Rainbow dash was in the middle of an AMAZING book about the history of pony agriculture when she felt a tap on her shoulder. It was Sawdust, the local carpenter. Rainbow seemed to remember he liked watching her in the park, he was a nice guy. It did seem a little strange, all she liked to do in the park was read, right? Why would he watch that?
The stallion cleared his throat prompting Rainbow to look his way.
"Aren't you going to show your friend how its done?" He was pointing to Fluttershy, "You must have already shown her a few tricks the way shes flying today."
"I have no idea what your talking about," She turned back to her book, "Now if you'll excuse me."
The stallion gave a confused expression but gave up and walked away.
His brief expression closely matched that of Starlight. Only hers wasn't shaken off so easily. Discord didn't have any ideas to stop Chrysalis, however, he knew the exact counter spell to fix the girls, once Chrysalis wasn't able to stop them.
It was actually a simple potion, but it HAD to be put in the effected ponies hoof by somepony they shared a connection with. Hence the luck at finding a group. The connection didn't have to be strong, but it had to be irrefutable.
In a shocking twist, Discord laid out the plan with him giving the potion to Pinkie, and Tree Huger administering Fluttershy's dose.
"Trust me I don't like it," explained the moping spirit of chaos, "but the connection must be irrefutable, and I cant be sure it would work with me handing 2 potions out," he was dramatically waving his arms around, reminiscent of Rarity, or was that Pinkie? The spell had Starlight all confused, "Treesie and Fluttershy are good friends, not as good as I, but I cant refute it, however, Pinkie being friends with everypony is refutable."
"So, Whats your connection?" Starlight had to ask.
"Why," He acted as tho offended, "our love of chocolate milk filled cotton candy clouds, of course."
"Of coarse," Starlight sighed.
The only thing left was stopping the dethroned monarch. Getting in touch with Thorax wasn't going to happen. Chrysalis had made sure that line was cut, and bringing Twilight back couldn't be done until after the fact, 'The Casters Defeat' was another requirement for the potion to work.
"Wait a minute," Starlight had just come to a realization, "Didn't we defeat her once already?"
Discord started to laugh at the naive comment, but then scratched his chin. It seemed he remembered something about the origin of this spell that applied to this.
"You may actually have a point," Discord admitted, "Legend has it this spell was created as an act of revenge, but it was easily fixed by finding a pony that played a part in the initial incident."
"So we can get the elements help," Starlight said, "I don't think we can do this without them, unless I'm allowed to blow her head off..." Starlight secretly hoped the room cheered for it.
"As much as I like that idea," Discord smiled, "It wouldn't be very reformed of us."
"I hate to throw off the vibe," Tree Huger interrupted the shared thought of squashing the insect in the way, "aren't you a wanted criminal?"
"Oh yea," Starlight moaned, "We cant just walk into the park and hand out drinks."