Applejack was trotting through town and carefully glanced around, ponies were talking about the various chaotic events.
Nopony seemed to take notice of her.
“Okay, good, nopony has figured it out yet…” Applejack said
They decided to forgo telling the town about their predicament for now, don’t want to cause a panic.
Applejack wanted to get home and just forget any of this nonsense ever happened.
“Just imagine if word got out… who knows what craziness could happen” Applejack
“Hey Applejack!” Applejack turned to see Lyra and Bon Bon shoveling snow out of the way of the door to Bon Bon’s bakery.
“What do ya need?” Applejack politely asked them.
“An extra hoof,” Bon Bon said “There’s an extra shovel, could you please help?”
“Sure, ah can-” Applejack paused as a sensation came over her.
“Why do that back breakin labor if ya can just use yer newfound magic?” A voice in Applejack’s head said
“Newfound magic…” Applejack repeated
“Um, Applejack?” Lyra asked
Suddenly Applejack’s tail morphed into it’s draconeqqus form and the tail tip formed a hand and snapped its fingers.
The shovel suddenly stood up and split into twelve before shoveling the snow for the two.
“Whoa!” Lyra said jumping back in surprise
“Is Discord doing this?” Bon Bon asked
“Huh? What?” Applejack snapped out of it.
“Uh AJ? What’s with your tail?” Lyra pointed out Applejacks green tail
“Huh?” Applejack looked at her tail and saw much to her horror her Draconequus tail.
Ponies began to take notice and some were across the street murmuring about it.
“Uh…Ah… it’s part of a costume?” Applejack lied, not well either.
“Applejack your lying, it’s obvious,” Lyra said getting suspicious.
“Um…….. gotta go!” Applejack bolted, her tail whipping back and forth as she ran.
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Rarity trotted with Fluttershy past Mrs. Cheerilee’s school and saw the fillies and colts playing in the snow.
“Rainbow Dash sure made it snow alot,” Rarity said
“I guess the foals could enjoy a summer snowfall,” Fluttershy said chuckling
“Rarity! Fluttershy!” The two mares turned to see Mrs Cheerilee approaching.
“There you two are, I would like to request that since you two are closer to Discord than me to ask him to undo the snow problem he caused.
“U-uh, how do you know this was him?” Fluttershy said nervously
“Snowfall in July? Unless the weather team is way off schedule I doubt there is any other explanation,” Cheerilee said
“Well, you never know, the weather team has made more bizarre weather mishaps,” Rarity nervously said
“True… but still we had a nature hike scheduled today and this sudden snowfall has ruined it,” Cheerilee said
“The foals seem to be enjoying themselves,” Fluttershy said
“Regardless, make him undo this please,” Cheerilee said looking away at the students.
“Um, Discords away right now-” Rarity put her hoof over Fluttershy’s mouth.
“Doing business in another town but he probably had a good reason to-” Fluttershy poked Rarities shoulder with her hoof.
“What?” Rarity demanded
Fluttershy gestured to her arm and Rarity looked and gasped to see her arm had turned into a white cat paw.
Panicking Rarity hid her arm while Cheerilee turned around.
“Reason to what? And why are you hiding your arm Rarity?” Cheerilee asked
“N-no reason!” Rarity said
“Y-yeah, we’ll talk to him next time we see him!” Fluttershy said
“You two are acting strange, and when did you put those fake horns on?” Cheerilee said suspiciously.
“Huh?” Fluttershy looked up to see her horns jutting out of her head.
“Oh look at the time, we really should be going, have a pleasant day Mrs.Cheerilee!” Rarity said before grabbing Fluttershy and galloping away.
“Um… ok?” Cheerilee said waving.
---
Rainbow Dash was flying back up to get to work, because of the fiasco with the clouds earlier the weather team now had a weather anomaly to deal with.
“Alright, no playing with chaos magic or that’ll mean more work for me, I got this!” RD flew up to the other weather ponies.
“Rainbow? Where have you been? Discord caused an early winter and our boss is up our flanks about it.” Thunderlane said
“Yeah! It’s uh, totally someone else’s fault and not mine…” RD said nervously at the thought of getting caught.
“Whateves, just help us clear the clouds away,” Cloudwalker said
“Psh! I can do it in ten seconds flat!” Rainbow Dash flew into the air leaving a rainbow trail as she began clearing away the clouds at a rapid pace.
“Yes! I still got it!” RD said as she increased her speed… and then decreased and decreased more.
“Huh? Why am I getting slower?” Rainbow Dash looked behind her and saw her rainbow trail changing colors randomly.
“Uh oh…” Rainbow saw her wings turning into two different wings again and she began to wobble out of the air.
“Hey! Rainbow what’s going on?” Cloudchaser called
“Um! Nothing! Just taking a small break!” Rainbow lied
“Even you never take breaks that quickly,” Thunderlane said as they began approaching.
“Uh! Wait! Don’t get closer!” Rainbow said knowing they’d see her chaotic wings.
“Why does it matter if they see? Their not even close friends,” The disloyal voice in her head said.
“Quiet!” Rainbow shouted before seeing no other option, she landed on a cloud and brought out her boring sphere.
“Ok! Uh… activate! Turn on! Do something!” Rainbow Dash looked over the sphere and saw a button. “Oh, ok!” Rainbow Dash pressed the button and suddenly the chaotic energy around her disappeared and her wings turned back to normal.
“I feel like myself again! Sweet!” Rainbow turned to see the other members of the weather team arrive.
“What’s up with you Rainbow, your acting weird,” Thunderlane said
“Nothing is wrong, just…um… hit a bad wind current,” Rainbow said while sweating, thankfully using her boring sphere seems to have disabled that annoying voice trying to convince her to be disloyal.
Her teammates seemed uncertain but they shrugged and left.
“Whew, this will be the best two hours of this week!” RD said before flying off.
Forgetting her boring sphere on the cloud.
---
Twilight and Starlight trotted out of the castle, thankfully the exposed summer sun had melted most of the snow making it easier to walk.
“Twilight, we shouldn’t go out in public on the off-chance you have another… episode,” Starlight warned quietly as a pony trotted by.
“Don’t worry Starlight, I don’t know what caused me to explode before but as long as I remember Cadance’s breathing technique, I’ll avoid another outburst.” Twilight reasoned
“I'm not sure I want to wager Ponyville’s well-being on a breathing technique, we better grab some ice cream while we’re out,” Starlight said
“I'm starting to get tired of mainly eating ice cream, it can’t be good for the figure,” Twilight said
“Well until your an alicorn again and not a draconequus, it’s going to be a part of your diet,” Starlight said as they trotted up to Sugarcube Corner.
“Let’s hope Pinkie hasn’t done anything rash,” Twilight said before they opened the door.
And a wave of cherry soda blasted the two mares.
“Aaah!” Twilight and Starlight cried as they were sent flying into the street.
After calming down and getting up they looked towards Sugarcube Corner’s doorway, “What the actual hay was that about?” Starlight said as they hurried back into there.
They saw utter chaos.
Customers were being chased by desserts, various machinery were making more of the rouge desserts, and the soda machine was shooting soda at Pinkie and Mrs. and Mr. Cake who were hiding behind a table.
Pinkie retaliated with water balloons.
“Take that you soda-burping machination of Tartarus!” Pinkie said before getting shot, “AH! It got me!”
Starlight sighed before noticing a vein popping on Twilight's head.
“U-uhm… why don’t you stay outside and work on your breathing, I’ll deal with this.” Starlight nervously said
“You’d better” Twilight growled before trotting out.
“Goodness, she’s gotten even more surly ever since she became a draconequus…” Starlight thought
Starlight teleported to Pinkie’s location.
“Tell Gummy!...Tell Gummy!....That he still owes me 3 bits…” Pinkie said before ‘dying’
“Pinkie, you got sprayed with soda, your fine,” Starlight said with a bemused expression.
“Oh yeah!” Pinkie said, getting up.
“What happened?” Starlight asked
“I don’t know, everything was going smoothly in here with my chaos magic making everything more fun here, then suddenly without warning my powers freaked out and caused this.” Pinkie gestured to the chaos, much to Starlight’s horror.
“Pinkie, tell me you haven’t been showing off your chaos magic to the town!” Starlight demanded.
“Nono, just to the ponies that come in here!” Pinkie said oblivious to Starlight's shock.
“ARE YOU SERIOUS!?” Starlight exclaimed “Pinkie, think very carefully, what’s going to happen when Twilight, a pony who was known for her temper before becoming a creature of chaos hears about this?” Starlight not-so-calmly explained.
“Oh… didn’t think of that…” Pinkie said, paling a little. “Pinkie Promise you won’t tell and I won’t?” Pinkie asked
“I promise! Now can someone shut that soda machine off!” Starlight called when a blast of root beer nearly nailed her.
“I’m on it!” Pinkie said before jumping in front of the table and she opened her mouth, summoning another black hole.
“Not again!” Starlight cried holding on for dear life as the black hole sucked in a lot of things until finally the soda machine got sucked in and Pinkie closed her mouth.
“Pinkie is that going to be your solution for everything?” Starlight asked
“Yeppers! It’s a good evidence remover!” Pinkie cheered.
“Remind me to not get on her bad side for the rest of the week…” Mr. Cake told Mrs. Cake.
---
Twilight sat outside calmly breathing in and out.
“Chaos is magic, magic can be tamed with a strong mind…” Twilight recited the mantra.
Her meditation actually helped, this may actually mean that-
“TWILIGHT!”
Does the universe hate her or something?
“What is it?” Twilight sighed looking over to the voice that sounded like Rarity.
Only to jump back in surprise when she saw the two had many physical traits similar to when they were Draconeqqus.
Fluttershy had the eyes and horns and hindlegs of her draconequus state while Rarity had her horns and tail and a white animal limb on her right foreleg.
“Girls!? What are you doing? Somepony will see!” Twilight said looking around and unfortunately, some ponies were staring.
“I don’t know what happened but our draconequus forms are appearing and we cannot stop it!” Rarity cried
“Alright girls, let’s just get inside before somepony sees you two, the last thing we need are ponies inquiring about why you two look somewhat like Discord,” Twilight said as she ushered her friends inside.
“Twilight you don’t understand! Gilded Canvas is coming soon! I simply must look presentable and I haven’t even set the tea yet!” Rarity panicked.
“Then let’s get moving!” Twilight pushed her friends inside Sugarcube Corner and hurriedly closed the door.
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Applejack made it to her home, panting heavily from her run, she turned to looked at her new tail and frowned.
“This is a development ah didn’t need,” Applejack said
Applejack snuck into her house and she carefully maneuvered her troublesome tail through the narrow hallways.
“Big Mac?! You here?” Applejack called
“Yeah ah’m here-” Big Mac came from around the corner and saw Applejack’s situation.
“The hay? Did one of yer friends do that?” Big Mac asked
“No, this is mah draconequus tail,” AJ sighed “Ah started doin chaos without meaning too, ah’m starting to wonder how Discord keeps it up,” AJ said
“Well ah hope you can get it fixed soon, we got chores and ya can’t get out of them because of that,” Big Mac said.
“Yeah, ah know, ah’ll get to it,” AJ sighed “Make sure to fetch the ice cream on the off-chance ah lose mah cool.” Applejack said
“Ok,” Big Mac said
Applejack trotted outside while keeping her long tail from swaying around and knocking things over.
Applejack wandered over to the barn and looked around.
“Alrighty, gotta plow the fields, buck the apples and take care of the farm animals… not a bad day ah suppose,” Applejack went off to get the plowing materials when a sensation overcame her.
The tuft at the tip of her scaly tail suddenly formed a handpuppet and began whispering in Applejack’s ear.
“Why do all that back-breaking labor when ya can use yer new powers to get them done with immediately? Our brother won’t mind…” The dishonest voice in her head said.
“Our brother won’t mind…” Applejack droned before shaking her head “NO! Ah’m a better pony than to use the easy way out! Ah ain’t listening to yer lies!” Applejack said firmly.
“But what about that hammock? Doesn’t it look comfy?” her tail pointed at a hammock that wasn’t there before.
“Yeah… it does…. AGH!” Applejack shook her head again. “Begone you lyin couch potato!” Applejack shouted again before trotting into the barn ready for an honest day’s work.
---
It was an awkward few minutes when Twilight pushed her two friends in.
But as soon as every…pony? Was sat down Twilight examined the two.
“How is this possible? Spontaneous distortion of your magic without reversal?” Twilight examined the two.
“We were just talking normally to Mrs. Cheerilee and suddenly we began to change!” Rarity said urgently.
“Twilight! Please tell me you have a way to undo this,” Fluttershy pleaded
“I-I don’t know! This hasn’t happened to me yet,”
“Well think of something!” Rarity growled her eyes flashing red
“Watch the attitude Rarity! I’m trying the best I can!” Twilight growled, her eyes flashing red too.
“Um Pinkie?... Pinkie!” Starlight pleaded
“On it chief,” Pinkie put a hardhat on and dove out of view.
“Shut up!” Rarity yelled
“Girls?” Fluttershy said to try and stop this argument before it goes nuclear.
“You shut up!” Twilight yelled back.
“Hyah! Ice cream attack!” Pinkie sprung out from behind the counter, ice cream sundaes in both hooves and she shoved it in both their faces.
“Girls you alright?” Starlight asked the two.
“I have ice cream in my face but yes,” Twilight removed the parfait dish from her face.
“My mane!” Rarity cried before shooting Pinkie an upset look.
“Don’t worry girls I got this!” Pinkie opened her mouth but Starlight shut it with magic.
“No black holes please!” Starlight said
“Awww… Ok,” Pinkie said before clapping her hooves and making the ice cream disappear.
“Thanks,” Twilight said before taking a deep breath.
“I am terribly sorry about the things I said, this chaos magic is messing with our heads it seems,” Rarity said
“No, I refuse to acknowledge Discord is right about chaos magic being inherently uncontrollable!” Twilight said
“Twilight… we may have been wrong, I mean and Rarity are turning back into draconeqqus’s and we keep causing chaos-” Fluttershy said but Twilight stomped her hoof.
“No! I can master this if I just focus!” Twilight said “Now to fix you two,” Twilight lit her horn.
And nothing happened.
“What?” Twilight said as she couldn’t reverse what had happened to the two.
“Is there a problem dear?” Rarity tentatively asked
“No,” Twilight said and tried again and again but no effect. “What is happening?!” Twilight demanded
“Ever think about the fact that there is too much pent-up chaos in them blocking out your ‘regular magic’?” The disharmonious voice said,
“So I use chaos?” Twilight asked
“No, they have to do it, and it’s beyond them, just goes to show Discord was right,” The annoying voice said
“Discord was NOT right!” Twilight said
“Um, Twilight?” Rarity asked nervously
“What?!” Twilight said rather hotly
“You have been talking to yourself, we are a tad concerned,” Rarity said
“Oh… uh,” Twilight had a feeling they wouldn’t believe her if she told them she was hearing an annoying and persistent disharmonious voice in her head.
“I was… thinking out loud?” Twilight said
The two seemed unsure but decided to let it go for now.
“Well regardless, we may need to use the boring spheres Discord supplied us with,” Rarity suggested
“But we don’t know if their one use only,” Twilight said
“We don’t have an option Twilight I must use mine now,” Rarity got the sphere out of her saddlebag and proceeded to press the button and she shifted back to normal.
“I’ve never appreciated my own form as much as I do now!” Rarity said.
“If your use times out then that’s on you I suppose,” Twilight said before turning to Fluttershy who already had her’s out and she activated it and returned to normal.
“Girls I want you to see if they can be used again after you turn back into draconeqquses, I want to make sure,” Twilight told the leaving pair.
“Very well, farewell Twilight,” Rarity said as the two left.
“Sometimes those two don’t listen!” Twilight mumbled under her breath after they left.
“Keep calm Twilight,” Starlight reminded her.
“I know,” Twilight said. Before turning to Pinkie “Let’s get this palace straightened up, and pack it in for the day.” Twilight said
“Got it chief!” Pinkie used her chaos magic to conjure a series of walking brooms with buckets of water and-
“WITHOUT chaos magic!” Twilight snapped
“Aw… and it was a good reference too,” Pinkie clapped her hooves and the brooms became inanimate.