“We gotta tell Twilight about this!” Rainbow exclaimed. “Now we know it’s Discord, Twilight should have very little issue stopping him! I mean, we were struggling before to find the troublemaker, now we know who it is!”

“No time to waste!” said Sweetie Belle. “Let’s get outta here!”

“I’ll fly up, and tell you where to go,” said Rainbow. “Hopefully we can avoid getting lost again.”

Rainbow and the CMC burst out of the Canterlot Sculpture Garden.

“When’s the next train?” asked Apple Bloom.

Rainbow checked the timetable. “Four hours–no, four years?”

“We’re all gonna be stuck here forever!” Scootaloo wailed.

A chocolate rain cloud hovered over them.

Rainbow yelled in frustration, and bucked the cloud into a fine chocolate mist.

“Hey I was lying on that!” said a voice behind them.

Rainbow whirled around, as did the Cutie Mark Crusaders. Discord was standing there, dressed in pajamas covered in tiny mini-Discords.

“How very rude of you to interrupt my beauty sleep,” Discord groused.

“Put everything back to normal!” Sweetie belle yelled.

“Bo-oo-oring.”

“Discord,” said Rainbow threateningly, “I’m warning you….”

Discord scoffed, and snapped his claws, transforming into a giant snake. “But I’m the s-s-snake!”

“Not funny,” said Apple Bloom.

“Oh come on!” Discord complained. “That joke always makes ponies laugh. Look!”

He snapped his claws again. His eyes started swirling around, as he looked at a pony on the platform. Discord was muttering some strange incantation. All the ponies on the platform suddenly started laughing their heads off.

“G-good one Discord!” one of them laughed, before falling over on the platform.

“Now,” said Discord with a self-satisfied smile, “I need to do some exercise.”

He snapped his claws again, and a treadmill appeared. Discord stepped onto it, and his feet glued on. The treadmill levitated, then started going backwards, and Discord was spun around and around.

“Ah, wonderful exercise!” said Discord. “I insist that you try it!”

Before anypony could react, Discord’s claws clicked, and they were all glued to strange backwards treadmills.

Discord got off his treadmill (somehow), and stretched out his back. “Well now, I’d best be going. Chaos awaits! Toodle-oo!” And with that Discord summoned a motorcycle and sped away.

“This ain’t good,” said Apple Bloom.

Fluttershy shuffled her hooves nervously. Twilight still wasn’t back. What if something bad had happened?

Fluttershy had been examining the petrified ponies. They all seemed to match up with the description of the–.

“Fluttershy!” Applejack exclaimed suddenly. “Ah can’t find Apple Bloom anywhere! Have ya’ seen her?”

“Oh no!” said Fluttershy. “Apple Bloom’s gone! I’m so sorry, but I haven’t seen her.”

“What ‘bout Rainbow?”

“She left for a Wonderbolt’s training exercise a while ago.”

“So Rainbow finally made the Bolts huh?”

“Sorin’ got petrified, so Spitfire wanted Rainbow to play in his place.”

“Ah. What ‘bout Twily, or Rarity?”

“Rarity fell in a hole. Twilight followed some hoofprints, and she’s not back.”

Applejack paused. “Rarity fell in ah hole?”

Fluttershy pointed to the spot where the bricks had opened up. “The bricks disappeared or something, but Rarity was standing above them. Then she was gone.”

“Well it certainly ain’t the strangest thing that’s goin’ on!” said Applejack frustratedly. “Spike was tryna send a message to the princesses! And guess what!”

“What?” asked Fluttershy.

“He couldn’t!”

“Um, what?” asked Fluttershy. “Spike can send scrolls–.”

“Not right now he can’t! He burned up all the spare scrolls tryin’. Somethin’ real fishy’s goin’ on.”

“I wish Twilight would come back,” said Fluttershy, “she’d know what to do.”

“Lemme get this straight. Rainbow took off for ah show with the Bolts in the middle of ah crises, Twiley followed some random hoofprints and never came back, Spike suddn’ly stopped bein’ able to send letters, Apple Bloom and her friends disappeared off the face of Equestria, and Rarity–fell in ah hole.”

“Well, yeah,” said Fluttershy. “That’s the gist of it.”

“WHAT ABOUT PINKIE!!”

The party mare suddenly burst into existence behind them, triggering dual party cannons, and blowing on random noise makers.

Fluttershy and Applejack screamed.

“PINKIE PIE!” Applejack bellowed. “Ah told ya’ ta’ stop scarin’ us like that!”

“So-rr-ryy,” Pinky said. “So what did I miss?”

“Well,” said Applejack. “All our other friends are gone. Apple Bloom too.”

“Oh don’t worry about them,” said Discord, popping into existence. “I just met them a moment ago! Didn’t I?” Discord quickly pulled out the script. “Well at least I think I did, I’m not sure, because Leon stopped writing this story for a long time!”

“The script’s not up to date!” Pinkie exclaimed. “Let me fix that!”

Pinkie snatched the script from Discord, and jumped into space.

“Narrator!” she called out, “your script’s not up to date!”

Really? Let me fix that… okay! You should be good!

“Thanks!” said Pinkie. She quickly came back down to earth. “Alright guys, the script is now up to date!”

“Excellent,” said Discord. “Now let’s see… oh yes! I have, Applejack, indeed seen Rainbow Dash, Apple Bloom and her friends! They are all just fine, getting some exercise!”

“You monster!” Applejack growled.

“Bub-bye!” said Discord and he was gone.

“Pinkie!” Applejack said. “Check the script to see how this ends!”

NO!! If you do that, this story won’t go any longer, and everyone who likes the story will be sad!

“Ohhh,” said Pinkie. “Okie-dokie!” she put the scroll into her mane. “Can’t have those sad readers!”

“Enough fooling around!” said Applejack. “Let’s go find Discord again!”

Pinkie nodded.

“I have to check a book,” said Fluttershy.

“Be Twiley if ya’ wish,” said Applejack.

AJ and Pinkie moved towards town square.

Fluttershy didn’t. She was just hoping that the library could save the day.

Author's Note

This story was on "Hiatus." I get that most people think that just means "Canceled."

Not for me though!

This story is back!

No more sad readers!

Erm, Pinkie, please stop breaking the fourth wall?

Okie-dokie!