The Doom Patrol

A brown coated and maned earth pony stallion knocked on Twilight's door before opening slowly. "Twilight?" He spoke slowly with a Canterlot accent. "It's me, Time Turner. You remember me don't you? I helped Celestia make your body, I was your neighbor back in Ponyville."

Twilight turned to him from where she lay in the bed, face buried in a pillow, she stared with an eyeless face. "Right," She grumbled. "I figured I recognized that patronizing tone from somewhere."

"There's no need for that Twilight, I get what you're going through."

"You have no idea what I'm going through."

"I think we can get through this depression together."

"You're a nice guy Time Turner. You don't want to hurt any body, you just take care of clocks and in your spare time you invent new magical formulas. In fact you're the only earth pony who really understands magic better than most unicorns."

The earth pony smiled and raised a hoof to pat Twilight on the back but she shoved his hoof off she "And, Time Turner, if I could I would spit in your face!"

"Come now Twilight, there was no need for that."

"Hmmph, follow me Time, it's time for my walk."

Outside in the mental hospital's courtyard the pair continued the conversation they started inside.

"Twilight, I get your resent towards me I just-"

"I will forever despise you Time for what you did to me! I cannot change that! I just feel trapped all the time, I'm stuck in a body that isn't mine!"

"Twilight, I'm a friend, I had no intention of hurting you when I was helping Celestia, please I don't want to stand by and watch you destroy yourself."

"Destroy myself?" Twilight trotted forward a few paces and began shouting. "How can I destroy myself!"

She turned to the brick wall of the hospital and bashed her head against it repeatedly screamin as she did "I can't feel anything! Nothing at all! I can't feel!" She sunk to her knees. "Just... make it stop."

Back inside once more Twilight and Time Turner plodded the hallways down towards the main hall of the hospital.

"I can't stand it in here Time."

"You checked yourself in, you can leave whenever you want."

"Not the hospital, this body."

The time-talented earth pony finally had enough. "Look Twilight, I'm sick of your self-indulgent crap! You know there are people who have it worse than you right?"

"Show me one."

Time Turner scowled at the gel like mare. "Fine." Then he stormed of through the front doors. Twilight, her curiosity roused followed behind."

The pair ended up in the asylum courtyard again. this time they were next to an altogether familiar pink mare who was busying herself with a painting she was creating.

"Twilight, you remember Pinkie don't you? You've been to wrapped up in your own self pity that you haven't even spent time around one of your own friends."

"I... didn't even know she was here."

"Exactly. Pinkie here suffered almost as badly as you."

"She looks fine."

"Looks can be deceiving. Pinkie is cursed with a shifting cutie mark."

"What do you mean by that."

The pink pony looked up from her painting and her eyes widened into a smile when she saw Twilight, she bounced around her magic-bodied friend giggling and laughing.

"Oh Twilight you noticed me! This is GREAT! I was going to talk to you but I figured that with your wibbly wobbly glowy body you'd want some time alone but now you're here and you remember me and it's great and we can have a big old ASYLUM PARTY."

Twilight couldn't help but let loose a small chuckle at her friends silly antics. Although her expressions soon hardened again "Pinkie... Time Turner says you have a shifting cutie mark, what does that mean?"

Pinkie stopped her bouncing and came to face Twilight. "It started after... Discord. My cutie mark changed from the balloons into three music notes and I found that I could sing really well, but... I forgot all my friends. Every time my cutie mark shifts I read this big book in my room with information that balloon Pinkie wrote down so I or... we can remember our friends. I'm painter Pinkie see?"

Pinkie waggled her rump in Twilight's face showing her three paintbrushes the two on the side were blue and the center one was yellow, much like her old cutie mark. Time Turner glanced at his wrist watch. and turned to leave.

"Wait!" Twilight shouted. "Where are you going." Her attitude had obviously been brightened by Pinkie."

"I have a job remember? I figure you know something about unwanted power, maybe you could help Pinkie out."

The brown earth pony turned and trotted from the courtyard.

In downtown Canterlot two police officers were speaking to the royal guard. The first police officer was a chubby fellow with a grey coat and a dark grey mane, he was explaining something to the guards.

"He just... I dunno jumped from the building, he was burnin' and screamin' and stuff. I gotta tell you, I almost puked. You ever smell burning flesh?"

The guards glanced over at the cordoned off area to their side, a blackened burnt skeleton was there, to his side was a large black book.

"Oh... uh yeah," The gray stallion continued. "He was carryin' that book. Look inside there ain't no writing in it, the pages are black, it's weird."

"Did the... victim say anything?"

"Uh, yeah he said somethin' about Scissormares."

"Scissor-mares?"

"Yep."

"Do you mind if we take the book with us?"

"Course not. Thing gives me the heeby-jeebies."

As the pair of Guards walked away, one suspended the black book in a green aura. The second one a young rookie wondered aloud what they would do with it.

"We take it to the captain, then he takes it to the princess, and she... well she takes it to the elements of harmony."