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// The Next Day 
// Story: The Eye of Somnus 
// by Ugly-Duckling123 
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Rainbow had surprisingly gotten up early to go visit A. K. Yearling to return the Eye of Somnus with the information she wanted.

Then she headed off for Twilight castle for their weekly meeting of friends, grinning widely wondering if the others will remember what happened.

She was almost there, when she was called down my Pinkie Pie.

"What up Pinks?" Rainbow said coming down and smiling.

"Oh you know just heading off to Twilights castle and wondering if everyone is all better today. And if not I have some 'Get well soon' cupcakes for everyone." Pinkie said pulling a tray out of her main holding eight - meaning Spike and Starlight Glimmer got one too, Rainbow guessing so they wouldn't get left out - (surprisingly hair free) cupcakes each one iced in the colours of the pony's mane (or in Spike's case his head scales).

"What makes you think that everyone was sick?" Rainbow asked as they set off together.

"Well I'm not sure if 'sick' is the right word, but they were acting strange yesterday, like how everyone but Twilight acted when our cutiemarks got mixed up and she became an alicorn," Pinkie explained in her fast voice "Only they still had their own cutie marks. But all their manes were different. So I'm not sure why they were acting all strange, but I thought I should make them some cupcakes just in case."

The two of them reached the castle and walked straight in heading for 'The Map Room' where everyone else, except Starlight and Spike, was waiting, Twilight, Rarity, Applejack, and even Fluttershy even though she was back to hiding behind her mane all looking unhappy at Rainbow Dash.

"Hey everypony!" Rainbow said flying over to her seat and landing on it.

"Rainbow Dash," Twilight began slowly "We were all just talking about what we were doing, yesterday." 

"That's good," Rainbow said smiling "Always nice to share each other's stories and whatever right?" 

"Yes well," Twilight said taking charge "We all told each other about our own days, and we found something in common with each other."

"Oh... What what?" Pinkie asked setting the cupcakes down "Ooooh! Is it why you were all sick yesterday!" 

"Don't you worry Pinkie, non of us was sick," Applejack said back to being her farm-girl self, her mane back to being the style it usually is.

"Then why were you all acting so weird yesterday?" Pinkie asked her main deflating a little, sad that her friends weren't telling her what happened.

"We were behaving like that Pinkie," Rarity said "Because Rainbow Dash somehow seemed to hypnotized us in to behaving like each other."

It took almost five seconds for Pinkie's main to re-inflate before she started laughing and rolling around on the ground. "That's really funny!" she said between laughs.

"See Pinkie liked it." Rainbow said not even denying that she did such a thing.

"That is still no excuse to hypnotize other ponies, Rainbow Dash," Twilight said waiting for Pinkie's laughter to calm down.

"Oh come on Twilight, it's not like I made you do anything bad or anyone got hurt" Rainbow said helping herself to her cupcake. "Take it from be I could have made you lot do things way worse than simply switching your personalities for a day."

"Um... that's not very comforting Rainbow" Fluttershy said quietly.

"No. But it was funny!" Pinkie said smiling and started going off on how confused everyone was that Applejack was acting all posh and fancy.

How Big Mac, Apple Bloom, and Granny Smith stared as Rarity manually bucked all the apple trees and one time got mud in her mane and didn't seem to care.

At this Rarity screamed and ran off to look for a mirror, wailing loudly.

How Spike was surprised and confused that there was a big mess in the library, and instead of Twilight fussing over it she was taking a cloud-nap.

Finally Pinkie finished with how brave Fluttershy was yesterday.

"It was almost like you were back to how you were when you were doing Iron Will's 'be more assertive' thing, only you weren't mean this time," she finished beaming happily.

After hearing all of this, everyone did finally agree that 1, it could have been way worse. And 2, it was indeed actually very funny.

The girls found it so funny in fact, that as long as Rainbow Pinkie Promised to never do anything like this again - or at least without telling anyone, they would let Rainbow off with a warning and give her no punishment.

Taking that, smiling, Rainbow Dash, having finished her cupcake, said that she had to go and zipped out of the castle, wondering...

What other fun unidentified things did A. K. Yearling have that she needed help with.

"Well only one way to find out..." she said to herself and set off to the little house in the jungle, a big grin of not-evil-but-not-innocent-either on her face, looking forward to finding out the answer.


The End