My Little Pony Equestria Girls: An Egg-sellent Adventure
Chapter 3: Things are Not Sunny Side-Up
Previous ChapterNext Chapter"Hello? Hello, is anyone here? Can somebody hear me Celestia, Luna, Spike, anyone?" Said Twilight Sparkle as she doesn't know what quite happened. First thing she knew, she opened up some Easter eggs hoping there would be candy. and the next she found herself in this strange white ocean.
It was an intense white like lead carbonate or the noonday sun and seemed to stretch on forever roiling and bubbling seemingly without end. Twilight tried to swim out of this freaky place but for some reason she was locked in a fetal position and entrapped within a strange translucent yellow barrier. So, with no idea where she was, she decided to do the one thing she knew best: rationalize and retrace her steps.
"Okay, Twilight. Let's go over the basics." she said to herself as she began to organize recent events. "Number 1: I was in Equestria Land with my friends Easter Egg hunting, number 2: I opened my egg and then a burst of blinding light came out of it, and number 3, I'm here in this weird dimension. So, it is most likely that I have been abducted into some kind of prison dimension and someone has cursed the Eggs to that but who could it be. it is likely someone with knowledge of equestrian magic but who or what it could be."
And thus, Twilight would begin to formulate a list of possible suspects based on who she knows would be out to get her and why as well knowledge about that land regaled to her through Sunset. "Could it be Discord? Sunset that mentioned he has the power." She pondered "No, he turned over a new leaf so that's unlikely." Or perhaps the Sirens?" "No that's right either from what Sunset tells me they lost their powers." the gears in twilight's minds continued to turn and rattle until she finally came up with a Likely culprit "Ah of course it must be-"
Just then a loud metallic rattling was heard throughout the strange dimension as turned her gaze to the source of the nose she saw at what seemed to be a view screen and out of it was Celestia, and Luna. pounding gently on what seemed like nothing.
"Twilight, I don't know if you can hear me." She said holding back some tears “But I just want to tell you that something about this Easter has gone wrong and you have been changed into something else. So, Luna and I are calling your counterpart to help fix your problem and if you don't know what you became well..." just then Celestia pulled out what looked like a hand mirror, and she began to back away.
Twilight, initially not registering what was before her, saw only a large purple egg and she said to herself "Whoa, I don't remember that egg being part of the..."
And then as Celestia stopped, she focused on what lay before her because that egg was standing on a pair of unclothed lavender legs, her legs.
"OH NO..." A pair of jigsaw pieces clicked within Twilight's mind and immediately she knew what was going on. That egg was here the form of this world, the barrier it all made since now she was inside her transformed body or at least its mind and Twilight Sparkle, a measured and composed girl of science had an expected response.
Despite the fact that she was mute (due to eggs being not really well known for silver tongues) Twilight springing up like a bullfrog, the panicked running she made it said everything Celestia and Luna needed to know Twilight was herself... for now... hopefully. Just as quickly as Twilight sprang to life, the other eight noticed their forms and all jumped. Sunset was standing around and silently panicking as her shell visibly quivered, Applejack was stomping on the ground in frustration, Pinkie Pie was as usual making fun of bad situations. Starlight was also running around in a panic with Trixie right behind her. Rarity was rocking on the ground in a fetal position having a mental breakdown since her new body made her life's work useless and Fluttershy... well she as usual was cowering in a corner.
As the other walking eggs to panic themselves in an apparent domino effect they would run about in a mad frenzy causing the remaining human students to also panic causing Luna to Snark back to her sister.
"Well at least we know they're still our students" Luna said with overwhelming smugness as Celestia barked
"Sister, not now. I have to keep order." Unfortunately, that statement was futile in and of itself as no earthly teacher could possibly keep order in something like this. Luckily, Celestia had experience in very unearthly events. "Students?" she said. "I know you are going through high emotions right now but rest assured that I and my Vice-Principal have everything under control." Nothing seemed to work, and they were still panicking after almost everyone saw/realized that they or their friends had become giant chicken eggs with human legs. Celestia tried speaking again "Students-" "But I-" "Can you-" eventually her patience wore then and for a brief the principal masks of a gentle morning sun faded and in its place was the fury of a thousand supernovae.
"STOOOOOOOOOOOOPPPPPPPP!!!!! RUUUUUUUUNNNNNIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!" the scream was so loud the heavens shook the land quaked ever so slightly and for brief moment time froze as the world stood in collective shock of this one woman's tremendous frustration. Instantly, the students, Egg and non-egg alike, huddled up in single file as Celestia began to state her plan.
"Listen" Celestia said as she began her speech. "I know this is scary for many of you. After all, while we have seen magical phenomena before, it was never at a time like this where we should be celebrating and be safe. And also, to be fair, none of the magic events we have had were this weird either, but we are strong. The Wondercolt spirit is strong with us, and it will help us overcome any obstacle even this. My sister and I will return to the School with Twilight and her friends in the hopes of finding a cure, the rest of you will stay and wait for treatment"
Celestia looked around for a capable enough student and found one staring her down. "Flash Sentry, you think you'll be able to watch over your fellow students " she asked.
"Yes, ma'am. I promise I will make sure that nothing bad happens to these eggs on my wa-'' But just then he notices the crackling aura of dark magic creep along his body and, to his silent horror, realizes what's happening. However, before he can act, in a poof of magical smoke, Flash becomes a walking egg himself with a navy-blue shell and tan skinned legs, barefooted like the rest!
Celestia notices this and proceeds to face palm herself and furrows her brow in frustration Twilight and others also notice proceed to the same act with their feet though it's more of a face tap as they didn't want to risk cracking their shells. "Why on this specific day of the Month is everything not going my way?!" Celestia says through gritted teeth as her patience is starting to wear thin. She then starts looking for another person willing to take the job and sees a lone acne-covered employee sweeping up the floor.
"YOU!!" She shouts, "Can you watch over my students?''
The acne covered man stands there pondering for a brief moment what he could get out of this unusual situation. "Ummm.... sure, but can you like... tip me? My boss kind of shot down my chances for a raise today."
Celestia rolled her eyes. "Okay, fine. Here's fifteen dollars, it should be enough." The employee was elated beyond words he hadn't experienced this level of kindness from a park-goer in years and this filled with a renewed desire to live.
"Oh, Ma'am. Thank you This is like 3 times my usual weekly salary?! I, SWIFT SWEEP, PROMISE TO WATCH OVER YOUR TRANSMOGRIFIED STUDENTS UNTIL I DIE!!! AND NEITHER RAIN, FIRE, HAIL OR WILD BEASTS WILL STOP ME!!! THIS I SWEAR!!!"
Celestia, more than a little weirded out by this, gives a slow and cautious thumbs up. "Yeah of course... good for you." She said, now with her students guaranteed safety she went with Luna to the bus with the Mane 9 in tow with Luna driving.
While on the bus, Celestia sits beside Twilight. Twilight, who is visibly shivering, is clearly imagining every way this quest to cure them could go wrong, but Celestia reaches a hand over to the egg girl in order to comfort her about her plight. "You're worried you may never turn back into a human, right?" She inquired, and Twilight nodded. "Don't worry. I'm sure that the Princess can find a way to make sure something from you and your friends' old lives can be salvaged. Who knows, you may even look back on this time fondly." Celestia said.
That made Twilight cheer up a little, after all. Maybe Celestia is right; maybe this could be something she remembers fondly. Maybe her friends can make new lives better than their old human ones.
“I'm going to call your brother, Cadence and Spike, to help us. would you like that?' Celestia asked.
In response, Twilight's posture shot clearly excited about the notion of her family helping her out of this dilemma, and if they failed, but they could make lemons out of lemonade. Immediately, the principal pulled out her phone and began to call up Shining Armor and Cadence because she knew they would need all the help they could get right now.
"Hello, Shining. it's me, Celestia. I don't have much time. Get Spike, your wife, and Princess Twilight Most of my students have all been cursed and we need to find a way to turn them back. Meet at the academy courtyard as quickly as you can."
She put the phone back into her pocket and began to ask Luna, "Are we near the academy, sister?" She wondered.
"Almost." Luna replied, "I've been pushing this thing as fast as it can go without angering the law; we should be there in a couple of minutes, which I think Rainbow would appreciate." Luna turns her gaze back to the sight of a rainbow, a rainbow quivering with barely controlled frustration as Pinkie, being Pinkie, bounds up and down in her seat. Though she is currently silent, the squeaking of her chair making an awful lot of noise.
2 minutes later, they made it, and not too far ahead of them were Shining, Cadence, and Spike (in a pet carrier), all worried for Twilight's safety.
"Twilight! Twilight, are you alright? What happened at the event? theeeeee? Oh my god." The trio's brains froze up after seeing the surreal sight of a bunch of walking Easter eggs behind the principal and her sister, but the skin tone on their legs conveyed all the information they needed to know.
"Don't worry, I can explain everything." said Celestia, and she did.
Catching them up to speed on the egg situation, with Spike being the one to break the ice. "So, do you have a plan? Any plans to bring Twilight back to normal?"
"Actually, my little canine friend, we do." she said. "Luna has already contacted the other Twilight Sparkle, and we are thinking her magical expertise could aid us in this."
Speaking of the devil, rushing out of the mirror, panting like she was escaping the end of the world, were Princess Twilight and dragon Spike. "I came here the moment I received the message, so show me what happened to my counterpart and her friends."
Celestia beckoned to the egg girls to walk forth with some degree of caution.
"Well, it looks to me like they really got into the Easter spirit," said dragon Spike snickered to which Twilight responded by staring daggers at him, but then she inched closer to examine the girls, and as she stroked her chin, a distant memory began to bubble in the darkest recesses of her mind.
"Fascinating," she said. "This is unlike any transfiguration spell I've seen, and yet strangely, I feel like I remember reading about it somewhere."
"Does that mean they can be cured?" inquired Cadence.
The princess pondered for a moment. "I'm not sure about that. I will need to conduct some research with Starlight back in Equestria. I'll need the girls to come along with me, though. Is that okay with you, Principal?"
Celestia nodded and said, "Yes, you have my blessing." Twilight smiled, and wordlessly beckoned her egg-ified counterpart and her comrades to follow her into the mirror in the hopes that this affliction could be reversed.
35 minutes have passed since the girls entered the mirror, and the adults are getting impatient. Shining is taking it especially hard, biting his nails and pacing like a madman. He was clearly fearing the worst, but those fears proved invalid as she turned to the mirror, and it began to glow.
"They're coming back!!!!" Shining pointed out, with the other adults and the dog turning to see that the egg girls stepped out, with Twilight and Cadence rushing out to give her a big hug. Trailing out last was Princess Twilight and instantly Celestia's face became despondent as she noticed who she carried herself. With her head hanging low and her back deflated, she clearly found out that something terrible had afflicted the girls. "Princess, what did you discover?"
The princess raised her gaze and stated her revelations. "It's worse than I thought, Celestia. My doppelganger, and your students have just suffered one of the most dangerous transfiguration curses ever to blight Equestria."
All were taken aback by that statement and Sci-Twi was especially shocked by that claim as well.
"Well, what is that curse?" Cadence inquired.
"Ovification," Princess Twilight quietly uttered.
Shining armor then responded, "Ovi-whatacacoo?"
The princess then rolled her eyes and explained, "OVI-FI-CATION!!! Is a powerful and dangerous transmutation spell from before the founding of Equestria. During that time, powerful unicorn families frequently feuded with each other to decide who would control the rising and falling of the sun and moon. These feuds got very violent, very brutal, and very messy. This caused the other breeds of pony to get mad at them, and so the families chose to stop their battle. At least publicly, they began to try more subtle, unique, and insidious means of disposing of their foes."
Spike then chimed in, "Yeah, yeah, princess charming, but what does that have to do with my Twilight being something straight out of a breakfast commercial?!"
Twilight then explained, "That, Spike, is because ovification was one of those methods. A weird one but one that's employed in those secret feuds. Once the person is cursed, they will transform into a walking egg or trotting egg in the case of us ponies. But their minds will slowly fade over time until they become completely and utterly mindless, lacking any higher thoughts or memories of their past lives. and an hour after that, the transformation will become permanent and irreversible. and any longer they will become a normal, inanimate egg... forever."
Everyone present gasped. Twilight, and Co. was taken aback to be stuck as a mindless husk of themselves forever. That was horrifying.
"Who would hold a grudge against them powerful enough to inflict such a cruel fate on a bunch of teens?" she asked herself, the thought of forgetting friendship, her peers, and everything she stood for shook Twilight to the core. She had hoped that even if she couldn't be cured, at least the princess could salvage some aspect of her human existence. but now that was impossible, for now she was doomed to an existence less than that of an animal.
"How long do we have until their consciousness is gone?" Celestia inquired.
"7 hours and one of them has just passed; mental regression begins after 2 hours have transpired." Princess Twilight said,
The girls collectively gulped mentally; things were not looking good for them in the slightest. In fact, things were shaping up to be the worst Easter ever. The adults' faces turned serious as Cadence cuddled a worried Spike and Shining Armor, then reached out to the princess with one question.
"Princess, please, can we cure my sister?" Cadance asked.
Princess Twilight looked at them with a face that was both determined yet also defeatist in nature. "Yes, there is a cure, but I don't know how to make the curse. It is so old and has been banned in Equestria for so long that no one knows what it is. I need a copy of the spell book that was used to create the curse dust used to imbue the eggs. It's the only way someone in the human world could feasibly cast it."
"That's all well and good, but how will we find the culprit?" said Luna.
"I think it's simple: we'll just find and interrogate everyone who has been involved with or instigated a crisis involving magic, and if possible, bring them to our side to help." said Cadence.
Now that they had a plan, all they needed was to decide who was to do what, and Celestia had an idea: "Alright then. Cadence, Shining, Spike, you're going with me to find the perpetrator and their spell book. Luna, take the girls back to the amusement park, wait for us with the cure, and try to keep them under control, and Princess, head back to Equestria until we've got our suspect. Before you do, can you give me a way to keep in touch with my girls in spite of their state?" Celestia asked.
"Of course, I've got just the spell for the job."
Just then the glimmering silhouette of the princesses' acorn horn and wings appeared, and lavender energy sparked from the principal to Sci-Twi in an instant. "Now, you two are telepathically linked so you can communicate with each other mentally."
Celestia began to try it out: "Twilight, can you read me?" she asked.
"Yes, I can, Celestia. Honestly, it's good to be able to talk again." Twilight telepathically responded.
"Okay then, how does being an egg feel like?" Celestia asked.
"Well, honestly, it's pretty FUN!!!"
Just then, a psychic shout boomed inside Celestia's brain—a kind of shout she knew all too well.
"ILOVEBEINGANEGGBECAUSETHISREMINDSMESOMUCHOFANIDEAIHADFORTHISYEARSEASTERPARTYCAUSEIASKEDRARITYIFSHEWANTEDTOMAKEEGGCOSTUMESKINDOFLIKEWHATWEGOTTURNEDINTOFORITBUTSHESAIDNOBECAUSETHEYLOOKEDUGLYTOHERSOTHENIREDESIGNEDTHEM..." Pinkie went on and on about why she loved being an egg, and thus Celestia glared at the princess with a look that screamed, "What did you do?"
"Yeah, well," Princess Twilight explained. "I kind of telepathically linked Sci-Twi and her friends together so they wouldn't get bored during our research, so..." As Celestia's glare intensified even more, the pony Twilight knew that they needed to get out now! "I'm going back to Equestria. Don't forget the spell book. See you soon!!" She bolted into the mirror without a second thought, then Celestia's expression calmed, and she turned to her sister.
"Luna, get on the bus with the girls, and wait for me once you get to Equestria Land." Celestia instructed.
"Okay, I will. Come on girls. We're heading back." Luna replied.
"Celestia," Twilight mentally whispered to her principal.
"Yes?" Celestia said back
"Please hurry." Twilight requested, to which she silently nodded and headed out to gather a party to save her students.
Meanwhile, in a dark room, only the sickly prismatic radiance of magic is most foul. The silhouette of a coat rack was ascertained with a ratty brown cloak over it, all the while a shadowy figure laughed at their successful hex. "Just a couple more hours and those brats will become little more than oversized breakfast foods!!!"
To be continued...
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