It was a beautiful Saturday in Canterlot....
Rainbow Dash was practicing bouncing a soccer ball in her backyard peacefully when she heard noises. She looked left, then right, and then up in the sky where she saw two pegasi wiggling and neighing around in panic, stuck in what appeared to be a pink cloud.
"Don't worry! Rainbow Dash is coming to get ya!" Rainbow called up to them before racing off with her super speed. She returned a second later, guitar in hand. She quickly strummed a solo, triggering her pony up transformation. She tossed the guitar aside and flew up to the cloud.
"Woah, woah! Don't worry, I'm here to help." Rainbow said, recalling the same method Fluttershy used. This caused the winged horses to calm down slightly. Within minutes Rainbow was able to get the pegasi free and they flew off to safety. It was then Rainbow noticed that this was no ordinary cloud. It was pink and very sticky. Rainbow grabbed one of the pieces that had gotten stuck to her, gave a quick sniff, and licked it.
"Cotton candy...?" Rainbow wondered. A shadow covered her and rainbow looked up and saw more cotton candy clouds above her. They began rainining, but it was no ordinary rain. It was brown and very sweet.
"Chocolate milk...!?" Rainbow exclaimed before landing in front of her house just before the pony up wore off. She heard footsteps and looked to see fish with legs marching down the street.
Rainbow blinked, trying to process what was happening before shouting to the skies.
"WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON!?"
At Sweet Apple Acres, things were just starting to get weird too.
Applejack was out in the field picking corn when suddenly she felt raindrops before it began pouring. She was surprised when she realized the clouds were cotton candy and the rain was chocolate milk!
"What in tarnation?!"
Just then Rainbow appeared, having rushed over the the farm.
"Rainbow Dash!? What are y'all doing here? And what is going on!?" AJ used her had to try and protect herself from the rain.
"I don't know! I came over too see if it got here too! It's all over the news! Look!" Rainbow pulled out her phone to show a live news broadcast.
"All around Equestria strange weather phenomena and other events have been happening since early this morning. It showed quick images of furniture coming to life and animals acting like people sitting, reading the paper and drinking coffee! "Even Cloudsdale is getting soaked by a major cola storm right now!" The screen now showed Cloudsdale being showed by cola as people ducked for cover, aside from one guy who was collecting as much as he can in a container. "These events have scientists and mages baffled as they are trying to locate the source of these strange events. Until then it is recommended that everyone remain inside until this is over!" Rainbow turned her phone off and gave AJ a worried look, and AJ remembered that Rainbow originally came from Cloudsdale before moving to Canterlot back in middle school.
"What in Equestria could be causing this?" AJ asked.
"I don't know! But don't worry! I'm not leaving this place until we get everything under control!"
Before they could do anything, a stalk of corn pointed at AJ and squirted popcorn at her! Then the rest of the corn began popping into popcorn! Quickly the field was covered in chocolate milk soaked popcorn.
"We've gotta stop this!" Rainbow exclaimed.
"What would you wanna stop this?!"
Rainbow and AJ turned, startled, to find none other than Pinkie Pie pop up from a pile of popcorn! She stuffed herself with a handful of popcorn before opening her mouth and guzzling down some chocolate rain.
"Ahem."
As Pinkie continued to enjoy the strange phenomena, Rainbow and AJ turned again to find Rarity approaching them with beautiful handmade purple raincoat and carrying a lovely umbrella to protect her from the rain.
"I heard about your troubles, Applejack, and I came to see if there's anything I can do without getting wet. Or dirty. Or out from under my umbrella."
AJ rolled her eyes. "Gee, thanks Rare."
As if things couldn't get any stranger, as the rain hit, the apples on a nearby apple tree grew humongous in size, causing the tree to bend over from the weight. A few animals immediately went for the apple and soon Fluttershy appeared, chasing her bunny.
"Fluttershy! Do somethin'!" Aj cried out as the animals munched on her livelihood.
Fluttershy carefully approached Angel, who was munching his way through one of the enormous apples. "Now, Angel, you really shouldn't–" before she could say more, Angel's legs suddenly grew as long as a giraffes and he quickly trotted away.
Fluttershy mouth dropped open and she rubbed her eyes, not really believing what she was seeing until another group of long legged bunnies ran by, along with a group of flying pigs!
"Oh my..."
While everyone (except Pinkie) were confused by the chaos around them, another figure approached, carrying a spell book as her dog followed right behind her.
"Don't worry, everyone!" Twilight announced confidently. "I've learned a new spell that'll fix everything!" Twilight gathered the spell in her hands before unleashing it in an impressive purple light wave.
When the light faded....nothing had changed. It was just as chaotic as before.
Twilight was aghast. "My fail-safe spell... failed." She couldn't believe it, this had never happened to her before! "What do we do?" She looked at Spike.
"Give up?" he suggested.
"Spike, I'm positive Twilight will come up with something." Rarity said, handing Twilight her umbrella to keep her out of the rain.
Twilight rubbed her chin and began to think for a minute. "Alright, time for plan B." He eyes brightened as a plan formed in her mind. "Rainbow, can you corral all those clouds in one corner of the sky?"
Rainbow saluted before running rapidly in place, creating a mini-tornado which gathered up all the clouds into one group.
"Applejack, I need you to bring those high-strung storm clouds down to Earth."
AJ nodded and, using her lasso and super strength, brought the clouds to the ground in a single pile. Pinkie, who had still been drinking the chocolate milk rain, looked around in confusion.
Twilight whispered to Fluttershy, who smiled and nodded.
"Oh dear. I hope none of the animals see these delicious chocolate-filled cotton candy clouds. I'd hate to have to share them." She announced.
"You and me both!" Pinkie said as she approached....only to be knocked out of the way by the stampeding animals. "Hey!" She crossed her arms in frustration.
"And when y'all are done with that, feel free to have some popcorn for dessert." AJ told the animals.
"Um...are you sure it's alright for the animals to eat this carnival fare?" Rarity asked.
"They'll be fine, they both appear to be made out of magic. And if not there are spells and vets for these kinds of things." Twilight reassured her before turning to Spike. "You see, Spike? You should never give up. There's nothing we can't overcome if we all work together."
Suddenly all the girl's phones beeped.
"It's an emergency text from Celestia and Luna! They want us to meet them at the school right away!"
"Do you think it's about all this strange stuff going on?" Fluttershy asked.
"I know it." Twilight said.
As they all piled up in AJ's family truck and headed to school, Twilight couldn't help but wonder if this was only the beginning....