Insanity in Ponyville

by Aether Spark

Rating: teen
Tags: Zecora, Alternate Universe, Spike, Comedy, Violence, Twilight Sparkle, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Dark
Length: 4940

Twilight wakes up to a Ponyville gone mad, can she fix it?

Twilight woke up feeling exhausted and aching.

As she wakes she comes to find Spike acting weird, and her friends, and all of Ponville, now she must discover what happened last night and hurry before Ponyville falls apart.

And not succumb to whatever this is in the process...

Published 2024-02-07 02:20:01 UTC
Last updated 2024-02-19 03:38:36 UTC

Entering the maddened town

Ponyville parties are extra fun due to a certain pink pony.

Twilight trotted through Ponyville, Pinkie’s latest party was in full swing.

“Wow, Pinkie really outdid herself,” Twilight complimented as she trotted with her friends, sans Pinkie who was elsewhere.

“Wonder what the occasion is?” AJ asked.

“Whatever, party time!” Rainbow cheered as she gulped down some hard cider and flew overhead.

“Easy Dash, you don’t want to drink too much before the main event,” Starlight said.

The group trotted over to the nearby buffet tables, Pinkie had laid out, there were signs saying not to eat yet… odd…

Fluttershy accepted a cider from a stallion manning a cider stand and trotted over to the group.

“Has anypony seen Discord?” Fluttershy asked.

“Ah think he’s with Pinkie, setting things up, but apart from that, I don’t know,” Applejack said.

“Pinkie said she had an important announcement to make before the ponies could eat, I wonder what it could be,” Rarity asked.

“Probably about a new recipe she made,” Spike said as he was riding on Twilight’s back.

“Trixie bets it is just another one of her drawn-out speeches,” Trixie added as she trotted past the group, the group made it to the stage Pinkie set up.

“Shh! It’s starting!” Rainbow said as the curtains pulled back and Pinkie trotted out amidst smoke and confetti.

“HELLOOOO PONIES!” Pinkie cheered into a megaphone and the ponies stamped their hooves and cheered as Pinkie spoke “I am happy to inform you that I have prepared a veritable feast for you all! And I owe it to a few sources I won’t say aloud for discretion sake, that this feast will be unlike any before!” Pinkie giggled.

“Called it,” Spike said.

“And besides, why NOT throw a humongoussuperfantastic party for the heck of it?!” Pinkie added.

The ponies stamped some more as they cheered.

“And now… without further ado, dig in!” Pinkie cheered before pulling a switch and all the covers on the foods were lifted, exposing the sugary sweets to the crowd.

Brownies, chocolate, ice cream, cake, and more nummy things left and right.

The ponies cheered and ran over to the tables and began eating.

“AW YEAH! Let me at ‘em!” Rainbow cheered flying over.

“Those do look good, just not for my figure,” Rarity said while going over to the ice cream.

“Time ta party,” AJ said going over to the apple pies.

“Hope Pinkie sectioned off some gemstone pastries for me,” Spike said as he ran around looking.

“I’ll enjoy some too,” Fluttershy said trotting over to the churros.

“Wait for us!” Trixie and Starlight ran in to enjoy as well.

“I dunno,” Twilight said picking up a brownie.

“Come on Twilight! Join the fun!” Pinkie said trotting by Twilight, holding a scone.

“Alright alright, maybe one,” Twilight said, picking up a brownie and holding it up to her friends who had their own treats “To an eventful night of sugary fun I guess!” Twilight cheered.

The others cheered and began eating.

Twilight opened her mouth and bit into the brownie tasting the chocolatey wonders of Pinkie’s cooking-

“Oooooh….” Twilight groaned sitting up in her bed, she honestly felt like crap… “What… happ- Uuuurp!… happened?...” Twilight looked around confusedly, one moment she was at a big Ponyville party the next she was in bed… and what was she… wearing?

She was wearing a fairy princess outfit, and was covered in either mud, chocolate, or something she really didn’t want it to be…

“Oooh… my head…. My back… my everything…. Seriously, what happened last night?” Twilight got out of bed, and winced as her body hurt, but she managed to undress from the outfit and exit the door and make her way downstairs, she paused seeing the downstairs a wreck, too tired to focus on that though, Twilight continued to the kitchen.

As she made her way towards the kitchen, seeking coffee she heard crashing noises and saw some kind of shadow in the kitchen.

“Huh? Who's there?” Twilight lit her horn in defense but it sent a crackling pain through her head, but she kept her defense up in case of an intruder.

Twilight rounded the corner and aimed her horn.

“Come out!” Twilight demanded… only to see Spike with his head in a cereal box, making grunting and growling noises.

“Spike? You scared me half to death, I thought there was an intruder,” Twilight sighed.

Spike continued running around on all fours grunting and growling.

“Spike? Are you okay? Talk to me,” Twilight said, when Spike didn’t respond she used her magic to stop him “Spike! Enough playing around, we need to clean the living room!” Twilight said before pulling off the cereal box from his head and setting him down.

Spike remained on all fours and looked around as if he didn’t understand where he was.

“Spike, you're starting to worry me, talk to me,” Twilight said, before jumping a little as Spike looked at her and began growling,

“Spike? Stop it, you're scaring me,” Twilight said.

“Grrrrr! ARF ARF!” Spike barked and he lunged at her and Twilight yelped and put up a barrier, blocking him, he scratched at the barrier barking like a dog.

“SPIKE! What’s gotten into you?” Twilight exclaimed and she was forced to surround him in a barrier to stop him from attacking, he barked some more and sniffed at the barrier.

She noticed his eyes lacked an intelligent gleam, almost like he was an actual animal.

“Spike?... What happened to you?” Twilight asked before thinking back on Fluttershy’s teaching on how to communicate with animals better, she tried it.

“Uh… good boy Spike, who's a good boy?” Twilight attempted.

“Hrm?...” Spike tilted his head before he started barking again.

“Oook, um… does Spike want a treat?” Twilight looked around and spotted some of Spike's gathered gemstones and she grabbed one and offered it to him while raising the barrier as a wall again, releasing him.

Spike sniffed the gemstone and ate it, and then he barked happily.

“Oh, you were just hungry? Ok good, can I let the barrier down now?” Twilight asked doing so and Spike still seemed wary of her but he approached her a little more calmly.

Twilight grabbed a few more gemstones and she fed him some more before he rolled onto his back and she scratched his belly.

“Aww, so cute,” Twilight said before heading out of the kitchen, Spike following closely.

“Oook, now that that is solved let’s fix this, maybe Zecora knows how?” Twilight said before hearing a thumping noise.

“Huh?” Twilight looked at a window and jumped a little when she saw Derpy running into a window repeatedly before flying off.

“Ooook?” Twilight was a little freaked out and she approached the window and looked out… her jaw dropped when she saw something weird going on throughout the town.

“Wh-what the?” Twilight said seeing ponies running around acting crazy, she gradually made her way to the door with Spike following behind her whimpering for more gemstones.

“Hang on Spike,” Twilight said before peeking out the window and seeing individual bits of madness going on.

A blue stallion was running in circles while hooting.

Mr Cake was covered in whipped cream and bouncing around like Pinkie Pie.

A pony was just sitting on the ground staring at a wall and laughing as if he was just watching a television.

Carrot Top was half buried in the ground and painted orange, like a carrot and Lyra was watering her.

The CMC were drawing on each other, covering each other in cutie marks and laughing as they did it.

And so much more…

“What in the world is going on?!” Twilight asked leaving the castle with Spike at her side.

She saw a pony trotting by looking normal so she approached him hoping he wasn’t consumed by this hair-brained madness.

“Excused me sir!” Twilight called and he turned to see her “Please tell me what’s happening to everypony-”

“Wonk t’nod I,” He spoke in reverse and trotted off.

“Alright… um… Mayor Mare!” Twilight spotted the Mayor… giving a speech to a row of chairs… with pickles on them…

“And I said ‘dill with it’!” She laughed.

“...Uhm… Seriously, what is happening?” Twilight asked seeing ponies walking backwards, rolling on the ground and running into things.

“Alright, Spike, we need to send a message to-” Twilight paused when she saw Spike peeing on a wall with a raised leg and then walking on all fours back to her “Change of plans, assemble the girls,” Twilight said running off with Spike in tow.

Twilight ran past several ponies doing more crazy things, intending to find Applejack at the farm.

She made it about to the edge of the property to only see a warzone and sandbags everywhere.

“Huh?” Twilight said before a pair of legs grabbed her and Spike and pulled them behind some sandbags.

“Shhh! They’ll hear ya!” Applejack whispered.

“Huh? Apple-AH!” Twilight said Applejack's eyes were bloodshot and she was shaking “Applejack… What happened to you?” Twilight asked.

“Ah didn’t sleep a wink, not while they are out there,” Applejack said peeking over the sandbags.

“Who?” Twilight asked.

“They ain’t moving even now… but ah won’t crack! AH WON’T, HAHAHA!” Applejack laughed suddenly and Twilight backed up a little.

“Who? Applejack what is wrong with you?” Twilight asked.

“They came out of nowhere! Want to invade the barn, but ah won’t let them, those orange invaders will not put the wool over this farm pony, nonono… ah’ll wait till they drop their guard, THEN BUCK ‘EM TO THA MOON!” Applejack whinnied.

“....Uhm… what?” Twilight peeked over the sandbags and saw…. A pile of oranges “Applejack, don’t tell me your going to war with oranges?” Twilight asked with a deadpan.

“Course ah am! They wanna take the business, take over the acres and grow orange trees instead of apples, ah won’t let them, ahahahaha!” Applejack giggled and peeked over the sandbags “Ya hear, ah’m watchin ya!” Applejack shouted.

“Oooooook…. Going to leave now, enjoy your war with produce,” Twilight said backing away with Spike scratching his ear with his hind foot before he followed Twilight.

“There has to be a single sane pony in Ponyville!” Twilight said looking around and spotting something yellow clinging to a wall.

“Fluttershy!” Twilight ran over to her and saw her scaling the wall and flicking her tongue.

“Fluttershy?” Twilight asked and immediately she jumped off of the wall and began hopping around and she gave a ribbit.

“She thinks she’s a frog?” Twilight asked and then Fluttershy suddenly stiffened and she began eating grass and she gave a moo.

“...And now she thinks she’s a cow?” Twilight said as Fluttershy wandered around eating grass before she stiffened and flew onto a lightpole and began tweeting.

“And now a bird… I can see where this is going, she thinks she’s different animals every minute… this could be dangerous, especially if she thinks she’s-’ Twilight was cut off as Fluttershy dropped to the ground and began growling at Twilight.

“Uh…” Twilight backed away as Spike growled at Shy who howled.

“A wolf, not good,” Twilight picked a barking Spike up in her magic and ran for it while Fluttershy chased them.

She galloped over to the Boutique and entered before slamming the door and Fluttershy clawed at the door barking.

“Whew…. I think we’re safe,” Twilight sighed before a thrown needle hit the wall next to her head.

“AH!” Twilight looked to see Rarity having sown a scarf at least twenty-five feet long and she looked at Twilight with a baleful glare.

“GET OUT! The queen of Manehatten simply must have a one-hundred-foot scarf by Tuesday!” Rarity shouted before resuming her sowing.

“Sorry!” Twilight said before looking out the door for Fluttershy and not seeing her anymore.

“I SAID LEAVE, you’ll throw off my rhythm you hooligans!” Rarity said.

“Ok ok!” Twilight left the Boutique with Spike and saw Fluttershy flopping on the ground.

“Ok, she thinks she’s a fish now, let’s leave before she turns into something else dangerous,” Twilight said before taking her leave.

She didn’t get five steps before an anvil landed in front of her.

“AAAH!” Twilight yelped and looked up to see Rainbow throwing random objects off of clouds.

“Rainbow!” Twilight shouted as she saw her throw a rock off the cloud.

“Heads up egghead! We got weird weather!” Rainbow laughed before chucking a radio off and Twilight was forced to dodge and run around several heavy objects.

She wound up running into Sugarcube Corner and saw Pinkie huddled in a corner.

“Pinkie? Please tell me you're not affected by this madness too,” Twilight begged as Spike growled at her.

“Heehee…. Hi Twiley… wanna party?” Pinkie said turning towards Twilight and Twilight yelped seeing she was covered in chocolate and was holding a knife.

“Not good!” Twilight ran back outside dodging more heavy objects and made her way back into the castle in a sprint with Spike behind her.

“ARF ARF!” Spike yelped seeing Pinkie behind them.

“Come on Twilight, just one cut? I need to make some cupcakes!” Pinkie called.

“Nope!” Twilight took off into the air with Spike in her magical aura carrying him along.

“ARF ARF ARF!” Spike barked at Pinkie who waved the knife at the two ruefully.

Twilight panted as she made her way over to the nearest safe spot she could think of and she hid with Spike still barking.

“Spike shut up!” Twilight said firmly, worried that the crazed Pinkie would find them, when they waited for a while and nothing happened Twilight relaxed.

“Ok… so… Ponyville has gone off the rails, my friends are insane, and Spike thinks he’s a dog so I can’t call for help… great…” Twilight said before looking around and flying into the air and looking to see Fluttershy’s cottage.

“Ok, we can hide out there,” Twilight said before picking Spike up and flying over there.

As Twilight landed she cautiously moved forward and opened the door “H-hello?” Twilight asked as she looked around and saw the cottage was still normal “Whew, alright,” Twilight entered with Spike who ran over to a doggy bed and laid down and Twilight went over to the nearby couch and threw herself onto it.

“Whew… what a day…” Twilight said.

“Tell me about it,” Discord said.

“AAAAHHH!” Twilight yelped seeing Discord there suddenly and she could see he was grayed out a little and looking a little sick.

“Discord? Don’t tell me your-” Twilight asked but he shook his head.

“I’m not loco like the other ponies…. Just sick,” Discord said.

“What do you mean?” Twilight said, simply glad she found a… semi-sane person.

“Ponyville is in danger Twilight, we need to find Zecora, she’s uninfected, last I saw” Discord said.

“Why?” Twilight asked.

“She can fix this…” Discord wheezed.

“What’s wrong with you?” Twilight asked.

“Apparently I’m allergic to Pinkie’s ‘special ingredient’ and now I’m depowered and sick,” Discord said.

“Special ingredient?” Twilight asked.

“I’m not sure, she didn’t tell me,” Discord said.

“Alright, can you move?” Twilight asked.

“No, go on, I need to hold down the fort,” Discord said.

“Ok,” Twilight said and she got up “Can you watch Spike?” Twilight asked.

“Sure,” Discord said.

“Thanks, I’ll be back,” Twilight ran off while Spike was sniffing his own butt.

“Heh…. I won’t let him forget this,” Discord said seeing Spike still acting like a dog.

Author's Note

Can Twilight find out the problem? What's causing this? What is this secret ingredient?

Fixing the maddened town

Twilight hurried through town, avoiding any loopy ponies that acted hostile.

Twilight hid under a table and looked around for Rainbow dropping things off of clouds or Pinkie on the prowl.

“Ook… I’m the only sane mare around, Discord is too sick to help, and my hopes of fixing this lie on Zecora not being infected, great,” Twilight said as she crawled out and snuck under another table, avoiding a stallion falling over every two steps.

“The situation is unpredictable, I need to be careful,” Twilight said as she snuck over to the salon and peered around a corner.

She made her way past the salon only to be grabbed by a pair of hooves and pulled in.

“Aaah!” Twilight yelped, she ended up in the lobby of a dark salon “Uh… hello?” Twilight said starting to regret not bringing Spike with her.

“Princeeeeess,” A voice sang from elsewhere.

“I’m not staying,” Twilight turned to leave… before running into Aloe “Ah!” Twilight yelped.

“Hello!” Aloe said with a big grin.

“Uhm… hello?” Twilight said wondering what fresh hell this is.

“Do you have an appointment?” Aloe asked.

“No, in fact I need to-”

“GOOD!” Aloe suddenly spoke loudly startling Twilight before she grabbed her and dragged her to the mud room.

“Let me go!” Twilight shouted.

“So eager! Let’s get you set up!” Aloe dropped Twilight in a mud bath.

“ACK!” Twilight came out of it and spat out the mud.

“What are you doing in there? The mud room is closed!” Lotus appeared suddenly and pulled Twilight out and tossed her into the main room.

“Ooof!” Twilight grunted as she landed.

“Wasn’t that pleasing?! Now for a relaxing massage,” Aloe asked before dragging Twilight onto the massage table and she started giving Twilight a very painful massage.

“OW! Get off of me!” Twilight flared her horn and pushed Aloe away before she got off the table.

“Princess! What are you doing here?!” Lotus demanded before grabbing Twilight and flinging her away.

“Ow!” Twilight yelped as she landed in a chair.

“The massage table is closed too! Leave!” Lotus said.

“Now for a deep shampooing!” Aloe cheered and she strapped Twilight down and began washing her mane while occasionally pulling her mane too hard.

“OW! STOP IT!” Twilight cried and she lost her patience and flared her horn before teleporting out of the chair.

“The mane care station is closed!” Lotus ran at Twilight.

“Come back! We haven’t visited the hot tub yet!” Aloe also ran at Twilight.

“I’m out of here!” Twilight shouted booking it out of there towards the door and she made it out… before bumping into Bulk Biceps who was lifting a big barbell with several ponies stacked on it, he set it down and glared at her.

“Uh… sorry,” Twilight said.

“New weight!” Bulk Biceps grabbed Twilight and chucked her into the air.

“Aaaah!” Twilight landed on the platform attached to the barbell and Bulk resumed pumping.

“Ugh… can anything go right for me lately?...” Twilight asked herself before hopping off and running for it.

As Twilight ran past several more insane ponies she could see the Everfree! Almost there…

Twilight was suddenly pounced on by Fluttershy who was snorting and sniffing her.

“Fluttershy? Get off!” Twilight demanded.

“Oink!” Fluttershy squealed and she headbutt Twilight in the chest making her cough as the air was taken out of her lungs.

“Ugh! Fluttershy must think she’s a wild boar or something…” Twilight wheezed before using her magic and levitating Fluttershy off of her.

Suddenly Fluttershy began cawwing and flapping her wings and she managed to break out of Twilight’s grip and she flew into the air.

“Now what?” Twilight asked as Fluttershy swooped at her and Twilight jumped out of the way.

“She’s acting like a bird of prey?!” Twilight exclaimed before running for the forest.

“Caw caw!” Fluttershy screeched and Twilight dove into a bush to avoid being snatched like a worm.

Twilight poked her head out of the bush and saw Fluttershy swooping towards new prey.

The CMC!?

They were just laughing and drawing on eachother.

“My new cutie mark is being sparkly!” Sweetie cheered pouring glitter on herself.

“Mine is looking cool!” Scootaloo said painting herself blue like Rainbow Dash.

“Mine is having the biggest smile!” Apple Bloom said as she gave a big smile.

“CAW!” Fluttershy swooped at the oblivious fillies.

“Look out!” Twilight flared her horn and teleported them and Fluttershy missed.

As the CMC wound up beside her Twilight turned to see them continuing to draw on each other.

“Whose cutie mark was for teleporting, and can I have one too?” Scootlaoo asked.

“I dunno,” Sweetie said.

“Sure!” AB said getting to work.

“You three are in danger like this,” Twilight said levitating them into the air and carrying them with her “Oh please don’t be insane like the rest of Ponyville Zecora…” Twilight begged.

Twilight entered Zecora’s hut grounds and she saw that it was barricaded.

“I have a bad feeling about this…” Twilight said before approaching the hut and knocking on it.

“Zecora!? It’s Twilight! I’m not like the rest of Ponyville which has gone off the rails as of late, please tell me the same goes for you,” Twilight asked.

Suddenly the door opened slowly and Twilight could see the inside had light.

Twilight gulped and entered.

As she looked around she saw Zecora’s hut was trashed… save for red writing on the wall… in paint… whew…

“Read the book?” Twilight asked outloud before approaching… and backpedaling when something lunged at her.

“AH!” Twilight backed away and saw it was Zecora bound to the wall.

“Zecora?! Who did this to you?” Twilight went over to help her but Zecora lunged again and was pulled back by the rope.

“Oook… so you're insane as well…” Twilight sighed.

“Insane, caine, -phane, aine, ane, ayn, bain, baine, bane, bayne, blain, blaine!” Zecora shouted.

“And you're rhyming everything you hear…” Twilight said.

“Rhyme, time, fine, line, shrine, sign!” Zecora erratically babbled.

“This was a wasted effort…. Unless,” Twilight turned to the book and wondered if there was a solution, after all, there was a painted message in it…

“Worth a try,” Twilight approached and opened the book.

“...Huh? It’s just a recipe on making a cure for poison joke… why would it……. Wait…” Twilight’s eyes widened, everyone acting crazy… it’s almost as if they’ve been affected by something… something random and magical…

“It’s poison joke… the town has gone crazy because of poison joke!” Twilight said excitedly knowing she’s found the solution… but how can she be sure that is the case? She needs to test this…

Twilight looked around the hut and saw many ingredients for many brews.

“Only one way to find out,” Twilight got to work and began mixing the ingredients while the crusaders were drawing on Zecora now.

“Mark, park, lark, clark-” Zecora shouted as she thrashed.

“Hold still! We're helping you get your cutie mark!” Scootaloo demanded.

When Twilight had finished the brew she put it in a cup.

“Here goes nothing,” Twilight hoped it would work “Hey, Sweetie Belle!” Twilight called the unicorn filly.

“Huh?” Sweetie turned to her.

“Want some… water?” Twilight asked.

“Nope! I don’t have my water-drinking cutie mark yet!” Sweetie giggled.

“Um… you can get it if you drink this,” Twilight offered.

“Really?! Yay!” Sweetie ran over and chugged the potion… before getting woozy and collapsing.

“Sweetie Belle? Are you okay?” Twilight asked hopefully.

“Oooohhh…. My head… my stomach too…. What happened?” Sweetie raised her head and looked at herself “Why am I covered in cutie marks?” Sweetie asked.

“Your back!” Twilight scooped up Sweetie in a hug.

“Back from what?” Sweetie asked confusedly.

“It’s been terrible, the whole town went crazy because of poison joke, but now we have the solution,” Twilight said levitating the rest of the brew and dumping some of it on Zecora and the other two CMC as well.

“Huh?!” The other two gasped in surprise.

“Ugh… my head feels hazy, yet at the same time less crazy,” Zecora said before looking to Twilight with a grateful smile.

“You got my message, thank goodness, my efforts were not worthless,” Zecora said shaking herself off.

“Zecora, do you know what happened?” Twilight asked her.

“Yes, I sensed it as soon as I took a bite and swallowed, because of Pinkie the entirety of Ponyville in insanity wallowed…” Zecora said grimly.

“Pinkie did this… how? Why?” Twilight asked.

“She baked poison joke into the food from last night, I barely clung to sanity as I wrote the message in fright, when poison joke is consumed at that quantity it causes madness to take over the host possibly,” Zecora said.

“I don’t believe it… Pinkie has some answering to do,” Twilight said “But first we need to make more and distribute it,” Twilight said.

“What do we do?” Apple Bloom asked.

“I have an idea,” Twilight said.

After making a massive batch Scootaloo called for Rainbow.

“RAAAINBOW!” Scootaloo called.

Rainbow was in the middle of throwing things off of a cloud when she heard Scootaloo and she flew to her.

“What’s up squirt? Can’t be long, I gotta whole lot of weather demands,” Rainbow said.

“Uhm… well, weather command just called in, you need to make it rain this next,” Scootaloo said in a completely not rehearsed voice as she gestured to the large batch of poison joke cure, stored in a barrel.

“Odd, didn’t think you were in weather patrol, and I was supposed to make it rain bowling balls next….. Ah well!” Rainbow chuckled and she grabbed the barrel and flew up into the clouds.

“Let’s hope this works,” Twilight said coming out from behind a tree.

Rainbow began pouring the barrel out in the clouds and threw the barrel aside before kicking the clouds.

“Let it rain…. Whatever this stuff is!” Rainbow cheered… before it began raining cure on her and she suddenly got woozy and shook her head.

“Huh? Wait… why am I in the air again?...” Rainbow asked herself.

As the rain came down on the ponies everywhere they began snapping out of it.

“Huh?” One pony said as he stopped walking on his hindlegs.

“Tahw si… happening?... I can talk normally!” a stallion cheered.

“Huh? Why am I lifting a bunch of ponies…. Ah well,” Bulk resumed lifting the ponies on the barbell platforms even as they snapped out of it.

Fluttershy was hopping like a kangaroo when she suddenly fell on her face.

“Oof!... huh?” Fluttershy looked around confused.

Discord was waiting outside with Spike who was… taking a restroom break…. in Fluttershy’s yard.

“This’ll be something I can use when he owes me something,” Discord chuckled.

Suddenly the rain came down and Spike shook his head and got up.

“Looks like she did it, it’s about time,” Discord said.

“Huh? What happened? Is the party over?” Spike asked before sniffing “Eww, what’s that smell….” Spike went ridged when he turned around and saw what he did in Fluttershy’s yard.

“I expect you to clean that up,” Discord said going back inside.

“....Oh crud…” Spike said embarrassedly.

Twilight saw the town turning back to normal and she beamed happily.

“It worked! Oh thank Celestia!” Twilight sighed happily.

“Yay!” Sweetie ran around splashing in the puddles.

“Thank goodness…” Zecora said.

“Now we need to get the uncured ponies out and fix them, and then I need a little talk with Pinkie…” Twilight said.

Twilight splashed cure all over Pinkie who jumped.

“AH! COLD!” Pinkie yelped before looking around “Huh? What happened?” Pinkie asked.

“That’s what I’d like to know,” Twilight asked and Pinkie turned and looked nervous at Twilight's scowl.

“What’s wrong?...” Pinkie nervously asked.

“Explanation, now, why did you trick Ponyville into eating poison joke?” Twilight asked firmly.

“What do you-” Pinkie jumped when Twilight stomped.

“Now Pinkie! What were you thinking?!” Twilight demanded.

“...Oh ok… you caught me, I did it as a prank, I figured the towns ponies would get poison joke and we’d all have a laugh about it, but what happened, I was eating a croissant at the party and then-”

“All the ponies went insane Pinkie, somepony could have seriously gotten hurt!” Twilight said turning to walk away.

“I didn’t mean to! It was supposed to be a prank!” Pinkie pleaded.

“Regardless, ponies were in danger, this is coming from a friend Pinkie, confess, or I will,” Twilight said leaving.

“Oh….” Pinkie sighed knowing she has a scolding ahead of her.

The town's ponies were understandably livid when they learned the truth from Pinkie as she stood atop a stage and told them how apparently her attempt at a prank nearly destroyed the town and Pinkie promised to make it up to them.

One week later

Twilight trotted through a now normal Ponyville, cleanup had taken a long time, especially because Pinkie’s punishment for what happened was cleaning the town up, but being the pony she is she got it done in a week.

But Twilight was working hard to prevent everypony from hounding Pinkie for what she did.

Meanwhile Discord admitted his part and had to help her out. He was less than pleased but Fluttershy made him do as Mayor Mare requested.

As Twilight arrived at the last house needing repairs from Rainbow dropping heavy things on it, she saw Pinkie hammering away at the nails.

“How’s it going up there Pinkie?” Twilight called.

“It’s going super! I think I'm nearly done!” Pinkie said, wiping her brow.

“Well when you're done come see us at Sugarcube Corner for your shift, we want to celebrate you finishing your punishment early!” Twilight called before walking away.

“Gotcha!” Pinkie waved before getting back to hammering.

All in all, it was an insane week or so, but at least everypony is… mostly normal again.

But then again, what is normal these days?

Author's Note

And here's the end, I hope you enjoyed. :twilightsmile: