Madness 101

After all of this...I hope it was worth the wait.

The Mane Six woke up on a boat. Rainbow Dash was the first to speak. "Where are we?" Twilight woke up groggily, "Yeah. Where are we?" Applejack awoke and said, "Ah reckon the cheese teleported us to who knows where." Pinkie Pie got up, her poofy mane frazzled. It instantly went back to it's original shape and she was back to her normal, bubbly self. "I know! We're on a boat!" Everypony looked at Pinkie Pie. Rarity woke up and asked, "How do you know Pinkie? Honestly, this looks like a terrible looking house..." "I know it is! Look at the mast!" Everypony looked up to see an Equestrian flag, a crow's nest, a large white sail, ropes and all. The ship seemed to be piloting itself to a dock. Applejack yelled out in her normal southern drawl, "Hey look everypony! A town!" There was a replica of Ponyville near the dock. The ship moored on the dock, and the six exited the boat, eager to explore the twisted version of Ponyville.

There were no other ponies, much to the dismay of Pinkie Pie, hoping to see more ponies to talk to. All of the ponies were yelling things like, "Hello? Is anypony there!?" And such. They made it to the twisted version of Sugarcube Corner, where a few happy ponies were dining on cupcakes, three, to be exact. One of the ponies spoke up. "Ah! I'm so glad you guys got here!" The pony turned into Sheogorath, your favorite Daedric Prince. "HAHA! I'm so happy, I can string somepony's intestines around my head!" The other two turned into Discord and Sanguine. Discord spoke, "You've made him quite happy." Sanguine also commented on his fellow Daedric Prince's behavior, "Yes. Quite." Discord began explaining to the six, their task, in full. "Now, that you have gotten here, we can get started. As you can see, there is nopony around to talk to. You six are on your own. You may take this staff." Discord handed Twilight a staff with a happy, a sad, and an angry face engraved on to it. "I call it, THE WABBAJACK!" Shegorath screamed as he started laughing manically. Discord continued on. "Yes, anyhow, you will use this...artifact on certain objects to find the key to the key that will re-bind us all. Sanguine and I made it fair, but the world will warp as you gather the pieces to the key to open the door to the key...just simply put, you're finding another key. Use the Wabbajack to your advantage. When you get out, you get to keep it, and the key to the door that will bind all three of us all to where we belong. Okay?" Twilight gazed at the staff in awe. "Well, it seems that you want to be acquainted with that staff, it doesn't matter to me. Goodbye...for now." Discord and the other two Daedric Princes disappeared to wreak havoc on the real Ponyville outside of that replica.

The six wandered around the twisted town, looking for something to use the Wabbajack on. Rainbow Dash got bored of looking, and just gave an idea, "Why don't we actually USE it on something, not just look at stuff." Twilight took that idea, and used it on a random building. It turned into a house-shaped muffin. "This thing is unpredictable," said Twilight as she stared at the muffin building. Pinkie Pie stole it and ate it. "Nom, nom, nom...it tastes like blueberry!" Everypony rolled their eyes and continued on with the search.

Hours later, they found a glowing target. Twilight sighed in relief. "Finally, we found something relavent." Rainbow Dash complained, "But we passed by that target HOURS ago!" Twilight ignored her and used the Wabbajack at the target. The target shattered, and turned into a piece of a key. Sanguine walked around the corner behind them, clapping sarcastically. "Bravo. Bravo. About time you found it. Honestly, since you passed by it, I was hoping you would at least get one piece of the key before starving to death." Twilight looked confusingly at Sanguine. "But...I don't feel any hunger." Sanguine chuckled at the statement. "Of course not. But, didn't you notice the new board in Sugarcube Corner? It had your names, and how hungry you were. I thought you would pay more attention." Twilight was dumbfounded at the statement. "Wait, so we have hunger bars in Sugarcube Corner?" Sanguine sighed in exasperation and teleported away. The six looked at each other and dashed or flew as fast as their hooves or wings could take them.

"Ooh! Look at mine! It's still full!" Pinkie Pie was staring at the board while every other pony was scrambling around looking for food and water. "There's a green gem over my head!" Everypony stopped and stared, dumbfounded at the gem floating upon Pinkie Pie's head. Suddenly, things in the shop began disappearing. The counter, the board, the tables, the cash register, and the gem disappeared with it. "Well, that was strange," Twilight remarked. Everypony disregarded the event, and left the shop, ignorant that the Wabbajack gained a green gem on one side of the faces.

While all of this was going on, Fluttershy was eerily quiet, too quiet. The reason for this, is that Discord has been talking to Fluttershy, giving her answers, answers she is too shy to share. "Come now dear, the answer is in their face, all you have to do is tell them..." Fluttershy didn't know what to do. Tell her friends that she has the answers, but Twilight will ask where she got her information, as usual. She doesn't know what to do, but she has all the answers....

To be...CONTINUED...