Rainbow was not having a good time… She’s had to sleep on the ground for several days, Tank hides in his shell every time he sees her, and worse yet, she can’t do anything that she could do before!

She was enthusiastic about this at first, but now, she wants to be a pony again.

“I wish I could’ve done something to prevent this,” Rainbow said to herself.

Looking up she saw that Ponyville was in shambles as well, considering everypony was still trying to find out how to make this work.

Rainbow got up and made her way through town, she noticed several vaguely familiar dragons trying to rebuild their homes but the supplies were too small.

As she made her way through town on a walk suddenly she felt tugging on her tail.

Turning around she saw a familiar orange baby dragon.

“Oh, hey squirt!” RD said as she turned and knelt down.

“Hey Rainbow Dash! I’ve been looking around and I found some gem caves with Sweetie and Apple Bloom, wanna go check them out with us?” Scootaloo said.

“I’d love to Scoots… but I-”

“Come on Rainbow, we got nothing to do around here right now,” Scootaloo said.

“...Surprised you’d still wanna hang around me, considering that I can’t do a rainboom anymore… or barely fly faster than most dragons,” Rainbow said, looking depressed.

“You can’t do a Rainboom anymore? So what? You're still Rainbow Dash,” Scootaloo said.

“You… really think so?” Rainbow asked.

“Yeah, you still look cool as a dragoness,” Scootaloo said.

“...Thanks, I needed to hear that,” Rainbow said with a slight smile.

“No prob, now come on!” Scootaloo said and she ran off.

“Save some for me,” Rainbow said as she followed, it’s good to know some things never change.

Canterlot

“I’m thinking we need to find this Ignia character before she causes any more trouble, she should know a way to fix this,” Ember said.

“Easier said than done, it’ll be like looking for a needle in a haystack, there’s dragons everywhere,” Starlight said.

“We need to think about the populace first, help them adjust to the current conditions,” Celestia said.

Suddenly Luna put her hand on the table alerting the others.

“What we need is to figure out how to maintain stability, the promise of a solution is the only thing preventing riots in the streets, dragons are being left out in the open because they cannot fit inside their own homes, and that’s not accounting for the habits and dangers of so many dragons around, I’d reason it is solely because of Discords efforts transferring any excess smoke to a void dimension that we haven’t been reduced to Equestria being blanketed in smoke for a million years rather than a hundred,” Luna said.

“And the livestock trade has ceased due to the fact that the animals are extra stressed from being around dragons constantly,” Starlight added.

“We’re grasping at straws, so any suggestions would be helpful,” Luna said.

“Why don’t you ask the only one in the room with chaos magic to help?” Discord said.

“How so?” Twilight asked.

“Well, I was thinking that I could perform some rewrites on this world to make it more habitable for all the extra dragons, I am capable,” Discord said.

“There’s an idea, Discord doesn’t follow any normal rules,” Starlight admitted.

“Could he undo the magic that turned all the ponies into dragons?” Spike asked.

“Wishful thinking,” Discord said with a shrug “This is draconic runic magic, it predates even my knowledge,” Discord said.

“So long ago that even amongst us dragons it’s a dead language,” Ember said.

“Then what do we do?” Spike asked.

“We focus on the current problems, and deal with those problems later,” Celestia said.

“Agreed, I’ll use my resources too, we need to dedicate everything to finding Ignia, and be careful, she’s a shapeshifter,” Ember said.

“How?” Twilight asked.

“She’s probably the last surviving runic dragon, she has access to runes that grant her a variety of abilities,” Ember stated.

“Then it’s worse than finding a needle in a haystack, as Applejack would say it,” Twilight said.

“Then it is settled, we’ll divide the work and make use of resources to return to normalcy as soon as possible,” Celestia said.

“And I’ll send some dragons to look for Ignia,” Ember said.

“One more thing,” Celestia said.

“Hmm?” Ember turned to Celestia.

“If you have any spare dragons I would like to have them instruct the equestrian dragons on dragon habits, it would help the process better,” Celestia said.

‘I’ll see what I can do,” Ember said getting up.

“Wait!” Spike said getting up… as an adult dragon.

“HUH?!” Everydragon present gasped.

“Huh?....Oh… uh look, you remember how Ignia turned me into an adult dragon right?” Spike said.

“Uh, yeah,” Ember said.

“Well, lately I’ve been shifting back and forth between a kid and an adult dragon, any idea what’s going on?” Spike asked.

“Hmm… this is new territory, to be honest, and frankly I’m too busy these days to focus on this, sorry,” Ember said.

“Ok,” Spike said disappointedly.

“Twilight can aid you, Spike,” Celestia said.

“Thank you, Celestia,” Spike said.

“If that’s all then I gotta get back,” Ember said getting up and heading for the exit.

“Good day Dragon Lord Ember,” Celestia said.

“And good day to you too,” Ember said leaving the room.

“So, what now?” Spike asked.

“We get to work,” Luna said.

Discord successfully teleported everydragon back to Ponyville.

“Why are we starting here and not Canterlot?” Spike asked.

“We have to start where the press will get the word out quicker, and trust me, word travels faster outside of Canterlot,” Discord said before pulling out a trumpet and playing it loudly.

All nearby dragons noticed and came on over, seeing Celestia and Luna they began clamoring about their worries but Celestia raised a claw to quiet them.

“Discord has the solution,” Celestia said before letting Discord speak.

“Yes yes, hello to you beings of scale and fire,” Discord said with a bow “If you guys wanted my help sooner then you should have asked,” Discord said.

“How can you help us?” A dragoness asked.

“Like this,” Discord said before snapping his fingers and suddenly all the houses in Ponyville repaired themselves, he then did a spin and snapped his fingers again and made giant crystals form out of the ground in patches.

“Whoa,” The dragons said seeing making improvements all over.

“Ready for the grand finale?” Discord then stuck out his tongue and it had a smaller Discord on it who snapped his fingers and suddenly all the buildings began glowing and growing bigger.

“Huh?” The dragons looked on in awe as the houses grew and changed in form to suit their now draconic needs.

When the transformation of the town was over the dragons cheered, and thankfully they knew by now not to stamp their hands and cause another earthquake.

“Whew!” Discord wiped his brow before turning to them “Ponyville is now habitable again, I expanded your houses, and real estate, added some caves nearby, and increased the number of gem patches here and there, that should help you all out,” Discord said.

“Discord, I never imagined I’d say this, but thank you,” Mayor Mare said gratefully.

“Alrighty then, if you’ll excuse me, I need a break,” Discord said walking away.

“This could work! With Discord's help we can turn Equestria into a dragon-friendly territory,” Spike said.

“This is true, we should get word out that a solution has been located and that should calm the populace,” Celestia said “Twilight, you should return to the castle while me and Luna get to that,” Celestia said as she and Luna left.

“Agreed, let’s head home Spike,” Twilight said.

“Ok,” Spike said.

Twilight and Spike entered a now bigger and more spacious castle.

“This is better, I think we’ll be good to resume our work here,” Twilight said.

“Now that things have calmed do you think we could focus on my problem?” Spike asked as he shifted back into a kid.

“Ok, I suppose so, maybe tomorrow we could pay Zecora a visit, and bring Starlight, between those two we’re bound to find out a solution,” Twilight said.

“I like that idea,” Spike said.

Ignia exited a different train and finally arrived at her location.

“Ok, now to begin my operations,” Ignia said as she made her way down a hill.

Towards Canterlot…

Author's Note

Sorry about the slow update, I'll try for a longer chapter next