The Mane 5, Spike and Discord had a great time at their hang-out yesterday, but today would become serious.

As Spike and the Crusaders were busy pet-sitting, and Discord was in his chaos dimension, this left only the Mane 5. They saw Trixie.

"Oh hey Trixie," said Rainbow Dash.

"What brings you here, darling?" asked Rarity.

"The Great and Apologetic Trixie wants to tell you five that she'll be leaving Ponyville today." This surprised everypony except Pinkie.

"I always knew your visits are temporary," said the pink mare, "But why are you leaving this time?"

"To look for Twilight. And apologize to her."

"Well, good luck on your search," said Fluttershy.

"I'm sure she'll forgive ya," said Applejack.

"Thanks, you five," Trixie smiled gratefully. "'l'll visit again when I've finally found her!" And then the blue unicorn made her leave.

"Well, I'll miss her!" shouted Pinkie.

"That darling has surely improved ever since the first time we met her," said Rarity.

"She's truly changed," said Applejack.

The five ponies walked around Ponyville. They were going to go to Sugarcube Corner to buy some treats and see how the Cakes were doing. They saw Flitter and Cloudchaser talking to each other.

"I say, sis," said Flitter, "It was exciting to meet Daring Do!"

"Same here," agreed Cloudchaser, "It was fun battling all these henchponies and rescuing her!"

"Who knew Daring Do herself was the author of these books the whole time?" said Flitter.

Rainbow Dash was jealous that the pegasus sisters got to meet Daring Do in real life and not her, but she sucked it up and continued walking with her friends for a few more minutes.

At last, Rarity broke the silence.

"Darlings, I think we're almost-"

Just then, the five heard an explosion and some crying. Pinkie recognized the crying all too well.

"It's the Cakes!" shouted Pinkie Pie. "Follow me!"

She and her friends ran towards where Sugarcube Corner once was. It had been blown up and was in smoke and flames, Mr. and Mrs. Cake were luckily uninjured and were trying to comfort their two crying babies.

"Ssh, don't cry."

"We're alright, we're alright."

"Oh my! What happened here?" asked a worried Fluttershy.

"Somepony bombed our bakery," said Mr. Cake.

"Everything was on fire," said Mrs. Cake.

"Do you know who bombed Sugarcube Corner?" asked Pinkie.

"All I saw," answered Mr. Cake, "was a lavender pegasus with a pink bow, and she had green eyes."

Pinkie knew what this meant. "Queen Chrysalis has been pretending to be Flitter so that she could bomb Sugarcube Corner!"

But unfortunately for Flitter, she was being surrounded by a bunch of angry ponies. Cloudchaser was trying to defend Flitter.

"You bombed Sugarcube Corner!" yelled Lyra.

"Where will we eat delicious treats now?" wailed Berry Punch.

"Everypony, shut up!" yelled Cloudchaser angrily. "My sister would never do such a thing! If she did, she would have told me!"

"My sister's right!" yelled Flitter, "I'm-"

"Don't act all ignorant, you bomber!" yelled Golden Harvest.

"You're just as bad as Twilight was when she tried to murder Derpy!" screamed Shoeshine. But this enraged Cloudchaser even more. She took a deep breath...

"HOW DARE YOU!"

This stopped the angry crowd, and attracted the Mane 5, along with the Cakes to the scene.

"You should all be ashamed of yourselves! Flitter is most definitely innocent!"

"Explain the bombing at Sugarcube Corner then!" yelled Dr. Whooves.

"That-"

"-was a doppelganger!" interrupted Pinkie. "The Cakes told me that their bomber was a lavender pegasus with a pink bow, like how Flitter is, but then they said that the bomber had green eyes! Flitter does not have green eyes!"

"Have I told you all already that color changing contacts exist?!" yelled a pony from the crowd. The crowd began roaring again. Things couldn't get worse.

But they did.

Celestia and Luna appeared in the scene.

"Everypony, settle down!" said Celestia. And they did.

"Flitter and Cloudchaser," boomed Celestia, "Flitter, you're guilty for bombing Sugarcube Corner, and Cloudchaser, you're guilty for trying to justify her actions. Let's have a vote to see what the outcome will be. For those who believe Flitter and Cloudchaser are innoc-"

Just then the ponies saw Spike, the CMC and Discord chasing after the pets.

"Get back here!" yelled Scootaloo.

"I know you all think Twilight is guilty, in which she's not," said Spike, "but you don't have to disobey every command we give you!"

"Oh my," said Fluttershy, "What's happening here?"

"Those pets aren't listening to even the most simple order we give," grumbled Discord. "They sure hold a huge grudge towards Twilight, like most of these ponies here do."

"Shut up, Chaotic!"

Discord, Spike and the CMCs turned to see the crowd of ponies yelling at Flitter and Cloudchaser.

"What's happening here?" asked Sweetie Belle.

"The ponies are being jerks and framing Flitter for a bombing," said Applejack.

Apple Bloom swore she saw Big Macintosh and Granny Smith in the crowd. But then Luna spoke up.

"Settle down. As Celestia was saying, We'll have a vote to see what the outcome will be. For those who believe Flitter and Cloudchaser are innocent, raise your hooves." Only Applejack, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Spike, Scootaloo, Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, Discord, Mr. and Mrs. Cake, Pound Cake, and Pumpkin Cake raised their hooves. (or hands in Spike and Discord's case) The fact that the Cakes believed Flitter and Cloudchaser to be innocent was a surprise to all the ponies who saw these two pegasi as guilty.

"Now, if you believe Flitter and Cloudchaser are guilty, raise your hooves." Everypony else raised their hooves, outnumbering those who thought Flitter and Cloudchaser were innocent.

"Flitter and Cloudchaser, you two are now seen as guilty. Flitter for bombing Sugarcube Corner, and Cloudchaser for justifying her act. You two will be banished from Equestria like we did to Twilight, and if we hear that you two have returned, you two will face harder and worse consequences." Celestia said.

The two pegasi didn't want to argue with the princesses, so they asked the two to banish them already. Celestia shot a spell at the two pegasi, and teleported them somewhere outside Equestria. They managed to catch a glimpse of the Mane 5, Spike, the CMC, Discord, and the Cakes looking at them sadly.

In a store, there were several plants in pots. They were stuck in cages, and some of the cages were hanging. The plants all looked pained, bruised, and a few of them looked terrible.

A cream-colored unicorn with a red and purple mane and tail entered the store. The unicorn had glasses and a sweater on that made her look nerdier. She saw the owner of the store, who was a pink earth pony with a cyan and white mane.

"So," said the owner. "Welcome to The Lotus n Flora Store! How many plants do you want to buy? One? Or two? Maybe all of them?"

The unicorn looked at the plants. They were all beaten up and were begging to be bought for a new owner.

"Hmmm," the unicorn thought for a few minutes. She was suspicious of the owner, and wondered why all the plants looked beat up, but she decided not to say anything out of respect.

"I'll choose the cabbage," said the unicorn finally, as she pointed to a green cabbage with darker green eyebrows. He had a catapult on the back, with the basket containing a smaller cabbage.

"That'll be 4 bits," said the earth pony.

After the unicorn paid her 4 bits and the owner let the cabbage catapult out of the cage. The unicorn waved a goodbye to the owner, and she walked off.

As she was walking back to her home, the unicorn began to frown and said something to herself.

"Remember, Twilight, I'm only doing this for your safety during the zombie apocalypse. Even though I'm still mad at you for not showing up at my party, I definitely don't want you dead. Don't expect me to be forgiving towards you if we cross paths again."

Author's Note

This chapter happens simultaneously with the events of Nutty Bowling.

In this AU, Flitter and Cloudchaser met Daring Do in person instead of the Mane 6. I do plan a future rewrite of "Daring Don't" alongside a rewrite of some of the other Season 4 episodes in the future. Just don't ask me when, please?

Also, Chrysalis frames an innocent pony once again, and gets two ponies banished.

The ending scene is the POV from a certain unicorn after the bowling battle from "Nutty Bowling". Judging by the last scene, you'll know who it is.

Will Flitter and Cloudchaser end up in Neighborville? Will Zomboss have new tricks up his sleeve? Is Twilight going to make new friends? What's going on inside The Lotus n Flora Store?

Find out in the next chapter!