you don’t get it do you. We give others second chances, think about it we reformed Discord and he wasn’t even a pony.”

I snapped “He only hurt Ponyville, she hurt everypony in Equestria.”

Applejack decked me with her hoof. She snarled “Without her we would all be dead.”

I wiped my bleeding face with my hoof and screamed as I noticed my hoof was covered in rainbow syrup.

Twilight asked in a firm tone as entered the room “What is going on here?”

Applejack said “We were arguing about Tempest and I decked Rainbow’s muzzle and she started bleeding.”

Twilight frowned as she asked “I hope you didn’t come here just to fight over trivial things.”

I said through my bleeding muzzle “Wa cae hee si coud gt hlp fm yo beuse I cugt aplert ad I nd hlp.”

Twilight asked confused “Um, okay, what am I supposed to do?!”

Applejack said “Rainbow caught Apple Rot and we are here to determine why, I thought you might be able to help.”

Twilight asked “Isn’t Apple Rot only supposed to occur in apples?”

Applejack said “It’s supposed to, but for someone reason Dash caught it after eating a rotten apple, even though we cured it, we need an explanation.”

Twilight frowned “Has Discord been snooping around, this could be his doing?”

A voice snarled “Twilight I’m hurt, you really think I did this?” Discord glared at her as he floated down using an umbrella. I had no idea where he came from.

Twilight said with a hint of venom in her voice “You are the type.”

Discord replied coldly “I do things for fun, this is not fun Twilight, poor Dash here is bleeding and has something happening to her, shouldn’t that be our focus instead of arguing.”

Twilight blinked confused before she asked “Since when did you start making sense?”

Discord snarled “Since one of my good friends is suffering.” He clicked his claws and my face had stopped bleeding.

I said finally able to speak properly “Thanks Discord.”

Discord clicked his fingers again and he suddenly had a lab coat on. He summoned a vial out of thin air and grabbed a drop of my rainbow syrupy blood off my hooves. I asked nervously “Umm, can I wash my hooves?”

Discord said “Of course, go I will need to do a genetic analysis. It will be done by the time you get back.” I left only to hear Twilight shouting, probably about how that is impossible. I wipe the syrupy goop of my hooves, I sighed at least this couldn't get any worse, I thought (Oh now, I just jinxed it didn’t I?)

I sighed, I knew I at that time it wasn’t going to be good. I trotted down the stairs. Twilight asked in an exasperated tone “How did you perform multiple genetic analyses within the period of 10 minutes?’

Discord laughed “Twilight I’m the Lord of Chaos, I break logic, that’s how.”

I asked “What’s the result?”

Discord’s laugh disappeared and that worried me immediately. He said in an unusually serious tone “This is bad, your DNA is a perfect resemblance to a Zap Apple but it has been shifted to behave like a Pegasi by magic.”

I shouted “Does this mean I’m technically a Zap Apple!”

Twilight said “Yes, it does but we don’t have to tell anypony, we can hide this between our friend group.”

I thought (This is just bad dream, tomorrow morning I’ll wake and this will never have happened)

Discord said “That is not the worst part, the worst part is that magic keeping you pegasi is wearing off, look at your back.” I turned around to see several feathers falling off.

I asked “What do I do?”

Discord said “Well, you will need to find the unicorn who cast the enchantment, I can tell the magic coming off you is unicorn based.”

Applejack asked “Um, what do you want me to do?”

Discord said “I need you to take Dash, keep her safe” he then turned to Twilight “You should begin to find out who cast that spell.”

Twilight said “I’m on it.”

Discord shouted smirking “Operation: Save Rainbow Dash is a go!” I let out a slight giggle at my silly friend.

Author's Note

Yes I'm including Discord, in think story, I do think if something serious came up that endangered his friends he would be serious.