My Little Pony Equestria Girls: An Egg-sellent Adventure

by ShopperBrony90

Chapter 5: Hatching Time

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With no time to lose, Celestia drove her car at max speed with Spike, Shining Armor, Cadence and the rest of her new allies in tow and Cinch tied up in the back. Time was short and their hopes were growing low, but now with the cure in hand, this Easter could be saved.

“I hope this is enough,” Celestia sobbed to herself. Clearly, the desperation of this was getting to her. She began to fear that this would never work. “Have hope, Celestia,” Cadence reassured “If we could have done all of this in just 6 hours, we can save the kids and Twilight” “Thank you Cadence, that helps a lot” said Celestia. Soon they stopped at the Equestria Land parking lot and then went in to meet their destiny.

Just then, one of the Parks ticket vendors rushed up in a panic to meet the principal. “Please, Ms. Celestia. DO SOMETHING ABOUT YOUR KIDS! THEY’RE DESTROYING EVERYTHING IN THE PARK!!! “Madam I know they can be hard to control, but how much… damage… can a couple of eggs. Do… oh my,” Celestia clearly overestimated just how bored and starved for amusement the walking eggs were and the chaos that can erupt from it. The ex-students were running roughshod around the park as driven solely by a primal need for joy and stimulation they began to cause mayhem hijacking attractions, tipping over carts and generally being a nuisance to what patrons still remained and the staffers of the establishment in general. Celestia and the others stood there shocked by the sight she knew they could be a handful but not this much of a handful. And then emerging from the Chaos was a battered and bruised Luna drained and very tired from having to herd these feisty eggs. “SISTER YOU’RE BACK!!!” Luna shouted in relief “PLEASE TELL ME YOU HAVE THE CURE?!” Celestia turned around and showed her the leaf blower filled with Bright green magical goop “I do have it, sister. I’ve even loaded up a blower for you/” she replied, relieving the blue skinned woman of her troubles for the most part.

“Oh, Celestia. Thank you. Now let’s go help the-” Just then Luna paused and scanned her surroundings and saw not just Twilight’s dog and her brother as well as Cadence but also Wallflower Blush, Juniper Montage and Gloriosa Daisy and three faces she had never wanted to see again. “WHAT THE SISTER!!! WHY ARE THE DAZZLINGS HERE?!” Luna cried out in outrage and confusion. “I know you're a bit mad,” Celestia said “But they have agreed to help us for their own reasons of course.” Adagio then spoke up on behalf of herself and her sisters to explain their motives, “Just to be sure I’m only doing this for the sake of getting our Siren magic back, not out of the kindness of our hearts.” Luna then took a breath and thought that was fair enough but her confusion over the situation only grew when she saw Abacus Cinch hog tied and gagged before her. She wanted to ask a question but knew that wouldn’t work and so decided the reasonable thing to do was let Celestia explain this when the crisis is over. “I suppose there is a good reason as to why Crystal Prep’s former Principal is bound and gagged before me?” she inquires. “There is,” said Celestia “But that is not important right now for we must-” Unfortunately, Wallflower would interrupt the principal with a simple but genuine question. “Not to make you lose time Ms. Celestia, But didn’t Luna say she had an assistant helping her keep the eggs in check, where is he?”

Luna’s eyes then widened with horror at this as in the sudden outburst of chaos she had lost track of one person, that humble janitor who helped her throughout all of this Easter madness. “Oh No!! SWIFT SWEEP!!” She shouted out in horror “CELESTIA, WE HAVE TO HELP HIM NOW!!” Luna dragged her sister along with her impromptu party of allies to help the intrepid young man. Eventually, they found Swift Sweep near a haunted house, holding on for dear life to a wildly bouncing Purple Egg that used to be the brilliant and young Twilight Sparkle. Along with her, the other 7 colored eggs that were formerly her friends dancing in thoughtless joy fueled spontaneity at the site in enjoying their playtime with the Broom-man. “Ms. Sparkle,” he said, “I don’t know what’s going on in your mind, but you should stop this at once.” But it was like before an exercise in futility because there wasn’t that much of a mind left in the egg for him to reason with. Though there was just enough of one in there for Purple Egg to view him as a silly grown-up and decided “Broom-man funny, Purple should play harder.” and proceeded to spin around and send the poor janitor flying and crashing into a trash bin nearby. Groggy and with massive concussion, Celestia and co rushed to help him with Luna in particular being distraught over his state. “SWIFT SWEEP, ARE YOU OKAY!! DID SHE DEAL ANY SEVERE DAMAGE TO YOU!?” The janitor using his last energy of consciousness gave a thumbs up to Luna before saying “So worth the 15 dollars…” Before passing out. Luna then placed him on a bench and asked Celestia “Well, Twilight is there. Are you ready sister?” “More than ready.” she replied as the principal reached out to help her students.

Purple Egg then turned to meet the grownups as it danced around and felt they were weirdly familiar. Maybe they laid it or maybe they are prospective playmates who knows but they sure look like fun company. It then ran up to them hoping to greet its new playmates in the hopes of having them join it in thoughtless frockling and mayhem. “Celestia, Twilight’s running towards us!!” Shining shouted. “Then that must mean she must recognize us on some level,” said Celestia “Twilight, please accept this and come back to us.” Celestia prayed to herself and fired the sticky bright green glob of antidote at the Purple Egg at first it didn’t know what to make of this, perhaps it was a new game the grownups came up with? If so, it seemed fun, but the fun would end rather soon as in a second everything went dark.

The solution hit the Purple Egg, and in an instant it stopped. Inside the egg's mental world, there was no more childish laughter, no more bubbling egg white. Just silence, and then an explosion of light. As the psychic amino acids within it, the remains of Twilight Sparkle's thoughts and memories, began to assemble into proteins and proteins into cells and cells into organs and bones and muscles at the speed of light then on macro scale it grew from baby to child to teenager. the magic of the solution causing embryogenesis and maturation to occur at a lightning pace.

Just then the egg's legs stiffened, and its ovular hide of calcium carbonate began to bulge and roil as something was emerging within it. it fell to the ground and began to roil and shift and change until *POP* its shell burst and scattered bits of deep purple eggshell and sticky egg white and yolk everywhere like it was a firecracker. In the center of the explosion however was a young lavender skinned teenage girl with blue hair that had magenta and pink streaks and a pair of glasses. It was clear to Celestia as she looked on in relief Twilight Sparkle was back and a human albeit a groggy one.

"Alright, It's a success! Now then, everyone let's get the-'' Just then the eggs assumed a more cautious stance as even with their minds, in spite of having an intelligence that hovers around the level of an amoeba and a flu virus their instincts were much sharper as they immediately went into overdrive with the following train of "thought" being the end result. GREEN STUFF=HATCHING, HATCHING= NO HAPPY, GREEN STUFF+HATCHING=NO HAPPY.

And thus, in an instant the childish tittering in their minds stopped and was replaced with a cacophonous blend of fearful screams and sobbing. For on a fundamental level, the walking eggs, these simple-minded creatures of pure infantilism and mindless joy knew that the viridian sludge those grownups wielded was the distilled form of their anathema, maturity and thus the eggs would scatter and flee in masses. Spike began to bark to the principals and co and managed to signal the danger. "Celestia, Luna, their scattering enmasse." Shining then grumbled to himself "Oh, great. As if this couldn't get more complicated." Principal Cinch then began to snicker to herself "Tick tock, people. You wouldn't want to see your precious little eggs get cracked, would you?" she began to laugh before Cadence silenced her again with a simple kick knocking her unconscious. "Honestly, why did she have to go full supervillain?" Luna was perplexed by this “Wait, full supervillain?” She queried. “What do you even mean by that?” “Again, long story” Celestia said “But right now we need to fix those children.” And so, the improvised rag team split their ways to cure every student they came across including the Egg 8 before it was too late.


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Pink Egg ran the fastest it had ever gone, for even by egg standards it loved fun, more than the others so by that metric it hated hatching just as much, it stopped after running and scanned the area around it for peril but then nothing and so it began to skip off and continue bounding around the park is it had done before. But unbeknownst to it, Juniper Montage was sitting there, silently waiting for her target as it bounced into view and then she made her move. “Party's over” she said to the Egg as she fired a blast of cure at the egg, and it would begin to plummet down to the floor and hatch into Pinkie Pie all while Juniper was busy geeking out over her action movie star-esque one liner.

Cyan Egg was enjoying this much more than the other eggs after all, for whatever reason, going fast made it happy, happier than the other eggs. Sure, the bad hatchy stuff was scary. It also provided the ample opportunity to go faster than ever. It was exciting and it was fun until it wasn't. Instantly Wallflower Blush slid out from behind a Merry-Go-Round and shot the Cyan Egg when it wasn’t looking. It then screeched to a halt before tumbling and explosively hatching back into Rainbow Dash. “Looks like I’m faster than you know.” said Wallflower smugly as she brought the jock back to the park entrance.

Orange Egg hated leaving the other eggs behind because it felt like its mission was to watch over them, but it had no choice. Those crazy pink grownups were going to shoot that icky hatchy stuff where it stood. “Come on, Applejack.” Cadence said “Stop resisting this. We need to get you back to normal.” “Exactly,” said Gloriosa Daisy “We’re worried about your wellbeing not to mention your family is probably even more worried than we are.” "Family" for some reason that sound (eggs didn't understand the nature of words) made Orange Egg happy not as happy as being an egg, but still happy but also a different happy that wasn't happy. This caused the Orange Egg to pause long enough for Cadence to deliver the shot and thus Applejack was brought back into the world.

Indigo Egg kept running. It had to keep running because if it stopped it would become a gross non-egg, even if the dog was chasing it seemed familiar and pretty cute it would never stop because hatching was a fate worse than stillbirth to the egg. "Sorry, Rarity" Spike said to ovified fashionista "I'm gonna have to slime you." and so with a shot from his puppy sized leaf blower, the Indigo Egg was hit and as thought returned to its- no her once vacant mind the first sentence that emerged was "UGGGH WHAT DO I FEEL ON MY SKIN!?"

Green Egg and Blue Egg remained tightly knit through all of this after all though Egg’s liked being in dozens these two more than others, love it. Because Green Egg felt a connection with Blue Egg that wanted it to stay close with its cerulean friend and Blue Egg felt the same way about Green Egg. Together they ran. hoping to stay unhatched and unfleshy forever, but that was foiled rather quickly. Suddenly, Aria Blaze jumped out from behind a concession booth and pinned Green Egg to the floor. “Ha, gotcha!” the hot-heated idol said, causing Blue Egg to shudder and run off in fear only for Sonata to come out and shoot both of them returning Starlight Glimmer and The Great and Powerful Ms. Lulamoon to normal. “Oh, yeah,” Sonata said in celebration of her victory. “But like shouldn’t they be chicks or something?” Aria facepalmed herself and began to explain why they, despite the appearance of their egg forms, were not chickens.

Around the roller coaster, Red Egg was doing its best attempt at stealth, because it was consumed by the fear it would be hatched, all the other eggs except it and Yellow had been hatched by the grownups so it knew it had to be cautious. But such caution was fruitless as Adagio would stand the egg down, and before it could turn away, she shot at the ovum and then the egg's shell quickly burst into the dazed form of Sunset Shimmer. Surprisingly, Adagio rushed to Hug her only for her to stop and realize what she was doing and pout like nothing happened, not that Sunset was awake enough to register it though.

Shining Armor rushed in pursuit of the Yellow Egg that was Fluttershy, but being that it used to be Fluttershy, it was naturally the most timid and fearful and once more he had lost track of her “Oh, why did I have to get the one that’s that hardest to catch.” He moaned and began to slow down, but unbeknownst to him, Yellow Egg hid under his nose in an alley between two sections of the Medieval section he found himself in. It was so scared all of its friends were gone and it was left to fend for itself. It hated this, but then a vision it saw itself but without legs, but it felt super-happy, even happier than being a walking egg and then a soothing voice filled its mind. “Wait it out, let the last of your human self-fade, and you become a perfect happy little egg forever” it decided to do just that and then it waited, waited until eternal happiness came to it.

Shining then began to wander throughout the simulated hamlet as he soon felt his phone vibrating and picked it out of his pocket. After turning it on he noticed a text from Cadence saying, “Look at the timer” it said he then pulled up his clock app and then his face changed into one of utter and complete shock as he realized he had screwed up massively.


ONE MINUTE REMAINING

With time not being on his side in the least he began to run around the village at breakneck speed desperately looking for Fluttershy double checking every house every space between them until with fifteens seconds on the clock left, he looks to his left and sees her form shadowed and crouching likely from exhaustion “AHA, GOTCHA!!” he says in relief as he pulls out his gun and the clock start ticking down. 10… 9… 8… 7… 6… 5… 4… 3… 2… and with almost superhuman timing, Shining Armor then shot at the Yellow Egg with pinpoint accuracy, and in an instant Fluttershy is back in the literal nick of time they had done it all of Celestia's students were back to normal.

As the party returned to the entrance and they stopped to take in their victory, they looked at the park laid bare before them, stained with egg white and shattered eggshell, they were strewn about the park like the Viscera of a hundred maimed soldiers, Celestia, still high on adrenaline, let loose a scream towards the heavens in commemoration of her triumph. "Sister, are you okay?" Luna asked in a concerned tone worried that the stress of this ordeal had gotten to her. Celestia then took several deep breaths and then quickly perked up “No, No Sister I’m fine now I just needed to vent my frustrations now let’s go check with Twilight.” As the students were wrapped in blankets by the remaining staff, Celestia walked up to the robed Twilight and asked her about her state “Twilight are you okay, how do you feel after being changed back?”

"You hatched me..." Twilight said with a depressed tone. “Cadence, that was most unexpected” Spike especially was surprised by this announcement. "Whoa, a little ungrateful much." and the adults and other teens were just as shocked as they were collectively at pause until Celestia opened up with "Twilight what do-"

Just then with an expression that contained elements of Rage, Sadness and Hopelessness, Twilight leaped onto Celestia and too Spike and the adults' horror throttled her all the while she yelled out why she is so furious and heartbroken. "YOU HATCHED ME YOU CRONE!!! YOU GAVE ME BACK THE BAGGAGE OF THOUGHT, OF WORRY, OF MATURITY!!!! I WAS A BABY AGAIN BEFORE YOU CAME ALONG WITH THAT "CURE!!" The other students then stepped up and also voiced their rage and discontent for their principals ruining that blissful haze of childishness they were under that thin foggy state between sentience and object-hood where their only thoughts where those of carefree frolicking and their sole emotion limitless joy. "PARTY POOPER!!!" said Pinkie Pie, "UNCOUTH BARBARIAN!!" clamored Rarity, 'JERK OF A PRINCIPAL!" "MONDO UNCOOL!" "NOT GREAT AND POWERFUL AT ALL HAG!!” "BEAST!!" "SHE-VARMINT!!" "meanie..." said Sunset, Rainbow, Trixie, Starlight, Applejack and Fluttershy in united contempt. Soon, pretty much every student in the school began to voice their own discontent and the adults looked more than a little weirded out by this didn’t they want to be saved. Just then, Swift Sweep wakes up from his slumber groaning from the throbbing pain he feels, but before he can question why his head hurts so much, he wakes up to the sight of the restored students grouped up in an angry mob. “Uh, Ms. Luna? Is it alright if I…” Luna replied “Yes, you can go. You did enough for one day.” and with that approval, the young janitor bolted out of the park to take a much-deserved rest.

Two hours would pass and as if a reflection of the soured mood of the day, the sky began to grow dark and gray. The teachers were at a loss to this unexpected change in behavior while the teens all huddled together and still sulked over on one side of the park’s food court. On the other hand, Celestia and her party were still baffled and a little hurt over the students. Shining especially was wound up by this turn of events. “I don’t believe this,” Shining said, confused by the debacle. “Why would my sweet sister like being that… that thing!?! She could have been gone forever!!!!” Celestia was also stumped by this, and she was also a little depressed. After all, not only had Twilight chewed her out pretty savagely, but It also gave the white-skinned principal the impression that all of her labor was essentially for nothing and that stung a lot. “I don’t know myself.” She said morosely “But, hopefully Ms. Blush and Ms. Montage are back with news about their mood.” and sure enough, they came back, and they had some news to share “Okay, Celestia. We have good news and bad news.” The meek gardener Said, “What's the good news?” replied Celestia, “The good news is that Twilight and the others are willing to talk to you and explain themselves.” “And the bad news?” Said Celestia, her chest sinking as she said those words. “You have to apologize for hatching all of them.” Celestia rolled her eyes at this. Of course, this wasn’t going to be easy, but she didn’t realize they would be this bitter, but there was no other way, so she needed to comply with their demands. But after this, words will be said.

“And though the situation was life threatening I am sorry for Hatching without your consent.” said Celestia as she was done with that frankly long winded and slightly tedious apology. “That was pretty good.” said Twilight “But we still didn’t like being hatched.” She replied. Celestia felt like she was on the verge of exploding right now, but she knew that wasn’t the best option for something this delicate. So, she took a breath, with her right hand clenched into a fist and vibrating and began to ask a simple question. “Why on earth would you enjoy being mindless eggs?” and then The Mane 8 all chimed in, eager to answer.

“Because it was fun,” said Pinkie, “everything just seems brighter and happier when you're an egg.” “Sure, you don’t think of anything,” said Rainbow “But you're just filled with this bottomless Happiness that fills every fiber of your being.” Rarity then came next “On one hand: yes, losing yourself and what makes you beautiful is horrible, but I would trade my love of all that is elegant for eternal happiness any time it came up.” “...and it makes you feel like a little kid again,” said Starlight. “Mainly in the sense that everything seems more wonderful and eye popping than it was as a human.” “And it’s kind of relaxing,” Applejack said, “For once I can be happy without the weight of doing mah chores weighing on mah head and it felt great.” “And all you can think about is just being with your friends and enjoying life.” said Fluttershy with subdued enthusiasm. “And all the negatives of life just don’t matter to you anymore as well as the grind of the human routine.” said Sunset making her final point leaving Twilight to Chime in. “So, you see Celestia? We liked being happy eggs?”

Celestia thought about it, and she did agree with them on some level the experience of their explanation does sound appealing. She also didn’t think that was worth being non-sentient or worse effectively dead for the rest of her life, so she decided to voice her opinions on the matter “Girls, everyone thank you for bringing your opinions on the matter, but I must disagree with that outlook on life.” she said, causing the girls’ faces to soften to a more neutral expression. “It’s true that joy is the pursuit of everyone but joy for joy’s sake is fundamentally unfulfilling in the long run and besides people change grow and mature, that is simply a part of life, retreating into Childhood forever is essentially giving up on life and being a human, I can understand why you grew to love your transformations but staying as them forever could have been harmful in the long run, So I hope you understand.” The students all paused for a moment to let Celestia’ speech sink before Twilight spoke up though not without some obvious reluctance “Yes, Celestia. I do.” she said, reaching out to Celestia’s hand. showing there are no hard feelings between them. “Thank you, Twilight, NOW LET THE EASTER FESTIVITIES RESUME!!!” And so, after helping clean up the park, everyone at CHS resumed the Easter celebration along with Celestia and her cohorts (It took a while to explain why the Dazzlings helped out but once she did Sunset promised to find a way to restore their magic one day.) It was an amazing day riding the rides enjoying some quality candy. It was great, though Twilight was a little uneasy though it was overshadowed by the springtime joy.

Soon Twilight and Spike returned home to her parents after a long and crazy day “Hello Sweetie.” Said Twilight Velvet. “Principal Celestia and your brother told us all about the weird magical shenanigans you went on today, it seemed like a wild time How was your day?” “It was great!!” Twilight replied, “Except for the part I got turned into a walking egg along with my friends, but it turned out okay.” Velvet nodded on, pleased that her daughter had a happy Easter, and thus the rest of the day unfolded as normal and then Twilight and Spike went to bed. “Man, that was crazy,” said Spike “I wouldn’t think Cinch of all people could do something like this.” Twilight was just as surprised and gave a reply that summed up her thoughts on the matter. “I know right?! I mean I knew she was bitter at me for leaving Crystal Prep. but not in that way. I heard she's gone back to the hospital. I hope she learns her lesson and becomes a better person.”

“Sure,” Spike said sarcastically “when pigs fly and vats talk, anyway, ‘Night, Twilight.” “Night, Spike.” Twilight says back as the dog slinks into his doggy bed and Twilight begins to do the same, but she does not go to sleep right away. As she laid in bed, Twilight came to realize a crucial fact, namely she hated being human. Oh, sure. After she settled down, she did genuinely mean that being human is better than being an egg... in some areas. But, that simple childlike bliss, where she had no knowledge of the wider world, being in the euphoric haze of innocence, it made her long for that simple mindless existence. but it has its cons though and being a human also has its cons. so she thought to herself "Why can't we just have the best of both worlds." The bespectacled girl said as she lulled herself to sleep.

But what she did not know was that magical being not born of Equestria, but Earth would reveal itself soon and it was listening in on the bespectacled girl's plight. "Oooh, interesting. Talking and walking eggs that could make for a fun and INCREDIBLE EASTER!!!! I must get started right away!!" and so, the figure leapt off to recover the ingredients for their own Ovification spell, a new and improved one, a spell that will change the destiny of Twilight Sparkle, her friends, peers, mentor and even her community for the rest of their lives.

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