//------------------------------// // Chapter 2 // Story: Chaos Engulfs Ponyville Act 2 // by RarityFigma //------------------------------// A few miles later Twilight and Rarity stopped running. The unicorns had grown tired of fleeing Fluttershy and now needed a moment to rest. The town had undergone many strange and of course random changes since the morning. Homes turned into eggplants. Trees became bendy straws. And most notably the sky turned from blue to more of teal. Twilight pounded the ground in frustration. “How are we going to find that Orb?!” Twilight yelled. Rarity was still looking back the way they came. “I hope Spike’s ok.” “Look Rarity,” Twilight said coldly. “I didn’t want to sacrifice Spike, but we need to find that Orb now!” Rarity shot Twilight an accusatory glance. “He loved me! He loved me and I! I left him to… OH HOW COULD I LEAVE HIM!” Rarity burst into tears as Twilight sighed and turned around. “Can anything else go wrong?” The purple mare groaned. OH LOOK! IF IT ISN’T TWILIGHT SPARKLE!” A loud voice screeched. Twilight looked up to see Princess Luna descending from the cotton candy filled sky. The dark blue alicorn had landed in front of Twilight and gave her mischievous grin. “Um hi Princess Luna,” Twilight said awkwardly. “What are you doing here?” “WE ARE GETTING MORE SCREENTIME! THAT’S WHAT WE’RE DOING HERE!” The alicorn shouted causing Twilight to be blown back by the sound of her voice. Clearly the Orb of Modnar had returned her to her royal Canterlot phase. “Princess Luna,” Twilight said suddenly growing some balls. “We really don’t have time for you right now.” Luna scowled. “OH OF COURSE! NOPONY EVER HAS TIME FOR LUNA! SHE GETS ONE EPISODE EACH SEASON AND THAT’S MORE THAN ENOUGH! TIS A FARCE OF THE HIGHEST CALIBER! WE DESERVE MORE TIME FOR OUR LEGION OF APOSTLES! I MEAN CAN’T YOU WRETCHES HAVE A LEAST ONE ADVENTURE AT NIGHT FOR A CHANGE? AT LEAST ONE! THEN WE COULD APPEAR AND SAVE THE DAY! BUT NO! LUNA NEVER GETS TO SAVE THE DAY! ALL WE GET IS 3 LINES IN THE WEDDING EPISODE! WHAT’S UP WITH THAT?!” Twilight had no clue what Luna was talking about. However the alicorn continued to loudly complain destroying Twilight’s eardrums in the process. The purple mare thought fast and jumped over to Rarity. “Listen Rarity. I need you to distract Luna so I can go find the Orb of Modnar.” “Oh but Twilight darling I can’t!” Rarity whimpered. “Why not?!” Twilight asked. “All you need to do is gun her hair style or something. Nopony guns fashion like you Rarity!” “But’s that just it Twilight!” Rarity cried. “My power over fashion has vanished!” “What?!” Twilight looked over at Rarity’s flank and saw that her diamond cutie mark was gone. Rarity’s cutie mark was now a disco ball. The outside pathway suddenly transformed into a black sparkling dancehall. Rarity took center stage as she magically spun a disco ball. The white unicorn then began to dance a strange old-Timmy dance that left Twilight uncomfortable, but seemed to excite Luna. “OHH A DISCO PARTY?! YOU HAVE THOSE AT NIGHT RIGHT? YES! FINALLY A CHANCE TO FROLIC WITH THE MAIN CAST!” Luna joined Rarity dancing under the magically floating disco ball. Twilight stared in confusion and disgust for a few minutes before finally ditching the pair. Twilight had wandered out of Ponyville and saw the true nightmares that had occurred. Earth ponies were flying, pegasi were scuba diving, and unicorns were living in poverty! This was more than the young mare could handle. She fell to the ground which was currently made of macaroni and sighed. By this point Twilight’s hair was getting really messy and as we all know, the messier Twilight’s hair gets the more insane she becomes. However as Twilight looked up at the teal colored sky, she was puzzled to see something new. There was a bar floating a few inches above her head. “What’s this?” Twilight said to now pony in particular. “Oh Twilight my good friend, that is one bar you must not expend!” Twilight could recognize that annoying voice anywhere. She looked straight ahead to see Zecora. “Oh it’s you. Please tell me Zecora that you know where the Orb of Modnar is.” The weird zebra shook her head causing Twilight to grow more depressed. “Of your orb I know not a thing, but of this bar its secrets I can sing!” “Fine,” Twilight moaned. “What’s this bar floating over me?” Zecora readied to launch another rhythm. “This bar as it grows more red, shall show if your reason is truly dead!” “I don’t follow,” Twilight answered. “My dear if you allow this bar to become a single color pane, then Twilight you will have gone insane!” “Aghh!” Twilight groaned. “Why Zecora? Why do you always speak in rhythms?!” Twilight stormed off, the bar following her grew redder with each step.