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// What Could Go Wrong Part the Third: Once More With Feeling 
// Story: Robot Scootaloo 
// by alarajrogers 
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All of the Mane 6, plus Spike and Starlight Glimmer, clustered around Twilight as she got ready to cast her new spell.

"I don’t know," Starlight said. "Have we really taken enough precautions?"

"No," Spike said. "No, we really haven’t."

"Sure we have," Twilight said. "Look, all our friends are here to watch me cast the new spell. What could go wrong?"

"I don't know about this," Spike moaned.

Twilight's horn lit up. She cast the new spell.  There was a flash of light, briefly, within the group.

"Well?" Starlight asked eagerly. "Did it work?"

"I... can’t tell." Twilight looked around. "Did anyone see what just happened?"

"I was looking!" Rainbow Dash said quickly. "I totally wasn’t falling asleep because of how incredibly boring this is or anything!"

"I didn’t see nothin’, sugarcube," Applejack said. "What was supposed to happen?"

"Uh-oh, guys," Pinkie said. "We might wanna look at our flanks..."

All the ponies turned their heads to look. Every one of them except for Twilight had had her cutie mark replaced with a picture of a neatly folded pile of laundry.

"YES!" Starlight shouted. "At last, my plan has come to fruition! All these months of pretending to be your friendship student have paid off! Now that you’ve perfected the spell, I will replace every cutie mark in Equestria for a cutie mark in folding laundry! Hahahaha!"

"Before you do that, how about this?" Spike said, and lugged out an improbably large pile of laundry in baskets. "This is all of Rarity’s clothes that I ran through the wash for her. Maybe before you go take over Equestria, you could fold it?"

"Uh... yeah, I guess I could do that," Starlight said. "Folding some laundry seems really appealing right now."

"I’ll help! Folding laundry sounds like superduperriffic fun!"

"Yeah, folding laundry sounds awesome!"

Fluttershy mumbled, "I’d like to help fold some laundry..."

"Oh, all my beautiful clothes are so clean and they smell so nice!" Rarity enthused, holding the laundry up to her face. "Thank you so much, Spike! I’ll really enjoy folding these!"

"Seems like more fun than even apple buckin’," Applejack admitted.

Twilight looked around at her friends. "Spike?"

"Yeah?"

"Make me a checklist, and the first thing on the checklist should be 'never say "what could go wrong?"’"

"What’re we gonna do about your friends? And, uh, Starlight?"

"Starlight’s still my friend. Just because she’s secretly been working to force me to create a spell that could give all of Equestria the same cutie mark and thus betraying the entire purpose of friendship and reverting to her evil ways doesn’t mean she’s not still my friend. I mean, Discord was still my friend after he betrayed us to Tirek, and he didn’t have a really tragic story about how cutie marks ruined his life." Twilight sighed. "I guess I’ll have to reverse the spell. But first, don’t we have some laundry that needs folding?"

"I’ll go get it," Spike said.

*fwwwt*





Scootaloo glanced over at Discord. "What is that weird crystally purple room they’re all in? And that big map they’re all sitting around? And who’s that unicorn who was going on about taking away everypony’s cutie marks?"

"Whoops," Discord. "Spoilers!" He shrugs. "Oh well, too late now."

*fwwwt*