The day continues to escalate, as Twilight Sparkle and Spike are still freaking out...

"I'm hungry Twilight, why couldn't we get lunch?" asked Spike,

"NO TIME FOR UNNEEDED ACTIVITIES, SPIKE, PRINCESS CELESTIA COULD BE COMING TO OUR PLACE AS WE SPEAK!" exclaimed Twilight.

"I dunno Twilight, lunch seems to be a pretty needed activity for y'know, nutrition." said Spike.

"Well it's already the afternoon WHICH MEANS WE ARE LATE!" Twilight paused for dramatic effect, Spike just rolled his eyes.

"We can still eat lunch you know." mumbled Spike. Suddenly, the guards from before smashed the door. Again.

"Oh come on! I just finished building that!" moaned the construction worker, who had been walking away.

"Were you just standing outside the door?" asked Spike. The guards thought about it for a second, and came up with an answer.

"Um... Yes." they said, thinking about changing their answer. "Um... No." they said again. "Um... Yes-no." they said. They decided to go with that. "So, we came to tell you, princess Twilight Sparkle, that a evil villain has cast some dark magic, please be on the lookout for powerful unicorns."

"ABANDON SHIP!" shouted Twilight, she took spike and ran for the hills.

"We're not even on a ship." mumbled Spike.

Turns out, there was no hills, so she just ran into a wall.

Twilight sighed.

Meanwhile, at the edge of Equestria...

"I'm so tired Pinkie, can we just go home?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"No! We can't just turn back now!" exclaimed Pinkie Pie.

"Fine, what the next cupcake ingredient?" asked Rainbow Dash.

"Ancient dragon's tears of course!" exclaimed Pinkie.

"Okay, where's that?" she asked.

"Right there!" Pinkie Pie pointed to a big mountain with a dragon in it that was breathing magical fire only Starswirl could remember the name of. "This one is easy!" she exclaimed. She took out a bottle and holded it under the dragon, the dragon roared with pure fury, in fact, so much pure fury that tears were starting to suddenly exist out of thin air all around it. Pinkie pie started to gather as many tears as she could, then it was all filled and she closed the cap.

Rainbow Dash let out a sigh of relief, " I thought that something bad was gonna happen for a moment-" suddenly, Pinkie Pie tripped and the bottle cracked, all the tears flew out of the jar, until there was one left,

"Guess we are only gonna be able to make half as cupcakes today." she said grimly.

"Well we could go to the Mane Room of Illegal Spells to cast a duplicating spell!" offered Rainbow Dash.

"True! Let's go tonight!" exclaimed Pinkie Pie.

"Sounds good! See you there Pinkie!" said Rainbow Dash. "I'm sure there is no side effects." she thought.

Meanwhile at the Carousel Boutique...

"Not to be mean, but when can we be done?" said Fluttershy,

"I don't know, hopefully soon."

After a few minutes of pure boredom, Rarity was reaching towards the sewing machine as the chair she was on toppled over and created a domino effect across the room, first the shelves, making all the yarn fall out, then the mannequin, who then suddenly, toppled over the dress she had made, making her have to start all over.

"Awww." they both said simultaneously.

"If only there was a way to go back in time to fix this!" Rarity exclaimed.

"Um, there is..." said Fluttershy.

"Where is it, darling?" asked Rarity.

"Um... It's in the Mane Room of Illegal Spells in Canterlot..." said Fluttershy, weakly. Rarity gave her that 'why do you know that...' look.

"What? I read the blueprint for the castle because I didn't want to get lost..." said Fluttershy.

"Well let's go there, tonight! We don't want to have to get caught because we did it in the afternoon, do you, darling?" said Rarity.

"Okay, see you there..." said Fluttershy.

Meanwhile, at Sweet Apple Acres...

Applejack went to get some apples, so she went and bucked the baskets, then the apples vertically ascended, 'wait,
what? Apples fall when i kick the trees, not vertically ascend!' she thought, she was confused by this change of events, so she just went back to sleep hoping everything would be fine. It was not. She woke up from a nightmare and continued trying to get the apple trees to make sense.

It still didn't work though, so she went to Twilight's to try and find a way to stop the apples from vertically ascending,

Applejack knocked on Twilight's door, Twilight Sparkle opened the door, and was surprised it was Applejack, and not the royal guards that had gone through the door. and it was not only her that was relieved that it was Applejack, as the construction pony was getting tired from having to fix the door fifty times. 'finally, somepony actually using the door knob.'
Thought Twilight Sparkle.

"What is it?" Twilight Sparkle asked.

"My apples are vertically ascending, and I need your help." said Applejack.

"Okay, I know just the spell to fix that!" exclaimed Twilight Sparkle. "There's just one problem..."

"What is it?" asked Applejack.

"We will have to go to the Mane Room of Illegal Spells in the Royal Canterlot Castle..." Twilight said.

"Okay, well as long as we don't get caught, were fine, heh, right?" said Applejack.

"Yep!" said Twilight, "see you there at midnight!"

"Okay!" said Applejack.

Meanwhile, at the Equestria Post Office...

"All this crazy stuff is making me hungry," said Derpy. "But this magic shark problem is still not going away!"

"I have an idea!" exclaimed one of the mail ponies.

"What's the idea?" asked Derpy sadly.

"Let's go to Canterlot, sneak into the Mane Room of Illegal Spells, and find a spell to get rid of the magic sharks!" exclaimed the mail pony said.

"That's a great idea!" exclaimed Derpy, "but maybe we should do it in the night!"

"Okay! Meet you at midnight!"

"Sounds good!"

Meanwhile, at the Royal Canterlot Castle...

"Sister, so far no one has caught anyone using dark magic." said Celestia grimly.

"I hope soon the culprit will be found, and Equestria will be at peace again." said Luna.

"I hope so too, sister."

"You know, sister, have you ever felt like the whole world looked like a cartoon?" said Luna.

"Now that you said that, yeah, it kinda does."

"And that maybe everything that's happening could just be a fiction, based on a cartoon?" said Luna.

"I know, right?"

"Anyway, enough deep thinking, we have a world ending villain to stop!" said Luna.

Meanwhile, at Twilight's castle...

"Spike! There is a reason to wear the tight uniforms!" exclaimed Twilight Sparkle.

"Except for looking like a shadow?" asked Spike, Applejack nodded.

Meanwhile, at Sugarcube Corner...

"Pinkie, now that I think about it, what if the dark magic has side effects?" asked Rainbow Dash.

"Don't worry! I'm sure it's fine!" exclaimed Pinkie Pie.

"And how are we gonna use the magic?" asked Rainbow Dash.

"... Um, I have experience in using unicorn magic as an earth pony..." said Pinkie Pie.

"Do you have a manual on how to do it?" asked Rainbow Dash.

"Yes actually! here it is!" exclaimed Pinkie Pie, she gave Rainbow Dash the manual,

"Thanks!" exclaimed Rainbow Dash.

"No problem!" exclaimed Pinkie Pie.

Meanwhile, at the Carousel Boutique...

"So, this is how we are gonna be able to make the dress easier?" asked Rarity.

"Um, I think so." said Fluttershy. "Anyway, um, do you like the disguises?" she asked.

"Um... they are very... pretty..." offered Rarity.

"Thanks!" said Fluttershy.

Meanwhile, at the Equestria Post Office...

"This is gonna be so fun!" said the mail ponies.

"I agree!" said Derpy. They put on fancy disguises as to not be recognized, Derpy wore a pitch black suit, that blended in with the shadows, and all the other mail ponies put on their own fancy disguises.

Meanwhile at Canterlot...

"Sister... I'm getting this strange feeling that something really epic is going to happen tonight." said Celestia.

"I understand sister, I just can't wait for tonight for some reason!" said Luna.

"I hope it includes us, because today has been really boring, aside from, you know, us not being able to control the sun and moon." said Celestia.

"Well, it's getting late, good night sister."

Author's Note

thanks for reading!