Gossip Spreads Quick

Trixie collapsed on her hammock, it swaying under her weight as she yawned.

“My hooves ache,” Trixie complained loudly to herself. “I am never walking again. Or at least for the next twelve hours. I swear, I could sleep all day.”

Trixie gave another loud yawn as she rested her forelegs behind her head. She had a pretty decent day except for the whole Poision Joke thing. She still didn’t entirely believe that was a thing. It was most likely Roseluck playing a prank on her and the others. She hoped. Only Trixie is allowed to play pranks, not some stupid blue plant.

Trixie levitated her blanket over top of her and snuggled a plush of her before blowing a kiss at the picture of her framed above her hammock.

“Goodnight the most beautiful mare in Equestria.”

Trixie yawned and stumbled out of her hammock, slamming face first into the ground and groaned in pain, rubbing her muzzle with a hoof.

“Ugh fuck my life,” Trixie groaned and rolled around on the ground, tears welling up in her eyes. She pushed herself up and approached her mirror, jaw dropping as she stared at her reflection.

Or more accurately, the lack thereof a reflection. Trixie inhaled and let out a scream.

Roseluck laid in bed, staring at the ceiling of her room. She stepped out of her bed, taking a step and immediately faceplanted.

“What in Equestria?” Roseluck muttered and stood up, slipping on her mane. “What. The. Fuck?”

Roseluck stared in the mirror at her tail dragging behind her and her mane pooling around her hooves.

“Dear Celestia,” Roseluck whispered in horror. “My mane!”

Roseluck prided herself on her mane. It was the talk of Ponyville by mares and stallions alike. Roseluck loved getting compliments about her mane.

A loud scream echoed throughout the house that Roseluck immediately recognized as Daisy’s scream.

“Daisy!”

Roseluck tried to hold her mane up and open the door, tumbling down the stairs with thuds, giving a pained cry as she stopped at the bottom of the stairs.

“Ughhhh,” Roseluck groaned as Daisy appeared above her. The mare was polka dot covered and had a different colored mane. “Since when were you green and had a pink mane?”

“Since never!” Daisy screamed and flailed her forelegs around. “I can’t go out looking like, like- this!”

“What is going on down here?” Lily asked as she trotted downstairs and froze, staring at Daisy and Roseluck. “Pfft. Hahahahah!”

Roseluck and Daisy gave each other flat looks before glaring at Lily rolling around on the ground laughing.

“Yeah, yeah laugh it up,” Roseluck growled and rolled her eyes. “Just you wait till I get my hooves on you. You’ll regret laughing.”

“Oh yeah,” Lily mocked between her laughter. “Try and walk!”

Derpy trotted out of her kitchen with plates full of pancakes on her back as she trotted to the dining room table, sliding the plates at three spots along with a bottle of syrup and three glasses of orange juice and a basket full of muffins.

“Dinky! Sparkler!” Derpy shouted up the stairs. “Breakfast!”

Two blurs raced down the stairs and Derpy snorted.

“You two are excitable,” Derpy noted with a smile as Sparkler nodded.

“Yeah I guess you could say,” Sparkler said as she glanced at her mom and froze. “That.”

“What happened to your eyes Momma?” Dinky asked and pointed with a hoof.

“It’s rude to point,” Derpy reminded them flatly. “My eyes have been this way for years. You both know about my flight accident that made my eyes this way. Now we can please eat?”

“It’s not that Momma. You should really look in the mirror,” Sparkler shared a look with Dinky. Derpy gave a sigh of exasperation, but nodded as she turned to the bathroom.

She trotted inside and rolled her eyes, staring at the mirror as her jaw dropped.

“My eyes?” Derpy whispered and ran a hoof gently over her eye. Both of her eyes were perfectly aligned. Something that hadn’t been a thing since she was a filly. “They’re straight. I can actually see straight?”

Derpy shook her head a few times and stared once the shaking stopped. Her eyes stayed the same and she gasped.

“This is insane,” Derpy muttered. “No, more than insane. This is a dream. Somepony spiked my tea last night.”

She bit her foreleg and gave a pained whimper.

“Okay, not a dream. But why?”

“Mom?” Dinky called out worriedly. “Are you okay? We heard you cry.”

“Yeah dears, I’m fine!” Derpy called out and stared at her reflection. “What is going on?”

Silverspeed stepped out of the shower and sighed contently. Taking warm showers was always her favorite thing in the world. She normally preferred them before bed, not early in the morning.

Silverspeed shoved her muzzle into her wings and started to preen them, occasionally pulling out a broken feather and tossing it into the trash can at the sink.

She opened the bathroom door and opened her mouth to speak to wake up Silver Spoon. Instead of words, a bunch of noises like a mooing cow, a saw cutting through wood and a chirping bird came out of her throat.

The fuck? Silverspeed thought to herself. She opened her mouth again and tried to speak. Instead of the previous noises, this time a siren came from her mouth. Huh?

“What the heck is going on next door?” Silver Spoon stumbled out of her bedroom, rubbing her eyes. “Sis?”

Silverspeed simply shrugged and bit her lip to keep from speaking.

I have so got to get to Sunset’s, Silverspeed thought to herself.

Sunset let out a loud scream as Shoeshine held a mirror up to her face.

“What the fuck happened to my horn?” Sunset screamed as her horn flopped around. “I look fucking ridiculous! And why the fuck am I four feet tall? I look like a midget!”

“We all do,” Roseluck grunted and eyed Derpy again. “Well, almost all of us.”

“The only three who seem normal are Silverspeed, Shoeshine and Lily,” Derpy commented as she pranced around excitedly. She had gotten shocked looks around town. Berry and Carrot were the shocked the most outside of Derpy herself.

“Yeah is there anything even wrong with those three?” Daisy complained as Lily eyed a plant.

“Hey, what’s this plant? It smells nice,” Lily commented and leaned forward to sniff a white flower.

“Uhm that’s a lily,” Roseluck reminded her. “It’s your namesake and favorite plant. How can you forget that?”

Lily rubbed her head with a hoof before slamming her head into the wall.

“Well, guess we know how the Poision Joke affected me. It took away my knowledge of plants,” Lily growled and glanced at Shoeshine. “What’s up with you?”

Shoeshine shrugged and Silverspeed rolled her eyes.

“Is anything wrong with you then?” Derpy asked as Shoeshine nodded. “Well, care to share with the rest of us?”

“I don’t wanna talk about it,” Shoeshine muttered and her voice sounded deeper than it had before. “Ever.”

“Where is Trixie?” Sunset sighed as the door swung open and Roseluck screamed.

“A ghost!” Roseluck shrieked as the door shut. “Everypony for themselves!”

Sunset gawked as Roseluck, Daisy and Lily raced for the door and slammed into an invisible object, the three screaming again.

“Shut up!” Sunset screamed and everypony froze, staring with stunned expressions. “You three, chill! It’s not a fucking ghost, I think it’s Trixie. Her hat fell off when you ran into her.”

Sunset picked up the hat and set it on her table.

“Roseluck, you’re the plant and healing expert. Do you know any potential ways to get rid of the effects of Poision Joke?” Sunset asked and Roseluck shook her head.

“No unfortunately. I’ve never came across anything like this before.”

Silverspeed let out a string of noises and everypony stared.

“Haha!”

“Not funny,” Daisy glared at Sunset.

“I’m sorry. It’s kinda funny.”

“But I know who may have a spell to heal us,” Roseluck mused and glanced outside uncertaintly.

“Who?” Daisy asked and Roseluck glanced at the Everfree.

“You’re not gonna like it.”